Developer Bastian

Lyra Gameplay Abilities - Create and KeyBind

Lyra Gameplay Abilities 01 - Listen and detect gameplay tag changes in other actors

Lyra Gameplay Abilities 02 - Create an Gameplay Ability Template and understand its components

Lyra Gameplay Abilities 03 - Get an Ability through interation with your environment

Lyra Gameplay Abilities 04 - Understanding Cues, Effects and Cooldowns

Lyra Gameplay Abilities 05 - Get Abilities Sets through Equipment - and dynamically add or remove Input Mapping Contexts

Infographics

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Lyra Gameplay Abilities and Enhanced Input

• Create a simple gameplay ability
• Extend the Enhanced Input to allow for localized keybindings

Outcome

A starter to Gameplay abilities - not multi user friendly at this point, just a very basic proof of concept

Video - english - see link below for german

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Thoughts

• Gameplay Abilities are essential for modern Unreal game development as they decouple pawn from actions. This allows for modular development and avoids blown up character BPs
• In this tutorial, we focus on how to bind abilities to your Pawn class via a Lyra Ability Set. Furtermore, we dive shortly into the Enhanced Input System to extend the Lyra input bindings with a framework for localized, plugin specific bindings

Steps (referring to infographic letters)

• orange E, U, T: Create a gameplay ability, add it to the Pawn class
• orange F-I: Create a localized Enhanced Input mapping. Bind a gameplay input tag with an gameplay ability via a Lyra Input Config

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Lyra Gameplay Abilities Subscripe to Tag changes

• Create a gameplay tag debugging function
• Create a material with an exposed parameter to make it glow from a BluePrint
• Create a listener to gameplay tag changes on all character BPs and react to these

Outcome

Diving deeper into gameplay abilities and how to use them to communicate between actors

Video - english - see link below for german

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Key Concepts

Dump Tags: A debug function to show active gameplay tags per tick

How to listen and react to Lyra gameplay tag changes in other actors. This is automatically multi-threaded, easily replicated and extremely low on resources - recommended as standard pattern to organize your in game communication

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Lyra Gameplay Abilities Components and Template

• Add Gameplay Cues, Gameplay Effects and Gameplay Costs to an Ability
• Create a better Blueprint Debug function
• Dance to death: Apply health costs for dancing

Outcome

A more complete template for our Gameplay Ability System

Video - english - see link below for german

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Key Concepts

Gameplay Cues are connected via Gameplay Tags to Gameplay Abilities

Gameplay Cues Notifier point to Sound Waves, Niagara effects, Force Feedback effects or Camera Shakes

Gameplay Effects add costs to abilities - we use the Lyra health system to apply health costs while dancing

How to listen and react to Lyra gameplay tag changes in other actors. This is automatically multi-threaded, easily replicated and extremely low on resources - recommended as standard pattern to organize your in game communication

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Lyra Gameplay Abilities through the Environment

• Bind in Lyra ShooterCore throughthe Visual Studio plugin file
• Grant your character the GA_Interact from ShooterExplorer
• Build a BP Actor derived from Lyra World Collectable
• Use a BP Interface to launch an external URL while interacting

Outcome

Understanding the usage of the GA_Interact and how to understand Gameplay Ability interactions as properties of the environment, not the character

Video - english - see link below for german

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Key Concepts

• GA_Interact scans for Lyra World Collectible
• When found, an Gameplay Ability is granted to scanning actor and can be executed on keypress
• Use BP Interfaces whenever possible to avoid the resource costs of storing full BPs in memory on the server

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Effects, Cues and Cooldowns

• Build a teleporter that has a cooldown
• Steer the cooldown widgets through game messages
• Build a Gameplay Ability for teleporting
• Think about client or server based actions

Outcome

An understanding how to use game messsages to steer widget behaviour and how to use gameplay tags to trigger effects and cues

Video - english - see link below for german

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Key Concepts

• Unreal game messaging system - publisher and subscriber patterns explored
• Understanding the role of Gameplay tags to trigger events
• Sending gameplay events to actors

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Abilities through Equipment

• Add a Lyra Equipment Manager Component
• Connect Lyra Equipment Definition with Ability Sets and Tagged Actors
• Implement an interface for BPs in your level to grant new Gameplay Abilities
• Implement a chain of reactions to set abilities granted (server) and input mapping conects received (client)

Outcome

Equipment and its ability to add gameplay abilities are extrfemely powerful - even a bullet can be an “equipment” that grant nice abilites with gameplay effects and cues

Video - english - see link below for german

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Key Concepts

• LyraEquipmentManagerComponent
• LyraGame.LyraEquipmentDefinition
• How to map/remap Input Mapping Context to keep all Input Mappings fully dynamic

https://youtu.be/8nVXALXJ24o