🎯 Easy Combat Softlock System

Dynamic Targeting & Smooth Combat Control for Unreal Engine

The Easy Combat Softlock System allows your character to search, rotate toward, and optionally move to a target using five different targeting modes while remaining flexible and fluid in multi-enemy combat.

Unlike traditional hard-lock systems, the Softlock only locks onto a target for a brief moment and smoothly rotates or repositions the character toward it. This enables precise combat without being tied to a single enemy, while still working perfectly for 1 on 1 encounters.

🎥 Preview & Resources

• Preview Video

• ​Preview Video - Update 1

• Test Project (Version 1.0)

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🧩 Blueprint Only - Designed for Easy Integration

The system can be used:

✔️ directly in Blueprints
✔️ or triggered through Animation Notifies

This gives you full control to search and validate targets inside any animation — wherever you need it.

Setup takes about 2 minutes, yet the system offers a wide range of configuration options to adapt it to your combat mechanics and gameplay style.

⚙️ Double-Layer Targeting System

Two search layers can be active at the same time:
If the first targeting method fails, the second one takes over automatically.

Available Search Types

• Area

• Actor Look Direction

• Camera Look Direction

• Input Direction

• Last Target

More details are available in the documentation.

✨ Key Features

• 100% Blueprint

• Very easy setup & workflow

• Softlock & Hardlock systems work hand in hand

• All essential variables include detailed tooltips

• Default values can be overridden at runtime
  - via Blueprint or Animation Notify

🔹 Softlock System

• Search for targets using five targeting modes

• Automatically rotate the actor toward the focused target

• (Optional) Move the actor toward the target

• Double-layer fallback targeting logic

• Fully usable via Blueprints & Animation Notifies

🔒 Hardlock System (NEW)

Works seamlessly together with Softlock and extends functionality:

• Lock onto a specific target

• Optionally lock:

  • camera

  • character movement

• Mark targets using widgets or UI symbols

• Optional: Always sync Softlock target to Hardlock target

• Distance threshold to automatically disable hardlock

• Tolerance time when Line of Sight is broken

🧠 Custom Target Type — Perfect for AI (NEW)

Allows you to fix a specific target until changed.

Ideal for:

• AI behavior trees

• AI controller focus targets

• scripted combat encounters

The target can be set:

• directly via function

• or via the included Softlock Interface

🎯 Additional New Features

• (NEW) Custom Target Type

• (NEW) Camera rotation toward the active target

• (NEW) Predictive target markers
  -visualize potential lock-on targets

• (NEW) Event Dispatcher output for active target data

• (NEW) Improved performance & tick behavior

🚀 Performance Improvements

• Tick is disabled by default and only active in Hardlock mode

• Heavy functions restructured for efficiency

• Replaced multi-output pure functions
  to prevent repeated executions