Hi, I have a projectile that can bounce off of walls using the Projectile Movement Component. The weapon can then retrieve it so that the projectile can be fired again. And this works fine, if I retrieve it while it is still in motion. However, if I try the same after the projectile has completely come to a halt, it refuses to move again.
I’ve tried reactivating the projectile movement component and setting its local space velocity again, but to no avail. Does anyone know of a workaround to this? Is there someway to kickstart the component again?
Edit: Also tried it out with the bounce turned off, but its still the same.
but it not really working (I want it to move again if it has been hit by another projectile.) . I also tried a solution were the component is destroyed and then i add a new one to the game object which is a very bad solution tbh but it works. Though the overhead for that compared to just resetting the Projectile move component is probably great. The Set Active with the reset bool seems to do absolutely nothing
Unfortunately I couldn’t find a way to reactivate it once the projectile came to a stop. Atleast in blueprints. So I ended up destroying the component, either when the projectile stops, or when it’s being retrieved back by the player. When you fire it again, the projectile movement component gets added again. It wasn’t an issue in my case, since the gun could only fire one reusable projectile, like the Translocator from Unreal Tournament. And one projectile component being added dynamically shouldn’t cause an issue since we’re doing that anyways with normal projectiles every time they’re spawned. But yea, it would have been a lot better if we could just call a Reset on the component.
I had this issue in C++ as well and it was resolved with vjik89 answer where I had called SetUpdateComponent and followed it by calling Activate and passing the parameter value to reset to true.
