A Guided Tour of Gameplay Abilities - Inside Unreal

This course provides a guided tour of Unreal Engine’s Gameplay Ability System by setting up Graystone with gameplay abilities in a third-person project. It covers gameplay tags, attributes, effects, cues, melee systems, multiplayer behavior, AI and behavior trees, and Blueprint-to-C++ workflows.

Syllabus

Countdown
News
Karma Earners
Community Spotlights
Intro
GAS Overview
Theory behind GAS
Roots of Gameplay Abilities - Gameplay Tags
Structure of the Ability System
Attribute Set
Initialize from a Datatable
How to make a Datatable
Composing Gameplay Abilities - Gameplay Effects
Melee Damage Execution
Melee Damage Effect
Applying a Gameplay Effect
Gameplay Cues
Notify Actor Gameplay Cue
Gameplay Abilities and Root Motion
Multiplayer with GAS
Documentation Revision
Knockbacks in GAS
Predictivily Removing Gameplay Effects
Bind Ability Workarounds
Future Roadmap & GameReady
Theory Behind Creating a Melee System
Summary
New Stats from Blueprints
Attritubte Metadata
States in GAS
Character Movement Attributes in GAS
Attritubte Callback for UI
AI and Behaviour Trees
Preference in Approach and Datatables
Transfer from BP to C plus plus
Outro and Information