Old tutorial which isn’t supported in current UE4 version but might be useful.
In this post I would like to work on:
Crosshair and spread is one of my favorite topic. You can read here great article about aim systems, and math behind spread in AnswerHub. Let’s try to do this by our self!
In this post I will create shooting functionality for weapons which will be easy to work with later.
Let’s start!
Military Weapons Silver asset package comes with almost all particles needed for weapons and ready to use: muzzle flashes, impact particles and trails. It have shell mesh as well, but it doesn’t have shell FX added. Before we move forward with next tutorial about weapons let’s create shell particle. It’s super easy!
In this post I will focus on shooting and reloading functionalities. Goals that I want to achieve:
In this post weapon won’t fire any projectile yet but you will learn more about blueprint communication, creating animations in blueprints and doing recoil directly in animation blueprint, also if you’re interested in firearms and shooting you can get experience in sites like Allaboutshooting online that will help you understand this better so you can apply it in your work.
Now if we have our inventory we can start adding new weapons!
We won’t be doing shooting / reloading in this post. Let’s focus on basics first.
Before start you should watch this tutorial from Epic. Creating Inventory isn’t so hard but it requires Arrays and Structs to work with.
What I would like to accomplish:
In earlier post I’ve described how to move assets from Shooter Game Example. To complete this tutorial you will need to move Animations and Characters folders to your project.
In this post you will learn how to implement look around controls for Mouse, Touch and Gyro. It will cover basics of UMG and blueprint communication. 
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Lot’s of my friends who are doing games using different engines than UE4 have problems with starting using UE4 because they do not know how the engine works. I will start with explaining how the main classes work.
Let’s create new blank project with starter content.