HH Advanced Weapon Blueprint

[MidnightRuin]

I don’t have too much time for myself lately as I have a lot of hours as a bartender now. Still trying to wrap my head around multiplayer stuff and I have some basics of AI down so those are going to have to be added by yourself for now. I have optimized the code quite a bit for performance and for bug fixing though.

Here’s a quick list of the changes to expect:

General changes:

Character blueprint:
Enemy is now a child class of the HHcharacter class.
Player character class now child of HHCharacter class
Armour and damage now handled in the character. (So each child character gets it)
Characters now have third person and first person models
Camera mode inputs for 3rd and 1st person character
Character death is now checked when taking damage instead of constant tick function to improve performance
Begin play has been moved to its own begin play graph.
Weapon on pickup now references the character that picked it up.

Weapon Blueprint:
Removed the Homing projectile valid target check from the “On Tick” Event and is now checked before the weapon has fired. (Was unable to do so before as engine would crash for some reason.)
Weapon will receive what character is currently holding it on player pickup. This was done so that other characters can pick up and fire weapons.
Projectile Homing Mechanic slightly reworked. Projectiles will now fire the multiple shots as it could lock on to instead of just one when fired unlocked. Projectiles will now fire at seperate locked targets in a cycle. So if you fire 4 projectiles, 2 will fly at both targets.
Projectile homing fire mechanic now has a cycle delay to allow projectiles firing all at once or one after the other after a period of time. new variable can be found in the projectiles category.
DistanceCheck to target is now carried out on weapon fired event instead of being on tick event to improve performance.

Fired per shot and projectile homing mechanic now part of the same execution. This makes reading the code a lot easier to understand and a little more optimised.
The Do N and compare int part of the fired per shot mechanic is now an easier to read macro.
Weapons no longer tick by default. Only when currently equipped will they do so. this is to increase performance and not slow the game down so much when there is a lot of them.

As you can see i’ve also started adding in 1st person and 3rd person camera switching support. I’ve also figured a way for impact angle based armour penetration to be used on characters rather than static objects so it won’t be very experimental any more.

Edit: Another minor update :L

This pic shows a few things.

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1: The Impact angle penetration mechanic working on characters. There is a head and body hitbox with a component parented to each, that has its armour value set.
2: The penetration on this mechanic now has the option to reduce after each target hit. It works by taking the last targets armour value and reducing it from the penetration of the weapon. You can adjust the percent of this for what ever needs you have. Its only for impact calculated penetration so far.

3: That i forgot to code it to stop after a failed penetration That will be fixed for sure.

I have a few ideas for ricochets also (^_^)