Luckily, Unreal provides an easy way to create custom editors for multiple sets of data like Breach's Gameline.

The Gameline is a timeline of game events for everything from playing animations, to changing how materials on characters look, to doing damage or spawning effects.Īs a key part of how abilities in Breach function, we knew we needed to invest time early in the project to make a custom editor that would allow designers to easily author them. Returning to our description of Inferno, we see the word 'channel' that hints at one of the core systems in Breach for authoring abilities: the Gameline.

The Ability Data Asset is the nexus for information related to all abilities in Breach: what name it has in the UI how it is described to players in tooltips what icons are associated with it in the HUD how AI can use the ability and more.Ībility data is the place that defines the 'what' of an ability in Breach, but it also points to 'how' it’s used as well. Unreal Engine provides an easy way to define templates for data, called Data Assets, that designers can create instances of and work within the Unreal Editor.

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