Should I loop to wait for other player variable to be set?

Development Programming & Scripting Blueprint
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Hi Everyone,

In my players characters blueprints I am trying to calculate damage with data resulting from both sides of a ComponentHit event. Ie for each character I want to use the other characters Hit data too to work out the result.

So I’m storing all recent Hit’s in a short list coupled with a sequential running id number for each hit.

Just after that in the Blueprint I want to use that data.

The problem is that for each character I don’t know if the other character has managed to save out its Hit data yet. So I don’t know if I can expect to be able to proceed.

I thought maybe I can use an ‘isSet’ bool and maybe create a loop that continually checks the other character until its set, but that sounds dangerous it might get stuck.

What is the common way of solving this kind of problem?

Cheers

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no need to poll - the hitter and hittee can call each other directly through defined protocol

read up and use built in damage model - use instigator to track who hit who

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Yes I can call the other character for sure, but that doesn’t help me if I cannot know which characters’ Hit event gets calculated first by the engine.
I already know who the instigator is, the problem is knowing when both Hit’s have been calculated, inside the OnComponentHit event.