Hi, new to Unreal Engine (ex Unity user) and doing a small experimental Space Invaders type project to get to understand the engine. From the perspective of spawning , shooting , etc all good so far. It works!
What I can’t get my head around after reading and re-reading the documentation is the subtleties of the various GameMode, GameState, PlayerState, Level, etc.
I’ve got conceptual problems and some real problems:
- Real Issue – If I want to get keep
state information that goes across
levels, where should that be stored?
GameMode , GameState all get
re-created at the beginning of a
level. - Conceptual issue – I got a score.
I’ve put the variable in the score in
GameState (originally had it in
GameMode) . If I had a multiplayer
mode should it be in PlayerState? - Conceptual issue – To access some of
the functions in GameMode /
GameState, in BP I need to GetGame
state and then cast it my Game State
state class. This seems really
clumsy , I am going about this wrong? See screenshot. - Conceptual issue – Currently my
GameMode does the spawning of the
actors and in charge of some of the
movement logic. It works but is that
the right place to be doing it? Whats the implication multiplayer. - Conceptual issue – I cant fathom what
the flow should be for a standard
game where you have a menu where you
press start, something then kicks off
the game, at the end returns to a
menu / hiscore. I’m guessing I can have levels for start screen that then kicks off the game, but then I’m lost on what to do for global state.
I will extend this to then be multiplayer (simultaneous players at the same time) and I figure if I can do that I would have understood the key aspects of the UE engine (which I very much like so far apart from the lack of static mesh (vertex) animation).
