How to go back to first shot position when mag is empty

Development Programming & Scripting Blueprint
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I don’t even know if that question makes sense… Moving on. I’ve been replicating how H1 works on UE4 for learning purposes and after a bunch of hours I managed to create a similar recoil pattern for the AK.

Now the issue I’m having (and I’ve searched a bit without success) is that I need the camera to go back to the first shot position after the mag is empty.
I have no idea where to start to be honest, help is much appreciated.

[video]https://youtu.be/ipFBqcW_X-o[/video]

Thanks!

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When you start shooting save the rotation of you camera in a variable. When your ammo is empty or you stop firing just set the rotation of the camera to the one you saved at the beginning of shooting.

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Partially worked, it snapped the camera to a weird angel after I stopped shooting.
[video]https://youtu.be/lstx4fQ_7-A[/video]

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I made a little blueprint test in the third person example and got it to work.

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The importance is to save the rotation before you rotate the camera first. I just culculate the rotation offset from the beginning and the reset rotation. Dividing by the controller yaw/pitch scale was very important.