[Tutorial] UsableActor system in Blueprint with multiplayer support

[Tom_Looman]

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The OnUsed function in UseableItem destroys the actor. I was wondering what your thoughts would be on passing it over in a more direct way to the player’s inventory without destroying it, or at least, preserving the parameters that are persistent.

I would look into using structs to pass blocks of information between items or consider datatables, last I heard they made a big improvement for accessing DataTable through Blueprint for upcoming 4.3 (available already on GitHub) I haven’t really dug into this type of feature yet, definitely interesting and something I’d like to look at in the future! Let me know if you made something cool with that!

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Edit: Also as a tip for improvement of the tutorial I think it might be nice to have a blurb about BaseEyeHeight in this blueprint: http://i0.wp.com/www.tomlooman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/getusableactor01.jpg because there’s not really anything about it. I personally just changed it to use the camera and such as that’s better for my needs, but it would improve the tutorial to have it mentioned so that people following along don’t get confused by it.

Thanks, I’ll consider updating that part - it does indeed assume you’re doing a default FPS. Thanks!

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Edit again: Another observation is that you might want to put the gifs demonstrating how stuff works in a collapsible section so that after the reader is done looking at it, they can hide it away in order to better read the text.

I definitely agree this would be better. I should look for a 9gag-like plugin that allows me to stop/continue gifs. Thanks for your feedback on that!

Edit: Updated the site, GIFs no longer auto-play and support stop/continue! Much easier on the eyes.