Unreal Engine 4 - Enemy Targeting System & Switch Attack Stance

[@Beardgames]

Want to upgrade this system so you can swap between targets on the left and right? Check out my update for this :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/pai9q2Ccm7qtqcU

[@Pontos420]

Just... nice!

[@mattice9083]

this is very well done. what i am thinking is how do i do something where when i push attack, the character "locks on" and attacks the cloest/ most center viewed enemy

[@DevilFruitJourney]

I would subnif you could explain how to swap between mutltiple enemies by using the mouse wheel. I think many other people would too :)

[@josecervilla5362]

Sometimes the animation shakes, I see that it happens to you too 11:44 Why is this? I'm going crazy, trying to fix it, and I see that in your flex combat project it doesn't happen, is a bug of the animation?

[@kajoxu]

Did you find out how to solve this? I have big problem with it, and i need help.

[@boostedplayer503]

You made it soo easy. Everyone else was making this a big mess. Thanks alot.

[@Beardgames]

Anytime brother :)

[@realdlps]

Oh boy the thirdpersoncharacter blueprint has a lot of stuff now, Awesome vid :)

[@Beardgames]

Thanks as always amigo :D

[@MartKart8]

I had to redo this again, and now the lock on works.

[@호경-p6x]

Smartest and kindest youtuber I'd ever seen, bro!😀

[@Beardgames]

Much love amigo that's very kind of you to say. Keep smashing it for me!

[@jmarte6089]

You are awesome. Keep up the great work!

[@jordanabbatiello]

great tutorial, also subscribed right after your suggestion.

[@Beardgames]

Thanks for supporting the channel Jordan it's much appreciated :)

[@notinuse9999-c3y]

I still so those red and green lines you have at 6:00 , how do you get rid of those?

[@BenMolgaV2]

This is what iv been looking for thx so much

[@Beardgames]

No problem at all! Thanks for supporting my channel :)

[@ВладимирСваталов]

Я сильно благодарен тебе за качественные видео, двигайся в том же духе(I am very grateful to you for high-quality videos, move in the same spirit)

[@ondria6334]

Hi I am trying to follow your tutorial but It seems like you didn't mention the ready to attack or weaponready variables etc? Please could you let me know which tutorial you mentioned to create them in. Thanks 1:21

[@notinuse9999-c3y]

Not relevant to this tutorial

[@garrytalaroc]

Thanks man, you're the best.

[@Dream-Big-Studio]

Thank you so much Sir. i am a big fan of yours.

[@nierautomata9654]

Well explained Teacher ! another lesson learned :) Thank you!

[@Beardgames]

Anytime amigo :D

[@gil6970]

How can I make it so I can move the camera left and right when locked on? The camera is always locked in. I’ll like to keep the character strafing and facing the enemy. But able to move the camera around. Can you please help

[@TheGhos1Face]

Ohhh nice one my g!!!

[@Beardgames]

Thanks bro :D

[@codyvandal2860]

Nice job man keep them coming

[@Beardgames]

Thanks man!

[@davida4641]

Hi, when the A.I character approaches and gets close, the camera pivots to a a bit of a birds eye view. Is there any way of preventing this when the character gets close?

[@christofferplatou2828]

Still wanting to know this too

[@Lumhax]

Hi ! Amazing one, do you know how to draw icons on the ennemy ?

[@DevilFruitJourney]

You need to creat a widget. Then assign this widget to your character/enemy. Then put some Logic to make this icon visible

[@aibon7070]

Very nice Tutorial! Good job

[@Beardgames]

Thanks so much ibon!! :)

[@DarkKiller-so3jp]

Great tutorial! I got a question though, how would I make the targeting system dynamic in which the camera will automatically adjust it's self so both the player and the target is always visible on screen? Currently is there is a group of enemies or I'm too close to the target, it can be very hard to see the target clearly so I would really want the camera to adjust itself by moving left or right so both the player and the target are always seen clearly. Any ideas on how I can achieve this?

[@troyhayder6986]

Posted my lock on on my channel... You fing genius... Unlike batman my character always goes in the direction I'm holding... Cause I'm not shit...

[@jankystreams3337]

For some reason my character is not strafing whenever he locks onto the target. I am almost 100% sure I connected everything correctly, do you know why this might be happening? Also, regardless if I get this fixed, this is a GREAT video, it was really easy to follow and it helped me out a ton. EDIT: I fixed it. I made a dumb easy to fix mistake.

[@stinkbruh8178]

how did you fix it brotherr

[@Legend64Project]

Thank you for the tutorial it was very helpful. Do you have a part two for how the camera will lock off depending on the distance away from the target?

[@Beardgames]

Unfortunately I dont however you can just use the "get distance to" node with the player and the AI, when its greater than a certain distance call the target event again to untarget :)

[@Legend64Project]

@@Beardgames Thanks Beard! Do you know how to set up a switch to a new target? I keep locking on to the same one...

[@Beardgames]

@@Legend64Project check out my badass features video, we go over switching between the left and right enemies :)

[@MZONE3D]

Nice one mate. Just what I was after. Cheers

[@Beardgames]

No problem amigo :D Thanks for supporting the channel!

[@MZONE3D]

@@Beardgames alright mate, that worked like a charm... it would be cool though to add some kind of marker above the head of your target? how would ya go about that? add a billboard and make it visible on locked?

[@Beardgames]

@@MZONE3D glad to hear it pal! I'm working on a tutorial now where we'll add a marker don't worry I got you :D it will only be available for early access until I release another video after that though so you'll have to wait a couple days for it :)

[@afiqzak8345]

thanks, your tutorial really helpful :)

[@Beardgames]

Anytime afiq :)

[@S1yGus]

Спасибо из России, мужик! Урок - годнота!

[@tgykurtulus]

Hello, thank you! Do you have an idea how i can implement to this feature to a side scroller? This logic turns the character the wrong side when it is right of the target .

[@Zero_hk]

How could I stop the target after killing the targeted enemy?

[@Beardgames]

From your AI death blueprint simply clear your locked on target :)

[@bibilicious]

How would you go around making a multi target system lock on? I made a very similar set up (except using line traces) in C++ and it mostly works, with an additional Q/E to toggle through the targets. But there is some edge cases which actually makes it fairly difficult to code thoroughly, like handling when one of the enemy dies, choosing different target (based on distance is easy, but what about left to right?). Any pointers?

[@Beardgames]

So you'd just use the exact same method but for the Q/E keys make sure the target locked is 'not equal' to the first target :)

[@StrannyiQuark]

Hello! Great tutorial, many thanks! Can you explain, why the radius (the distance between my Character and its Target) is always increaing, if I strafe? Can I fix that somehow - I want always keep this distance unless I press Forward/Backward while strafing

[@Beardgames]

No problem at all 😊 so I've actually only tested this with AI so I haven't noticed the movement change, but I presume when locking onto a still target when you move left and right your character gets further away over time? Hmm if this is the problem the only thing I can think of is on your movement input for moving left/right (the movement input node). Add a condition if the target is locked, then if the target is locked add a very small forwards input on top of the left/right movement. I use this technique to fix a bug in one of my upcoming videos if you haven't figured it out by then that video should be able to help :)

[@arankasih1162]

HI beard games! u just earned yourself a subscribe! its a good tutorial btw, easy to do and not complicated at all. And i actually have an ide that i can't do myself, if you don't mind? so basically, it would be good if our player have a max distance of targeting, so when we go too far from target, our targeting is off and we can control our mouse again. Thank you so much! Much love from Indonesia

[@Beardgames]

Hey Aran thanks for the sub brother I really appreciate you supporting the channel :) So what you can do is add a condition onto your tick which say "if Distance between self & locked on target greather than ... clear lock on". Just use the same functionality and the "Get Distance To" node. Good luck!

[@Grimsikk]

Is there a more optimized way to handle the camera control? I was under the impression that putting things on Event Tick was bad practice. I'm looking to make my game as optimized as possible.

[@aleca8910]

It's not a bad practice but it's recommended to use it only if necessary. In this case there's no other options. If you don't do the trace every frame your camera will start stuttering and you don't want that. Lock on target is something you must do every frame.

[@blenderzone5446]

like it! thanks for sharing!

[@Beardgames]

Thanks Metal :)

[@blenderzone5446]

my pleasure!

[@Pontos420]

How can I make the shpere spawned from the sphere trace for objects invisible? As even if I spawn it only for "one Frame" I can still see a red line poping up for a moment.

[@dodossssssssss]

set draw debug type to none

[@ION1234ASDASD]

can you make the player return to normal state after you release tab with a simple node? my char doesnt move normally, he stays in a strafe state, sory for my bad english, (i didnt do the animation blueprint part)

[@sonapaiaca6902]

can you send me the link for the nodes? The link doesn't work

[@Beardgames]

Hmm it seems that the link broke with the new update of the website. Will have to look into this a bit later for you Sona sorry! You can just re-produce the nodes if you want :)

[@sonapaiaca6902]

@@Beardgames I have found the nodes, thx anyway and great work with the tutorial ^^

[@FerUrdanetaDev]

hey bro! the blueprint nodes are broken :c

[@Beardgames]

Hey Fernando sorry to hear you're having issues man! What do you mean by the nodes are broken?

[@FerUrdanetaDev]

@@Beardgames with the link

[@thentsc]

@@Beardgames Yeah your link to blueprintue is dead

[@Beardgames]

@@thentsc oh damn sorry guys they changed the website. Will try get on this ASAP :)

[@armeddreams9141]

Whenever I lock onto an enemy or other physicsActor, it kinda locks onto their like, feet. So if I get within touching distance, my camera kinda looks 80 degrees down. Is there a way to make it eye-level, or atleast control the up-down angle of the view?

[@Beardgames]

10:15 my friend :)

[@Blonder_Studio]

how can i make it so that if i move to either left or right while being locked on my character would be on the side of my screen?

[@Blonder_Studio]

nvm figured it out

[@mmk6921]

1:56 Hi I Just made the TargetLocked variable, but when i tried to connect it to Pawn Owner on the Event Graph, the variable is not showing. :(

[@gigs510muzik]

Same

[@brunosemerek]

Be sure that You have compiled Your player character blueprint. Your targetLocked variable should be created there. Then go to event graph of your animation blueprint and from cast to go get targetLocked. then promote it to variable. You will be using this new variable as targetLocked for animation blueprint.

[@socialrecluse5227]

When Locked onto a target and it gets destroyed I get an error. how would I implement a way to turn off the lock on when actor is destroyed?

[@socialrecluse5227]

Found solution in your other videos will leave this comment up incase others find same problem :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/pai9q2Ccm7qtqcU&ab_channel=Beardgames (13:30)

[@3rosione]

when i press tab my character doesn't do the strafing blendspace animations :(

[@ImpeGa123]

Remember to set controller rotation yaw to true ( I forgot that )

[@notinuse9999-c3y]

I cant attack anymore with this system, any fix?

[@ggplayer1170]

Is there a way to make the character move independently from the camera?

[@ggplayer1170]

Just had to delete "Use control rotation yaw" to get what I want :)

[@skippyzk]

woah, copying blueprints from websites is awesome!

[@Beardgames]

Hehe speeds things up a bit 😁 I try avoid it to make sure everyone learns the process but sometimes it speeds things up so much haha

[@skippyzk]

@@Beardgames Well, you explained everything too, and it's just the math part. Thanks for the maths! I have short enemies and I keep attacking over their head, but camera is pointing down towards the enemy. So I need to use an anim offset?

[@ty_teynium]

Be sure to collapse all those nodes at 10:03 into a function for performance sake.

[@Beardgames]

Nice shout, I've been trying to avoid functions on my tutorials to keep things simple but a function here would be great

[@emptybruh]

can you do one for top down view