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

Correcting the character stats when equipping


The last thing that we need to do is adding some logic to make sure that the base stats do not continue to climb if the equipment is chosen more than once from the equipment screen. To do this, we need to create two variables in the FieldPlayer Blueprint. One variable will be a Boolean that keeps track of whether the soldier has a weapon equipped. The other will be an integer to keep track of the soldier's base attack stat. These elements together will allow us to create the logic in our weapon button that prevents the attack stat from climbing every time we click on a weapon.

So, first navigate to the FieldPlayer Blueprint and create a Boolean called soldierWeaponEquipped. Then, create an integer called soldierbaseAtk:

We specify these stats to be of a specific character and weapon equipment because if your game has more characters in your party, along with both weapons and armor for each character, you will need to differentiate between all the...