Disable crouching while jumping

Development Programming & Scripting
1

I’ll preface this with my usual disclaimer: I’m new to both UE and CPP, coming from a Java and proprietary engine background after some hiatus.

Now, I’m sure the solution to this is incredibly simple. I was going through and setting up my character pawn to do all the basic movements I require, like jumping, walking, running, etc etc. Everything worked as expected, but what I noticed when testing is that, while jumping, I could still crouch. This caused the character and camera to “pop” up a bit a bit. I realized I needed to disable crouching while jumping, so I added this to the two functions I use to control crouching:

if (!IsJumpProvidingForce())
	{
		Crouch();
	}

and

if (bIsCrouched)

{

UnCrouch();

}

Fairly straightforward checks, but they’re not taking. The problem and solution seem so simple, I’m having a hard time seeing what the problem could be.

2

Override this function:

Return false if you’re in the ‘falling’ state.

Or this one:

https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/API/Runtime/Engine/GameFramework/ACharacter/CanCrouch/index.html

3

Cool, that worked. So, was the reason it didn’t work before because the checks weren’t being performed on that instance of the character…? Or something…?

4

To be honest, I’ve no idea.