Speed explanation

[kolyamba]

Hello all,

Could you please correct me if I have wrong understanding of this lecture.

1. For now, our blended space animation depends on the speed, which we get from the Pawn. Do I understand right that the vector length is the direction+distance travelled by our character per tick? Is it something which is pre-configured by physics of UE? I don’t recall we were setting any float for speed of our character.

2. Then I have another question: how to derive and manipulate the speed of our character?

Thanks & regards!

[DanM]

@kolyamba

that the vector length is the direction+distance travelled

No, a velocity is a vector quantity, it contains both magnitude (aka length/size) and direction. So the length is the magnitude/size part of the velocity.

It’s just Pythagoras’ Theorem. For the 3 dimensional vector (1,2,3) the length would be

length = √(1² + 2² + 3²)
length = √14
length = 3.74

The velocity is coming from the anim instance as denoted by the target on the node.

@kolyamba

how to derive and manipulate the speed of our character

On the character movement component search for “speed”.