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

Dialog box setup


We are now ready to create dialog that our NPC will state to the character. To do this, we will first create a Widget Blueprint that will be responsible for housing all parent variables of the NPC, such as the dialog in the game, so that we can simply pull dialog anytime we need it by calling the dialog variable within the function. This process will be better than the hardcoding text in UMG because it will allow us to need only a single dialog UMG that we will dynamically place text into.

So let's first create a new Widget Blueprint by navigating to Content Browser | Content | Blueprints | UI and then selecting Add New | User Interface | Widget Blueprint. Then, name it NPC_Parent:

Once created, open the new Widget Blueprint and then navigate to the graph. From here, head to the My Blueprint panel and select + to the right of Variables; this will create a new variable. Name this variable NPCDialog and make it public by clicking the eye to the right of the variable name:

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