Minimum and Maximum Values of User/Device Options: Creator Suggestions

[Velocity_Zero]

Quoting myself from the other thread. The thread also contains other creator input that’s not currently part of this thread.

@Velocity_Zero

While I was expecting this change to arrive sooner than later, it’s going to affect many maps negatively. In my personal case this will affect the ability to properly work on my vehicle focused games where I heavily rely on the Rocket Racing car with fine tuned min max values. Additionally this change will negatively affect the project I applied for Epic MegaGrant!

Here’s a list of values that negatively affect my work:

RR Vehicle Spawner

Property	Min	Expected Min	Max	Expected Max	Affects You Directly	Priority
Base Top Speed	0.3	0.0	1.0	Unlimited	YES	Critical
Base Acceleration	0.1	0.0	5.0	Unlimited	YES	Critical
Base Deceleration	0.1	0.0	5.0	Unlimited	YES	Critical
Drift Boost Speed	0.1	0.0	1.0	Unlimited	YES	Critical
Drift Boost Duration	0.1	0.0	2.0	Unlimited	YES	Critical
Drift Boost Meter Gain Rate	0.1	0.0	2.0	Unlimited	YES	Critical
Turbo Speed	0.1	0.0	1.0	Unlimited	YES	Critical
Base Braking Power	0.1	0.0	2.0	Unlimited	YES	Critical
Base Maximum Aerial Speed	0.1	0.0	2.0	Unlimited	YES	Critical
Drift Top Speed	0.1	0.0	2.0	Unlimited	YES	Critical
Drift Deceleration Rate	0.1	0.0	5.0	Unlimited	YES	Critical
Drift Acceleration Rate	0.1	0.0	5.0	Unlimited	YES	Critical
Drift Meter Replenish Delay	0.1	0.0	10.0	Unlimited	NO	Minor
Drift Meter Replenish Rate	0.1	0.0	2.0	Unlimited	NO	Minor
Thruster Force	0.1	0.0	2.0	Unlimited	YES	Critical
Thruster Max Upward Speed	0.1	0.0	2.0	Unlimited	YES	Critical

Use cases:

I have fine tuned RR vehicle presets for different feeling and race behaviors. Some max values require a value above the current max value in order to be properly fine tuned. For example the Base Top Speed cannot make the vehicle to accelerate up to 300 KPH with the max value being 1.0. In many other cases the min value is used to disable a certain feature of a RR car. As an example of a feature from the MegaGrant submitted project, I have vehicles that cannot and should not be driven by a player, but the player still needs to be able to enter them once to apply their vehicle cosmetic. This is an intentional feature.

In the future I expect these values to be updatable at runtime without the vehicle respawning. Being able to tune this from 0.0 to ‘Unlimited’ would allow the to sort of force disable the vehicle if needed (after a race ended or an EMP impact) or accelerate it (custom rubber banding in races). The current pre-configured set of user options on those vehicles is limiting and hurts creative use.

Further more I a high value of ‘Base Acceleration’ in order to test what top speed the vehicle would eventually reach. I cannot wait 20 minutes for the vehicle to accelerate to the max speed just to figure out that particular value of interest.

Other RR Spawner value may affect other creators but are not exhaustively listed here as they do not directly affect my own use cases.

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Movement Modulator

Property	Min	Expected Min	Max	Expected Max	Affects You Directly	Priority
Speed	0.5	0.0	3.0	Unlimited	YES	Critical
Effect Duration	3.0	0.0	600.0	Unlimited	NO	Minor

Use cases:

I need the movement modulator in order to fine tune other vehicles that have less tuning options. Speed value of 0.0 allows to force disable a vehicle while a value beyond 3.0 allows for very fast pace movement (for example a very fast plane).

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HUD Message Device

Property	Min	Expected Min	Max	Expected Max	Affects You Directly	Priority
Layer	0	0	4	Unlimited	YES	Major

Use cases:

The ability to have an unlimited max layer value allows the creation of multiple widgets on the player’s screen, while not being limited to only 5 options.