AActor ACustomStartPlayer

Description

CustomPlayerStart Actor is a Spawn Point or Location. It has Spawn Group and Team Settings which can assign it to a specific team and spawn group. It also has spawn point occupying detection (blocking) and visualization feature.

What does it do?

It defines a spawn location for a team and spawn group.

How to use?

Drop the actor in level and use UGameplayStatics::GetAllActors. Once you have list of all CustomPlayerStart Actors of the level use Validate function to match the team and spawn group, then use IsBlocked to check if spawn point is occupied by a pawn. Once you have true from Validate and false from IsBlocked you can use the coordinates of the spawn point.

Public Member Functions

bool Validate (FSpawnQueue SpawnTarget)

bool    IsBlocked ()

void    Availible ()

void    Occupied ()

void    Hibernation ()

void    Error ()

void    ErrorEnd ()

virtual void    Capsule_OnOverlapEnd (UPrimitiveComponent *OverlappedComponent, AActor *OtherActor, UPrimitiveComponent *OtherComp, int32 OtherBodyIndex)

virtual void    Capsule_OnOverlapBegin (UPrimitiveComponent *OverlappedComponent, AActor *OtherActor, UPrimitiveComponent *OtherComp, int32 OtherBodyIndex, bool bFromSweep, FHitResult const &SweepResult)

virtual void    Cube_OnOverlapEnd (UPrimitiveComponent *OverlappedComponent, AActor *OtherActor, UPrimitiveComponent *OtherComp, int32 OtherBodyIndex)

virtual void    Cube_OnOverlapBegin (UPrimitiveComponent *OverlappedComponent, AActor *OtherActor, UPrimitiveComponent *OtherComp, int32 OtherBodyIndex, bool bFromSweep, FHitResult const &SweepResult)

virtual void    OnRepVisualizationMaterial ()

virtual void    Tick (float DeltaTime) override

virtual void    OnConstruction (const FTransform &Transform)

void    UserConstructionScript ()

void    ForceInitCollision ()

Public Attributes

UCapsuleComponent *     Capsule

UArrowComponent *   Arrow

USceneComponent *   DefaultSceneRoot

UStaticMeshComponent *  Cube

EOccupiedStatus     Status

Set which team this spawn point belongs to:

ETeams_SQ   Team

Set which spawn group this spawn point belongs to:

ESpawnClass     SpawnClass

Enable realtime Visualization:

bool    Visualization

Time in seconds, how long this spawn point can be blocked by a pawn:

float   UnOccupyForceDelay

Status of sleep mode, set by internally:

bool    Hibernating

Time in seconds, how long till this actor dissappear:

float   HibernationDelay

Set these with correct materials:

UMaterialInterface *    Material_None

UMaterialInterface *    Material_Green

UMaterialInterface *    Material_Red

UMaterialInterface *    Material_Yellow

Material for Cube, this will be set by SetMaterialXXX:

UMaterialInterface *    VisualizationMaterial

Protected Member Functions

void    GetLifetimeReplicatedProps (TArray< FLifetimeProperty > &OutLifetimeProps) const

virtual void    BeginPlay () override

void    StartTimers ()

void    SetMaterialGreen ()

void    SetMaterialNone ()

void    SetMaterialRed ()

void    SetMaterialYellow ()

void    CubeSetMaterial (UMaterialInterface *Material)

Protected Attributes

bool    IAmReady

Location in world of this actor. This is set in BeginPlay.

FTransform  Location

Pawn occupying this spawn point right now.

FSpawnPointOccupier     Occupier

Bugs

Future Features

Vehicle support.

Random Info

• Size is matched to UE4_Mannequin (Capsule and Cube).
• This Actor class was originally designed in Blueprint in Q4 2019 and it was named as CustomStartLocation. It is almost identical to its ancestor.
• You can override AGameModeBase::FindPlayerStart in Game Mode Base C++ Class and return this actor from FindPlayerStart.

AActor* AGameModeBase::FindPlayerStart() {
       Super::FindPlayerStart();
}

• Remember to set visualization materials in c++ and blueprint.