So I’m using the Shooter Game demo as a base for the pitch for my game. Once we secure funding we’re obviously going to scrap everything and write it in C++ but for now I thought it would be nice to implement as many game features that I can with Blueprint.
With that said, having been written in C++ its impossible to know what variables you can reference in blueprint. For example, if I want to use blueprint to affect the health of the player pawn or if I want to have a blueprint item give you more ammo I have no way of knowing which variables to reference. Is there a list of these somewhere or a way to see them in the console for example to make this easier?
So you want to know the variables that the ShooterGame already has?
Like the health of the Player etc? Why don’t you open up the C++ files.
You can’t use a C++ Game as a base without knowing how to code in C++ and if you DO know how to code in C++, then it shouldn’t be a problem to just check the different classes and maybe expose some of the variables to blueprint by adding a UPROPERTY macro.
obviously if I knew C++ this wouldn’t be an issue. There should already be a host of variables that have been exposed to blueprint already. The weapons and item pickups for example are all blueprints so I was hoping someone who does know C++ could simply post up a list that would help the rest of us who are playing around with BP and don’t know a thing about C++.
Hm, this would be more work for someone outside than for yourself.
Open up the visual studio file of the ShooterGame and open the .h files of the classes you want to check. You can look into a BP and check the upper right corner to see the parent class. This is the class you want to check.
Inside the header files, you can see which variables have a UPROPERTY and are “BlueprintReadWrite” and such things.
If this is too much, i would HIGHLY recommened you to step back from the ShooterGame as long as you don’t have basic C++ knowledge or atleast understand how to find out about these variables.
Ok so I’m looking for any variable that has UProperty in it? That’s easy enough. Just didn’t know what to look for. I was just hoping one of the guys at Epic already had a list of the variables that they could post. I’ll make one myself and share it up here when I’ve got a spare moment.
Thanks eXi!