Able Ability System Info and Support Thread

[TVwj]

Do you have an updated tutorial on beams? I can't follow chain lightning tutorial.

[ExtraLifeMatt]

Do you have an updated tutorial on beams? I can't follow chain lightning tutorial.

What specifically are you having a problem with? Beams should be relatively unchanged.

[TVwj]

What specifically are you having a problem with? Beams should be relatively unchanged.

Sorry I should have been more specific. I do not see a "beam" section in the "play particle effect" task like in the tutorial.

[ExtraLifeMatt]

Sorry I should have been more specific. I do not see a "beam" section in the "play particle effect" task like in the tutorial.

Ah, I believe those should be replaced with Actor Particle Parameters. Beams were super hacky back when I made that tutorial. If they just use Actor parameters you can simply set those. I get what you mean by saying it's out of date, I'll check it out and see if I can get it updated.

[ExtraLifeMatt]

Able v3.21 has been submitted to Epic.

• Added a clearer description to the Collision / Sweep Tasks failing data validation due to not having a collision layer setup in the new array structure.
• Fixed a crash with Verbose mode while in the Editor.

[teak421]

Hi.

I'm finally going to start spending some time with Able and was wondering since you are adding so many new features, will the two year old YOUTUBE videos still be valid... Thanks for all your work.

teak

[ExtraLifeMatt]

Hi.

I'm finally going to start spending some time with Able and was wondering since you are adding so many new features, will the two year old YOUTUBE videos still be valid... Thanks for all your work.

teak

Yup, they're all still valid. The only one that is a bit off now is the Chain Lightning with setting up the beam particles. For that, you want to just pass in the source / target as Actor parameters. Other than that, all that's changed is the skin of the editor and new Tasks have been added (+ features like dynamic bindings).

[teak421]

Loaded for the first time and I started to just click around... Yeah, I know, silly. So, when I open a new ABLE I clicked on VALIDATE and I get a crash... I didn't do anything else, just click validate. For sure, this is not the normal use of validate...I didn't do anything that needed to be validated, but it's still a crash.

teak

PS: 4.23.1

[ExtraLifeMatt]

Loaded for the first time and I started to just click around... Yeah, I know, silly. So, when I open a new ABLE I clicked on VALIDATE and I get a crash... I didn't do anything else, just click validate. For sure, this is not the normal use of validate...I didn't do anything that needed to be validated, but it's still a crash.

teak

PS: 4.23.1

I thought I had fixed that already, but thanks for the report. It should just return if you try to validate nothing, but obviously something is still assuming a valid ability.

[Demonrras]

I like to do a branch where I need to press W+LMB to enter in next combo ability.
I try to do this and don't work...the branch pass with only one key pressed...I tried in many ways and couldn't.
This is a Bug??? Can you explain how to do this if I'm wrong???

[ExtraLifeMatt]

I like to do a branch where I need to press W+LMB to enter in next combo ability.
I try to do this and don't work...the branch pass with only one key pressed...I tried in many ways and couldn't.
This is a Bug??? Can you explain how to do this if I'm wrong???

Try removing the "must be recently pressed". Likely one of your inputs was already held down in the past 0.1 seconds (which is what that value applies to). You can mark the Branch task as Verbose and it'll tell you why it's failing.

[Demonrras]

Try removing the "must be recently pressed". Likely one of your inputs was already held down in the past 0.1 seconds (which is what that value applies to). You can mark the Branch task as Verbose and it'll tell you why it's failing.

I uncheck the "must be recently pressed" from both input conditions and check verbose...You can see below the verbose log.

LogBlueprintUserMessages: [Frank_Fighter_OverView] OnTaskStart called for Task AblBranchTask_0 at time 0.60.
LogBlueprintUserMessages: [Frank_Fighter_OverView] Condition AblBranchConditionOnInput_0 returned False.
LogBlueprintUserMessages: [Frank_Fighter_OverView] OnTaskTick called for Task AblBranchTask_0 at time 0.61. Delta Time = 0.00947
LogBlueprintUserMessages: [Frank_Fighter_OverView] Condition AblBranchConditionOnInput_0 returned False.
LogBlueprintUserMessages: [Frank_Fighter_OverView] OnTaskTick called for Task AblBranchTask_0 at time 0.62. Delta Time = 0.00949
LogBlueprintUserMessages: [Frank_Fighter_OverView] Condition AblBranchConditionOnInput_0 returned False.
LogBlueprintUserMessages: [Frank_Fighter_OverView] OnTaskTick called for Task AblBranchTask_0 at time 0.63. Delta Time = 0.00943
LogBlueprintUserMessages: [Frank_Fighter_OverView] Condition AblBranchConditionOnInput_0 returned False.
LogBlueprintUserMessages: [Frank_Fighter_OverView] OnTaskTick called for Task AblBranchTask_0 at time 0.64. Delta Time = 0.00949
LogBlueprintUserMessages: [Frank_Fighter_OverView] Condition AblBranchConditionOnInput_0 returned False.
LogBlueprintUserMessages: [Frank_Fighter_OverView] OnTaskTick called for Task AblBranchTask_0 at time 0.65. Delta Time = 0.00976
LogBlueprintUserMessages: [Frank_Fighter_OverView] Condition AblBranchConditionOnInput_0 returned False.
LogBlueprintUserMessages: [Frank_Fighter_OverView] OnTaskTick called for Task AblBranchTask_0 at time 0.66. Delta Time = 0.00967
LogBlueprintUserMessages: [Frank_Fighter_OverView] Condition AblBranchConditionOnInput_0 returned True.
LogBlueprintUserMessages: [Frank_Fighter_OverView] Conditions passed. Branching to Ability Default__Fighter_02_3_C

Like image above, this ability have 2 conditions to reach the next ability. The "Must Pass All Conditions" are already checked. The plugin is testing only the first condition.

[Demonrras]

I uncheck the "must be recently pressed" from both input conditions and check verbose...You can see below the verbose log.



Like image above, this ability have 2 conditions to reach the next ability. The "Must Pass All Conditions" are already checked. The plugin is testing only the first condition.

The branch are testing the first condition and if TRUE, the result of the next conditions are TRUE too also if I don't press the key condition.

[ExtraLifeMatt]

The branch are testing the first condition and if TRUE, the result of the next conditions are TRUE too also if I don't press the key condition.

So you're branching when you don't expect to? I'll check things tonight. There was some recent work in those files so maybe things broke.

[CronofearSW]

Hi, i just bought your plugin and i really like the idea of having a data driven ability system. However i'm not sure how i could use this system to make my game more "moddable". I'm not sure if you can recommend me a workflow for that using your plugin. Like, maybe there's a way to load abilities assets from text files or something like that?