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

Logical difference between the inventory and shop items


Let's now open the Item Widget Blueprint by navigating to Content | Blueprints | UI:

At this point, we should not have any logic for the button, which is necessary because it gives us the actions that the button will perform in conjunction with the game. To add a functionality to the button, click on the button, navigate to Details | Events | OnClicked, and then click on +:

Here, we will need to do a few things. Firstly, we know that this Blueprint will be responsible for all of the button mechanics regarding both the shops and the character's inventory and the mechanics will be different since the character buys items from the shop and uses items from the inventory. Since these different game screens provide different actions, it would be wise to first check whether a user is in the shop or in their inventory. To do this, we should first bring in the Get All Actors Of Class function, and get all the actors from the Field Player class...