https://www.blackmothgames.com/development-blog daily 0.75 2024-02-18 https://www.blackmothgames.com/development-blog/the-start-of-a-new-title monthly 0.5 2024-02-16 https://www.blackmothgames.com/development-blog/fbr-implentation monthly 0.5 2024-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bd2ba5d4f3af05217194ff/aa69d979-a053-4dfe-b1af-410c336bb7c5/FBR+Structure.png Development Blog - FBR (Fussion Battle Rifle): circa 2.11.2024 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bd2ba5d4f3af05217194ff/1707691177263-IXKCZBGEJS47O1KNABDU/BP_FBR.png Development Blog - FBR (Fussion Battle Rifle): circa 2.11.2024 - BP_FBR Important settings: Muzzle Flash, Tracer System, and the required bools to trigger muzzle and tracer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bd2ba5d4f3af05217194ff/1707691177603-5GFQB7U43IGM470X8ZP5/FBR_Beam.png Development Blog - FBR (Fussion Battle Rifle): circa 2.11.2024 - FBR Beam VFX Again, basic hardly worthy of based. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bd2ba5d4f3af05217194ff/1707695173478-7KQJUSUEUKZ8IJZ8P91B/FBR_Cosmetics.png Development Blog - FBR (Fussion Battle Rifle): circa 2.11.2024 - Cosmetic Tags Tags that define how the Animation Layers will link (and where). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bd2ba5d4f3af05217194ff/1707695252313-MW4X1RS26W0TAFW4C56J/FBR_Montages.png Development Blog - FBR (Fussion Battle Rifle): circa 2.11.2024 - Montages Stow and draw montages for the FBR. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bd2ba5d4f3af05217194ff/1707695188693-8SAUFNSIZBQ76Y5EFO8O/FBR+Recoil.png Development Blog - FBR (Fussion Battle Rifle): circa 2.11.2024 - Recoil Data Required data so that the procedural recoil system will function appropriately. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bd2ba5d4f3af05217194ff/1707695204942-FMT2C0NXG1KFLFQH5M4N/FBR+Internal+Params.png Development Blog - FBR (Fussion Battle Rifle): circa 2.11.2024 - Internal Parameters Parameters that are used when doing line traces. Slightly different with projectile, but not much. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bd2ba5d4f3af05217194ff/1707695275445-GK10AUEDWIQC155TTCGO/FBR+Animation.png Development Blog - FBR (Fussion Battle Rifle): circa 2.11.2024 - Animation Layers Animation Blueprint that governs the primary state transitions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bd2ba5d4f3af05217194ff/5805c1e7-7b91-47bf-8c89-0719cfed083b/FBR_Equipment.png Development Blog - FBR (Fussion Battle Rifle): circa 2.11.2024 - Make it stand out WID_FBR Settings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bd2ba5d4f3af05217194ff/53c3ffcb-26f2-48bf-a8d0-747917352d09/Screenshot+2024-02-11+194052.png Development Blog - FBR (Fussion Battle Rifle): circa 2.11.2024 - Make it stand out Additional Montage - Montage to be played after initial fire (like with bolt action rifles). Failure Montage Delay Time - Time to delay shot failures. Fire Delay Time Seconds - How long to wait between shots. Trace Max Distance - Maximum distance to trace for object. Auto Rate - Remnants of testing or something else. Ionno. Needs removal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bd2ba5d4f3af05217194ff/ccc82000-b54c-46b6-8cd3-b56a70b187ea/Screenshot+2024-02-11+194849.png Development Blog - FBR (Fussion Battle Rifle): circa 2.11.2024 - Make it stand out Can Trigger Failure Montage - Can we even trigger the failure montage for the fire ability? Gameplay Effect Control Handle Struct and GCNParameter - Targeting information and Gameplay Effect information used within the Blueprint. Gameplay Cue Tag Firing - This is the GameplayTag that links the Gameplay Cue (Firing) for the FBR and the Gameplay Ability. Gameplay Cue Tag Impact - This is the GameplayTag that links the Gameplay Cue (Impacts) for the FBR and the Gameplay Ability. Actor to Spawn on Impact - Vector field Actor for pushback. GEDamge - This is all things damage with regards to the FBR (GE_Damage_FBR). Time for a slight detour to explore this GameplayEffect (Shown below is the modified parameters): https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bd2ba5d4f3af05217194ff/fa1783bf-e45e-476e-8655-21d5f3bccb84/Screenshot+2024-02-11+200121.png Development Blog - FBR (Fussion Battle Rifle): circa 2.11.2024 - Make it stand out Executions | Calculation Class - This defines what happens with this effect. In this instance, ‘apply damage’. Executions | Calculation Modifiers | Scalable Float Magnitude - The amount of damage to apply to the target. Tags | GameplayEffectAssetTag - Tags that define the behavior of the effect. As well as to track where the damage is coming from. In this instance, the FBR. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bd2ba5d4f3af05217194ff/7f0a196f-018a-486e-a8e5-5bfe04047bf8/Screenshot+2024-02-11+200737.png Development Blog - FBR (Fussion Battle Rifle): circa 2.11.2024 - Make it stand out Object Types - Which types of Actors will the traces interact with. Debug Draw Type - Hmmmmm. It’s what you think it is. Trust me. Offset GCN - Offset to apply to a Gameplay Cue Notify (if needed). GCN Location - Location data to pass to the Firing Gameplay Cue Notify. GCN Normal - Normal data to pass to the Firing Gameplay Cue Notify. Impact Positions - Hit locations as a result of the firing. End point of a trace. Impact Normals - Hit normal as a result of the firing. Direction in which the trace impacted. 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Advanced Section - The majority of these are Client/Sever related and the settings pictured here are working for us. Though I might have to come back and update if that isn’t the case. Most important is Replication Policy. This tells the Engine how the ability will replicate across the network. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bd2ba5d4f3af05217194ff/15170902-d5c8-41dd-af31-333d9495697f/Screenshot+2024-02-13+192814.png Development Blog - FBR (Fussion Battle Rifle): circa 2.11.2024 - Make it stand out TAGS! - There seemed to be contention surrounding this among the community. I personally like it. It provides a nice robust way to track various things happening with relation to a particular game. Anyways: Ability Tags - Just a tag to identify the ability. It can go more granular, but for meow that works. Activation Owned Tags - These are the tags that get applied to any given character that might be firing their weapon. Source Blocked Tags - Pushing and popping Ability.Weapon.NoFiring to the character tag stack disables and enables (respectively) weapon firing at the player level . Triggers | Ability Triggers - For more info on the input system we’re using, visit here. The tag pictured here is mapped to the left mouse button. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bd2ba5d4f3af05217194ff/2619f81f-b71e-474e-a00a-4593c5621b5e/Screenshot+2024-02-13+193750.png Development Blog - FBR (Fussion Battle Rifle): circa 2.11.2024 - Make it stand out Fire ability is set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bd2ba5d4f3af05217194ff/f2c41ae9-69e5-4e26-984e-f6c772a19f54/Screenshot+2024-02-13+194922.png Development Blog - FBR (Fussion Battle Rifle): circa 2.11.2024 - Make it stand out Reload Montage - The montage that we’ll need to play. I still need to create it! Play Rate - The speed to play the montage at. Did Block Firing - Debug stuffz. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bd2ba5d4f3af05217194ff/718494b0-bae1-4c0c-be56-4d4292107bc8/Screenshot+2024-02-15+192557.png Development Blog - FBR (Fussion Battle Rifle): circa 2.11.2024 - Make it stand out The main thing of note here is the AN_AttachMagTo_Hand and AN_AttachMagTo_Weapon. This switches the mag from the weapon to the hand and back. It’s done this way to eliminate any potential visibility/creation/destruction issues. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65bd2ba5d4f3af05217194ff/66d511dc-8ef7-4ed6-aa3c-1226e7d1793f/Screenshot+2024-02-15+193405.png Development Blog - FBR (Fussion Battle Rifle): circa 2.11.2024 - Make it stand out The GameplayCue.Weapon.FBR.Reload (Burst) is used to to trigger a Gameplay Cue. Main things of note here is the Camera Shakes and the Gameplay Cue Tag. You should have an understanding of Camera Shakes. 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