Search icon CANCEL
Subscription
0
Cart icon
Your Cart (0 item)
Close icon
You have no products in your basket yet
Save more on your purchases now! discount-offer-chevron-icon
Savings automatically calculated. No voucher code required.
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Building an RPG  with Unreal 4.x

You're reading from   Building an RPG with Unreal 4.x Get to grips with building the foundations of an RPG using Unreal Engine 4.x

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2016
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781782175636
Length 360 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Tools
Arrow right icon
Authors (2):
Arrow left icon
Alan R. Stagner Alan R. Stagner
Author Profile Icon Alan R. Stagner
Alan R. Stagner
Steve Santello Steve Santello
Author Profile Icon Steve Santello
Steve Santello
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with RPG Design in Unreal FREE CHAPTER 2. Scripting and Data in Unreal 3. Exploration and Combat 4. Pause Menu Framework 5. Bridging Character Statistics 6. NPCs and Dialog 7. Gold, Items, and a Shop 8. Inventory Population and Item Use 9. Equipment 10. Leveling, Abilities, and Saving Progress Index

Setting up the abilities array


In Chapter 3, Exploration and Combat, we created a character class info for learned abilities, which was done in FCharacterClassInfo.h, which is an array used to hold an array of abilities for each character that inherits a class. We need to extend this array so that it is adopted by any game character to hold abilities that they learn throughout the game. To do this, open GameCharacter.h by navigating to Source | RPG. In class RPG_API UGameCharacter : public UObject, add a public UPROPERTY to learned abilities and allow it to be editable anywhere:

UPROPERTY(EditAnywhere, BlueprintReadWrite, Category = CharacterInfo)
  TArray<FString> LearnedAbilities;

Next, open GameCharacter.cpp located in the same folder, and set LearnedAbilities to be equal to LearnedAbilities from the class info that we created the variable in:

character->LearnedAbilities = character->ClassInfo->LearnedAbilities;

This will allow each instance of a party member to hold its own...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime