Simple Fall Damage

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@ScottSpadea

falling damage in real life is caused by a sudden change in velocity, not prolonged exposure to air time. your system would not work so well if a player was launched up to a high platform. even though they land softly on the platform because its at the peak of their jump, they might die from being in the air for too long, which would look weird. also, since your method is based on the player jumping, it would not work for situations where the player walked off a ledge without jumping.

here is another way to handle fall damage detection, based on change in speed:

I’m trying to understand the Blueprint stuff, but It seems that at the top left the previous velocity is subtracted from current velocity and the the result multiplied with itself then vector broken and each of the xyz params added to each other, while after the subtraction result there is a redundant (not used) VectorLength node… is there a cleaner version of this?

PS.

Also, if you get the “VectorLengthSquared” from “Velocity” of CharacterMovement, you get the same value as all of those calculations…