Prevent multiple mouse clicks when firing weapon

[Euden]

I’m trying to prevent multiple mouse clicks when firing my characters weapon, every time I click to fire a shot is made (or multiple on a timer if held) however, if released and clicked again another shot will be made.

Is there a way to prevent the player from spamming the fire button?

Thanks,

[Nawrot]

This whole thing is not as easy as it looks.
At some point you want autofire weapon it will mess everything up.
I made autofire actor component, but sadly last thing that is unsolved is that rapid clicking.
So i cannot share blueprint really (it also has some marketplace content)
But i can write what i did:

• i made 2 mouse events (in player controller) that are “start fire” and “stop fire”. created also dispatchers for them, so mouse event directly calls corresponding dispatcher
• then i made 2 events in weapon blueprint that i assigned to dispatchers in player controller.
• when i start firing i remember “game delta seconds”
• then i fire shoot, and calculate next time weapon can shoot )it is game time seconds plus autofire delay)
• then i just wait until current game time seconds is more that that calculated time. (on event tick simple branch until time for shoot)
• when its time i call “Shoot event”

For spamming mouse clicking you need to do one more gate, and do not update next time to shoot when mouse is clicked

“Autofire & Authority” macro:

Whole graph for component: