Making the Lose Screen parametrized

[Kaede]

Hi Guys,

I wanted to challenge myself a bit by making the lose screen displaying the actual value of RestartTimer instead of displaying a static number as shown in the lecture.

I will post here what I did in case someone else is looking for something similar.

1. First create a new text node that will contain the value of RestartDelay:

Make sure the Is Variable is selected, and make sure to create a Bind for it as shown in the picture above.

2. next you need to make a small change inside the ShooterPlayerController class to allow to read the variable from blueprints:

Just implement the new function by simply return the RestartDelay value.

3. finally you can call this new function from blueprint by adding nodes to the event graph of the bind you created in step 1:

Hope this was useful

[Kevin-Brandon]

This was so useful! Thank you so much for posting this!

[DivineStride]

Thank you for this! I took it a bit further for funsies and added the countdown from Toon Tanks!

Lose Screen Animation and Overlay

I took this a step further later due to this post: Making the Lose Screen parametrized - Unreal Courses / Show - GameDev.tv I figured that we could also implement the countdown feature from the previous lecture as well, but with quite a few changes. One thing is that I prefer to lean towards WISIWIG functionality, so my code varies in a few ways what we set up in Toon Tanks. I don’t like just saying TEXT in bold and then adjusting that, though that kind of widget has its uses. Personally, I pr…