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 shop screen framework


Now that we are done with creating items, we can move on to creating the shop. In the previous chapter, we created dialog boxes for our shop owner, and in one of the dialog boxes, we created a Shop button that, when clicked, will open up a shop menu. Let's create this shop menu by first creating a new Widget Blueprint by navigating to Content | Blueprints | UI | NPC. We will call this Widget Blueprint Shop and open it:

We will make the shop in a similar format to that of our pause menu, but we will keep it simple because all we need for now is a Scroll Box that will hold the shop's items, as well as an area for gold, and an Exit button.

To expedite this process, you can simply copy and paste the elements from your existing menu systems that you wish to reuse into the Shop Widget Blueprint. We can do this by navigating to Content | Blueprints | UI and opening the Pause_Main and Pause_Inventory Widget Blueprints, which we created in the previous chapters. From Pause_Main...