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Unreal C++ Course - Chapter 111

Liquefier — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 01:26:23 +0000

The only real hang-up I had with this chapter is that you must loop the animation when u add it to your blueprint graph, otherwise it only plays it once then your character will just slide.

Unreal C++ Course Chapter 109

Liquefier — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:02:37 +0000

In this chapter we set up the enumerations for the player character's equip state, in my case AEchoCharacter. I declared my enumerations in a separate header file CharacterState.h which can also be used for other states besides equipping items: Alive/Dead, Climbing/Swimming etc. I decided to specify my enum encapsulation as ECharacterEquipState.

Although I didn't fully agree with making the character variable private, I went along and will do all my state logic under the AEchoCharacter hood, using a const GetCharacterEquipState() getter.

I ran into an issue when adding it to the Animation Instance, as it had been written using the parent class's pointer ACharacter, casting an to it, I had to update the header pointer to AEchoCharacter so that I could call EchoCharacter->GetCharacterEquipState().

Unreal C++ Course Chapter 107

Liquefier — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 18:03:56 +0000

On doing Chapter 107. Attaching the Sword, I had some interesting bugs/hangups. I was using a different weapon asset which had it's own issues but the first thing that was happening is that when I picked up the katana, my character would just get ejected from the level. I had to turn off collision detection before I did the attachment. I included the adjustments I made in blueprint for reference to fix it. I also had an issue with my katana mesh, I had resized it to be appropriate for the character and when I would pick it up, it would revert to it's larger size. I had to switch "Scale Rule" to "Keep World" to avoid that, pic included for laughs.