Shooting mechanic for football game

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Hi, is there any possibility to add a shooting mechanic for my football game ? Thank you

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The possibility surely exist, perhaps you could add more details to the question?

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Well I just want to add a mechanic that allows me to shoot a football, I haven’t tried anything yet but perhaps you could help me because I haven’t found any video.

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Apply an impulse to a mesh that simulates physics. With no details, it’s pretty much impossible to suggest anything tangible. :expressionless:

  • how would you like to choose direction?
  • how would you like to choose force?
  • do you even want to use physics sim?

If you need help, you may need to elaborate a bit more.

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Well, first of all I would like to choose direction either with the left joystick of a controller or with the mouse. I would like to choose force so when I shoot depending on the time I hold the trigger it shoots stronger or slower. But I have tried to find videos that might help me but I haven’t found anything

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If you’re not familiar with the Enhanced Input, that would be the first thing to look up. See if you can set it up first. It will allow you to produce a vector that can be translated into direction and force. Here’s a little example:

But the EI (that was not available back then) would make setting it up more streamlined.

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Ok, thanks I will try to do this

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Hi, is there any video that could help me when copying your screenshot because there are some things that don’t appear such as static mesh, magnitude if you could send me a video so it is easier for me please. Thank you

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I do not make video tutorials.

static mesh

It’s a static mesh component you add to your actor, it represents the mesh - a ball, for example. Once added, drag it to the graph to GET its reference variable.

magnitude

It’s a float variable. Have a look at how to work with variables:

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ok thanks