WEBVTT 00:07.130 --> 00:08.270 Welcome back. 00:08.270 --> 00:15.560 So we know that there are these things called gameplay tags and that they're supposedly really useful, 00:15.560 --> 00:17.120 but how do we make them? 00:17.120 --> 00:20.300 How do we create gameplay tags? 00:20.630 --> 00:23.360 Well, gameplay tags are project wide. 00:23.360 --> 00:30.560 As I mentioned, they're registered with the gameplay tag manager and to create them, we have several 00:30.560 --> 00:36.050 options and we're going to go over how to create them in the editor in this video. 00:36.050 --> 00:38.510 And to do that we go to project settings. 00:38.510 --> 00:47.780 So edit and project settings under project there's a gameplay tags section and we have the option to 00:47.780 --> 00:52.310 make gameplay tags or add them to our project here. 00:52.400 --> 01:00.740 Now, by default there's already a gameplay queue gameplay tag that's reserved for gameplay queues. 01:00.740 --> 01:08.130 We also see tests with generic tag here, but aside from those we have no gameplay tags. 01:08.490 --> 01:14.750 Now, as you can see, we have add new gameplay tag and add new tag source. 01:14.760 --> 01:23.220 If we expand add new tag source, you'll see that we can specify a dot Ini which seems to suggest that 01:23.250 --> 01:30.870 gameplay tags are associated with AI and AIS and Ini is a config file. 01:30.870 --> 01:34.530 And here's a config path. 01:34.530 --> 01:40.770 So as you can see there's config slash tags specified as a config path. 01:40.770 --> 01:43.110 So that's one way to add them. 01:43.110 --> 01:50.040 Another is to simply expand add new gameplay tag and this is how we can add them here in the editor. 01:50.800 --> 01:58.300 So we can add a gameplay tag by specifying the name and we can optionally add a comment for the tag. 01:58.450 --> 02:04.210 And you'll see that under source there's default gameplay tags dot I and I. 02:04.330 --> 02:10.780 And because we haven't used this add new tag source, well that's the only option we have. 02:10.810 --> 02:12.730 That's the default option. 02:13.030 --> 02:15.190 Now we'd like to add a tag. 02:15.190 --> 02:22.690 And tags are used to represent any number of things, including our attributes. 02:23.600 --> 02:28.700 So I'd like to create a gameplay tag for our health attribute. 02:28.730 --> 02:38.570 Now I've made the decision to call my health attribute a vital attribute that's kind of a project convention 02:38.570 --> 02:47.780 that I'm creating, and I'd like to keep every single tag that I make under a hierarchical, organized 02:47.780 --> 02:48.760 structure. 02:48.800 --> 02:55.640 So if I'm going to make a tag to represent my health attribute, I'm going to organize it in a hierarchy 02:55.640 --> 03:01.820 such as attributes, dot vital dot health. 03:01.970 --> 03:09.020 And that way I can have other gameplay tags for other attributes that I may wish to categorize differently, 03:09.020 --> 03:12.500 which is what I will be doing throughout this project. 03:12.740 --> 03:19.890 Vital attributes will be things like health and mana, which are kind of tied to the life of the character. 03:19.910 --> 03:21.800 If you want to think of it that way. 03:21.800 --> 03:28.650 But later we're going to have other types of attributes such as primary attributes, things that an 03:28.680 --> 03:32.880 RPG game would use, like strength, intelligence, things like that. 03:32.910 --> 03:37.500 Those will get a different subcategory in the hierarchy. 03:38.040 --> 03:43.770 So for now, I'm going to make a new attribute called health, and it's going to be attributes dot vital 03:44.010 --> 03:44.720 health. 03:44.730 --> 03:54.180 And if we want, we can put a comment here and say amount of damage a player can take before death. 03:54.810 --> 03:59.040 And I hit enter and now the text boxes are blank. 03:59.040 --> 04:06.810 But down here we see an attributes with a dropdown and I can expand it and there's vital there's a dropdown 04:06.810 --> 04:08.160 here and there's health. 04:08.580 --> 04:15.120 So now we've created this hierarchy and we have one gameplay tag called Health. 04:15.120 --> 04:16.820 Now take a look at this. 04:16.830 --> 04:19.500 We see add sub tag, right? 04:19.500 --> 04:28.500 We can add a sub tag by clicking on plus and that automatically populates name with attributes dot vital 04:28.500 --> 04:33.510 dot health dot and it's expecting me to name that sub tag. 04:33.510 --> 04:34.860 I'm not going to use that. 04:34.860 --> 04:42.450 I'm going to delete that, but we can add another sub tag to Vital by clicking add sub tag and we can 04:42.450 --> 04:45.360 create a tag for the mana for example. 04:45.360 --> 04:48.000 So I'm going to type mana enter. 04:48.000 --> 04:51.060 And now expanding the dropdowns here is health and mana. 04:51.060 --> 04:54.960 So this is a shorthand for typing out all those things. 04:55.320 --> 05:02.010 It kind of helps by filling in part of it for us so we can have health mana, we can do the max version. 05:02.010 --> 05:08.400 So next to Vital, I can click add sub tag and add a max health tag. 05:08.400 --> 05:10.920 I can do the same thing for Max Mana. 05:10.920 --> 05:15.090 So let's click the plus and add Max Mana. 05:15.090 --> 05:20.310 And this is how we add gameplay tags from here in the editor using this menu. 05:20.550 --> 05:27.630 Now we know that tags are defined in an I and I somewhere, so why don't we take a look at that? 05:27.630 --> 05:35.220 Because what this menu is doing is just making it easy for us to make the tags, but they really exist 05:35.220 --> 05:37.260 in a config file. 05:37.290 --> 05:45.480 Let's take a look at our config folder and here's that default gameplay tags ini. 05:45.990 --> 05:48.390 Now I'm going to go ahead and open it. 05:48.420 --> 05:51.960 I'll just open it with notepad. 05:52.320 --> 05:53.460 Here it is. 05:53.460 --> 05:55.890 And here in default tags dot ini. 05:55.920 --> 05:57.630 Take a look at this. 05:57.660 --> 06:02.430 We have health and we have mana max health and max mana. 06:02.430 --> 06:03.150 And check it out. 06:03.150 --> 06:09.090 This is how you really add tags as you add them to this dot ini. 06:09.120 --> 06:13.620 Now of course you can have other Ini files as well as we've seen. 06:13.620 --> 06:19.020 We can add a tag source, but this is where our tags can go. 06:19.020 --> 06:24.300 Now you don't have to add a new tag source for each subcategory of tags or anything. 06:24.300 --> 06:25.650 You can keep them all in the same. 06:25.860 --> 06:26.220 Ini. 06:26.250 --> 06:27.870 That's totally fine. 06:27.990 --> 06:35.490 It's only if you're really concerned about organizing into sub config files that you want to do this 06:35.490 --> 06:39.840 kind of thing, but you can also come in here and edit this directly. 06:39.840 --> 06:50.640 For example Mana, we can say a resource used to cast spells and Ctrl s to save and close that out and 06:50.640 --> 06:57.420 we can come back into our project settings and hover over Mana and we're not going to see anything, 06:57.420 --> 07:03.510 but we can close out of the editor and we can launch the editor again. 07:04.390 --> 07:12.040 And back in the project settings into gameplay tags, we can hover over mana and now we see in the pop 07:12.040 --> 07:13.750 up that little comment there. 07:13.750 --> 07:21.370 So the comment is not really functional, but it serves as a way to kind of see what an attribute is 07:21.370 --> 07:22.390 supposed to do. 07:22.600 --> 07:29.800 So that's how we add attributes from within the editor and it's a perfectly fine way to do it. 07:29.830 --> 07:33.430 They now exist in the Ini file, which is great. 07:33.790 --> 07:35.440 Now it's not the only way. 07:35.440 --> 07:38.710 And in the next video, we're going to learn another way. 07:38.740 --> 07:42.100 So great job and I'll see you in the next video.