Hello. I am using the rolling template and I wanted to create a speed pickup that when you collide with it it gives you a speed boost for a specific amount of time. I searched the internet and I couldn’t find anything. Please help!
Which part: the pickup or the speed boost?
For the ball. When you enter it’s collision (the speed pickup), it gives the ball (you) a push, like if someone would have pushed you from the back. Something like that.
See whether this would work for you:
- an actor with a sphere collider acting as a speed boost
- below, our ball pawn also has a similar collider
- when the ball detects the boost, we check our current velocity
- use it as direction and multiply it by the desired value to add a physical impulse
Seems to work pretty well for what it is, but there must be a dozen or so ways to implement similar behaviour.
You could also store both the magnitude of the boost and its direction in the pickup actor itself - this would allow for creating customised pickups.
And, ofc, they do not need to be destroyed, you could temporarily disable them instead using a Delay node or a Timer.
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