How To Make a Select Screen

aslankokb · January 24, 2015, 4:13pm

Hello people;

I am making kind of a team deathmatch multiplayer style game to play with friends in school. So since I am a starter I will try to ask a simple basic question:

How can i make a scene afte rthe main menu.

So the main menu, we click “start”
A menu opens, there are characters there each has own unique probs, animations and abilities.
You click on one and now it spawns for you to play with. You possess their abilities and you can use them.
And then it is now unselectable for others since it is a multiplayer game.

Thank you very much for helping me. I am grateful.

anonymous_user_923c79df · January 24, 2015, 4:41pm

Rough overview:

create the select screen with UMG -> works like the menu
create the “spawn system” + use a bool for it which gets activated when a player is chosen -> then it should e.g disable the button in the select screen
https://forums.unrealengine/showthread.php?55464-Menu-to-spawn-different-character-upon-selection
https://docs.unrealengine/latest/INT/Search/index.html?q=spawn+different+characters&filter=documentation&x=0&y=0

aslankokb · January 24, 2015, 5:11pm

I can not find Widget Blueprints in my project.

anonymous_user_923c79df · January 24, 2015, 7:40pm

You have to create one -> right click into your content browser - user interface - widget blueprint (take a look at one of the UMG tutorials)

aslankokb · January 24, 2015, 7:54pm

But it is not there.

anonymous_user_923c79df · January 24, 2015, 8:06pm

Which version of the engine do you use?

aslankokb · February 28, 2015, 5:44pm

I will bump this up since everything is now ok. I am not able to create the spawn system. I just could not imagine how blueprints would go. Can you enlighten me a little bit please?

aslankokb · February 28, 2015, 6:21pm

The Britain;232020:

Create a base player class.

Create extensions from the base player class with modified variables and overrides.

Create a game instance.

Create custom variables of the base player class for each player slot.

On your menu, set each of those slots to the child class (character) based on the base class.

Create a blank pawn.

Turn off all physics on the new blank pawn.

Turn off all collision on the new blank pawn.

Set this to default pawn.

On game start, player 1 will spawn with the blank pawn.

Spawn the slot one selected character, and use the possess function so player 1 takes over it.

For the other players, just use the create player function for each slot; increment the player controller integer.

This is as much simplifying as I can do, as this is an intermediate task. What have you tried already.

I did all the way to"- On your menu, set each of those slots to the child class (character) based on the base class."
All the other work awaits. This is awesomely described thank you very much sir. I will try to make it as soon as possible.