Action RPG Inventory System

[Pirate]

@dazuk1978;635428

@Pirate : Thx mate, I’ll try all that out later!

Can you answer me a really silly question though please?

I am trying to do a melee damage system (I might do a simple one myself, or use Rama’s melee plugin) but my initial attempt didn’t work. I put the logic into my weapon Blueprint (it’s used in your inventory system) and it did an overlap check for enemies and I fire a few debug strings but none of them get triggered.
Onbviously the blueprint references the static mesh, but when the weapon gets equipped, does it use the skeletal mesh version of it and therefore the overlap/collision checks I’m doing won’t fire? Just a bit confused on where to put the logic, as for me it makes sense to have it on the individual weapons so I can customise the base damage on a per-weapon basis (or reference your in-built damage value, I assume?).

Sorry, I know this goes beyond what you’ve provided for us, but a bit of clarification on what happens to the item when I equip it etc might help me figure out where to put the logic?
From looking online, most put it on the player character and reference a melee capsule of some kind, but I’d prefer to use the actual weapon’s collision/physics to calculate the hit…

Thx for any help

You’ll want the InventoryItem to reference the Weapon Blueprint. And then edit the logic in the EquipmentInventoryComponent -> UpdateEquippedMeshes() to spawn this actor instead up updating the mesh (You will want to create a reference to the Actor in the EquipmentCharacter class) and then set the WeaponActorReference on the EquipmentCharacter. Of course if there is already a weapon equipped you will want to destroy that actor when the item is changed.

Then you will need to attach that spawned actor to the character socket just like it does with the MainHandMesh already in the EquipmentCharacter.

I am working on an update that will have this logic to help people who are having trouble bridging the gap between InventoryItem and their weapon system.