Hey guys, I’m , I’m a hobbyist using Unreal just to see what I can make, and I could use some help with a Blueprint I’m designing!
My player character is based on the First Person Character that comes with Unreal. Heavily modified by now, but it still has all the Character code. The game is about free-running, slowly building momentum over large distances to clear massive jumps, needle-point platforming, that sort of thing. What I’m trying to build right now is auto-jumping, like in Assassins Creed and so many other games.
When the Walking off Ledge event fires, my character shoots out a bunch of line traces and finds- if possible- an ideal spot to jump to. This part of the code works very nicely. I tested it by simply teleporting to the resulting vector; it always finds a good place for her to land. Cool.
What I want to do now is to make her jump to the given vector. As a hammy first attempt, I found a magic jump force number that, when scaled to the players speed, would get her close to the mark, most of the time. I can hop across my test level, and it feels like it’s working. But it isn’t working perfectly, consistently, or for the right reasons. I can’t just apply a force impulse to the player, cross my fingers and hope for the best. I need to do this with precision.
I need a smart way of getting the player to “jump” precisely to a given vector, taking her current movement speed into account and not losing the sense of momentum. I assume this “jump” might be some sort of a Curve, but I could use a push in the right direction.
I’m not asking anyone to build this for me, just, if you have an idea how you’d approach this problem, I could really use some advice!
Thank you much!
