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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2016
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ISBN-13 9781782175636
Length 360 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alan R. Stagner Alan R. Stagner
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Steve Santello Steve Santello
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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

The item button framework


Before we link our items to the shop, we will first need to create a framework in which the items are placed in the shop. What we would like to do is create a button for each item that the shop owner sells but, in order to make the interface scalable in such a way that NPCs can hold different selectable items, it would be wise to create a Scroll Box framework that holds a single button with a default value for the item's text/description. We can then dynamically draw the button for as many items as the shop owner carries, as well as dynamically draw the text on each button.

To do this, we must first create a Widget Blueprint by navigating to Content | Blueprints | UI and call it Item:

Open Item. Since we are going to make the items clickable, we will program a button. To make the button, all that we will need is the button itself and text for the button; we will not need a Canvas Panel because we will eventually be adding this button to the Scroll Box of our shop...

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