How to rotate character to face attacker when hit?

[kentreva]

Hi! When the character is hit, I want the character to face the direction of the hit and then start the Damage Visualization ability.

I recorded an example from loz64:

What I've done so far is copy the Damage Visualization ability to a new script lets' call it DamageVisualizationMyVersion and recoded the OnImpact method to handle this logic.



1. Is this the right place to do this logic?
2. How do I actually rotate the character? Can you please help with the code here? I'm not very good at this math stuff. Sorry!

 

[ChristianWiele]

You can either use the RotateTowards ability directly, or you can reuse the code:

Rotate Towards - Opsive

Rotates the character towards the target. If the character is using root motion then the speed is determined by the animator. If the character is . . .

opsive.com

 

[kentreva]

Hi thanks. I took a look.
And I saw this in the comments of that ability:


I'm thinking of adjusting this motor rotation speed property when my hurt ability starts to some very high number, but I can't find this field?

Do you know what variable this "Motor Rotation Speed" is referring to? I can't find it.

 

[ChristianWiele]

It's on the UltimateCharacterLocomotion component. You can adjust it directly, or with the state system.

 

[kentreva]

These are the only properties with the words "motor" or "rotation" in that script. I meant like is it one of these? The name doesn't match the comment so I was confused if it's a mistake with the comment, or it's just named something different?

 

[kentreva]

Ah I see. the Ultimate CHaracter lomotion script inherits from a script that has the
m_MotorRotationSpeed property. Was able to change the speed using
m_CharacterLocomotion.MotorRotationSpeed = rotationSpeed;

 

[ChristianWiele]

Glad you found it. I still would recommend changing the settings using the state system, and not through code.

 

[kentreva]

ahh good point. thank you!