Health and Damage System
We introduce our new product. It allows you to create a comprehensive health, damage, and stamina system for your character using just one blueprint.
Damage: The system includes examples of dealing damage to the character. You can set and use critical damage, which will be randomly applied. There is also one damage type with a debuff, namely poison damage. You can configure the number of repetitions and the amount of damage for poison. When poison damage is inflicted, an icon will appear in the character’s widget until it expires. By pressing the “Z” key, a damage sphere will appear at the character’s level, and if the character enters this sphere, they will take damage. In addition to health damage, each of the examples deducts a certain amount of stamina, which can be configured.
Visual Effects: When the character takes damage, a pain effect will be displayed on the screen, and a damage marker will appear. When the character dies, a special death effect will also be triggered. The character’s portrait will change color depending on the effect applied, providing visual feedback to the player regarding their character’s status and conditions. These visual cues enhance the gaming experience and make it more immersive.
Widget: The system includes a user-friendly widget with player statistics and a portrait display. It shows damage, healing, and poisoning effects on the character, along with textual representation of damage above the portrait. This widget provides players with a clear and informative interface, allowing them to monitor their character’s condition and status easily during gameplay
Regeneration: By default, there is a configured regeneration system for both health and stamina. It operates on the principle of the number of points restored per second. You can adjust these values to your specifications. When a player takes poison damage, regeneration is paused until the poison damage has expired. This mechanism ensures that the poison has a temporary impact on the character’s ability to regenerate.
Running speed based on stamina level is straightforward: the higher the stamina level, the faster your character runs. To allow the character to run, the stamina level must be greater than 20. This approach ensures that stamina directly influences the character’s movement capabilities.
In the system, there are two items for interaction:
- Healthkit: This item instantly adds a specified amount of HP to the character’s health level. If the health level is already full, the character will inform you that it’s not needed at the moment.
- Energy Drink: This item temporarily freezes the stamina level for a set duration. It’s important to use the energy drink judiciously and not waste it on low stamina levels, as it won’t provide the desired effect in such cases. Proper timing and consideration of your character’s current state are essential for using the energy drink effectively.
Sound: The damage sound consists of various audio elements seamlessly blended together, categorized into three groups – small, medium, and large damage. For item interactions, there’s a simple pickup sound. The death sound is carefully designed to match the visual effect, creating an immersive auditory experience in alignment with the game’s events. Sound plays a crucial role in enhancing player engagement and immersion.
Installation:
Open health_damage_bp find Init comments and replace Character Reference and Cast to your charater blueprint.
Spawn the blueprint with the system in the world and attach it to your character. You can do this in your character’s blueprint like this:
Open “portrait_dummy_bp” and replace mesh to your character mesh.
This is all you need to do for the integration into your project. However, you will need to make numerous minor adjustments within your system for the desired effect or use the preset parameters.