Hey Engineers!
In UEFN
How do I take hold of the tank parameters? particularly Tank health, damage, damage events…
Beyond that, can I change the tank? can I make my own turret and chassis and replace the existing ones? can I control the UI hologram surrounding the tank? can I change the health of the tank dynamically from the code?
Hello Omar, Welcome to the Forums.
There is a ‘Vehicle Health’ variable on the Tank Spawner that you can set. But as far as dynamically changing HP I think we’d need to see something like a ‘SetCurrentHealth’ function in the API first
Edit: after seeing Mineblo’s post: It looks like a vehicle is 'Healtful" and can have it’s HP set.
Beyond that there is not much you can change. - For Damage, you might be able to use the ‘Damage Amplifier’ powerup?
“Changing the tank” would currently involve attaching a mesh particle (driven by Niagara) - But that would be janky and doubly janky in the context of a rotating turret.
There’s also no control over the in-tank UI. (Unless you’re adding your own UI overtop of things)
Even for other vehicles there is not much direct control (Top Speed, Acceleration) so I think the best we can hope for is some sort of future ‘Custom Vehicle’ support.
The following functions can be used with the tank assuming you manage to get ahold of it’s fort_vehicle in verse
As @Astrotronic mentioned you can’t really do anything else UI/Design wise aside from just spawning particles or something either with a niagara particle or just moving props using the tanks .GetTransform() “The latter can be a bit delayed”
Thanks so much guys, very helpful information!
