Fighting games character orbits opponent, but moves slightly backwards?

[RedGrimnir (Grimnir)]

Correct me if I am getting this wrong,

This is a lock on target, strafe movement.

It is not the easiest one to handle with blueprints, to be honest doing this perfectly with blueprints only is very hard. Correct way would be using c++ a new custom movement ; calculating where player intends to move and calculate movement vectors relative to target object with some cardinal switches.

In blueprints can be done this way (unless somebody else has another idea)

This would results in perfect circle movement as seen below.

The problem is Input and Movement is actually not the same so its not resulting in circle. If you don’t use but teleport or let’s say just move a location of actor it would be a perfect circle as can be seen on target’s spinning actor.

However thanks for the question by the way, it kept me a bit busy and think I will give a shot to do with C++. One thing to keep in mind also about your approach, the error margin is lower when distance to target increases so sprial movement won’t be that noticable when fighting with a distance, but perfect circle also can be achieved.

Edit:

After a little bit more digging around with teleport function possible to achieve similar movement with.

Resulting in quite nice motion, I just tested with keyboard, need to check it with gamepad etc.

A custom physics movement extension with this logic would solve problem in C++ even more nicely and extendable.

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Let’s keep in mind that target opponent in a fighting game (3d) will always move too, so radius to target will always change. It would be nice to handle

• Target and target variables seperate, distance angle etc.
• Movement seperate since we don’t want movement directly influenced by the target sometimes. if its there is a very large dragon etc.
• Camera is seperate handle since sometimes we dont want to fully lock but a soft lock, camera panning with a weighting towards it or framing. Release soft lock logic etc.

Would like to also ask is it a First Person or Third Person fighting game?