Gameplay Ability System - utilizing a few common Gameplay Effects among many Gameplay Ability Classes?

[bennur_1206]

Hello, I was exploring GAS and hoping to use it into one of my projects. The problem I am facing is,

Do we always have to make as many Gameplay Effects for the many Gameplay Abilities?
Can we not have many gameplay abilities utilise 1 or 2 common game-effects, like damage_health and cooldown?

I am hoping to use the same Effect Classes but with different values across different abilities and heroes. Can I know how this is possible?

For example: I could have only 1 class each of GameplayEffect damage_health, damage_mana, damage_stamina, ability_cooldown etc. and 50+ ability classes can simply utilise these 5-6 effects. A fireball ability and poison can use BP_GE_damage_health, BP_GE_tick_health and BP_GE_cooldown effects, but with different attribute and timer values.

I think it is cumbersome and inefficient to create 3-4 gameplay effects for EVERY ability I make. If I make 50 abilities, I may have 150-200 Classes of Gameplay Effects alone!

Isn’t that ruining the fun of reusability in programming?

Please let me know how I can work with GAS and re-use Gameplay Effect Classes. Thanks in advance.

[IrSoil]

Probably you talking about “SetByCaller” values for GEs. Some documentation is here. It solves the problem for the large variety of simple GEs

My bp example:

GE definition

GE application

to apply set-by-caller values from c++ - it’s the similar approach, details is in that doc.

Another option, is UGameplayEffectExecutionCalculation , to automatically capture parameters on avatar and target and return value after some arbitrary calculations you need. It fits more the complex values like “Damage” and a bit harder to set up. For example you may check how damage is handled in epic’s “ActionRPG” demo project

[bennur_1206]

Great!! Thanks a bunch!
Those snapshots and links provided are going to be very helpful.