WEBVTT 00:06.890 --> 00:08.030 Welcome back. 00:08.060 --> 00:14.060 So we've seen that we can add new gameplay tags from project settings pretty easily. 00:14.270 --> 00:21.500 And we also saw that these exist in our config folder in one of our Ini files and we could even make 00:21.500 --> 00:25.490 new Ini files to be gameplay tag sources. 00:25.520 --> 00:28.250 Now this isn't the only way to make gameplay tags. 00:28.250 --> 00:29.490 There are a few others. 00:29.510 --> 00:33.330 One of those others is by making a data table. 00:33.350 --> 00:34.920 Let's see how that works. 00:34.940 --> 00:43.910 I'm going to go into my blueprints folder and I'd like to make a new folder in blueprints for all things 00:43.910 --> 00:44.870 ability system. 00:44.870 --> 00:48.140 So I'm going to make an ability system folder. 00:48.260 --> 00:52.580 And here in ability system, I'd like a new folder for gameplay tags. 00:52.580 --> 00:59.390 So I'll make a gameplay tags folder and here is where I'd like to put any data tables that we'll use 00:59.390 --> 01:01.010 to create gameplay tags. 01:01.010 --> 01:02.400 So here's how it works. 01:02.420 --> 01:08.700 We make a new data table, we right click go to miscellaneous and select data table. 01:08.730 --> 01:15.030 Now, whenever you make a data table, you need to pick the row structure so the data table knows what 01:15.060 --> 01:17.380 fields are in a given row. 01:17.400 --> 01:25.200 Now the one we're interested for gameplay tags is this one gameplay tag table row select that click 01:25.200 --> 01:27.750 okay and we have a data table. 01:27.780 --> 01:34.260 I'm going to prefix it with d t for data table and this is going to be for my primary attributes. 01:34.260 --> 01:41.190 So we have our vital attributes health and mana, but I'd like to make some gameplay tags for other 01:41.190 --> 01:44.400 attributes that we haven't yet added to our attributes set. 01:44.400 --> 01:49.610 But for the sake of an example, I'm going to make their gameplay tags now. 01:49.620 --> 01:56.580 So I'm going to call this primary attributes and open it up now. 01:56.580 --> 02:04.200 It's empty, but we can add a new row by clicking plus Add and now we have a new row and the gameplay 02:04.200 --> 02:10.210 tag table row has a name and it has its own tag with a comment. 02:10.230 --> 02:13.440 Remember, tags can have a comment associated with them. 02:13.440 --> 02:16.410 And again, these comments are not functional. 02:16.410 --> 02:23.880 They don't do anything, but they're kind of like code comments and C plus plus code comments don't 02:23.880 --> 02:24.810 do anything either. 02:24.810 --> 02:27.870 They just serve to tell you something. 02:28.260 --> 02:36.150 So really, the only thing we have to do in this data table is change what this text box says for the 02:36.150 --> 02:36.930 tag. 02:37.110 --> 02:39.900 We don't have to change the name or anything like that. 02:39.900 --> 02:42.750 All we do is put what we want the tag to be. 02:42.780 --> 02:46.710 Now, this is error prone because you can make typos. 02:46.710 --> 02:49.020 So we have to be careful when typing in here. 02:49.350 --> 02:57.270 The tag I'd like to make is attributes dot primary dot strength. 02:58.500 --> 03:07.320 And for the strength I'm going to add just a dev comment doesn't do anything I'm going to say increases 03:07.350 --> 03:09.600 physical damage. 03:10.020 --> 03:13.740 Now we haven't created any new gameplay tags yet. 03:13.770 --> 03:20.790 We have to make the table first and then there's an additional step for this table to be converted into 03:20.790 --> 03:21.750 gameplay tags. 03:21.750 --> 03:27.210 For now, we're just going to make a couple more in the table before we actually make the tags. 03:27.210 --> 03:36.240 So I'm going to click plus Add, and for the next one I'll call this one attributes dot primary dot 03:36.240 --> 03:37.530 intelligence. 03:39.070 --> 03:46.870 Being careful not to make typos and for intelligence I'm going to add a dev comment increases magical 03:46.870 --> 03:47.770 damage. 03:48.270 --> 03:49.830 Let's add another one. 03:49.830 --> 03:58.080 And for this one, I'm going to call this attributes dot primary dot resilience. 03:58.690 --> 04:09.730 And for the comment I'm going to say increases armour and armour penetration and we'll add one more. 04:09.760 --> 04:19.480 This will be attributes dot primary, dot vigor and vigor. 04:19.510 --> 04:26.140 The comment will say increases life or we'll say health and we'll save. 04:26.770 --> 04:30.370 Okay, So so far all we've done is make a data table. 04:30.370 --> 04:38.010 We haven't made any gameplay tags, but because this data table exists and it has the proper row structure. 04:38.020 --> 04:47.340 Gameplay tag table row which we can always look at with the data table details row struct gameplay tag 04:47.350 --> 04:48.040 table row. 04:48.070 --> 04:54.490 It's right there under data table and you can always go to window and bring that up if it's not there. 04:54.520 --> 04:59.180 Okay, so we have the proper data table with the row structure we need. 04:59.210 --> 05:09.170 Now we go back to project settings and here under gameplay tags we have gameplay tag table list and 05:09.170 --> 05:13.400 it's an array so we can click plus to add an element and look at that. 05:13.400 --> 05:15.260 It's an array of data tables. 05:15.260 --> 05:22.660 We can open the dropdown and it shows us the data tables that are appropriate for this particular array. 05:22.670 --> 05:30.110 It has to have the gameplay tag table, row structure, and if we select it now, let's see what happens 05:30.110 --> 05:31.710 if we expand attributes. 05:31.730 --> 05:38.570 Look at that, we have primary and we can open that and we have intelligence, resilience, strength 05:38.570 --> 05:39.950 and vigor. 05:39.980 --> 05:42.230 It puts them in alphabetical order. 05:42.260 --> 05:43.280 Look at that. 05:43.940 --> 05:49.430 Okay, so that's how we can add gameplay tags with data tables. 05:49.550 --> 05:51.440 Pretty sweet. 05:51.440 --> 05:54.400 And this is one of my preferred ways to do it. 05:54.410 --> 06:01.610 I really like doing it this way because we now have a data table that we can go in and change and it's 06:01.610 --> 06:03.760 just really convenient to do it this way. 06:03.770 --> 06:10.820 I personally like it, but that's just one option of many that we have in Unreal Engine. 06:11.180 --> 06:16.550 Okay, so now we know a couple of ways to make gameplay tags, and now these exist in our project. 06:16.550 --> 06:17.990 They're project wide. 06:18.230 --> 06:21.440 So great job and I'll see you in the next video.