Their implementation used a interface to the target, which is unnecessary if using GAS.

In addition, damage values were in the AnimNotify, which I personally disagree with. I feel that it should originate in the GA but I'm still brainstorming a more data-driven approach for easy modification.

Kuro must be very happy that you bought him a new fancy space heater 😼

【GAS】GE_LastStand

Quick implementation of a feature from Bayonetta, where if an attack would kill you, they give you exactly 1HP as a sort of "one last chance".

Attribute Set basically checks if the owner has a tag (provided by GE_LastStand). If so, activate this alternative damage calculation.

To be honest, I'm not too sure how Lyra handles initial health values. For now, I'll roll with my simpler method😆

Next up is implementing death. Lyra's jumps all over the place, making it a tricky to follow. I'm hoping to make a flexible death GA so any object with health can easily utilize it.

One addition that I've made is reading default health values from a single data table. That way, I can easily adjust any actor's health at a glance.

Default health is automatically read by the Health Component and used as a SetByCaller magnitude for GE_InitialHealth, which sets the owner's health.

I still suck at C++ but not as much as last year when I had just begun learning it. Since GAS required C++, I basically learned it via trial by fire since I had no choice but to git gud 😭

Definitely agree on UE being overengineered for solo dev because there's so much to learn haha

I've also summarized some of my thoughts and accomplishments from this year.

Clearly, I'm not someone who writes frequently and it shows, ha ha. But, it's nice to have a less ephemeral place to document my thoughts so check a look if you're interested.
chrysaoravioli.tumblr.com/post/8027353...

oh thanks bluesky for compressing my png into a crusty jpeg

While the Paint Detection functionality isn't totally hardened, I knew eventually I wanted to use the GAS framework.

Gameplay Abilities don't have a native tick function but Ability Tasks do. Just have to go through some trouble of setting it up in C++ and bam, I can do a trace as the player moves.

I swear this week has been crawling. Mini-vacation is coming up and I desperately need it to recharge. I honestly can't wait to mess around with this stuff at 100% brain juice. Just need to get over the next two days and I'm freeeeee (for a little bit).

I don't have any interesting breakdowns for the Niagara System since most of the code is very sloppy for now.

Instead, here's an image of my "version control".

I don't know how to set it up so I'm just packaging the plugin every week or so and zipping up the contents to a backup hard drive 🫡