HorusHeretic's Advanced Weapon Blueprint (For unreal engine 4.10))

Current support post.
https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?93271-HH_AdvancedWeapon-Blueprint&p=431008


Video play list:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...rQ8pWdJNfRKIcq

What the weapon blueprint allows you to do:

Aesthetics:

Choose which mesh, firing effects and sounds the weapon uses.

Impact sounds, effects and decals are physical material based. Currently 4 which are stone, metal, water, wood. But you can add others simply enough.

Accuracy:

Fully adjustable up, down, left and right weapon scatter bloom.

Can increase the scatter when moving or firing or both.

There is also a limit you can adjust to the maximum scatter bloom

The scatter bloom updates via UMG to show on screen

Can change how fast the bloom will contract, and retract which also gives added depth to the weapon

overall range tweak if you want weapons to be more or less accurate over distances

Ammo:

Choose different kinds of ammo

Use the ammo pool or magazine system

Option to use ammo, useful for things like unlimited ammo cheats and weapons that may charge up for example

Option to cost more ammo per shot

Armour Piercing:

Armour piercing decided by the weapon

Easily add armour types

Multiplier based, so you can have the weapon deal more or less depending what armour type the target is.

Option to have angle based and armour thickness calculations.

Charge up and diminish

Can be used in several ways, such as having a fully charged weapon that uses charge per shot, then you have to refill it (or discard the weapon halo style)

You can charge up a weapon and have it fire on release (like spartan laser halo weapon)

you can have charge up weapons diminish charge over time also.

Damage over Distance:

Short, medium, long, far and max distances

A multiplier for each distance, allows weapons like shotguns to be less effective the further the target is.

Anything beyond max range will do 0 damage.

Fire Modes:

Single shot, burst and fully automatic modes

Add fire mode options to a weapon and change through them. Example: semi auto pistol, with a burst mode.

Can change how many shots fired per burst

Change the fire rate of the weapon in RPM

Health damage:

Min and max damage

Over heating and cooldown:

you can use this to stop weapons firing when over heated.

can also be used as a windup mechanic to allow weapons to fire (think of minigun barrels needing to spin first)

Heat per shot or heat over time option

Cooldown delays and force cooldown on reload

Recoil:

Random and smoothed

you can adjust how much recoil there is for left, right, up and down.

there is also the option to have recoil bias which will make the recoil favour a side more than the other. up/down and left/right.

Reloads:

Option for automatic reloads

Change the reload duration

Option for no reloads (useful for cheats etc)

Projectiles:

Can be either line trace or a physical projectile. Both have an area effect option which is useful for rocket launchers

Can fire multiple per shot. Useful for shotguns

Option to switch from projectile or line trace.

Can home in on targets. Can have multi locked targets and fire a projectile at each.