WEBVTT 00:07.010 --> 00:08.330 Welcome back. 00:08.570 --> 00:11.210 So we have our arcane Shards ability. 00:11.210 --> 00:16.520 It's pretty empty, but we've created some other things we know we're going to use, such as our magic 00:16.520 --> 00:17.240 circle. 00:17.240 --> 00:22.190 So it'd be nice to show that magic circle when we activate the ability. 00:22.640 --> 00:25.520 So that can be our first thing we do. 00:25.520 --> 00:31.670 In Activate Ability, we can right click and we can show Magic Circle. 00:31.700 --> 00:33.530 We can call this function. 00:33.530 --> 00:37.340 And the target here can be our avatar actor. 00:37.340 --> 00:40.010 So we can get avatar actor from actor info. 00:40.010 --> 00:45.410 We can pass that straight in because this is an interface blueprint native event. 00:45.410 --> 00:48.440 And we don't need to pass in a decal. 00:48.440 --> 00:50.120 That's just a nice to have. 00:50.120 --> 00:55.700 We don't really need to change it, but if we really wanted to, we could have multiple spells that 00:55.700 --> 01:02.540 have their own decals, and we could add a variable for the decal that we could pass in there if we 01:02.540 --> 01:03.710 wanted to do that. 01:03.740 --> 01:05.930 Now we're showing the magic circle. 01:05.930 --> 01:08.330 I'm going to go ahead and make a sequence here. 01:10.440 --> 01:18.330 And after showing the magic circle, I'd like to wait for our input to be pressed. 01:18.330 --> 01:23.460 And of course, when showing the magic circle, I'd like to hide the mouse cursor. 01:23.460 --> 01:29.940 And then once we press with our input, we can hide the magic circle and show that mouse cursor again. 01:29.940 --> 01:35.430 Now show Magic Circle could simply take care of that mouse cursor for us. 01:35.430 --> 01:39.390 We could go back and change our implementation for this. 01:39.390 --> 01:47.190 In our Aura Character class in the private folder, I can go into character or a character and I can 01:47.190 --> 01:50.040 find Show Magic Circle. 01:50.040 --> 01:53.400 And right here we have access to the Aura Player controller. 01:53.400 --> 02:03.060 We could take Aura Player controller here and we can set be show mouse cursor to false and then in Hide 02:03.060 --> 02:05.820 Magic Circle we could set it back to true. 02:05.820 --> 02:08.850 So this could just take care of that for us. 02:09.090 --> 02:11.460 So from the editor I'm going to save all. 02:11.700 --> 02:13.170 And then back to writer. 02:13.170 --> 02:17.580 I can just hit rerun and we can just compile and launch again. 02:17.580 --> 02:22.110 So we know that show Magic Circle is going to take care of that mouse cursor. 02:23.500 --> 02:26.050 Okay, so we're back in the editor. 02:26.440 --> 02:31.000 We don't get the option to open our last assets because we hit rerun in writer. 02:31.000 --> 02:39.130 But I'm going to open Arcane Shards, and I'd like to wait until we press our mouse button again. 02:39.130 --> 02:45.280 And I say again, assuming that we just clicked to activate this, but that doesn't necessarily have 02:45.280 --> 02:46.270 to be the case. 02:46.270 --> 02:51.910 Whatever our input is assigned to our arcane shards, that's the input we're talking about. 02:51.910 --> 02:55.060 So I'm going to wait for an input press. 02:55.060 --> 02:58.360 So we've seen how wait input release works. 02:58.360 --> 03:01.030 We can also use wait input press. 03:02.850 --> 03:08.700 And weight input press is going to execute on press when we press our input. 03:08.910 --> 03:12.870 So what we can do is we can call hide magic circle. 03:12.870 --> 03:18.180 So I can take my avatar actor that I've gotten here, I can duplicate that. 03:18.180 --> 03:26.550 I can right click and use hide magic circle passing in the avatar actor here and hooking this up to 03:26.550 --> 03:27.690 on press. 03:28.360 --> 03:31.030 We can see how this works by pressing play. 03:31.060 --> 03:34.840 We're going to have to actually get that ability equipped. 03:35.080 --> 03:39.460 So we could just assign that to one of our abilities we start out with. 03:39.460 --> 03:43.810 But I'm going to take it, spend a point and equip it to the one key. 03:43.810 --> 03:47.980 And I'm going to press the one key and I get my magic circle. 03:47.980 --> 03:52.540 And if I press the one key again, we hide the magic circle. 03:52.540 --> 03:56.830 Now we're not actually ending the ability, so we won't be able to activate it again. 03:56.830 --> 04:00.460 If we wanted to, we could just use end ability. 04:02.150 --> 04:10.610 So that we can continue testing this, but we have successfully waited for an input process and as soon 04:10.610 --> 04:13.430 as we press again, we hide that circle. 04:13.430 --> 04:17.660 So we have the ability to show and hide the circle based on an input press. 04:17.660 --> 04:21.320 Now, I don't want to have to level up just to test this ability. 04:21.320 --> 04:28.220 So I'm going to go to blueprints Character Aura and Open Aura character and search for those startup 04:28.220 --> 04:29.180 abilities. 04:32.420 --> 04:33.860 So we have startup abilities. 04:33.860 --> 04:35.450 I'm going to add one to it. 04:36.100 --> 04:42.340 And I'm going to choose GAA Arcane Shards and Arcane shards. 04:42.340 --> 04:50.320 If it's going to start off equipped, it needs to have its starting input tag set so we know where to 04:50.320 --> 04:51.430 assign that. 04:51.430 --> 04:57.430 So we have a start up input tag and I can just assign it to two. 05:00.880 --> 05:03.010 Oh, I guess I have one open. 05:03.010 --> 05:04.960 I'll go ahead and set it to one. 05:05.910 --> 05:07.410 Input tag one. 05:07.530 --> 05:10.920 And with that we'll start off with it and I can press one. 05:11.820 --> 05:15.060 And we get that decal and I can press one again. 05:15.090 --> 05:21.570 Now, of course, I pressed one and the decal went away, but came back. 05:21.570 --> 05:25.650 And that's because we're actually ending the ability. 05:25.650 --> 05:31.770 So if we want, we can have a little bit of a delay here before we actually end the ability like point 05:31.770 --> 05:32.460 two. 05:34.200 --> 05:41.400 And then if we go ahead and press and release, we won't automatically activate that ability again. 05:41.960 --> 05:44.300 But if we press and we hold. 05:45.110 --> 05:52.670 Well, then as soon as that ability is ended, as long as we're holding that button down, we're actually 05:52.670 --> 05:59.120 sending that ability input tag held status right on over to the ability system component. 05:59.120 --> 06:05.660 We'll take care of this with cooldowns, of course, as our spells are going to use cooldowns in order 06:05.660 --> 06:07.820 to avoid spamming them of course. 06:07.820 --> 06:13.910 But now our ability has the capability of showing a decal. 06:14.000 --> 06:17.120 We can move it around, we can aim. 06:17.450 --> 06:20.660 Now we get our highlighting behavior. 06:20.660 --> 06:26.300 And of course if we hover over the enemy, we get a bit of a jump. 06:26.300 --> 06:34.550 So if you didn't like that jump, you could figure out a way to suppress the trace against the enemy. 06:35.130 --> 06:42.120 Now we don't want to suppress cursor trace in general, because cursor trace is giving us the location 06:42.120 --> 06:43.230 of the mouse cursor. 06:43.230 --> 06:46.950 So we don't actually want to disable cursor trace. 06:46.950 --> 06:49.260 But you could create another block tag. 06:49.260 --> 06:56.460 And based on that tag you could change the collision channel that you're tracing against. 06:56.460 --> 06:59.160 For example, you could do it in a number of ways. 06:59.160 --> 07:03.360 So there are ways to avoid that little bit of a jump. 07:03.360 --> 07:06.660 I'm okay with it, but you could avoid that if you wanted to. 07:06.690 --> 07:07.230 Okay. 07:07.230 --> 07:16.350 So Arcane Shards has a very basic ability to create a decal, and it's waiting for us to aim at something 07:16.350 --> 07:17.610 and then do something else. 07:17.610 --> 07:25.800 So as we use our wait input press, we have the ability to have this sort of intermediate step in our 07:25.800 --> 07:27.630 arcane Shards spell. 07:27.630 --> 07:31.830 We wait until that input is pressed before we hide the magic circle. 07:31.830 --> 07:37.080 And of course, in the ability we're going to do things a little bit more gracefully than that. 07:37.080 --> 07:42.570 And of course, this ability has to do a lot more things before we're done, but at least we have that 07:42.570 --> 07:44.010 basic functionality. 07:44.700 --> 07:50.610 And I'm just going to remind you of something in our ability system component that's allowing us to 07:50.610 --> 07:55.320 use these weight input, press and release gameplay ability tasks. 07:55.320 --> 08:00.900 And we can go to ability input tag pressed. 08:00.900 --> 08:05.910 And remember that we're calling Invoke Replicated Event. 08:06.210 --> 08:12.990 This is what allows us to have that predictive behavior for press and release events, where literally 08:12.990 --> 08:18.210 sending this across the network that we're pressing our input. 08:18.210 --> 08:20.280 And the same goes for released. 08:20.280 --> 08:27.690 We're invoking replicated event when ability input tag is released as well specifying that we're releasing. 08:27.690 --> 08:33.930 So without this, those weight input press and release gameplay ability tasks don't work. 08:33.930 --> 08:37.650 So I just thought I would remind you of that very important detail. 08:37.650 --> 08:41.910 This is what's allowing us to be able to use those ability tasks. 08:42.330 --> 08:45.240 Okay, so that's looking great. 08:45.240 --> 08:53.670 We now need to put some things right here after we've pressed our input, and we'll start implementing 08:53.670 --> 08:55.530 those in the videos to come. 08:56.040 --> 08:58.110 Great job and I'll see you soon.