Gameplay Tags & Tag Editor

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Both Fortnite and Paragon are using GameplayTags heavily, so they’re definitely well trusted in production. Here’s how you use Data Tables to import tags:

  1. Make a csv file (via exporting from excel or some other tool) according to the instructions at Data Driven Gameplay Elements in Unreal Engine | Unreal Engine 5.1 Documentation

  2. Make the columns match the structures in FGameplayTagTableRow

  3. Import the data table, pick GameplayTagTableRow as the row type. Save the asset

  4. Add something like this to your defaultengine.ini and point it to the asset you just imported:

    [GameplayTags]
    +GameplayTagTableList=/Game/Balance/DataTables/GameplayTagTable.GameplayTagTable

By doing that or the direct ini method, it will load those tags into a centralized dictionary. If you then place FGameplayTag or FGameplayTagContainer structs in your assets you should get the tag picker. You can also specify a filter on the tags that are available, this example will only show tags starting with GameplayCue.

UPROPERTY(EditDefaultsOnly, Category = GameplayCue, meta=(Categories="GameplayCue"))
FGameplayTag	GameplayCueTag;

The ‘Tags’ array on Actor predates the GameplayTag system and is currently not integrated into it, although I am considering some options for doing so.

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