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Simple Slide System

Simple Slide System helps developers create spline-based slides in minutes without requiring complex frameworks or plugins.

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Overview

Simple Slide System is a single drop-in Blueprint actor, BP_SimpleSlideSystem. You place it in your level, shape its spline, and any Character that walks into the entry trigger is carried smoothly down the path and launched off the end.

The slide takes care of everything during the ride — movement, camera facing, collision, sound and the final launch — and then hands control back to the player exactly as it found it. No code is needed in your character.

The same Blueprint and workflow scale from a simple playground slide to a full theme-park attraction. Small slides, giant tube rides, launch cannons and fireman poles all use the same actor; only the spline and settings change.

Features

• Spline-driven path — shape any slide by moving spline points
• Automatic start when a Character enters the trigger
• Start rides from your own logic with Activate Slide
• Smooth blend from the trigger onto the top of the slide
• Slope-aware speed with min / max limits and constant acceleration
• Camera that turns to look down the slide (optional)
• Momentum-based launch with adjustable boost and pitch
• Air braking override so launched riders fly the full arc
• Sit, sliding-loop and exit sounds with volume control
• Cooldown to prevent instant re-triggering
• On Slide Started / On Slide Finished events
• Editor warnings when the spline or exit is set up incorrectly
• Exit Arrow preview of the launch direction in the viewport
• Debug sphere, speed readout and state logging for tuning
• Safe cancel — a rider is never left frozen if the slide is removed
• Idle slides don't tick, so they cost nothing at rest

Why Simple Slide System?

The asset is built around a short list of principles. Each one is a deliberate trade-off in favour of getting you to a working slide quickly.

Supported engine versions

Platform support follows your project: the slide uses only standard engine features and Blueprint, so there is nothing platform-specific to configure.

Requirements

The slide can carry any pawn that meets these conditions:

• It is a Character (or a child of the Character class).
• It has a Character Movement Component — every standard Character does.
• Its camera uses Pawn Control Rotation — only needed if you want the view to turn and face down the slide. See Camera requirements.

That's it. You don't need a special Game Mode, Player Controller, input setup or interface.

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Asset philosophy

Simple Slide System does one job: move a Character along a path you draw, and give them back cleanly at the end. It is intentionally not a movement framework, and it doesn't ask you to restructure your character, your input or your game mode around it.

• Drop-in, not built-in. The slide borrows the rider for the length of the ride and restores their collision, movement and mouse look afterwards. Your character stays your character.
• Readable over clever. One Blueprint, clearly grouped settings, and every option has a tooltip in the editor. If you want to know how something works, you can open the graph and follow it.
• Safe by default. Frame-time spikes are capped so a hitch can't fling the rider, the exit nudges riders clear of overlaps, and the ride is cancelled automatically if the slide is removed mid-ride.
• Self-contained. Everything you need ships inside the SimpleSlideSystem folder. It doesn't depend on project settings, input mappings or plugins that wouldn't travel with a migration.

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