How to track player height distance from the ground

[callmenoob123]

I am making a ground slam but I want the ground slam to only be usable when the player is at a certain height from the ground. I already created the ground slam but I am having trouble tracking the players height from the ground. I am using the third person template if that helps anyone.

This is what i have so far when it comes to tracking height.

[callmenoob123]

@Grot13

Hello,
Have you tried to use the “floor distance” output from the “find floor” node instead of the hit result?
It should give you best result. If you debug this value you should notice that there is a gap (less than 2 cm) beetween the capsule and the ground while not in air, this is normal.
Check also your ground collision, it should block the correct trace channel (I suppose this node uses a trace on visibility)

Thank you for the help and I am sorry I did not thank you earlier. i am successfully tracking my z and it increases the higher i go and decreases the lower i go i just have two questions.

1. The number that is displayed is always 226 when i am on the floor of course this does not change unless my z changes. I think this number is wrong however and I think i made a mistake with the way i set my code up. I am just asking if the number that should be displaying is 0 or another number instead of this number.

2.I already have my ground slam working i just want to know how would i make it available to work only if the player is a certain distance from the ground. Would i have to edit my ground slam code so that it calculates if the distance is a certain distance. For example would I have to normalize the z vector and then make a range doing this in my ground slam code?