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Unreal Engine Game Development Blueprints

You're reading from   Unreal Engine Game Development Blueprints Discover all the secrets of Unreal Engine and create seven fully functional games with the help of step-by-step instructions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784397777
Length 352 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Inventory system


Let's now use some Blueprint Widget to create the user interface and the inventory system. We will need three classes: a main GameUI, Inventory Button, and Inventory Craft Button.

The main GameUI is what the player will see. It will contain a grid of objects (the actual inventory), a panel that shows the information of the selected item, and a cookbook that contains all the items that are available to be crafted.

The Inventory Button is the single button of our inventory and will be just a single squared button with an image over it.

The Inventory Craft Button is similar to the other button, but it also contains the name of the item that will be crafted and the items needed to the player to craft it.

The inventory button

Create a Blueprint Widget and call it InventoryButton. This object (and all the Widget that will be added into Canvas Panel dynamically) doesn't need a main canvas. The aspect (size, anchor, position, and so on) will be determined directly within the panel where...

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