In this tutorial I would like to polish how I’m showing enemies HP.
- Update HP bar above enemies,
- Add UMG widget which will show target enemy HP and his name,
Again, easy stuff. Continue reading
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How to implement score and combo system
In this tutorial I will implement score system which:
- Should be intuitive for player,
- Will reward players with good accuracy,
- Will reward players who play fast,
It won’t be so hard so let’s go! Continue reading
UMG: Change weapon panel
This will be more advanced post but you will learn a lot about UMG->Blueprint communication. Here are my goals:
- Draw all slot weapons informations,
- Change weapons from UMG panel,
- Will work on PC and Touch,
- Player shouldn’t be able to choose weapon which don’t have ammo,
- Player should see which weapon is currently equipped,
- When choosing weapons do slomo and DOF effect,
Lot’s of great stuff do to! Continue reading
UMG: Adding materials
This will be quick and easy tutorial but I need to be sure you guys know that you can add materials to your UMG widgets.
Just one simple goal:
- Make health and armor bar more attractive,
UMG: How to create icons from 3d assets
Working alone on a game is really hard sometimes. For example I’ve bought K-Spree GUI and I don’t have weapon icons for UI. I would like to show you guys how to use Unreal Engine 4 features to create icons from 3d meshes.
- Goal: Create weapon icons from 3d assets,
- Have one level to configure everything to create icons,
Let’s go! Continue reading
UMG UI: Draw current weapon information
In this post I will focus on creating another UMG widget which will:
- Let me know how much ammo do I have in mag and backpack,
- Let me know when I’m reloading weapon,
- Will be implemented as UMG pipeline was created,
UMG UI: Draw player health and armor
By this post I will start UMG HUD tutorials series. What I would like to accomplish in this tutorial:
- Display player health,
- Display player armor,
- It should work well on all platforms and mostly on VR,
- It should be optimized for mobiles,
Let’s start!
Creating Sniper Rifle
As I wrote earlier will try to implement all of the weapons from Military Silver Pack. Next in line is Sniper Rifle. Again we would need to implement new functionality to BaseWeapon – second fire. In this case second fire will trigger sniper scope.
- Sniper Rifle should have zoom and sniper scope functionality,
- I want to have “bullet time” effect triggered sometimes, (camera chasing bullet),
- Use BaseWeapon functionalities to drive the weapon,
Lot of new stuff coming here.
How to do damage – advanced
There are lots of ways for dealing damages in games. I will do more advanced stuff:
- Damage will be calculated from weapon and ammo type,
- Critical Chance will be calculated,
- I need to see what’s the damage and if there was a critical hit (UMG),
- I need to see how much HP enemy have,
- I want to have different damage depending on which body part I shoot, (eg head, leg etc)
Let’s gets started!
How to add spread and dynamic crosshair to weapon
In this post I would like to work on:
- Increasing spread when shooting,
- Decreasing spread when in idle,
- Dynamic crosshair that will tell me what’s the current spread,
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!
