Unreal Gameplay Ability System - FULL COURSE

Unreal' s gameplay ability System, better known as GAS, is a fantastic system to create actions for your game characters. almost any real-time Combat system could benefit from using it. It's just sad that there isn't much documentation from Epic games to make this easy to learn. Which is why I will try it myself, to take you through all this step by step and learning how you can set up this plugin to work for your game!
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[@UngaBungian]

you my man are the best thing to ever happen for the gas system. thank you for the vids! really helped streamline my learning🗿🍷

[@thegamedevcave]

Glad to help

[@olliverkatana4168]

Thank you very much for such a clear tutorial, now I can say that I"ve got some ability to understand abilities.

[@johnrex7108]

Been wanting to know more about GAS, will definitely watch this when I have more time.

[@mazt7]

Great video! Btw, if anyone want a random abilities by tag you can just implement it in C++, the logic for it is pretty simple.

[@armanelgudzhyan192]

Surprised this has only 2K views! Great video, super helpful and probably the best one I've seen so far

[@thegamedevcave]

i'm glad you think so! it's only been up for a little while so i'm sure it'll gain more views as time goes on ;) Hopefully I can help make GAS more accessible for some people because it's a brilliant system!

[@leonidlypkan4422]

Very good course. Helps to jumpstart you GAS learning.

[@thegamedevcave]

Glad you think so!

[@maiworld_]

super hyped for this. i know zero cpp but im hoping this will help

[@thegamedevcave]

a quick peek through my CPP course playlist might help out at times where you feel like you're having trouble. most of this course will be blueprints luckily, just a little CPP for some required setup and some more advanced uses

[@matheusalexandre4167]

Nice course! can you make a video on how to setup the visual studio like this? your intelli sense works pretty well. Thanks for the course, it really helped me.

[@thegamedevcave]

that's github Copilot, not just Intellisense. it's a simple plugin for VSCode if you have a subsription for github :) I believe there's some free alternatives out there too though

[@matheusalexandre4167]

@@thegamedevcave thanks, I will subscribe to copilot

[@yourboyjboy]

@@thegamedevcave would you have a specific recommendation for an alternative to copilot? Not sure which would be best for UE5 coding

[@FlyinGerbiL]

Hey! This is awesome, thanks! I want to have an ability with a chance to apply (like bleeding when the target is hit with a slashing weapon). I've added the chance to apply field, but it only gives me a float field and a curve, with no way to set the float field. How would I do that?

[@thegamedevcave]

where did you make the "chance to apply" field? the way i owuld do this is inside whatever ability this effect belongs to, apply a normal damage gameplay effect and then in the ability have a chance to add another gameplay effect that does the bleed damage. it sounds like youre trying to do both in 1 gameplay effect at the moment if I understand if correct, that's probably not a great way of doing it. If you make a chance to apply value on the ability and enable the little eye icon, it will be visible to edit in any child blueprints you make off that ability.

[@FlyinGerbiL]

@@thegamedevcave There's a Component for Chance To Apply This Effect in Ability Effects. I'm currently just applying SlashingDamage as an effect, and then ALWAYS adding LightBleeding as an effect as well. On the LightBleeding effect, however, I add the component for chance to apply, but it only has a 0-1 value field input and a curvetable input. I see no way to set the chance of application. If I understand you correctly, you're suggesting instead of directly applying a GE, I let it apply an Ability first which takes in some values and then determines whether to apply only SlashingDamage, or SlashingDamage and LightBleeding?

[@thegamedevcave]

@@FlyinGerbiL something like that, adding an effectand then having the ffect itself decide if it should do something isn't really the best way to do this, yu probably need to do it the other way around, have whatever code adds the effect be the thing to decide if the bleeding effect should be applied in the first place

[@FlyinGerbiL]

@@thegamedevcave Ok awesome, thanks!

[@leonidlypkan4422]

for all that watches after ue5.3 Gameplay Mod Magnitude Calculation work in blueprints.

[@thegamedevcave]

yeah they do! i assume they updated it some time between 5.1 and now (this series i used 5.1 for some reason). But i'm glad they work in blueprint now!

[@noinoinoi2095]

I'm still at 33:30 but this system seems extremely promising. I've started learning game dev and have setup a simple hp / stamina / mp and damage system using blueprint but GAS seems to sort of enable all the functions necessary for combat gameplay. I'm wondering which would accelerate my learning, should I learn GAS first or write it out on blueprint first to grasp the flow of certain gameplay logic. If some one has any advice 👋

[@thegamedevcave]

if you're having no trouble following along then you should feel free to keep going! having a general understanding of unreal engine or programming in general will help but if you feel like youre not running into problems while following this, keep on going :)

[@velikanskaglava2087]

Hey does anyone know how could a gamer within a game create assets, to be saved and used later?

[@alex-qn5xp]

What do you mean?

[@velikanskaglava2087]

@@alex-qn5xp Usually in games a gamer can pick/choose already available assets, would it be possible to create assets that did not preexist in the game. Let's say a gamer wants to paint or sculpt or create a piece of armour that is absolutely unique not just in name but in color, size, but most importantly in shape! And then not only would he be able to use it in the game but also export it as a .obj for example. Similarly as in Blender a user can create new things...

[@henrybottomsworth]

comment for algorithm

[@thegamedevcave]

always apricated!

[@henrybottomsworth]

how do i follow along with this video if im making a top down RTS multiplayer game rather than a 3rd person game @@thegamedevcave