Trouble lifting character with blueprint

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I’m trying to make my character spin and slowly lift up when they come in contact with a tornado. The rotation works fine but I can’t seem to get the lifting action to take place.
I have a value set ‘Rise Rate’ to adjust how fast id like them to lift up but whats happening is they stay grounded for anything <4000 and if it is set >4000 the character shoots up extreamly fast.
Also if I jump with a lower value set my character also shoots up.
I’ve tried both AddActorLocalOffset and AddActorWorldOffset.

This is all being done withing my player BP, I have ‘In Tornado’ set by beginning or ending collision with the tornado BP.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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You could use a timelime to lift the player. I have used a keypress in my test, but you could check if your boolean InTornado is true. If true then play timelime. The timelime adjust the player’s location on the z axis.

  1. For the timelime and a float called:
    ZAxis
  2. For the first keyframe set time : 0
    value: 0
  3. For the last keyframe set time: 1
    value: 160
  4. or adjust these to set your desired
    result

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3

I’ve never messed with timeliness yet, I’ll have to look into this. Thanks for the info.

4

Another solution might be using Launch Character and set the Z axis to how high you want to launch the character.

https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/BlueprintAPI/Pawn/Character/LaunchCharacter/index.html

5

That actually worked pretty well, but i feel like time line is something i should know more about so I’ll be looking into making that work