WEBVTT 00:01.000 --> 00:02.710 Welcome to your next quest. 00:02.740 --> 00:09.520 Now, our Arcane Shards ability needs a montage, so I'd like you to implement the montage. 00:09.550 --> 00:13.090 You know how to do this and there are several steps involved. 00:13.090 --> 00:15.010 Make sure you remember all of them. 00:15.010 --> 00:21.700 And I'd like you to decide when to call end ability so that we can go and cast it again. 00:21.700 --> 00:28.600 Now, of course, we're going to implement cost and cooldown for Arcane Shards, but until then we need 00:28.600 --> 00:30.940 to end it at some point, right? 00:30.940 --> 00:36.670 So take care of that and make sure that casting Arcane shards looks good. 00:36.670 --> 00:38.230 Playtest it a little bit. 00:38.230 --> 00:41.260 So pause the video and conquer this quest. 00:44.420 --> 00:49.070 Okay, so there are several steps to implementing this montage. 00:49.100 --> 00:51.140 We're first going to need a montage. 00:51.500 --> 00:59.870 So for that let's go into assets characters or a animation's abilities and see if we have a cast arcane 00:59.870 --> 01:00.410 shards. 01:00.410 --> 01:01.670 And sure enough, we do. 01:01.700 --> 01:02.930 It looks like this. 01:03.790 --> 01:09.100 So I'm going to create a montage based on cast arcane shards. 01:09.100 --> 01:13.090 Before I do though, I'm going to make sure that it has root motion enabled. 01:13.090 --> 01:14.080 And it does. 01:14.380 --> 01:16.510 So I'm going to go ahead and right click on it. 01:16.510 --> 01:25.660 Go to create Create Anim Montage and call this am underscore cast arcane shards. 01:26.940 --> 01:35.100 I'm going to open it up and I'm going to go to my preview scene settings and just show environment and 01:35.100 --> 01:38.040 floor there so we can see this a bit better. 01:38.040 --> 01:39.300 So here's what it looks like. 01:39.300 --> 01:41.370 We have a cast for Arcane Shards. 01:41.370 --> 01:42.390 Looks pretty cool. 01:42.390 --> 01:46.710 And I'm going to of course add some notifies here. 01:46.710 --> 01:50.970 I'm going to change this notify track to say motion warping. 01:50.970 --> 01:53.820 And I'll add another one for the events. 01:53.820 --> 01:57.840 We'll call it events and we'll add a motion warping notify state. 01:57.840 --> 02:01.290 So I'm going to right click Add Notify State motion warping. 02:01.290 --> 02:06.900 And I'm going to make sure that this warps to just before or lifts up the staff like that. 02:06.900 --> 02:11.730 So we're rotating towards the target and then lifting the staff. 02:11.970 --> 02:14.520 And I'm going to select motion warping. 02:14.520 --> 02:21.540 And in the details panel I'm going to set my warp target name to facing target I believe it's called 02:21.540 --> 02:26.910 I'm going to uncheck warp translation and rotation type can be facing. 02:26.910 --> 02:28.650 And we have motion warping. 02:28.650 --> 02:38.220 Now as soon as aura gets to about here I'm going to execute that anim notify add Notify and Montage 02:38.220 --> 02:38.880 event. 02:38.880 --> 02:42.420 And we're going to want to send a gameplay event. 02:42.420 --> 02:43.770 And we need an event tag. 02:43.770 --> 02:50.640 So I'm going to go to Project Settings into my gameplay tags where I have my event tags. 02:50.640 --> 02:54.270 We have event montage, electrocute and Firebolt. 02:54.270 --> 02:59.400 I'm going to add one for Arcane Shards now so I can have montage selected. 02:59.400 --> 03:05.280 I can click, plus I get event dot montage and it's going to be Arcane Shards. 03:06.340 --> 03:08.530 And with that, I'm done with project settings. 03:08.530 --> 03:16.540 I can go back to my Arcane Shards montage and set its event tag to Event montage. 03:16.570 --> 03:21.490 Arcane shards, and we'll be sending that event right about then. 03:21.490 --> 03:27.010 I'm going to keep it open though, in case I need to tweak it and go back to GA Arcane Shards. 03:27.600 --> 03:28.050 Okay. 03:28.050 --> 03:32.730 So here in our ability we're going to want to use a play montage and wait. 03:33.370 --> 03:34.840 And await gameplay events. 03:34.840 --> 03:40.840 I'm going to get event on and ability out of my way, and just make sure we can keep these things organized 03:40.840 --> 03:41.500 here. 03:41.740 --> 03:48.400 Now, I don't like splitting this node, so what I'm going to do is go ahead and promote that to a variable. 03:48.400 --> 03:52.930 I'm going to call this mouse hit location. 03:54.490 --> 03:56.020 So we'll have that. 03:56.960 --> 03:58.940 From our mouse target data. 04:00.610 --> 04:07.630 And I'm just going to plug that in right here instead of impact point. 04:11.270 --> 04:15.110 Right there and I'm going to plug it in to get ground points as well. 04:19.390 --> 04:22.540 And then I don't have too many wires going all over the place. 04:22.540 --> 04:27.700 And then I can also make this a little bit more nice, a little bit neater. 04:29.710 --> 04:31.270 We have a point collection. 04:31.270 --> 04:35.980 We're storing this in a variable, so no need to split off multiple wires here. 04:35.980 --> 04:38.770 We can just hook in point collection to this. 04:40.900 --> 04:42.040 Like that. 04:43.090 --> 04:45.940 So let's just clean this up just a bit. 04:52.060 --> 04:52.780 There we go. 04:52.780 --> 04:54.490 So this looks a lot better. 04:54.940 --> 04:57.220 We'll clean things up on this side as well. 04:58.900 --> 04:59.830 Like so. 05:02.210 --> 05:05.150 Okay, so when are we going to play a montage? 05:05.480 --> 05:10.250 Well, literally it could be at any point before we do all of this stuff. 05:11.070 --> 05:16.800 So I'd like to do it probably before we spawn our point collection. 05:16.800 --> 05:18.420 Or we could do it after. 05:18.450 --> 05:21.330 We could do it before we set our timer by event. 05:21.330 --> 05:26.100 All of this other stuff is kind of atomic in a sense that it happens all at once. 05:26.100 --> 05:33.390 So why don't we just take all of the events from set timer by event onward and just move them? 05:36.460 --> 05:41.980 We'll move them all forward, make sure they're all selected, and we'll stretch this wire out. 05:41.980 --> 05:46.480 And right after we've gotten our ground points, we can play montage and wait. 05:47.900 --> 05:50.540 So I'm going to use play montage and wait. 05:53.440 --> 05:57.100 And my arcane shards can have a montage to play. 05:57.100 --> 06:03.940 I'm just going to type in arcane and use my arcane shards. 06:03.940 --> 06:10.180 If I plan on using this ability for other characters, then I can turn that into a variable. 06:10.660 --> 06:12.790 Now I'm going to uncheck stop when ability ends. 06:12.790 --> 06:21.580 So my montage is sure to play, and I'm going to immediately after this use wait gameplay event. 06:24.430 --> 06:27.490 And for weight gain play events we're going to listen for. 06:30.540 --> 06:32.670 Event montage. 06:32.670 --> 06:33.900 Arcane shards. 06:34.840 --> 06:37.570 And I'm also going to check only trigger once. 06:38.270 --> 06:44.180 And as soon as we've received an event, that is when we're going to want to set our timer and do everything 06:44.180 --> 06:44.780 else. 06:50.350 --> 06:55.150 So with that, we've basically just added these two nodes here. 06:55.790 --> 06:59.390 To play a montage and wait, I'm going to start organizing this. 06:59.390 --> 07:04.880 I'm going to say for these two nodes, play montage and wait for event. 07:13.240 --> 07:15.040 For these nodes here. 07:15.070 --> 07:16.750 These can all get a comment. 07:19.000 --> 07:26.770 And these will say spawn point collection and get ground points. 07:28.750 --> 07:31.210 We'll start giving these a few colors. 07:38.560 --> 07:40.540 Just choosing some colors here. 07:42.440 --> 07:48.380 And then all of this stuff is kind of just the ability getting started, right? 07:51.460 --> 07:51.910 Right here. 07:51.910 --> 07:53.350 We're getting target data. 07:54.010 --> 07:56.530 Get target data under mouse. 08:09.010 --> 08:11.770 And the first thing we do is show the magic circle. 08:11.770 --> 08:16.450 And really, we could start using our sequence a little bit more for these things. 08:16.450 --> 08:20.710 I could take this sequence and I can break this. 08:24.710 --> 08:27.200 And we can have this next part. 08:27.850 --> 08:29.200 Go right after. 08:39.590 --> 08:42.650 Wait input press is kind of its own thing. 08:44.770 --> 08:50.680 But we do need it hooked up directly here because on press needs to go straight in. 08:50.680 --> 08:55.750 We can't just put this in the sequence because things have to go in order. 08:55.750 --> 09:00.310 In fact, for target data under mouse we should go after we have valid data right here. 09:00.310 --> 09:03.820 So really this shouldn't actually be a Pin. 09:09.480 --> 09:14.310 We actually need this to be right after target data. 09:15.670 --> 09:20.860 But these two can be one after the other in sequence. 09:20.860 --> 09:24.670 So we could have a sequence after the orange part here. 09:29.450 --> 09:35.120 And this will kind of help things not be one big long block of nodes. 09:37.030 --> 09:41.260 So play montage and wait for event can go immediately after. 09:50.760 --> 09:51.780 Like that. 09:54.280 --> 09:54.730 Now. 09:54.730 --> 09:57.850 Once the event has been received, we set the timer. 09:58.420 --> 10:03.130 And then we spawn our first shard we call our Spawn Shard event. 10:04.270 --> 10:06.100 And hide the magic circle. 10:07.480 --> 10:13.180 I think it's more appropriate to call spawn shard last in this line of things here. 10:14.670 --> 10:18.870 It's not really important, but I think I like it that way better. 10:19.520 --> 10:20.390 Okay. 10:21.670 --> 10:25.420 And all of this stuff is our loop, basically. 10:26.650 --> 10:28.270 Our async loop. 10:32.920 --> 10:36.340 And this can be show magic circle. 10:44.430 --> 10:47.850 Okay, so now we're playing a montage. 10:48.300 --> 10:50.100 We're going to be doing more here. 10:50.100 --> 10:52.920 So I think we can clean this up a little bit later. 10:52.920 --> 10:57.360 I'm going to make sure that we end the ability as soon as our loop is done here. 11:00.170 --> 11:02.960 So I'm just going to keep inability right there. 11:02.960 --> 11:04.550 And let's give this a try. 11:06.980 --> 11:09.110 I'll try with one player first. 11:14.290 --> 11:17.290 Okay, so I didn't turn to face the target. 11:17.290 --> 11:21.850 And that's because I forgot one crucial step to set my facing target. 11:21.850 --> 11:25.030 And that should be done before play montage and wait. 11:26.250 --> 11:33.000 And for that reason, I'm just going to put it as one step in my sequence right here. 11:33.570 --> 11:34.950 So I'm going to add a pen. 11:34.950 --> 11:37.560 I'm going to bring this wire to the second. 11:38.390 --> 11:40.010 Or I should say the third pen. 11:40.010 --> 11:42.890 And then I'm going to update facing target. 11:42.890 --> 11:44.390 So I'm going to call update. 11:46.680 --> 11:48.000 Facing target. 11:48.870 --> 11:50.700 We're going to pass in. 11:50.700 --> 11:53.700 Get avatar actor from actor info. 11:54.450 --> 12:01.440 As the target and we have our mouse hit location, we're going to get that and pass that in. 12:01.980 --> 12:04.590 Those interface functions sure are handy. 12:04.980 --> 12:08.010 And with that we're updating our facing target. 12:10.110 --> 12:11.700 This can get a comment as well. 12:11.700 --> 12:15.750 Update facing target. 12:22.690 --> 12:24.700 This will get a little bit darker green. 12:28.810 --> 12:34.180 Okay, so this is looking pretty organized, at least on this side of things. 12:34.180 --> 12:37.300 Over here it's a little less organized, but that's okay. 12:37.300 --> 12:40.630 And I'm going to set my numb points to four. 12:41.910 --> 12:44.910 That feels like a pretty good number to test this with. 12:44.910 --> 12:46.680 And I'm going to cast this again. 12:48.280 --> 12:51.580 Okay, so we rotated to face the target. 12:55.300 --> 12:56.200 Looks good. 12:57.230 --> 13:02.510 I think I might like that window to be a little bit shorter, so I'm going to bring it to about here. 13:03.880 --> 13:06.610 And I'm going to bring this an montage event. 13:07.730 --> 13:09.020 To about here. 13:15.210 --> 13:16.200 It's looking good. 13:32.160 --> 13:38.700 All right, let's set the number of players to two and just test this in multiplayer with two players. 13:45.540 --> 13:46.260 Looking good. 13:46.260 --> 13:51.150 Sometimes we get it up there on, say, a baluster. 13:52.840 --> 13:55.300 But it does look pretty good if we do it on the stairs. 13:55.300 --> 14:01.120 We do have those points at locations on the stairs and I'm happy with that. 14:02.660 --> 14:07.820 Now we're not orienting it towards the normal because we saw the limitations of gameplay cue, notify, 14:07.820 --> 14:08.540 burst. 14:08.570 --> 14:15.440 We know that we could pass in data in through our parameters and orient those if we wanted to. 14:15.470 --> 14:17.750 I'm actually happy with how they are though. 14:17.780 --> 14:19.670 I think this is looking great. 14:21.080 --> 14:21.830 Awesome. 14:23.100 --> 14:25.590 Okay, so that is the next step. 14:26.540 --> 14:29.210 We're now playing our montage. 14:29.240 --> 14:31.130 Our spell is looking great. 14:31.160 --> 14:33.620 We'll continue in the next video. 14:33.650 --> 14:36.140 Great job on the quest and I'll see you soon.