[Open Beta] Procedural On-the-Fly Animation in UE4: iTween!

[JaredTherriault]

@SONB;556467

Sorry for the late reply, .

1. Yes, this is correct and the spline is straight.

2. The speed is not a game breaker, I’m gonna follow your advice and change the value on the fly. But crossing my fingers for an alternative tick type

Thanks!

UPDATE: Now I created a spline with 3 points. My actor slows down and makes a full stop at point 1, then accelerates and stops at point 2 without slowing down.

UPDATE 2: I should have told you that my actor is a Character. That might be the issue. I loaded my experimental level, where I’m using the Custom Gravity Plugin (I planned to make my Character run around a planet). This plugin requires a custom Character class, so I converted my default Character actor to the plugin’s custom Character actor. I don’t know which changes the author of this plugin made to his Character class, but after I made a bent spline with 3 points and let my Character run along it, there was no easeout, as expected.

I’m going to make more tests in my planetary level and try to fix some minor problems while tweening. My spline is laying on the ground of the planet and as soon as my Character begins to tween along the spline, it sinks feet deep into the ground. When the tween completes, he jumps back onto the ground. Somehow I have to tell the tween (on update) not to use the hight of the spline.

Taking a second look at it tonight, I wasn’t able to reproduce this issue. Not with a regular static mesh, not with a character. It may indeed be something to do with the modified character class in your project. Can you try this issue again in a brand new project with a regular static mesh then with a regular character then once more with the modified character class you want to use after adding it? I don’t think this is an iTween issue, but I may be able to work around it if we can narrow down the problem.