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

Buying items


Head back into the Item Blueprint. Where we left off before, we allowed that upon clicking a button, we would get all actors from the Field Player class. Here, we set up a branch that checks whether the Inventory Screen Boolean is true or false (which means that we check whether the player is on the inventory screen; if they are not on the inventory screen, we will perform the buying logic in our shop).

Let's first bring in a Get Data Table Row function located under Utilities in the Actions window:

Then, set the Data Table to Items_Shop. This will allow us to get every row from the Items_Shop Data Table. Then, link the False pin from the branch that we created to the execution of Get Data Table Row:

You may have noticed that we can select any row name from the Data Table. In this case, we just need to get the row name of the item that is currently selected. To do this, bring in Get of the Item text variable that you created in the previous chapter in this class. You need to link...