Action RPG Inventory System

[Pirate]

@Rhynedahll;480586

It’s just a learning project. C++ is not my native tongue and it is difficult for me. I want to expose the functions of the the Mysql c++ connector to blueprints so that I can make a direct connection from my project to my Mysql database. For certain things, i.e. player location and inventory, I want fast updates without an extra layer such as might be done with VaRest (which I would have to learn how to use) or similar.

Mostly I’m just digging through search results trying to sort out the Link errors that I have encountered. Thus far, I can’t get my UE4 C++ code to recognize/find the mysql libraries. UE4 c++ projects have Makefile configurations and I am not familiar with these at all. I’m still trying to understand functions in the Build.cs.

But the plugin work was just a fill-in and I’m going to let it languish for a while and hope for inspiration. As soon as I get the ARPGIS back up to snuff, I’m going to get the A.S.S.

Awesome, I know VaRest might not seem like the best option because of the added overhead but if you have that MySQL code as part of the client it might present issues down the road with hacking.
Atleast with VaRest and the webserver you can limit who can talk to the webserver to send these requests for data.

I have experience using VaRest but I am looking to come up with my own solution that doesn’t use PHP. This is something I am going to be working on over the next few months on our game and I’ll be happy to share my findings as I go.