How to make an emote/dance shop

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Hi everyone I’m making an FPS game and was wondering if someone could help me with creating a shop for emotes so like, if the player has X amount of coins they can buy an emote (Like in fortnite) any help is appreciated because this is one of the things I would really, love to have in my game to make it a bit better than it is already. thanks

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Ok so what I would do here is break it down to the parts you would need to make:

  • A coin variable, perhaps in the player state or player controller, thats included in your save system.

  • A data driven ui for available emotes. Id recommend taking a look at this - Creating a Data-Driven UI with UMG - Unreal Engine

  • A way of tracking which emotes have been purchased. Ideally collapsed to a reusable function so you can query it when the user asks for it or your emote selection is brought up. You could grey out non purchased ones. Then just use a Map with emote class and has bought bool, or an array of purchased emotes. Something like that.

  • Then, on button press, get selected emote, which can only be selected if it was bought in the first place, and play the animation.

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thank you I’ll try it now

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for some reason it’s not printing the string when it’s supposed to and I have no idea why any ideas?

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I might just give up on the idea now it’s not working at all :frowning:

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I might actually just make it a character shop instead of an emote shop any ideas how I would implement that?

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or would it be the same way?