Able Ability System Info and Support Thread

[Demonrras]

Hi,

Your plugin permit implement something like that with a melee punch or a sword slice????

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LPXig6cdSA

I wanna try to add physics hit reaction like the video above in multiplayer. This detect where on physical body the collision are made and calculate damage using this location...

[ExtraLifeMatt]

Hi,

Your plugin permit implement something like that with a melee punch or a sword slice????

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LPXig6cdSA

I wanna try to add physics hit reaction like the video above in multiplayer. This detect where on physical body the collision are made and calculate damage using this location...

No, that's not inherently supported by Able. You'd need to create your own task that does all the tracing and find the closest impacted bone.

[Demonrras]

No, that's not inherently supported by Able. You'd need to create your own task that does all the tracing and find the closest impacted bone.

ok tks for the answer.

[Demonrras]

I do the trace in my character BP to make this more easly...and call this function on client side of CustonEvent on Ability.
Now, how I can add targets of trace to my context ability?

[ExtraLifeMatt]

I do the trace in my character BP to make this more easly...and call this function on client side of CustonEvent on Ability.
Now, how I can add targets of trace to my context ability?

You would want to do that through the Custom Targeting on either your query or the Ability itself. You can return a list of actors that way and it'll get added to the context.

[Demonrras]

You would want to do that through the Custom Targeting on either your query or the Ability itself. You can return a list of actors that way and it'll get added to the context.

Can you pls make some prints to show this?

[ExtraLifeMatt]

Able v3.20 has been submitted. Notes below.

 

Spoiler

Able has some amazing users. One is JSwigart who has been kind enough to share some of his custom changes back with the community. I spent the last few weeks integrating his changes and getting them ready for the community at large. I've denoted his changes with (**). So, if you see something you like in these notes with that mark - be sure to give him a thanks!

Able v3.20

Changes

• New Tasks **
  • Play Camera Shake - Plays a camera shale.
  • Play Forced Feedback (Haptics) - Rumble
  • Overlap Watcher Task - Watches for overlaps and reports to your collision event.
  • Ignore Input Task - Disable Movement, Camera, or All Input on a Pawn.
  • Check Condition Task - Checks for an arbitrary condition. Can be used to prevent Tasks within an Ability from executing until some condition is met.
• More data validation tests for Tasks and other objects. **
• Dynamic Binding now supports:
  • Query Shapes
  • Sweep Shapes
  • Particle Parameters
  • Shader Parameters
    • KNOWN ISSUE: Shader Parameters binding generation is still a bit funky given you can have many bindings on the same task. If you want to bind multiple shader parameters, you may need to rename the function appropriately ( "OnGetDynamicBinding_Shader_<DynamicIdentifier>"). If you go into the editor and it lets you view the binding from the field drop down on that specific property - then you're all good.
• Ability Editor will now draw targeting queries / sweep queries when currently selected, this lets you align the volume without continually running the Ability. **
• Ability Editor now has a "Duplicate Task" option if you right click on a Task. This will make a copy of the Task. It needs its own icon but I didn't want to hold the feature for art sake.
• Added OnAbilityStackAdded / OnAbilityStackRemoved callbacks when passive stack changes. **
• OnAbilityStart / OnAbilityEnd now pass in the Ability Context rather than just the Ability class (which you can still get from the context). !!!C++ API CHANGE!!!
• Fix an issue where Particle Binding was always using the static value when it went to actually play the effect.
• Animation Montage Section support. **
• You can pass in a UDamageType class to the Apply Damage Event.
• Collision / Sweep types now take in an array of Collision layers. The old single field is deprecated but will still work for the moment. **
• Silenced some annoying warnings about world context when calling various Ability blueprint functions.

As always, please continue reporting feedback and let me know if you have any issues.

I'm working with my artist buddy to do a pass on the Able documentation / Store page, so expect changes to that as soon as we nail down a plan (hopefully sooner rather than later).

[ExtraLifeMatt]

Can you pls make some prints to show this?

Targeting -> Custom Targeting

Then in your Ability Blueprint, override "Find Targets" (CustomTargetingFindTargetsBP), that has an array parameter named Found Targets. Any actors added to that array are added to the context.

[Demonrras]

Trying to do this tip above...I found a crash problem (like image below)....When I play animation with able plugin in multiplayer project...always got this crash error...I remove animation of able ability and all goes well.

The same error occour on builted engine in 4.23.1.

I can submit logs if you need...

[ExtraLifeMatt]

Trying to do this tip above...I found a crash problem (like image below)....When I play animation with able plugin in multiplayer project...always got this crash error...I remove animation of able ability and all goes well.

The same error occour on builted engine in 4.23.1.

I can submit logs if you need...

That's something with the animation itself. Looks like bad curve data? I saw that before in some other thread. I'd search around and see if you find the issue, that's outside of Able.

[Demonrras]

That's something with the animation itself. Looks like bad curve data? I saw that before in some other thread. I'd search around and see if you find the issue, that's outside of Able.

I only stop to play animation in ably ability and the error goes away.
Look your plugin. If I can't play animation in there is 4.23, her are unuseful. I like your plugin but need a better support on this.

PS: The only curves I have in my project are from ALS and I never edited or changed anything about it ... they are as original and never gave a problem.

[ExtraLifeMatt]

I only stop to play animation in ably ability and the error goes away.
Look your plugin. If I can't play animation in there is 4.23, her are unuseful. I like your plugin but need a better support on this.

PS: The only curves I have in my project are from ALS and I never edited or changed anything about it ... they are as original and never gave a problem.

I went back and found the error you got in one of my old emails from a user. They got that error when using Advanced Locomotion on 4.23. 4.22 doesn't have the issue. It's apparently a bug with Advanced Locomotion System, not with Able - or potentially an incompatibility between the two (which I would shocked by since Able just calls UE4's animation calls).

[mashirooDH]

Possibly. The REINST means the blueprint was reinstanced under it. I wouldn't think that would cause your issue, but I honestly don't know. Marketplace support just got back to me and said they are experiencing longer than normal delays but the update was received and is working its way through the system.

I fix this by marking RF_ArchetypeObject flag when adding an new ability task. Hope it work for u.

[Ilkatheon]

Hello,

I'm using Able to attempt to play a particle effect on an npc. I'm using custom logic for targeting - however I cannot seem to actually have the particle effect execute on the target npc. I get a lot of crashes trying variations - so thought I should just ask rather than tear my hair out.

Our targeting and combat systems are external to able (hence the custom logic) - we're just using a simple tab targeting mechanism at the moment.

So my ability is just a particle effect.

As I note it has custom targeting :



I've overriden "Find Targets", found my target and that is being assigned to "Found Targets".

I'm not quite sure what I should place in the Task Targets section - does Found Targets override this? (I've tried a few variations but none seem to work and/or crash).




Any ideas?

[ExtraLifeMatt]

I fix this by marking RF_ArchetypeObject flag when adding an new ability task. Hope it work for u.

This is fixed in the latest update, I just ignore filter out the REINST and such. If I find that doesn't solve people's problems, then I'll look into the Archetype Object flag.

Hello,

I'm using Able to attempt to play a particle effect on an npc. I'm using custom logic for targeting - however I cannot seem to actually have the particle effect execute on the target npc. I get a lot of crashes trying variations - so thought I should just ask rather than tear my hair out.

Our targeting and combat systems are external to able (hence the custom logic) - we're just using a simple tab targeting mechanism at the moment.

So my ability is just a particle effect.

As I note it has custom targeting :



I've overriden "Find Targets", found my target and that is being assigned to "Found Targets".

I'm not quite sure what I should place in the Task Targets section - does Found Targets override this? (I've tried a few variations but none seem to work and/or crash).




Any ideas?

Target Actor should be the correct field. Turn on Verbose for that task and you should get a print out of exactly what is happening. I will note that Play Particle Effect had a couple bugs in it that are fixed in the latest version (namely with the dynamic binding always returning the static particle effect referenced in the Task, and that attached Effects on Targets didn't work correctly).