FreedTerror

I'm trying to make a combatant change its position when its hit by an ability. Help please =).

gamingislove

There's a wide range of Movement nodes to do that job :)

In case you want to move the battle spot as well, that can be accessed through a Waypoint object (instead of Actor), e.g. the User Base is the battle spot of the user.

FreedTerror

Is it possible to use the outcome of a formula to determine where a change position node will send a combatant.

I see an option to use a formula under time used to move the combatant.

Griffin

I haven't tried it, but I think you can use Rigidbody nodes to determine distance from a force.

gamingislove

It's somewhat possible - as you already discovered, you can use it to limit the time in some movement nodes.

Otherwise, you could use a Change Game Variable node to store the formula result into a float variable. Afterwards, you can use a Check Game Variable or Game Variable Fork node to perform different movement nodes based on the value.

FreedTerror

Here's what I came up with for a node chain. I'm not really sure how most of these settings work yet.

Change Game Variable: Global, Value, Float, Formula

Game Variable Fork: Global, Value, Condition 0: Float, Is Equal, Value

Then I link certain Change Position nodes to certain parts of the Game Variable Fork node.

Will these settings work?

gamingislove

I'd recommend using the Approximately or Range checks in your Game Variable Fork node, since you're working with float values here.
Float values have a certain amount of inaccuracy, that could lead to 1 equals 1 being invalid, so it's better to use Approximately here :)

FreedTerror

Added Approximately to GVF node.

Added another battle event to the ability that I'm using.

I still can't seem to get my combatant to move when it's hit by a spawned prefab with a damage dealer.

gamingislove

You need to animate the damage dealer using battle events for that. This is done in the ability's Damage Dealer Settings:
- enable Animate
- add the battle events you want to use (like for the normal battle events for the ability)

In the used battle event, make sure to move the Target actor :)

FreedTerror

Added the battle event to damage dealer settings.

I still can't get the event to work.

Maybe my event is missing something.

gamingislove

Is the damage dealer doing damage (i.e. set up correctly, activated and hitting the target)?
If that's working and the event is firing, it might be a wrong setup on the movement node.

FreedTerror

I can get other events to work in the damage dealer settings.

The formula I'm using for the float values only calculates whole numbers 0 - 5 right now. Would Approximately in the GVF node still work here?

gamingislove

Approximately will still work - regardless if they're whole numbers or not, they're still float values.

Like I said, if the event is firing, it's probably something in your movement node - can you post your settings in that node?

FreedTerror

What does the "failed" part of the GVF node do?

Movement node: Change Position, Actor, Target, Local Position, Move, Controller Move, Move by Time.

gamingislove

Failed will be used when none of the conditions are valid.

Does the target game object have a Character Controller attached? Otherwise Controller Move can't move anything.

FreedTerror

I don't have failed hooked up to anything, is that ok?

The combatants that I want to move have character controllers attached.