WEBVTT 00:06.840 --> 00:07.980 Welcome back. 00:08.010 --> 00:09.930 Let me show you something really cool. 00:09.960 --> 00:15.720 Let's go into assets effects combat and open up ground summon. 00:16.370 --> 00:17.750 Check out this. 00:17.900 --> 00:24.220 This is a nice little effect that I'd like to play on the ground just before summoning some creatures. 00:24.230 --> 00:28.640 So in this video, I'm going to go about making that happen. 00:28.640 --> 00:38.390 So let's go back into blueprints, ability system, enemy abilities and summon ability. 00:38.390 --> 00:39.920 And I'd like to do that now. 00:39.920 --> 00:49.520 I want to show those summon particle effects for each of my spawn locations before drawing the debug 00:49.520 --> 00:50.030 spheres. 00:50.030 --> 00:54.710 These purple magenta debug spheres are representative of spawning. 00:54.710 --> 00:54.940 Right? 00:54.980 --> 01:02.750 So before spawning, I want to show a little bit beforehand where those spawn locations are. 01:02.780 --> 01:09.320 This is something you see with bosses a lot where showing where those things are going to spawn in first. 01:09.320 --> 01:11.000 So that's what I'm going to do. 01:11.000 --> 01:14.660 And for that I am going to use a loop. 01:14.690 --> 01:21.480 I'm going to get event on and ability out of my way and we're going to take this spawn locations array. 01:21.570 --> 01:27.810 We're going to use a for each loop and for each of these. 01:28.270 --> 01:29.760 Locations. 01:29.770 --> 01:32.830 I want to spawn a particle effect. 01:32.830 --> 01:37.810 So in the loop body, we're going to spawn system at location. 01:38.680 --> 01:39.910 And the system. 01:39.910 --> 01:45.940 I'm going to search for, summon and use ground summon and the location will be at the array element 01:45.940 --> 01:47.740 and that's it. 01:47.740 --> 01:54.250 And once this is all completed, then we can move on to the actual spawning, which is what this is 01:54.250 --> 01:55.750 representative of. 01:55.750 --> 02:04.000 So this will all go in the completed and we can even do a bit of a delay before we actually do the spawning. 02:04.000 --> 02:10.750 So I'd like to delay by, oh, about a second and a half, maybe two seconds before actually spawning. 02:11.750 --> 02:20.030 So now we're going to have some foreshadowing particles that will show us exactly where those enemies 02:20.030 --> 02:20.870 will be spawned. 02:20.900 --> 02:22.340 Let's see how that looks. 02:24.280 --> 02:25.260 There they are. 02:25.270 --> 02:28.720 And then there are those spawn locations. 02:28.720 --> 02:34.570 Now, if you want, you can either lower that delay, maybe one second is better. 02:34.570 --> 02:43.540 And if you really want to also you can tweak this summon Niagara system so that it lasts longer as well. 02:43.540 --> 02:48.310 You can go to initialize particle and choose to have a longer lifetime. 02:48.310 --> 02:50.140 Lifetime min is 0.5. 02:50.170 --> 02:55.210 You can increase that to one increase lifetime max to 2.5. 02:55.240 --> 02:58.540 That will give you a longer spawn time. 02:58.540 --> 03:01.990 And in that case, maybe 1.5 seconds is appropriate. 03:02.020 --> 03:03.460 Let's see how it looks. 03:08.580 --> 03:13.160 And it's a little hard because, you know, we're getting that ability activated quite rapidly. 03:13.170 --> 03:17.910 I'm going to run away right away and just see what it looks like. 03:17.910 --> 03:25.920 I'm going to probably keep it how it was a minimum lifetime of 0.5 maximum. 03:25.950 --> 03:33.630 I think it was two seconds and I'm going to take my summon delay and put that down to about a second. 03:33.960 --> 03:35.580 Let's see how that looks. 03:39.920 --> 03:42.050 I want to see it only happen once. 03:42.080 --> 03:43.190 There we go. 03:44.060 --> 03:45.920 And I think that's pretty good. 03:45.920 --> 03:49.910 In fact, maybe even 0.75 seconds. 03:54.920 --> 03:56.480 Yeah, that looks pretty good. 03:56.720 --> 03:57.350 Cool. 03:57.350 --> 04:04.880 So now we have a bit of a foreshadowing particle effect that will show us where those spawn locations 04:04.880 --> 04:07.490 are before the enemies spawn in. 04:07.490 --> 04:13.940 And then shortly after, we're going to spawn those enemies in and spawning them will be right here. 04:13.940 --> 04:16.690 It'll take place of draw debug sphere. 04:16.700 --> 04:18.200 So that's next. 04:18.230 --> 04:21.710 We need a way to spawn enemies. 04:21.770 --> 04:29.960 Now we do have in our class defaults a minion classes array and this is an array of pawns. 04:29.960 --> 04:35.000 So what we can do is fill that in with the pawns that we want to spawn. 04:35.000 --> 04:40.880 And every time we spawn, I'd like to select from this array at random. 04:40.880 --> 04:48.080 So in the next video, we're going to make a nice algorithm to select one of these minion classes at 04:48.080 --> 04:51.830 random and spawn it in at the correct location. 04:51.860 --> 04:52.910 Great job. 04:52.910 --> 04:54.020 I'll see you soon.