This seems like it should be a simple function: I have a Pawn, a skull, with 2 eyeballs inside it. Each of the eyes is an instance of an actor parented to the base mesh of the skull.
When I press a button the the controller, I want the eyeballs to pop out of the head, ~40 units in Y over half a second and stay there until I press again, in which case they return to their origin point (40 units in Y, reversed). My Blueprint keeps getting overly convoluted and I end up in a rabbit hole full of bugs, where the movement is repeated over and over, or somehow the eyes don’t make it back to their origin all the way, so when I press again, they come out further and further each time.
Right now, on press I check the status of a bool (eyes out) and then move to a DoOnce Multiinput node. Depending on the path, I set a vector variable (txAmt) that either goes forward or backward in the Y and moves on to a timeline that takes the Relative Transform of the eyeball object and moves it according to the txAmt using a Lerp and over to a SetRelativeLocation node.
In addition, when the timeline finishes, I pass it back to toggle the bool and send a reset back to the DoOnce.
I’m sure my lack of experience has me thinking, and working too hard and there’s likely a much simpler solution. Bonus question - I want to have the eyes kinda bounce when they come out, but despite a clear bouncy curve in my timeline, it just animates a basic ease over a half second. Am I using the wrong kind of curve?
