Associate Ammo with Weapon?

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There’s a much faster way to do this without requiring TMap or TArray searches / comparisons every time you want to use ammo. In the case of rapid-fire weapons you’ll be pointlessly eating away chunks of performance doing those searches all the time.

Having pointers to each ammo class is irrelevant information, it’s must faster to use an ENUM and you don’t really sacrifice any flexibility doing this. If I was going to implement this as you’ve done it, I’d probably do it like this:

1. • Create an ENUM for every different ammunition type. This makes it easy to add or remove them whenever you want:

2. In your player character class, store an ammo inventory as a TArray of int32 (or unit32 if you don’t need blueprint access), and use the ENUM as the index. You’ll probably want to have a #define somewhere that dictates the number of different ammo types you have.

3. Accessing / removing ammo then becomes as easy as this. This is faster than a TMap because you don’t need to do any comparisons, you’re just directly accessing the array members.

That is a nice system, but how do I define the Maximum Ammount of Ammo for a specific AmmoType?

e.g:

Rockets (max: 50)
Electricity (max: 120)

That is a property strongly related to the AmmoType, independently from the Weapon which uses them.

Thanks.