Group Movement | Move in Formation System?

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@sivan;707075

I think it is not easy with BP, you might need to expose some C++ only functions to BP.

in C++ it is possible to get a path for the leader (in BP only synchronously which has a high performance cost), then you can access the path and target follower units to the next node with an xy offset defined by formation rules (define a group width and unit distances, then it is easy to calculate on group/unit spawning in case of a line formation), and you can define group directions for path segments by the difference vector of start and end points, so you can rotate the xy offset of followers properly. your formation will look like a real formation only if followers do short pathfindings because of the navmesh shape. and in case of bottlenecks like gates or narrow corridors, the formation width must be managed to avoid units getting separated from the group.

This sounds great. Not that easy but very cool. Thanks a lot for your answer!