Smoothly push player while not moving?

Development Programming & Scripting Blueprint
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Keep both sweeps and try only moving by 1 and -1 in either X or Y Delta, not both. It solved the sliding problem for me, seemingly.

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I’ve been battling with this problem myself and just wanted to add that it is insane that this issue hasn’t been addressed by Epic yet. I mean, the bread and butter of this engine is ThirdPerson games :frowning:

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This is a very good solution to my problem. Is there any update to this method? Or is this the best solution so far. Thank you for your answer. I have benefited a lot

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I solved the problem you are having. I know this thread is old, but maybe someone finds this by googling.

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Instead of moving in X and Y in a single MoveUpdatedComponent node, I separated the X and Y movements into separate pairs of nodes. This stopped the drifting effect you are having.

I saw a solution similar to this thread’s solution in a gamedev.tv course “Unreal Engine 5 C++ Developer”, and I modified it to this. I hope this helps :+1:.

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Here was my solution to the Kobayashi Maru test.

And my thread about it.

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Do any of you know how to solve an issue with crouching associated with this smooth push method? In my case, my character’s collision shape (capsule) remains crouched while being pushed.

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It should be working for your character, crouched or otherwise.

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Had a similar issue in a 2.5D game and although this solution feels just wrong, it worked perfectly. :+1:

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Yeah I don’t know why that works, but just glad it does for this situation.

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This solution worked for me in a first person game. I was wondering if anyone could explain this a bit more? I’m just confused why we had to separate it instead of using a single MoveUpdatedComponent Node? Thanks

Edit: While this solution works, i have read several times it wastes resources putting this code in Tick, because it will run this code to sweep, even when player doesn’t touch anything. Anyone got a workout to use it elsewhere than tick? ty

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I still don’t ultimately understand why this works. But again, it seems to be the shape of the capsule component as the ultimate cause for this. I bet if the capsule was a cube this would not happen. If the polling rate is an issue for you with Event Tick, you could try a Set Timer set to loop and slower numbers like .25 - .50. and see what effects that has.