Hello everyone, I will be making my own custom inventory system, and I will be having a struct of item properties. I would like to have one struct that has universal things, like:
•Item Name
•Item ID
•Item Description
And then I would like to have other seperate structs for categories of items, like this:
Food:
•Heal Amount
•Heal Rate
Weapons:
•Damage
•Durability
So what is the best approach to having it so that my food item blueprints have the universal struct, + the food category struct? Same goes for weapons.
Let me just explain one more time. I want my blueprints to have a universal struct, and also a struct that corresponds with their category.
This is my first time ever dealing with structs or inventories, so go easy on me
Parent BP has universal struct, so all children will also have it.
Then you add the custom structs to the children.
So InventoryItem.bp -> InventoryItem_Child_Food.bp
and InventoryItem.bp -> InventoryItem_Child_Weapon.bp
Also you could add an Enum/String/Type variable to the parent blueprint, so you can take any item, identify it with a switch on itemtype, and then do actions corresponding to the item’s type
EDIT: I am also working on an inventory system, coincidentally, and the problem I’ve run into is that there is no way to instantiate an object of a class in blueprint without first spawning it in the world, just a heads up if you were planning on making an inventory system based on data tables.
So if I had UniveralStruct.Bp, then I would make another struct FoodStruct.bp, and then any food items would be a child of FoodStruct, and a grandchild of UniversalStruct?
Yes, that’s right. I’m not too sure if it’s the best way to make the inventory though, I went down the same path as you but got stuck when I had to initialize objects to reference them in order to store them, let me know how it turns out !
I would definitely be giving datasets a look at rather than creating all of those stats on each individual blueprint and then on the blueprint when you drop it in the level or spawn it you would just select the row name and it would grab all the details to generate the item.
For the categories to make it easier you could create an enum and then on your item choose whether it is food,weapon,etc. You could even add in the static mesh that you want and texture,colour etc etc straight in the dataset.
