The Crouch and Slide Update

Hey, been working as much as I can on this, in terms of functionality the mechanics are all implemented and work as expected, however I did slouch on animations (just not been feeling it) but I did add some rudimentary animations to represent the states the player is in at the given moment.

So what is new exactly?

Crouching

• Replicated crouching.
• Basic forward and backward movement animations when crouching, and an idle pose too!
• Currently wired to work as toggle crouching by pressing CTRL, however hold to crouch is also implemented but not wired in as of yet.

Sliding

• Replicated physics based sliding.
• Super basic sliding pose setup.
• To slide, gain some momentum then press CTRL + ALT, this also is possible while crouching.

Fixes

• Fixed bullet counter not being populated correctly on weapon pickup.

Changes

• Updated air control parameters
• Players have better air control meaning they can strafe slightly while mid-air.

Backend work

Started incorporating unreal’s data assets, honestly really handy, still got a bit too learn though, getting this build to be stable and not crashing the game was a challenge.

Why does it matter?

1. It makes setting attributes and cosmetic appearances super easy!
2. Does help lay the foundation for doing future updates, game patches, hot-fixes (especially when on Steam or Epic).
3. I do want to eventually officially support modding to allow community driven maps (Ambitious, I know, it’s mostly a later thing when everything else in place).