Fetch quests are missions in which the player needs to go off and collect something, often in multiple quantities. For this example we’ll collect three bones for an NPC. I’ll create a new interactable blueprint for this, making it a child of Story Framework’s Interactable Base BP. I’ll add three copies of this class into …
Some events in the demo level create a custom pop-up at the bottom right if the screen. Those can be nice to inform the player of things to pay attention to, but that distinguish themselves from a subtitle or a task. If you successfully finish the Quick Time Even in the demo level, you’ll get …
Story Framework 4.1 introduced a new feature called Story Choices. With them we can give the player a choice to make with potentially devastating consequences. They’re easy to setup as part of the SF Sequence Manager component and can be reacted to with a Switch on String. Each choice can have a consequential tag that …
Story Framework has a feature called Subtitles, with which we can bring up text whenever we feel the need. This works great for informing players about things around them, as well as interior dialogues the player may have with themselves. They’re really easy to create thanks to the Play Sound with Subtitles node. Here’s an …
The above video shows how to integrate SF and Digi Cam. I’ve had to do this multiple times to wrap my head around it and thought some notes are in other, so here’s how to do it: Player Controller Input Overrides In the DigiCamInfo Data Asset, pick Story Framework’s main gameplay input mapping context (SFGameplay_IMC). …
Tasks are missions (or quests) for the player to do and to progress in the game. In Story Framework they’re part of the task queue, which in turn is part of the inventory manager. We can add tasks to the queue, which when active can be later completed or failed. We must implement the “reaction …
If ever we need to trigger any custom logic initiated from dialogues we have with our NPCs, we can use the Bind Even on Dialogue Reply function. It’s not super elegant and relies on the specific text of the reply, but it gets the job done and keeps the setup very simple. For this to …
Dialogues are a little tricky, complex and unintuitive to setup in Story Framework, so here’s an overview that will aid my (and perhaps your) memory. The hierarchy goes like this, no wonder I’m confused about it: Basic Conversations Each index in the Dialogue represents an independent conversation. We need at least one section, while others …
In the player controller (SFDemoPlayerController_BP in the default project), select the camera manager component. Under Camera Settings on the left, switch between ThirdPerson and FirstPerson. This will determine what mode the game starts in. To switch camera modes while the game is playing we can press C to toggle (or hold Y on the gamepad). …