General

The Interaction Component of the Player Character respond to every Interactable Objects with interaction enabled.

Every interactable objects can implement the following events:

The HoveringUpdate event will trigger only if the function ShouldReceiveHoveringUpdate returns true.

Interact and EndInteract events will be triggered by Player Character when interact input is pressed/released, see AAstPlayerCharacter::Input_StartInteract.

How do I change interaction distance?

• Open BP_PlayerCharacter.
• Click on Interaction Component and change “Interaction Distance” option.

How do I make an Actor interactable?

• Open your Actor blueprint.

• Add the AstInteractable interface.

  

• Open the function “CanInteract” and make sure it returns true.

  

• Select one of you Actor components and set its Interaction collision channel to “Block”.

  

• Place your Actor in the scene and interact with it pressing the E button.

Debug

During PIE, you can execute the command ShowDebug Ast.Interactions to see the interaction traces and useful logs.