Back to UE4 and Life sucks update :P

Its been a while since my last update. I’ve been ridiculously busy,

1^st, we are having to move to a new house due to our landlord retiring,

2^nd, my car developed one fault after another, when finally, all repaired and working well again, someone rear ended me, resulting in whiplash and a f***ed up right arm (I should probably go back to A&E)

3^rd, I’ve started my PhD. My first task here is to produce a project proposal this time in more detail and a little more academic, I have six months to get this done. Spent a lot of the time since then researching/reading for my proposal and making a AI editor in unity. This will be used to create the narrative simulator I will be developing.

For now, I’ve managed to find a bit of time to do more game dev work, I went back to my game I was making in UE.

As a nice quick little addition, I want to get some basic attacking working. Just playing an animation at this point, I will make a proper combat system later.

UE makes this stupidly simple. Like before we need a bind it to an action to do this

InputComponent->BindAction("Attack", IE_Pressed, this, &ABrawlPlayerController::OnAttack);

And finally, our code to trigger the animation

void ABrawlPlayerController::OnAttack()
{
	ABrawlCharacter* Character = static_cast<ABrawlCharacter*>(GetCharacter());
	if (Character && CombatMontage)
	{
		Character->PlayAnimMontage(CombatMontage, 1.0f);
	}
}

We need to expose the animation montage to the controller so we can select which animation to play, to do this I added the following to the controller header file

UPROPERTY(EditDefaultsOnly, Category = "CombatMontage")
UAnimMontage* CombatMontage;

And for now that’s it. Next will be a combat and damage system followed by some simple AI actors to attack.

Next time will be some PhD/Unity stuff.