Potential Problem found in the documentation for Verse tutorial

Development Programming & Scripting Verse
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[Basics of Writing Code 4 Practice Time in Verse | Unreal Editor for Fortnite Documentation | Epic Developer Community](https://Lesson 4 in verse doc)

The above has code that has a line ‘set PlayerHealth = 80.0’ without initializing it. Maybe that’s right but I don’t think so because when I copy and paste this in my vs code, it is showing that there is no variable called PlayerHealth.

I came across this trying to grant the player health with a verse device but having all sorts of issues.

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The correct way to set someone’s Health is getting their instigation (agent) and then you retrieve their fort_character like this

if(FortCharacter:=Agent.GetFortCharacter[]): # GetFortCharacter Might fail that's why I have it on an IF and put brackets on it and not just ()
       FortCharacter.SetHealth(50.0) # To Set Health
       FortCharacter.SetShield(50.0) # To Set Shield

Also those starting lessons are merely to teach the “logic” of the language, even if “PlayerHealth” was saved as a float on the device it wouldn’t really function or change the player’s health. Interactions with the actual players I believe is teached on the later lessons

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Ok thank you! I’ve come to understand that a lot of the code there is for demonstration purposes and assumes you would write it in a function or something like that.

I fixed my code with the following function:

        # Get the FortCharacter of the agent
        if (FC := Agent.GetFortCharacter[]):
            loop:
                # Get the health of the Fortnite character and make sure it is not full
                if(FC.GetHealth() < FC.GetMaxHealth()):    
                    # Store current health plus regen rate variable in a new constant
                    NewHealth := FC.GetHealth() + HealthRegenRate
                    # Set the player's health to the new health
                    FC.SetHealth(NewHealth)
                    # Wait for the cooldown period
                    Sleep(Cooldown)```

I appreciate your response. Sorry for the delay. I'm trying to be more active on here.

PS I don't see a way to choose your response as the 'answer'. But I would!
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