Version 3 abilities

[lindsaad]

Has there been any change with extending custom abilities with version 3? I am attempting to create my own Roll ability. I have the ability class and have it successfully associated with a key press in the new input system. Through debug statements I can see it going through the motions of starting the ability (attempting to trace the path similar to the included Jump ability). However, the animation never plays and I am seeing that it never gets added to the ActiveAbilities array for the AnimatorMonitor to Set the ability index. I followed the video in the documentation for the crawl ability. The roll works as expected when I set it to a trigger similar to the video but, it does not work when I set it to button down (similar to jump).

 

[Justin]

It either sounds like the ability is not starting or the ability gets stopped right away after it starts. You can debug this by placing a breakpoint within AbilityStarted/AbilityStopped to determine what is starting/stopping it. The abilities video was made with version 2 but there aren't any major changes to the ability system in version 3 so the same steps can be applied.

 

[lindsaad]

That is what it was. There is a virtual method for CanStopAbility. If you don't override it, it always returns true and stops the ability before the AnimatorMonitor runs UpdateAbilityAnimatorParameters. Now I just need to determine the best logic for when to return true in the overridden method... or I can wait until you get the AgiltyPack working with v3

Edit: I ended up changing the Stop Action from Automatic to Button Up (and removed the overidden method). This seems to have worked.