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

Getting character data


At this point, the pause menu is fully designed and ready for data integration. In Chapter 3, Exploration and Combat, we had developed means to display some player parameters, such as the player's name, HP, and MP into CombatUI through binding Text Blocks with the Game Character variable in order to access character stat values held within Character Info. We will do this in a very similar fashion, as we did in the previous chapter, by first opening the Pause_Main widget and clicking on the Text Block that we will update with a value.

In this case, we have already designated locations for all our stat values, so we will start with the HP stat that we named Editable_Soldier_HP:

Navigate to Content | Text, and click on the drop-down menu of Bind next to the dropbox. Click on Create Binding under the drop-down menu:

Once you have completed this process, a new function called Get_Editable_Soldier_HP_Text_0 will be created, and you will automatically be pulled into the graph...