I’m relatively new to programming but feel like I’ve done a pretty thorough look through on these forums and the rest of the internet on this specific issue.
What I’m attempting to do, is modify the First Person Template First Person Character Blueprint to add recoil to the players CAMERA, so that when a bullet is fired, the whole screen jumps up vertically.
So what I’ve done so far is:
I’ve looked into the linear interpolate functions and stuff, but I’m guessing the Add Controller Pitch Input is only being called ONE time, every time the fire event is executed.
My question is how to make the movement of the Add Controller Pitch Input be a smoothly blended input (Possibly with even functionality for it being stronger when it starts and tapering out at the top), instead of the jerky jump to “-0.5” that it currently is based on the screenshot of my nodes
Do I need to create some kind of loop system that is called once when Event Fire is called that is separate from this other chain of SpawnActor that I already have going?
Hey dude, sorry I’m a little new to the blueprint system.
What do you mean by add an impulse to the camera? Arent the camera and the controller the same thing?
Reading the documentation on impulses, it says its good for one instant burst, which is kind of the behaviour Im trying to avoid.
I feel like im on the right track with the Controller Pitch, since its the same thing that you control when you get the mouse yaw/pitch events, I just want it to smoothly blend through a value, not jerk to the end value. I could be totally wrong though!
Lerping could work but I wouldn’t do it; the problem isn’t moving the controller’s pitch by 0.5 in a single frame (that’s not even all that much), it’s that without a smaller cooldown after the fact it feels like it stops too abruptly.
What you might instead try is using a very short Timeline node with a float curve that goes sharply from 0.5 to 0.01 or something, and have the Update pin feed your Add Yaw. That way when you fire, you get that snapping value and then a few more frames of much smaller change after it which feels like the recoil slowing to a stop.
Doing a quick read through on timelines, it looks like it will let me do exactly what I am trying to do! Thanks so much, I just hadn’t heard about them yet!
Going to play around with them tonight and see what I come up with, will let you know if I get something nicely working
Yea, sure mate. Thanks for the heads up. I would want to do the same as you. I still can’t manage to make it working even with timelines. Would be nice to see at least 1 working example.
