Simple Shooter - Overriding Take Damage

[Vaughan_MacEgan]

Hello All,

Just a note, it might be time to put a spot in the video like, “Sam from the future” telling us that the code needs to changed to work correctly. I was never getting the code to drop down into the logic of the function to get a log message - don’t know why - that was until I read through all the messages on the topic where Dan had the answer, changing it to:

HitActor->TakeDamage(damageDealt, DamageEvent, ownerController, this);

It would help people realize that what they had done is not wrong, looking through code for donkeys trying to figure out what had gone wrong and commenting in/out code, and then about to write a message saying “what the” or checking through the other messages, only to find out that the actual vid was the culprit.

Rant over!

[DanM]

What part of the video needs changing? Skimming through the video I’m not seeing TakeDamage being called at all (presumably done in the previous lecture).

[Vaughan_MacEgan]

The code that needs changing is indeed from a previous lecture, but, at that point in time the code works fine. It is in ‘this’ lecture where the UE_LOG is introduced that the code will NOT run at all correctly @ 7:41, it will never print the log message. A change now has to be introduced to the previous code to run correctly. The code could be changed earlier but this would be the easiest place to put a message from the future, which would stop a lot of hair pulling.

[beegeedee]

Hi Vaughan. I finished this course just 3 weeks ago I think and I had no issues with the code in question. I completed the course with 4.27.2 as well so it’s not something new in the course.

[Vaughan_MacEgan]

I wasn’t the only one who had trouble with the code in fact it was Dan who came up with the solution . The way I figured since I was the only one using 4.27.2, it was going to come up more often as a problem in the future!?!

In any case, I really have to say thankyou for helping me with coming up with a solution for my Unreal problems and giving me a recommendations for a new computer system - everything is working a real treat now. Things that took 10 minutes to compile, now only take mere seconds, so, I can now get through multiple lectures in a single day instead of taking multiple days to get through a single lecture .