I’m trying to build a UI where the game starts with character selection and then moves forward to the level.
I’m doing the UI building through the game mode.
Except when I open the new level, the game mode is respawed and basically I end up with the UI being respawed too.
Is there a blueprint that isn’t respawned with the level? Game State? Game Instance?
Game Instance is not reset. But it doesn’t have a BeginPlay function, so you’ll have to call your custom functions from elsewhere.
What i did with character selection in my game is that i have two separate Game Modes and maps.
One that i called GM_lobby have the character selection. The other GM_play does not.
Once the character is selected on GM_lobby i save it to a variable in the Game Instance, and on GM_play beginPlay event i retrieve it from the Game Instance.
Game mode is defined in the “Levels Settings”, thus when the level loads it loads the defined game mode.
Thanks! This worked well for me.
Thank you everyone for your help!
And especially @Rev0verDrive for the link to the game flow diagram! That helped understand the flow hierarchy too!
By the way I made a new Game State blueprint and assigning it in the Game Mode makes BeginPlay events stop firing??
Does anybody know how to fix it?
This doesn’t work anymore for me. I create three BPs (BP_GameInstance, GM_MainMenu, GM_Gameplay). I added an integer variable on the instance for testing. On the main menu I add 1 to the variable. Then I Open Level that has the GM_Gameplay on it and print the variable from the game instance and it is the default value. I have left everything else the default values and this is a brand new project:
Game Instance: BP_GameInstance
Main Menu: MainMenuMap with a GM_MainMenu
Game World: GameplayMap with a GM_Gameplay
Everything else is default Third Person Template.
Has this behavior changed since you implemented?
