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Adding New Abilities

In this tutorial you will learn how to add New Abilities to the Live Configurator

Save System Setup


Adding New Ability to the save system


Open BP_Saved_Presets
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Add New Variable
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Rename The variable to match with your ability name
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Set It’s Default Value
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User Interface Setup


UI : Designer Setup


Open UI_Live_Configurator
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Select any Existing Ability And Left Click
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On the Hierarchy tab you will see the ability highlighted
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Click on the parent border of that ability Right Click > Duplicate
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Now you can see that ability is duplicated
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Click on The text and rename that to whatever you want (In The Example we name it Double Jump)
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Hover your mouse to the new ability Checkbox and click
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Rename your checkbox to match with your ability name
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UI : Graph Setup


While the checkbox selected head to Graph Setup
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Click On Check State Change
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Drag the newly Created function to Check boxes
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Add The following Nodes to your ability Button
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Drag a wire from For Each Loop and Add it to Select > True
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Scroll up to Switch on Int
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Add New Pin to the array and get your new ability from the Save Object
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Connect your new ability to that Pin
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Now Add New Pin on Switch on Int
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Drag that pin all the way to your new ability on the bottom
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and plug it to the branch
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Now Under My Blueprint Search for your new ability variable
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drag it and get it’s reference
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Get Set Checked State
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Plug it like so
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Now go back to Designer
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Find the border parent of your new ability
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Select that and head to the graph
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drag that border and get it
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Add that border to it’s parent collapse arrow
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In the end of the graph save to game slot
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Character Blueprint


Adding New Ability to Character Logic


Open Player Blueprint
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Under My Blueprint Search For Load Bools function
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Double Click to open that function And Drag the blue wire in the end
Get your new ability variable
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Right Click and promote to variable
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Then connect it to the graph like so
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Testing The New Ability


i added Print strings to the new ability bool to test it’s functionality
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Final Results!
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Save System Setup
Adding New Ability to the save system
User Interface Setup
UI : Designer Setup
UI : Graph Setup
Character Blueprint
Adding New Ability to Character Logic
Testing The New Ability
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