WEBVTT 00:07.820 --> 00:08.900 Welcome back. 00:08.900 --> 00:13.190 So we now have the capability to place a magic circle. 00:13.190 --> 00:17.900 And we're going to be using our Magic circle class which has the decal. 00:17.900 --> 00:25.190 And we've seen that if we just drag one of these in that we get a nice decal on the floor. 00:25.190 --> 00:29.060 And when we call our interface function to show it. 00:29.690 --> 00:31.640 We can show that decal. 00:31.670 --> 00:36.260 Now, our next step for this ability is to actually create the ability. 00:36.260 --> 00:38.630 So I'm going to go ahead and close all my tabs. 00:38.630 --> 00:41.150 And I'm going to make a new gameplay ability. 00:41.150 --> 00:48.530 Now we have aura abilities arcane and Arcane shards where the BP magic circle resides. 00:48.830 --> 00:50.570 Now this doesn't have to be here. 00:50.570 --> 00:56.930 It could be in the blueprints folder, but for now, I'll keep it here and we're going to make our new 00:56.930 --> 00:59.450 Gameplay Ability Blueprint class. 00:59.450 --> 01:05.300 So I'm going to make this based on Aura damage gameplay ability, because I'd like it to be capable 01:05.300 --> 01:06.740 of causing damage. 01:06.740 --> 01:12.680 So I'm going to select that class and call this gar underscore Arcane shards. 01:12.680 --> 01:18.980 So right away, as soon as we create an offensive spell, there are a number of steps that we can take 01:18.980 --> 01:20.690 to make sure that this spell works. 01:20.690 --> 01:27.920 With our system that we have in place, we can set up the ability info, we can create an icon for it, 01:27.980 --> 01:32.960 set all of that stuff, and choose where in our spell menu it should go. 01:33.350 --> 01:39.920 By the way, as I press play, I notice I keep having to drag my outliner to the side to hit that spells 01:39.920 --> 01:46.580 button, and I think I'm going to reset its anchoring before we continue just for ease of use. 01:46.580 --> 01:53.150 So I'm going to go to my overlay folder into Wbbp overlay and select that spells button. 01:53.150 --> 01:55.520 It's anchored to the top left. 01:55.520 --> 01:58.670 I think I'm going to anchor it to the bottom right. 01:58.670 --> 02:04.220 And that way if I press play, no matter where it is, it'll always be right there. 02:04.220 --> 02:07.880 And as long as it's in front, I can still click it. 02:07.880 --> 02:09.320 I'd like the. 02:10.130 --> 02:10.580 Health. 02:10.580 --> 02:12.800 Man has spells to be behind it. 02:12.800 --> 02:19.640 So I think if I take my attribute menu button and drag it in front of health mana spells, then no matter 02:19.640 --> 02:23.600 how small my window is, at least I'll see those spells on top. 02:23.600 --> 02:28.250 And if they're anchored to the edges, then I'll be able to click on them. 02:28.250 --> 02:34.040 So I'm going to anchor attributes to the bottom left and spells to the bottom right like that. 02:34.040 --> 02:41.270 So now if I press play I have my spells button here, even if I have a really small window. 02:41.270 --> 02:47.330 And I'll go ahead and make attributes and spells both in front of the XP bar as well. 02:47.330 --> 02:53.210 So I'm going to take attribute menu button and drag it just under XP bar like that. 02:53.810 --> 02:56.330 So now I can use those even when testing. 02:56.330 --> 02:59.030 So that's going to make things easier for me. 02:59.640 --> 03:00.090 Okay. 03:00.090 --> 03:04.680 So I'm going to close the overlay and go back into. 03:06.670 --> 03:14.230 Blueprint's ability system, aura abilities, arcane Arcane shards, and I'm going to open Arcane Shards. 03:14.230 --> 03:19.210 And the first thing I'm going to do for Arcane shards is I want to set its ability tag. 03:19.210 --> 03:26.980 Now in my abilities, I don't even have any ability tags for arcane abilities, so I'm going to need 03:26.980 --> 03:29.620 a gameplay tag for Arcane Shards. 03:29.920 --> 03:32.560 So for that reason, I'm going to close out of the editor. 03:32.560 --> 03:39.310 I'm going to save all my progress, and I'll go ahead and just close all my tabs, and I'm going to 03:39.310 --> 03:43.240 find aura gameplay tags and make a new ability tag. 03:43.240 --> 03:46.900 So I have fire Firebolt and Lightning Electrocute. 03:46.900 --> 03:51.190 I'm going to make a new tag and this can be abilities. 03:52.630 --> 03:54.790 Underscore arcane. 03:54.820 --> 03:57.940 Underscore arcane shards. 03:58.480 --> 03:59.740 And we can define this. 03:59.740 --> 04:04.240 I'm going to go into the cpp file and I'm just going to find Firebolt. 04:04.790 --> 04:07.790 And just under Firebolt and electrocute. 04:07.790 --> 04:11.360 I'm going to put my arcane and. 04:13.490 --> 04:22.310 Just to make this easier, I'm going to say offensive spells here and we'll go ahead and copy electrocute. 04:23.050 --> 04:26.260 And we're going to paste it and we're going to have arcane shards here. 04:26.260 --> 04:30.940 So I'm going to use arcane arcane shards. 04:31.090 --> 04:35.530 The tag will be abilities Dot arcane Dot arcane shards. 04:35.530 --> 04:38.980 And we're going to say Arcane Shards, ability tag. 04:39.310 --> 04:41.500 And we have the tag and that's it. 04:41.500 --> 04:44.800 We can compile and get back into the Unreal Editor. 04:47.050 --> 04:54.910 Okay, so we'll get that arcane shards back open, and now we can set its ability tag to abilities arcane 04:54.910 --> 04:56.290 arcane shards. 04:56.770 --> 05:01.660 And now it can be incorporated in with our system. 05:02.080 --> 05:08.260 Now, until we get into actually creating the ability, I'm going to hold off on setting all of its 05:08.260 --> 05:12.250 parameters except perhaps for its damage effect class. 05:12.250 --> 05:17.770 We know that that's going to be GE damage, as that will be the effect we use for all of these offensive 05:17.770 --> 05:23.740 spells and perhaps our damage type we could set that to because we have damage arcane. 05:23.740 --> 05:25.390 We could set that as well. 05:25.630 --> 05:32.320 But I'm going to hold off on creating a curve in our damage curve table and setting these parameters, 05:32.320 --> 05:37.300 because there's a few steps that we should do before all of that. 05:37.300 --> 05:42.220 We need to make sure that we have arcane shards in our ability info data asset. 05:42.220 --> 05:47.920 So I'm going to go to blueprints ability system data and open data Ability info. 05:47.920 --> 05:55.870 Now I'm going to go ahead and add one element to this array and set its ability tag to abilities arcane 05:55.870 --> 05:59.320 arcane shards and set its ability type. 05:59.320 --> 06:03.730 We know that it's an offensive ability and we can set its icon. 06:03.730 --> 06:08.920 Now I'm going to search for arcane and we have arcane shards and arcane shards two. 06:08.950 --> 06:15.340 Now I'm going to select Arcane Shards two, but I'm going to go to it and we have all of these, and 06:15.340 --> 06:17.830 you can double click them to see what they look like. 06:18.220 --> 06:21.040 And here's what Arcane Shards looks like. 06:21.580 --> 06:24.190 And this is what I'm going to use for this ability. 06:24.190 --> 06:29.530 So Arcane Shards two can be the texture that we have set here. 06:29.530 --> 06:36.640 Now, for the background material, I'm going to first of all type in flow and get one of my flowing 06:36.640 --> 06:37.840 globe materials. 06:38.440 --> 06:42.550 But I'm going to browse to it and choose Arcane Skill. 06:42.550 --> 06:44.050 And here's what it looks like. 06:44.050 --> 06:45.460 You can always change it. 06:45.460 --> 06:51.160 The cloud darkness is a negative value, and if you bring it into the positive value, it'll have more 06:51.160 --> 06:55.750 of a dark cloud, which I think looks pretty nice. 06:55.750 --> 07:03.070 So if you want change that around and change the perimeter shadow, if you want a darker shadow or a 07:03.070 --> 07:04.090 brighter one. 07:04.090 --> 07:06.460 And once you're happy with how that looks. 07:07.120 --> 07:08.410 Of course we'll tweak later. 07:08.410 --> 07:14.020 I'm almost certain of it, but once you're happy with that, you can have it selected and go back to 07:14.020 --> 07:16.240 the data asset and set that there. 07:16.240 --> 07:23.920 And I'm going to set the level requirement to two and the ability to GA underscore arcane shards. 07:24.250 --> 07:27.280 And with that we have our ability info. 07:27.280 --> 07:31.150 And now our arcane shards is part of our system. 07:31.420 --> 07:37.960 And our data driven system is going to be able to retrieve that data once we need it. 07:38.170 --> 07:40.900 Now, as we've seen, that's not the only step, right? 07:40.900 --> 07:43.300 We can't just press play and open our spells menu. 07:43.330 --> 07:45.640 We can't just, you know, level up. 07:46.220 --> 07:47.750 And expect. 07:48.420 --> 07:50.220 To see its icon here. 07:50.220 --> 07:51.960 If that's where we want it. 07:51.960 --> 07:58.620 We can't see it here because we didn't go into the spell tree and assign that ability tag to this particular 07:58.620 --> 07:58.980 slot. 07:58.980 --> 08:01.140 So that would be the next step. 08:01.140 --> 08:02.970 And that's what I'm going to do now. 08:02.970 --> 08:08.790 I'm going to go to UI spell menu and open my offensive spell tree and select this one here. 08:08.790 --> 08:11.910 I'd like this one to be the Arcane Shards. 08:11.910 --> 08:15.660 So I'm going to set its ability tag to arcane shards. 08:15.660 --> 08:18.660 And with that I'm going to go ahead and press play. 08:18.660 --> 08:19.740 I'm going to level up. 08:22.060 --> 08:23.140 Click on spells. 08:23.140 --> 08:26.020 And there's my arcane shards right there. 08:26.020 --> 08:33.070 And I can spend a point and it becomes purple and I can equip it, and it goes right there into my spells. 08:33.310 --> 08:39.700 And I do like how it looks this dark, but I think it needs to be a little bit brighter. 08:39.700 --> 08:44.320 Either that or my blue should be a little less bright because it looks a little bit. 08:45.300 --> 08:46.350 Off putting. 08:47.620 --> 08:52.510 So I think what I'm going to do is just make a couple tweaks before wrapping up this video. 08:52.510 --> 08:57.370 But other than that, we have an arcane shards and things are looking good. 08:57.370 --> 08:58.960 So let's make a couple tweaks. 08:58.960 --> 09:00.550 I'm going to close ability info. 09:00.580 --> 09:02.740 I'm going to close Arcane Shards. 09:02.740 --> 09:11.890 I'm going to take my arcane Skill BG, and I'm going to browse to it and also open up my my shock skill 09:11.920 --> 09:15.970 BG right here, and I'm done with my offensive spell tree. 09:15.970 --> 09:21.070 So let's do a little bit of tweaking and just make sure that things are looking the way we want them 09:21.070 --> 09:21.730 to. 09:21.730 --> 09:22.930 Cloud darkness. 09:22.930 --> 09:27.550 For my shock skill, BG could go down a I think a little bit. 09:27.550 --> 09:34.210 In fact, we might even go into the dark cloud region here and see how that looks. 09:34.210 --> 09:37.540 It's a little bit, I'd say too dark. 09:40.000 --> 09:43.330 So that might not be a wise decision. 09:43.330 --> 09:50.380 I might go back into how it was, but just perhaps increase that perimeter shadow a bit. 09:50.740 --> 09:52.360 Let's see how that looks. 09:53.870 --> 09:55.820 Because I do like them to glow. 09:58.470 --> 10:02.250 Let's see how it looks next to our arcane spell. 10:04.060 --> 10:05.440 It looks good next to arcane. 10:05.440 --> 10:07.720 I think arcane could be a little bit brighter. 10:07.720 --> 10:15.010 In fact, we may even have a negative cloud darkness for it, or at least not so dark. 10:15.010 --> 10:18.040 We might even bring the color up a little. 10:18.680 --> 10:20.360 And the perimeter shadow. 10:20.660 --> 10:21.770 And a little. 10:28.950 --> 10:30.060 Okay. 10:30.420 --> 10:31.950 That's looking pretty good. 10:35.910 --> 10:42.690 I hate to flip flop back and forth on this, but I do think my cloud darkness may be better as a negative 10:42.690 --> 10:43.620 value. 10:44.590 --> 10:47.410 And it might bring the color itself down a bit. 10:48.220 --> 10:51.160 Just so we can have some of those brighter spots. 10:52.590 --> 10:53.760 In the cloud. 10:57.510 --> 10:58.860 Let's see how that looks. 11:04.510 --> 11:06.790 I kind of like it a little brighter. 11:07.720 --> 11:10.570 I'm kind of feeling that a little bit more. 11:15.020 --> 11:21.350 Just trying to sort of see how these look next to each other in different combinations. 11:22.620 --> 11:27.180 And what I can do too is I can adjust this material instance. 11:34.450 --> 11:36.100 As I have my. 11:37.240 --> 11:39.490 Pie session going like this. 11:42.180 --> 11:49.320 So what I'm going to do is spend a point, equip it so I can see it in all three locations, and bring 11:49.320 --> 11:55.560 my arcane skill background off screen and just adjust it and see it change dynamically. 12:11.690 --> 12:13.790 Okay, I think I got a sweet spot here. 12:13.790 --> 12:16.670 And if you'd like to see my parameters, here they are. 12:16.670 --> 12:17.660 Cloud darkness. 12:17.660 --> 12:18.530 This value. 12:18.530 --> 12:19.340 Perimeter shadow. 12:19.340 --> 12:20.480 This value. 12:20.480 --> 12:22.610 I didn't mess with progress. 12:22.610 --> 12:23.930 I didn't mess with speed. 12:23.930 --> 12:26.630 Although we could make speed a little bit different. 12:26.630 --> 12:30.200 We can make speed X go in the other direction. 12:30.200 --> 12:32.570 We can make speed Y go in the other direction. 12:32.570 --> 12:34.400 We can make them slower that way. 12:34.400 --> 12:37.100 These don't all have the same exact clouds. 12:37.100 --> 12:39.530 And my color is this value. 12:39.530 --> 12:45.020 I dragged the value almost down to black and with a negative cloud darkness. 12:45.020 --> 12:46.730 It gives me a good contrast. 12:46.730 --> 12:51.800 And it's got some of those more burning, brighter spots there. 12:51.800 --> 12:53.690 And I think that looks pretty good. 12:54.020 --> 12:57.950 I like how this looks next to the other abilities. 12:57.950 --> 13:03.590 We can even move them around, see what they look like in different orders. 13:05.670 --> 13:06.750 Like so. 13:09.920 --> 13:12.230 So I think those are looking pretty good. 13:12.230 --> 13:19.400 And with that, we have arcane shards and we're ready to start actually developing this gameplay ability. 13:19.400 --> 13:21.830 So I'm going to close those material instances. 13:21.830 --> 13:22.940 I'm going to save all. 13:22.940 --> 13:25.280 And I'll see you in the next video.