Design Post Update

The first thing that we need to do is create a new blueprint, to do this in the content browser, open the blueprints folder then right click on an empty space and select blue print from the pop up menu.

When you select Blueprint, this window will pop up. from here we want to select actor.

This is the blue print editor for the blueprint we created.

In here we need to add a collision, so in the top right, it will say '+Add Component'. Click this and select sphere collision, if you are using an older version of UE4 you can select a sphere. I named mine collision once brought in.

This is the material sphere in the blueprint editor.

As we can see from the above picture the sphere has swallowed our collision. So im going to use the scale widget to scale my material sphere down. To do this, select the ball, press the space key twice, the widget you are looking for looks like this,

From the picture below select the event graph option so that we can start our blueprints coding.

Event graph is the third tab above the sphere.

Step 3: Blueprints for rotation

When your in the event graph this is how it should look.

Older versions will have different organised details panels.

Ive just deleted all of the coding to start fresh.

The next thing that we do is right click on the grid, and search for event tick once this has been added, select the material sphere in the top right hand panel, then right click, open add event section, then select the collision drop down option, and from there select begin overlap.

The beginnings of the coding.

Right click on the grid again, this time type 'actor location' into the search bar, select the green option that says, 'get actor location'.

This is the added get actor location code.

We are going to start making the pick up rotate, the first thing I did was move the event tick above the begin overlap. From the white arrow, drag out and when you release you have the option to search, look for 'local rotation'. The newer version will give you the option to apply the rotation to either the material sphere or the collision, we want to select the material sphere version. In the older versions of the programme you don't need to worry about what to select.

Once we have selected the node to add it is then connected.

The next thing that we will add is an emitter, for this I dragged from the white arrow on the begin overlap node, in the search bar I typed 'emitter', from the options you want to select spawn emitter at location.

We will connect this in the next step.

The last piece of coding that needs to be added is a 'set max walk speed' node. Drag out from the character movement reference, right click and search walk speed, you may need to turn off the context sensitive option in order to find it, select the node that says 'set max walk speed'. Once you have added this piece of code, change the value to 1500, then connect all of the coding up as you see below.

This is the coding complete for now. The walk speed value is now 1500.

Step 4: Creating the up/ down motion on our pick up

The Vector track is how we will create the bop effect.

This image below shows how our window will look once we have applied the vector track.

Added Vector Track.

Third key frame creating motion.

The final key frame will be added at the 1.50 mark, the values this time are 1.50 followed by 0.00. We are also going to need to tick the loop option. Dont forget to compile and save.

Here we also change the length to 1.50.

The sphere is selected in the blueprints editor.

From here if you look at the above picture you can see, on the left hand side of the screen, static mesh, double click on this thumbnail image and it will open up a new window that looks like this.