Elemental System!

Before I talk about what I've done for this week I want to set some goals for next week!

• Work on the charged spell effect, maybe have it launch a stronger spell?
• Implement the rest of the elemental spells and particle systems that are not already made.
• Start layout for bridge section?

Between this project and my self teaching of unreal blueprints I have a lot to do!

Elements!

This weeks was mainly spend on making the particle effects for the elements in the game and writing the code for it.

At first I had a placeholder system that used a ton of bool's which was hard to manager and a clutter so I thought of a better system!

In total there will be 5 elemental spells you can use, and each of them effects the enemies element system.

The element system works on a float value, each element adds or subtracts a different number from the total float. If the character reach more than 3, or less than -3 the enemy takes extra damage!

Every time the enemy's element float isn't 0 a timer starts, after 5 seconds it goes back to 0 and turns off any effect they have. By doing this I hope to make the player have to think fast on how to combo each spell.

• Ice | -2 to the element float (WIP effect)
• Water | -1 to the element float  (WIP effect)
• Rock\Mud | resets element float to 0 (Effect not started)
• Fire | +1 to the element float
• Lightning | +2 to the element float

Using this system the elements can interact with each other, like water + fire gets put out, water + lightning sets the character on fire. and so forth.

Examples in gameplay 

Effects on enemies

Putting out fire with water