Elevator that triggers up and down

8-Bit

Hey all,

I've searched high and low for this but I can't seem to find the answer anywhere. What I'm trying to do is create a platform that when it's down will go up and when it's up will go down simply by stepping onto the surface of it. Right now I've got the elevator started at the bottom, and when I step on it it goes up fine.
What I want it to do now is hold its position at the top until I leave and re-enter it.
As it is, it only goes up and stays there, but never goes back down again. I don't want it to go back down as soon as I get off of it, which is what most tutorials online seem to cover.

Right now I've got one trigger going up the entire path of the platform with a touch node attached to the matinee. I thought I could create another node for the same trigger that tells it to reverse but it doesn't know to wait until it's been untouched and re-touched as it were.

I hope this isn't too confusing. I haven't used Kismet before so I'm still very lost.

sprunghunt

It sounds like you need to use a boolean variable with a toggle node and a condition to control what state the elevator is in. And use multiple volumes.

8-Bit

Sorry for the late reply. I ended up figuring out a work-around to my problem. By adding a lag time of 5 seconds to the execution of the platform I was able to set it up so that it would cancel out the action if you stepped off before 5 seconds. Not exactly what I was going for but it worked out. I would like to know how the booleans work however, it sounds really useful.

Camikaze

Hourences has a really good (and easy to follow!) tutorial on interp actors and elevators: http://www.hourences.com/tutorials-ue3-interpactors/

Edit: Look at the 'Elevators - UT Style' section specifically. Really elegant way of doing it, and the elevator will be triggered by you stepping on, and wait at the top for you to get off.