When my AI enemy attacks the player I want the player to slow down a certain amount.
Currently, the AI does a line trace to the player and calls TakeDamage for the player.
TakeDamage passes in a DamageEvent which can be passed a DamageType, however, I’m not sure how to get the DamageType to “run” for the player.
I could create a custom c++ class inherited from DamageType and then in PlayerCharacter cast DamageEvent.DamageTypeClass to that type, but that seems like a bad idea if I add multiple DamageTypes.
For example something like this:
float APlayerCharacter::TakeDamage(float DamageAmount, FDamageEvent const& DamageEvent, AController* EventInstigator,
AActor* DamageCauser)
{
float DamageToApply = Super::TakeDamage(DamageAmount, DamageEvent, EventInstigator, DamageCauser);
DamageToApply = FMath::Min(this->Health, DamageToApply);
Health -= DamageToApply;
//UE_LOG(LogTemp, Warning, TEXT("Type: %s"), *DamageEvent.DamageTypeClass->GetName());
UDefault_DT* DamageType = Cast<UDefault_DT>(DamageEvent.DamageTypeClass.GetDefaultObject());
//DamageType->Run()
if (IsDead())
{
//Access gamemode
//DetachFromControllerPendingDestroy()
//GetCapsuleComponent()->SetCollisionEnabled(ECollisionEnabled::NoCollision);
}
return DamageToApply;
}
The issue with this is: Should the playercharacter class “own” the DamageTypes that are dealt to it? That doesn’t seem right.
Regardless, I’m not even sure what to put in the DamageType C++ class I created.
I played around with something like this in blueprints, but it doesn’t work:
