Would anyone know how to tackle a system where completing certain actions gives the player an amount of xp towards a skill which when leveling that skill up will give that players level a certain amount of xp? For example kill an opponent with a bow levels the bow, leveling up the bow grants a small amount of xp towards overall character level.
I think the best example i could give is The Elder Scrolls Oblivion
You need some versatile and easy to use system. Making this is not about how you want to make it it is more how it can be implemented and then used without much hassle.
Best if it would be drag and drop system, so blueprintable components are best, however there is that developing pain of making this code actually work, trade of for not coding this same stuff countless times.
And to reinforce my point: you are thinking about how it should look ie copying ideas from Skyrim. Instead you should think how to code all of this first, ie. communication between parts of game, easy to use and expand, code this all once for everything, not once for each type of possible xp.
I have idea how to code it, but i also learned that explaining detains of how to code such system are usually are too early for people that are starting adventure with unreal engine.
So, learn blueprintable components, blueprint interfaces, dispatchers, inheritance. You need all of this to make flexible code, else you are doomed to code same things over and over in every corner of your game.
Anyone could have said… Learn blue print! lol thats why hes asking for links to any useful tutorials on the matter. Personally I am trying a similar system in my game project. Though the only tutorials I Can find online are like… talent point type skill systems.
There is that nice game ability system in unreal 5 now. It does everything needed.
However again: learn blueprints and C++ to use it.
Sorry certain things cannot be generalized, such code/system depends on a lot of things, so do not expect tutorials or even quality plugins that can do everything.