Hello!
I have an actor that consists of few Particle Systems that work together to create an effect. For convenience they are separated in three systems, and I want them to play after I press a key. I’m trying to do it like that in actor’s BP:
But it doesn’t work. Could anyone please point out what am I doing wrong?
Hello ErdTod,
A particle effect added to a blueprint is, by default, set to auto-activate. You have to select the component, and change it NOT auto-activate in the Details panel. As long as you set it up the same way in the example you linked, this is most likely the issue.
Unfortunately, that didn’t help!
Did you bind the E key as an input in the Project Settings?
I can’t see the rest of your blueprint, but I’m going to assume you haven’t enabled input either.
You’ll want to Enable Input for the Player Controller. I usually do this when in a trigger box but you can do it from BeginPlay for testing purposes.
Yes, that worked! I’ve added this and the input started to fire! Thanks a lot!
It is still a mystery for why my other blueprint was working without that with almost same setup: Monosnap - but probably the answer is somewhere, where my newbie-knowledge of the Engine doesn’t reach.
Ahh, there is an option on an actor to auto-receive input from player 0 (1, 2, 3 … etc), and that was the difference! Need to have that on in order to get the input nodes to fire!
Awesome! Just remember that if you use the Enable Input, like in a trigger, you’ll want to use the Disable Input when you leave the trigger so that specific event doesn’t keep looking for a key-down. Good luck on your project!