How do I pass variables into my projectile to modify the speed it goes?

Castle · February 8, 2015, 2:05am

For example, if I want to have a charge up weapon where you hold the button down for a bit. This means that I charge up a variable by incrementing it while the trigger is held down. However I store both the damage of the projectile and the speed that it moves on the projectile itself. I am not really sure what will work best for passing the variables needed over to the projectile. A fully charged shot should do more damage and move faster.

This game needs to support multiplayer so doing this sloppily will likely result in annoying bugs.

Any advice?

anonymous_user_776011b6 · February 8, 2015, 2:25am

Hi

Read this, it might help

anonymous_user_17ec24a0 · February 8, 2015, 2:29am

Create a variable for speed/velocity however you want to set it up in your projectile blueprint, click to make it Editable, give it a tooltip, and check “Expose on Spawn” Now wherever you use “SpawnActorFromClass” and pick this class it will have a new extra input pin for passing in this variable.

Castle · February 9, 2015, 1:34am

Awesome! It works kind of.

One problem though.

Is there a way to get around this?