Respawn Component

Overview

A component to destroy and spawn an actor on a given condition.

Settings

Settings	Description
Mesh Comp Tag	IGNORE for this component
Type	Type of respawn check to use
Active	Whether the component is active or not
Start Invisible	‘true’ if actor should be invisible at begin play, ‘false’ if not
Spawn Mesh Tag	OPTIONAL - Add a tag to the Spawn Mesh you want and copy it here. This will be used for respawn animations.
Spawn Z	Spawn Mesh travel amount
Supress Warnings	‘true’ if actor should not send warnings or errors to output log, ‘false’ if otherwise

WorldZ	Description
Destroy Height	Z value to start respawn countdown
Insta Kill Height	Z value to respawn actor immediately

Collision	Description
Collision Classes	Any actor you want to use as collision

Event Tick will be enabled if Active is ‘true’ and disabled if its ‘false’. It will constantly check the actor velocity and its World Z is against Destroy Height and Insta Kill Height.

If actor World Z is less than Insta Kill Height, the actor will be destroyed (Fake Destroy) immediately.

If actor World Z is less than Destroy Height but greater than Insta Kill Height, logic will wait until it settles down (velocity=0) then the actor will be destroyed (Fake Destroy).

Effect Material

If Spawn Mesh Tag is filled, the mesh has to have MF_Efect in Emmisive Color of all of its material for Spawn Effect and Destroy Effect to work as intended. Since it’s optional, it won’t give any warning if it’s not implemented.

Spawn Mesh is an outline of the object mesh on Z axis. You should use MI_Spawn or a child of it as material for effects. Since it’s optional, it won’t give any warning if it’s not implemented.

Functions

Spawn Actor and Kill

If Start Invisible is true, the object will start hidden and will not be interactable. To make the object visible and interactable, Spawn Actor has to be called. Kill can be used to make it disappear.

Set Respawn Active

Use this to activate or deactivate on runtime.

Event Dispatchers

Core Dispatchers

Basic dispatchers to keep updated.