Swinging door or Using the same key on two different collision boxes in the same blueprint

[Kafka-esk]

Hi there, complete beginner here.

I just started, read and viewed different UE5 tutorials and am currently testing and training some blueprint creation.

So I’ve build a door which opens by pressing “E”. It does this by using a collission box + Timeline+Rotator for a smooth door opening experience™. Now I want the door to be a swinging door, opening both ways.
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So what I did was adding a second collission box, now one at both sides of the door, copied the code and just set the rotation to -90° instead of 90°. It works perfectly, but the problem is, the “E” key always triggers both rotations and I haven’t found a way to tell the “E” key to do this when my character hits collission box A and do the other function when my character hits box B.

I’ve tried to add a “Branch” to check wether my character is in box A then trigger 90°, or if it’s false, then trigger box B. But it doesn’t work, I am a total beginner so I wonder if there is something wrong with my branch, or if there is something flying over my head completely?

So how can you make a key do different things in the same blueprint? Thanks in advance!

[pezzott1]

Hey @Kafka-esk you can check what side the player is with a single collision and getting the dot product of the direction to player against the door forward vector.

For example:

I would also suggest you try and keep all inputs in the possessed pawn. Look into interfaces to help you with this.

Hope it helps.

[Kafka-esk]

Thanks for the reply!
I’ve read that you can solve this problem by using direction vector, but I thought it should work just by using two collission boxes and making them rotate in different directions as well.

I managed to make it work now though! The “Get Owner” node under “Is Overlapping Actor” of my Branch in the first screenshot was the mistake. I deleted the node and put the “box” directly on “Is Overlapping Actor” and now it works perfectly.