Narrative Pro (GASP) Shove and Takedown
Contextual shoves and synchronised takedowns wired into Narrative Pro's combat abilities, factions and NPC alert states.
About this addon
## Shoves and takedowns for Narrative Pro combat
**NP_ShoveAndTakedown** adds a contextual shove and a set of synchronised takedowns to Narrative Pro. It is a drop-in NP_ plugin: it grants two new Gameplay Abilities to the Narrative Pro character you already have, resolves what is in front of that character, and routes the result back through the framework's own damage, faction and NPC alert paths.
Narrative Pro's animation module is built on Epic's Game Animation Sample Project (GASP), so everything here plays inside that locomotion set - hence the name. Nothing is hard-coded to a specific montage or input action: each interaction is a data asset, selection runs through a curve-driven scoring table, and the abilities compose with the ones Narrative Pro already grants.
## What it adds to the framework
- **Contextual shove.** One input shoves doors open, knocks props aside, staggers a blocking NPC and barges through breakable cover. The target is chosen by a weighted trace that respects capsule size, approach angle, relative speed and mass. - **Synchronised takedowns.** Front, rear and ledge takedowns with paired animation and Motion Warping to the exact contact transform, authored as Narrative Pro combat abilities rather than bespoke montage players. - **Gait-aware selection.** The framework's walk, run and sprint gaits each resolve to a different interaction set, so a sprinting shoulder barge is not the same animation as a standing nudge. - **Faction-aware stealth.** A rear takedown checks the target's faction and relationship state before it is offered, and an unwitnessed kill raises the NPC module's own alert and investigate behaviour instead of going unnoticed. - **Narrative events.** Every shove and takedown broadcasts a tagged event the quest module can listen for, so "take down the guard without being seen" is a quest task rather than custom Blueprint plumbing. - **Debug tooling.** An on-screen visualiser for candidate traces, scoring weights and the chosen warp target, plus console commands for forcing a specific interaction while you tune.
## How it plugs in
The plugin extends, and never edits, the classes you already have:
Bloodline Weapon Abilities
Heavy weapons, parries, ripostes and stance switching added to Narrative Pro's GAS combat.