Player Controller

1 Overview

This document will explain how to setup the player controller based our framework.

2 Basic Setup

Create child blueprint class of BP_Controller_USG as follow:

  • /Game/USGT/Game/CoreModules/Character/BP_GamePawnController

controllersetup

  • Config default mapping contexts to manage different key mapping actions.

  • Setup the player camera manager class based on the BP_CameraManager_USG to adjust the parameters for pawn camera.

3 Player Camera Manager

The basic player camera manager blueprint:

  • /Game/USGT/Framework/Character/Camera/BP_CameraManager_USG

The camera manager is used to control the camera of the pawn.

This class is very important for the camera adjustment in shooting game. For example, adjust ViewPitchMin or ViewPitchMax to limit the camera up and down angle.

See the section 4 of Character document.

4 Inventory Manager

The item system of this framework is controlled by inventory manager component.

  • /Game/USGT/Framework/Items/BP_InventoryManager_USG

This is the component of player controller because the some items will be reversed when the controlled pawn is destroyed.

Setup the properties as follow.

inventorymgr

  • Verify Pickup Distance: For network vertion, we need to verify valid distance from server for picking up one item.

  • Depot Capacity: Max capacity of depot.

  • Item Definition Table: All the item will be defined here.

itemtable

5 Lobby Manager

Lobby manager component is used to control the map switch flow. Also it is used to create, search and join session.