How to store weapon fire modes in a data table?

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I’ve been trying to create a weapon loadout system (like Call of Duty) and I have been using Data Tables to do so. The thing is, the weapons I plan to use are more arcadey and have alt-fires similar to the ones seen in games like Unreal Tournament and Doom Eternal, but because the effects of the alt-fire are so varied (some summon projectiles while some switch the weapon to fully automatic) it’s hard to classify it under just one class. Some insight would be helpful. Thanks.

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you could use an array of Enums or GameplayTags and then use a switch to use the appropriate ability

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Would this be through GAS or is there another method I don’t know about?

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i havent used GAS myself but if so you’d be using the ‘Tag’ to choose what ability to alt-fire so it should work with anything.

you alt fires could even be an actor component that you add/remove to the weapon as desired and then choose which one to activate based on the ‘tag’

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Could you go a little more in depth? I’m not sure I’m totally understanding what you’re saying.

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if you mean firemode you can use an array of GameplayTags such as
Firemode.Single
Firemode.Burst
Firemode.FullyAuto
etc

if you mean fire modes like normal and alt-fire id create an actor component to handle the logic, create an EventFire and in the component you can handle the logic anyway you like,

so you can have a component for normal fire which shoots a projectile and another childcomponent that fires rockets or something.

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You could use an enum for the full range of fire types and a UENUM(meta=(Bitflags``))` uproperty to set the available enum entries for a specific weapon