Casting Spells

In your Blueprints folder, create a new Cast Actor Blueprint using NinjaCombatCastActor as the base class.
Add two components to the Cast Sphere, a Niagara Component and an Audio Component. Set Auto Activate to false in both of them.
You can set particles and sound assets to these components, or keep this Blueprint as an Abstract parent for specific Cast types.
In the My Blueprint tab, expand the list of Overridable Functions and select StartCast. This will add this event to the Event Graph.
Right-click the new node and select Add Call to Parent Function. Connect that node to the event.
Always call the Parent Function in your base Cast Actors, since the base class runs important logic in there.
Bind a new event to the VFX's System Finished delegate, activate the VFX and Audio components, making sure that both are set to reset and then Play the audio.
In the System Finished Event, unbind the callback and deactivate the Poolable Actor, using the Poolable Actor Component.

Last modified: 17 April 2026