Hi everyone.
I’m following Tefel’s Chess tutorial with a lot of success but I’ve now hit a wall. I’m at the part where he selects different materials for the different player pieces (black and white) using a “>” that spits out the different materials. What I want to do is select different meshes for each player without having a separate blueprint for each piece so as to have the pieces share the same behavior rules. I would assume this would make life easier down the line. What Tefel and I are doing differently is that he’s using standard static meshes whereas I’m using a single actor blueprint since all the pieces are the same per player.
Do I make a separate construction branch to build player 2’s pieces or should I leave them all in the same line and use some sort of condition to determine what mesh it uses? Have a look at my graph to see where I’m stuck. I’m honestly not sure where to go from here. I have the idea that I make some sort of variable that the construction script calls to determine what mesh is displayed… Just a guess!
And here’s my player piece blueprint that is now broken because I fiddled with it too much:
I’m making a checkers game because I think making AI would be FAR easier than chess. At this point I feel I should have started with tick tack toe!
Now PLEASE correct me if I’m wrong but I think I’m on the right path. Just struggling with this bit.
Unnecessary information:
I’m a very accomplished 3D artist so the visual aspect will NOT be a challenge for me. I’ve never made games in my life and only just opened UE4 last week. I’m loving feeling lost!
THANKS!