Hi all, my main problem at the moment is I am making a pong style game to test my understanding within the engine. The ball currently fires with a set velocity and then keep the same velocity as it hits every paddle however it sometimes knocks the paddle backwards. I tried to set the actor location to the default Y axis using a bool to make it snap back to the correct location but it looks too jaunting.
I was hoping that there was a simple button like Unity where you could lock constraints on particular rotation and location axis so it could never move on the Y axis however I have been unable to find anything like that. I might just be missing something and if so a simple solution would be great, if not is there a way in blueprint to stop it from moving?
Set Constraint Component 1 to be the name of the root component of your actor.
Leaving Constraint Component 2 empty will constrain the actor to the world
Lock/Free the particular axis set to get the plane you want. for example Free X,Y Lock Z will give you an actor that can move freely only on the xy plane and will not move up and down. Rotations work in revers Swing Angle 1 is Z, Swing Angle 2 is Y and Twist Angle is X. If XY is your 2d plane, then you want to set Swing Angle 1 to free, Swing Angle 2 and Twist to Locked.
On our 3D Side scroller game, we Constrained movement to the YZ axis, however, my character’s attacks are still able to throw the enemy along the x axis. How do I prevent this?
I was able to figure it out by using the “SetActorLocation”. You can set the number value of your locked axis, then connect the other 2 axes to “GetWorldLocation” of the same object.
This is exactly what I needed to find and it worked perfectly. Was quite stumped and I am vey thankful. The bonus reply that is the most clean way was nice as well.
