'Over 9000 Swords' Modular melee weapon system.

[Kashaar]

@GageCornelius;515798

Have you thought about using Data Tables instead of the current code you have now? It’ll eliminate the need for the WeaponData blueprint, and present it in a manner that is cleaner and more user friendly. I just converted mine over, though mine accounts for more complicated combinations. (Such as having “material tables”, and defining parts to allow an array of X material types (metal, mineral, wood, leather, cloth) for recognizing what is allowed for each component). It was a bit of work to do, but it also allowed for a more streamlining method to read data being input, and saves on having to scan the arrays a few times for items since it simply uses “Get Data Table Row” to obtain items. Making enumerations also allows for obtaining certain items from lists based on the item selected. Just a thought!

Hi @GageCornelius, thanks for the kind words! On the issue of data tables: We’ve experimented with this initially, but unfortunately data tables don’t let users pick Static Mesh or Material assets in a convenient way… they’d have to manually put in the asset paths in a .CSV file and import that to make changes… Or at least that’s how it seemed to work when we released the pack in 4.9. If this has changed, changing the system so that it uses Data Tables instead would indeed be preferable I’d love to take a look at your changes sometime, if you don’t mind!

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