Let's Create Widowmaker Grapple Hook - Blueprints #18 [Unreal Engine 4 Tutorial]

Hey everyone! Welcome to Let's Create! In this Let's Create we'll be looking at Widowmaker from Overwatch and her grapple hook ability.

We'll be recreating Widowmakers grapple hook using blueprints.

I hope you enjoy the video!

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[MatthewPalaje]

Hey everyone! In this video we cover Widowmakers grapple hook. I hope you enjoy it.

[chakan]

Thanks for making this when I asked, it's nice to know that you are making things the community would like to see! I'm loving this series Mathew, so keep it up!

[keremyokuva]

this is the best series of tutorials i enjoy the most. Thank you for your hardwork and time.

[arthurbodet]

For my Game Design studies, we have Unreal Engine 4 lessons, and we are actually working on making Overwatch characters. Nothing more to say to understand that your videos are like a gold mine :)
Thank you again !

[coolbreezejra]

Another amazing tutorial Matthew! Thank you!

[praxis]

This needs more views, also you could create a great platformer with this.

[Siletrea]

horray another one in the series!
these are so great thanks for making these!

[joshrcroker]

The Lets Create series is awesome! I only have minimal experience with blueprinting, so it is difficult to just intuit the nodes I need, but a series like this really helps out. Thanks.

[blaro]

Thank you for making the only grapple hook tutorial thats easy to understand!

[aggelosbakir]

another amazing video ! you can press shift and click on timeline <curve> to make a point instaid of right click

[reissarchibald]

Amazing content - so inspiring to see how simple some of these solutions are to amazing polished mechanics.

I reckon you would probably want to do some sort of ledge trace once you hit a surface to get the OPTIMAL Ledge climbing experience - but it looks like you have a pretty solid solution for the meantime and general use of a grapple hook!

[KillerDan]

This is great!!! If we remove the hook and replace it with launching towards a point we'll get Mercy's Guardian Angel flying ability!

[Zslaboratories]

this tutorial saved my game jam game, thank you! subbed 1+

[decemberelf]

:) This's been driving me nuts the whole series for which I'm very grateful btw Matt!

[grandobsidian]

Man, im glad someone else figured this out. I tried to do this just for fun and ended up just making widow maker dangle from the grapple hook.

[artistuniverse]

Another good tutorial keep up the good work

[serefatilla]

If you don't wan't to have that little jump at the end, you can compare your pawn's Z axis coordinates before and after you grapple. If it is negative then you get a little jump if it's positive you don't. That way you could only jump when your pawn grapples some place higher. Haven't tested, no time to do it. I don't know much. Thanks for the video Matthew.

[DeathIsSelf]

thank you i just found a great way to improve a system i made (it works but now its gonna be easier to use). on other note i would love to see reaper's teleport ability.

[remon]

might not be a better solution for the "jump near the end of hook" to use the "HANZO wallclimb" instead ?
Also a tip to get rid of the "red linetrace line" : set the DRAW TIME in the "linetracebychannel" node to 0.

[edenanthony]

For people who used the Hanzo wall climb tutorial if you need two event ticks try using a sequence node