Unreal Engine Game Development Blueprints

Killer objects

Let's add some dangerous objects for the player. The first one is an easier version of the KillZ volume. Create a new Blueprint extending an Actor and call it KillVolume. Add a box collision on the Viewport and extend its onActorBeginOverlap method with the KillPlayer function we created earlier as single node. You can understand the advantages of the function libraries now:

Duplicate this Blueprint and call it RollingBall. Change the collision box with a sphere and add a Sphere mesh with enabled physic. Those dangerous balls will be thrown down a hill ready to kill the player. Don't forget to choose OverlapOnlyPawn from the Collision ...