Magazine/Reload

[Jcapo]

How would you go about setting up magazine sizes and reloading? I noticed an animation called “Inspect” which isn’t a reload animation, but I’d like to challenge myself to use it as a placeholder reload animation, along with setting up 30 bullets in a magazine. I’m guessing you need to set up an extra variable for MaxAmmo, and do some maths.

Thanks

[ih42]

I added 2 text boxes in the corner of the CharacterHUD and named them ‘Ammo’ and ‘MaxAmmo’

Then created Bindings for them here

Edit the bindings

to look like this

Set up the key binding ‘R’ for reload in Project Settings

Make 3 new variables in FPS_Character (set the default values after compiling (I used Ammo 25, MaxAmmo 100, ClipSize 25))

Make a new function called reload and edit it to look like this

Modify your Fire weapon loop so it -1 bullet each shot and no fire with 0 Ammo

Then add a ‘Reload’ action event to call the ‘Reload’ function

The only problem is after 0 bullets gun stops working (obviously) but ammo count still goes down on click, I’ll try and fix that now.

Edit: Fixed it by adding a set ammo node after this branch

That was fun (I’ll watch the video now and see how the teacher did his)

Edit 2: Had to modify the next step as well to work with this (commented there)

[Tuomo_T]

Very detailed breakdown of a solution, good job!