This is a C++ plugin extending Epic's Gameplay Ability System, providing a foundation and an efficient workflow for using it. Its goals are to speed up development, eliminate boilerplate code, and provide good design.
Collaborators: ChristianHinkle, brian2524.
This code plugin builds off of our other code libraries:
- Ability Sets - Grants Abilities, Effects, and Attribute Sets as a group to an
AbilitySystemComponent, providing an output handle for tracking. - AvatarActorExtension Component - Generalized component that can initialize/uninitialize an Avatar Actor, given an AbilitySystemComponent (and optional AbilitySets).
- It stays agnostic to AbilitySystemComponent location
- Supports any Avatar Actor
- Pawn Avatar Actors use a more specialized "PawnAvatarActorExtension" component which inherits and provides extra GAS input binding logic.
- ASSEngineSubsystem - Used to load global data tables and tags via
UAbilitySystemGlobals::InitGlobalData() - Editor-only checks - Ensures proper workflow is followed
- TargetActor reusability
- Custom Target Data Filters - Improved method of handling the filtering process
- Class whitelist array
- Class blacklist array
- Option to only allow classes implementing
IAbilitySystemInterface
- Corrects
OnAvatarSet()Engine bug - The event doesn't properly get called on instanced abilities when only switching the AvatarActor. Resolved by marking the event as final and forwards working calls toOnAvatarSetThatWorks().