How to "override" a variable from a parent class?

Unreal Engine Programming & Scripting
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#1

I know this is a pretty stupid question, and it probably belongs on a generic C++ forum, but I’m not sure how to search for this. I have a board game with different pieces. Each piece has its own class which is a child of a “parent piece” class. I want this parent piece class to have a variable that can be overridden for each child piece. For example, each piece has its own “armor” variable value, so that I can cast to any piece and read ITS armor value. How could I do this?

Thanks in advance!

#2

If each piece is a child of the parent piece, then it will automatically have all the variables that are declared in the parent classes.

Once you have a reference, you can do something like this

float ArmorValue = ChildClassReference->ArmorVariable;

if this didn’t answer your question, post more info and screenshots if you can