Switching between flying mode and orbiting (...and walking)

anonymous_user_9cf4cc18 · September 19, 2018, 1:46pm

Hi,
of course I am quite new to Unreal, trying to tweak Unreal Studio to my needs.
I like the idea of having the option to toggle between Navigation modes.
These modes would be flying, orbiting and walking.
I tried using the productviewer-collector and testing a toggle.
Looks like this at the Moment

My Problems are:
I don’t really know what i am doing.
It works on a very basic level: It Switches the pawns and by that the navigationmodes.
But the Position is not the same, so you see a jump when switching.
There are spheres(i guess pawns) left behind when switching.
I am not sure how to realize now the walking mode.

Thanks so much for any input!

Antonis

Daniele_Barone · September 19, 2018, 4:26pm

Hi Antonis, is already set in the template, no need to retouch the blueprint.
with fly you can both fly and walk

anonymous_user_9cf4cc18 · September 19, 2018, 5:54pm

Hi Daniele,
and thanks for your reply. I have found this also in the documentation.
I tried addressing this variable with a button, but it has no effect, because it is used defining navigation mode just on build.
When the game is running changing the variable has no effect by itself.
I want to be able to switch between navigation mode during the game fluently.
What do you think?

pf_breton · September 19, 2018, 6:48pm

A new template with what you’re asking for will be in 4.21 very soon… stay tuned

anonymous_user_9cf4cc18 · September 20, 2018, 10:07am

Great to read that Pierre-Felix,

I am currently a bit in a hurry. so i would like to get to an acceptable workaround until the release.
So this is how far i got until now:

Improvements:
-No visible “dead” pawns anymore, because they are being set to invisible (copied the steps from the original procedure)
-Transformations are kind of saved, because they are being saved to a variable before killing the pawns
Problems:

Copied transformations are not working correctly, especially the orientation is totally of
-I don’t know how to realize the walking now

My idea:
-Switching the whole setup to a Character-Blueprint, because it has gravity applied

Please help!
Thanks so much!