Hello folks.
I wanted to make an Enemy character who chases me and attacks me with an animation montage once he reached me.
The enemy character chasing me works fine. I’m only having problems with triggering the animation.
I made it so it calculated the distance between the Player Character and itself. Afterward, I took its subtracted Value and then compared it to a Float Value. If the distance became lower than the Float Value the montage and thus the attack should have been played. However, for some reason it just seems to still follow me around and never triggers the animation. Can you guys help me out?
I also made a sphere collision and tried the method with “OnComponentOverlap” version of what i was tryig to accomplish but it failed.
I made these blueprints here to make it work:
Does anyone know what went wrong there and why its not attacking me even tho he reached me?
Thank you for the ones answering.
I tested it and the print message doesnt show up.
But why?
Can you post the code that controls the “follow the player” functionality? And where this attack event is being called? Also a couple things to check, could try print nodes for the distance it’s getting between the 2, to ensure it’s actually less than your attack range, also that the attack range is set to the value you really want. Sometimes it’s the littlest details that can get ya.
I am only using Blueprint nodes and the ones i use are on these pictures
You’ve only posted the blueprint of your attack event, but where/how is that being called?
Doesnt it trigger with the “Event Tick” node?
I have no idea as you have not posted any code from event tick
You’ve created the custom event but you are not calling it from anywhere, calling an event is same as calling the function. Unless you don’t call the event all the nodes you have connected wont be triggered. In Your scenario it will be best if you use behaviour tree if u want to keep your AI continuously attacking the enemy as long as its in range, you can also make your AI do other stuffs through Behaviour tree
How do i call it from anywhere and how do i do that?
U mean the custom event you created? Just type the name where you want to call it from the looks of it, it looks like you did this by the intention of calling it on tick so go near the event tick node right click mouse button and search the event name “Attack” and connect the node with even tick
I dont have an Attack Function.
When i right click no thing called “Attack” is showing up
Are you doing like this? are u looking for the attack event in the same blueprint u defined it?
I did and i dont get anything
send screenshot of what you are doing only then I can help u
Watch this video it might help u understand what you need to do
Also try using the distance function (either vector distance, or distance to actor). This can also cause some issues.
