Book Image

Building an RPG with Unreal 4.x

By : Steve Santello
Book Image

Building an RPG with Unreal 4.x

By: Steve Santello

Overview of this book

Now that Unreal Engine 4 has become one of the most cutting edge game engines in the world, developers are looking for the best ways of creating games of any genre in the engine. This book will lay out the foundation of creating a turn-based RPG in Unreal Engine 4.12. The book starts by walking you through creating a turn-based battle system that can hold commands for party members and enemies. You’ll get your hands dirty by creating NPCs such as shop owners, and important mechanics, that make up every RPG such as a currency system, inventory, dialogue, and character statistics. Although this book specifically focuses on the creation of a turn-based RPG, there are a variety of topics that can be utilized when creating many other types of genres. By the end of the book, you will be able to build upon core RPG framework elements to create your own game experience.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building an RPG with Unreal 4.x
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The UMG equipment submenu


The last submenu we need to design is the equipment submenu. Since our submenu for equipment will be very similar to the submenu for inventory, the easiest way to start would be to navigate back to Content Browser, duplicate Pause_Inventory, and rename it as Pause_Equipment so that Pause_Equipment is a direct copy of Pause_Inventory. Next, open up Pause_Equipment.

We will be designing this screen in a similar way to the Inventory screen. We will still be using the Scroll Box to populate items (in this case, equipment). We will be mostly keeping the same stats for each character; we will continue utilizing the Back button that will eventually navigate back to the pause screen. Let us edit the differences. First, change the title of the screen from Inventory to Equipment and reposition it so that it is horizontally aligned to the middle of the screen:

Next, we will need to edit the character stats. We may have equipment in this game that when equipped, will change the...