Unreal Engine 5 C++: Advanced Action Rpg

Create advanced RPG combat experience in Unreal Engine 5 through Gameplay Ability System(GAS) using C++

What you'll learn

Powerful melee combo system with light and heavy attacks

Make use of Gameplay Ability System to create engaging RPG combat experience

Advanced enemy AI using custom BTTask, BTTDecorator, BTService

Environment Query System for advanced AI behaviors

Directional hit react and rolling

Melee block and parry

Special weapon abilities and rage ability with cost and cooldown

Robust UI notify system

Survival combat game mode that spawns enemies in waves

Main menu, pause menu, winning/losing screen plus a loading screen

Performant target lock system

Different types of enemy with melee and long-ranged abilities

Custom C++ ability task/latent action for combat

Best practices for using asynchronous and synchronous loading

Data-oriented combat stats design

Industry-standard code practices with easily extendable code structure

Requirements

Some basic C++ experience with Unreal is required

Description

Welcome to "Unreal Engine 5 C++: Advanced Action RPG"! The most comprehensive RPG course you'll ever find online.In this course, you'll learn how to use Gameplay Ability System to create a complex RPG combat experience and implement exciting features like a combo system with light and heavy attacks, directional rolling, hit reactions, blocking, parrying, target locking, special abilities with cooldowns, AI avoidance, advanced enemy AI with strafing and projectile attacks, an epic boss fight, and much more. In the first section, we’ll set up our hero character for the gameplay ability system and proceed with input binding using native gameplay tags and data assets. Once our character can navigate the level, we’ll combine GAS with linked animation layers to create a melee combo system featuring light and heavy attacks. With these elements in place, we’ll introduce enemy characters, adding attributes, combat feedback, character death, and a robust UI notification system. You’ll also learn to use asynchronous loading for startup data and create a custom function library for handling damage.Next, we’ll implement AI avoidance and strafing using a blend of Blueprint and C++ behavior tree nodes to craft advanced AI behaviors. We’ll incorporate the crowd following component for detour crowd avoidance and explore behavior tree node types and the environment query system to determine strafing locations.With our enemies capable of dealing damage, we’ll refine our hero’s combat abilities by adding directional rolling, directional hit reactions, blocking, parrying, and target locking. You’ll learn to use motion warping for dynamic rolling distances and handle most of the heavy lifting in C++ for the target lock ability.Following this, we’ll introduce a ranged enemy that shoots projectiles and retreats when approached. We’ll then add a boss character complete with a boss bar, powerful melee attacks, and the ability to summon other enemies. Once our combat system is fully functional, we’ll develop a survival game mode with enemy waves. We’ll create multiple widgets, including a win screen, lose screen, pause menu, and main menu. Finally, we’ll port everything to a real map for epic battles against our enemies.This comprehensive RPG course is unmatched online. With detailed code changes provided in each lecture and a step-by-step approach, there’s no better time to create your dream RPG project. What are you waiting for? Join the course and start your RPG adventure today!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Some Common Questions You May Have…

Lecture 3 Create a New C++ Project

Lecture 4 Set Up Test Map

Lecture 5 How to get help?

Lecture 6 Hard and Soft Reference

Section 2: Set Up Hero Character

Lecture 7 Set Up Hero Character Section Overview

Lecture 8 Basic Class Structure

Lecture 9 Debug Helper

Lecture 10 Set Up Hero Camera

Lecture 11 Native Gameplay Tags

Lecture 12 Input Config Data Asset

Lecture 13 Custom Enhanced Input Component

Lecture 14 Binding Input

Lecture 15 Character Anim Instance

Lecture 16 Hero AnimBP

Lecture 17 Hero Anim Instance

Lecture 18 Gameplay Ability System

Lecture 19 Ability Activation Policy

Lecture 20 Set Up Weapon Class

Lecture 21 Set Up Hero Weapon

Lecture 22 Start Up Data

Lecture 23 Synchronous Loading

Lecture 24 Share Task: Share Your Progress

Lecture 25 Section Wrap Up

Section 3: Melee Combo System

Lecture 26 Melee Combo System Section Overview

Lecture 27 Challenges Ahead

Lecture 28 Pawn Extension Component

Lecture 29 Register Spawned Weapon

Lecture 30 Hero Gameplay Ability

Lecture 31 Ability Input Action

Lecture 32 Hero Ability Set

Lecture 33 Binding Ability Input

Lecture 34 Play Montage and Wait

Lecture 35 Wait for Gameplay Event

Lecture 36 Animation Layer Interface

Lecture 37 Master Anim Layer

Lecture 38 Link Anim Layer

Lecture 39 Default Weapon Ability

Lecture 40 Grant Weapon Ability

Lecture 41 Handle Unequip Axe

Lecture 42 Light Attack Ability

Lecture 43 Combo Logic

Lecture 44 Heavy Attack Ability

Lecture 45 Heavy Attack Logic

Lecture 46 Warrior Function Library

Lecture 47 Jump To Finisher

Lecture 48 Slow Motion and Sound FX

Lecture 49 Share Task: Share Your Combo System

Lecture 50 Section Wrap Up

Section 4: Hero Combat

Lecture 51 Hero Combat Section Overview

Lecture 52 Challenges Ahead

Lecture 53 Set Up Enemy Character

Lecture 54 Gruntling Guardian

Lecture 55 Asynchronous Loading

Lecture 56 Spawn Enemy Weapon

Lecture 57 Attribute Set

Lecture 58 Gameplay Effect

Lecture 59 Apply Gameplay Effect To Self

Lecture 60 Init Enemy Attributes

Lecture 61 Pawn Combat Interface

Lecture 62 Toggle Weapon Collision

Lecture 63 On Weapon Begin Overlap

Lecture 64 On Target Interacted

Lecture 65 Notify Melee Hit

Lecture 66 Set Up Attack Montages

Lecture 67 Make Gameplay Effect Spec Handle

Lecture 68 Hero Damage Info

Lecture 69 Apply Effect Spec Handle To Target

Lecture 70 Capture Relevant Attributes

Lecture 71 Retrieve Hero Damage Info

Lecture 72 Calculate Final Damage Done

Lecture 73 Set Up Heavy Attacks For Damage

Lecture 74 Modify Health Attribute

Lecture 75 Hit React Ability

Lecture 76 Trigger Hit React Ability

Lecture 77 Material Hit FX

Lecture 78 Hit Pause

Lecture 79 Camera Shake

Lecture 80 Hit React Sound

Lecture 81 Gameplay Cues

Lecture 82 Enemy Death Ability

Lecture 83 BP Death Interface

Lecture 84 Dissolve Material FX

Lecture 85 Dissolve Niagara FX

Lecture 86 Pawn UI Component

Lecture 87 Broadcast Value Change

Lecture 88 Listen For Broadcasting

Lecture 89 Enemy Init Created Widget

Lecture 90 Template Widgets

Lecture 91 Set Status Bar Fill Color

Lecture 92 Template Icon Slot Widget

Lecture 93 Hero Overlay Widget

Lecture 94 Enemy Health Widget Component

Lecture 95 Hide Enemy Health Bar

Lecture 96 Update Weapon Icon

Lecture 97 Final Tweaking

Lecture 98 Section Wrap Up

Section 5: Enemy AI

Lecture 99 Enemy AI Section Overview

Lecture 100 Preparing Enemy For Combat

Lecture 101 Crowd Following Component

Lecture 102 AI Perception

Lecture 103 Generic Team ID

Lecture 104 Behavior Tree

Lecture 105 Configure AI Avoidance

Lecture 106 Behavior Tree Node Types

Lecture 107 Observer Aborts

Lecture 108 Orient To Target Actor

Lecture 109 Environment Query System

Lecture 110 Custom Query Context

Lecture 111 Toggle Strafing State

Lecture 112 Calculate Direction

Lecture 113 Strafing Blend Space

Lecture 114 Compute Success Chance

Lecture 115 Dot Product Test

Lecture 116 Enemy Melee Ability

Lecture 117 Activate Ability By Tag

Lecture 118 Is Target Pawn Hostile

Lecture 119 Notify Melee Hit

Lecture 120 Make Enemy Damage Effect Spec Handle

Lecture 121 Apply Enemy Damage

Lecture 122 Motion Warping

Lecture 123 Update Motion Warp Target

Lecture 124 Construct Native BT Task

Lecture 125 Rotate Enemy In Task

Lecture 126 Melee Attack Branch

Lecture 127 Does Actor Have Tag Decorator

Lecture 128 Duration Gameplay Effect

Lecture 129 Should Abort All Logic

Lecture 130 Guardian Attack Sound FX

Lecture 131 Section Wrap Up

Section 6: Hero Combat Abilities

Lecture 132 Hero Combat Abilities Section Overview

Lecture 133 Planning Ahead

Lecture 134 Two-Key Input Action

Lecture 135 Get Last Movement Input

Lecture 136 Rolling Distance

Lecture 137 Get Value At Level

Lecture 138 Rolling Sound FX

Lecture 139 Hero Hit React Ability

Lecture 140 Trigger Hero Hit React

Lecture 141 Hero Hit FX

Lecture 142 Compute Hit React Direction

Lecture 143 Hit React Tags

Lecture 144 Switch On Gameplay Tags

Lecture 145 Hit React Sound FX

Lecture 146 Hero Block Ability

Lecture 147 Add Gameplay Cue To Owner

Lecture 148 Is Valid Block

Lecture 149 Notify Successful Block

Lecture 150 Handle Successful Block

Lecture 151 Is Perfect Block

Lecture 152 Notify Perfect Block

Lecture 153 Initiate Counterattack

Lecture 154 Set Up Target Lock Ability

Lecture 155 Toggle Target Lock

Lecture 156 Get Available Targets

Lecture 157 Get Nearest Target

Lecture 158 Draw Target Lock Widget

Lecture 159 Set Target Lock Widget Position

Lecture 160 Execute Task On Tick

Lecture 161 On Target Lock Tick

Lecture 162 Orient To Target While Target Lock

Lecture 163 Switch To Target Lock Poses

Lecture 164 Target Lock Walk Speed

Lecture 165 Switch Target Input Action

Lecture 166 Target Lock Mapping Context

Lecture 167 Notify Switch Target

Lecture 168 Handle Switch Target

Lecture 169 Hero Death

Lecture 170 Tweaking Target Lock

Lecture 171 Section Wrap Up

Section 7: Ranged Enemy

Lecture 172 Ranged Enemy Section Overview

Lecture 173 Ranged Enemy Starting Weapon

Lecture 174 Glacer Starting Stats

Lecture 175 Glacer Hit React

Lecture 176 Ranged Behavior Tree

Lecture 177 Find Shooting Position

Lecture 178 Projectile Ability

Lecture 179 Projectile Class

Lecture 180 Spawning Projectile

Lecture 181 On Projectile Hit

Lecture 182 Handle Projectile Hit

Lecture 183 Projectile Spec Handle

Lecture 184 Make Projectile Spec Handle

Lecture 185 Projectile Sound FX

Lecture 186 Glacer Melee Ability

Lecture 187 Unblockable Attack

Lecture 188 Combat Test Map

Lecture 189 Section Wrap Up

Section 8: Boss Enemy

Lecture 190 Boss Enemy Section Overview

Lecture 191 Set Up Boss Character

Lecture 192 Giant Starting Stats

Lecture 193 Boss Bar Widget

Lecture 194 Draw Boss Bar To Screen

Lecture 195 Giant Hit React

Lecture 196 Giant Death

Lecture 197 Remove Boss Bar

Lecture 198 Giant Behavior Tree

Lecture 199 Giant Melee Ability

Lecture 200 Hand Collision Box

Lecture 201 Post Edit Change Property

Lecture 202 Toggle Box Collision

Lecture 203 Giant Second Melee Ability

Lecture 204 Giant Combo

Lecture 205 Wait Spawn Enemies

Lecture 206 Summon Ability

Lecture 207 Listen For Gameplay Event

Lecture 208 Async Load And Spawn Enemies

Lecture 209 Fix Facing Rotation

Lecture 210 Stop Spawning Enemies

Lecture 211 Enemy Entry FX

Lecture 212 Enemy Entry Montage

Lecture 213 Check Current Health Percent

Lecture 214 Section Wrap Up

Section 9: Hero Special Abilities

Lecture 215 Hero Special Abilities Section Overview

Lecture 216 Challenges Ahead

Lecture 217 Rage Ability Tags

Lecture 218 Rage Ability Blueprint

Lecture 219 Rage Anim Montage

Lecture 220 Rage Gameplay Cue

Lecture 221 Activation Condition

Lecture 222 Consume Rgae

Lecture 223 Set Up Rage Slash

Lecture 224 Spawn Rage Slash

Lecture 225 On Rage Slash Begin Overlap

Lecture 226 Rage Slash For All Attacks

Lecture 227 Gain Rage

Lecture 228 Special Weapon Ability Tags

Lecture 229 Grant Special Weapon Ability

Lecture 230 Light Ability Montage

Lecture 231 Light Ability Damage

Lecture 232 Cooldown Gameplay Effect

Lecture 233 Ability Icon Widget

Lecture 234 On Ability Icon Updated

Lecture 235 Listen For Ability Icon Change

Lecture 236 Notify Ability Cooldown

Lecture 237 Custom Latent Action

Lecture 238 Count Down Action Class

Lecture 239 Construct Count Down Action

Lecture 240 Count Down Logic

Lecture 241 Update Cooldown

Lecture 242 Resume Cooldown

Lecture 243 Heavy Ability

Lecture 244 Heavy Ability Montage

Lecture 245 Heavy Ability Damage

Lecture 246 Apply AOE Damage

Lecture 247 Commit Ability Cooldown

Lecture 248 Stone Class

Lecture 249 BP Stone

Lecture 250 Pick Up Ability

Lecture 251 On Stone Begin Overlap

Lecture 252 Collect Stones

Lecture 253 Consume Stone Input

Lecture 254 Consume Stones

Lecture 255 On Stone Consumed

Lecture 256 Input Key Widget

Lecture 257 Broadcast Display Input Key

Lecture 258 Listen For Display Input Key

Lecture 259 Spawn Stone Ability

Lecture 260 Spawn Stone Logic

Lecture 261 Glacer Spawn Stone Chance

Lecture 262 Section Wrap Up

Section 10: Survival Game Mode

Lecture 263 Survival Game Mode Section Overview

Lecture 264 Game Mode Test Map

Lecture 265 Survival Game Mode Class

Lecture 266 Enemy Wave Spawner Table Row

Lecture 267 Wave Progression Logic

Lecture 268 Wave Count Down Widget

Lecture 269 Drawing Wave Count Down Widget

Lecture 270 Wave Info Widget

Lecture 271 Pre Load Next Wave Enemies

Lecture 272 Try Spawn Wave Enemies

Lecture 273 On Enemy Destoryed

Lecture 274 On Wave Completed

Lecture 275 Playtesting Game Mode

Lecture 276 Register Spawned Enemies

Lecture 277 Notify Last Wave

Lecture 278 On Player Died

Lecture 279 Game Difficulty

Lecture 280 Verify Game Difficulty

Lecture 281 Section Wrap Up

Section 11: In-Game Widgets

Lecture 282 In-Game Widgets Section Overview

Learners who want to build an action RPG project,Learners who want to level up their C++ skills,Learners who want to write clean, professional and extendable code