Project Soul

C++, Unreal Engine 5, Gameplay Ability System (GAS)

🚧 Under Construction 🚧

Project Soul is a personal project I work on as time permits, where I'm first trying to nail the Souls-like combat and feel with the Gameplay Ability System in a networked environment.

ProjectSoul_Showcase.mp4

Showcase Video:

Movement
- Walking
- Sprinting
- Dodge Rolling
- Strafing (during lock-on)
  - With Shield
  - While sprinting
- Animation-Locomotion setup
Combat
- Blocking
  - reducing stamina regen when blocking
- Stamina (green) cost (only during combat)
- Health (red) cost
  - Damage reaction + vfx
- Light Attack combo
- Heavy Attack combo with chargeable attacks
  - At full charge, a fire explosion vfx is played during animation
- AnimMontage setup for various animNotifies, events, etc. (see Figure 2)
- Lock-On system
  - Target switching
  - Loosing targets if Line of Sight is obstructed for a prolonged duration
  - Auto targeting attacked enemy (if not locked-on)
  - Auto target switching when locked-on enemy is killed
- Each attack is highly customizable via a WeaponActionSet (see Figure 1)
  - Different Actions (Base, Attack, Charge Attack, etc) have different properties
  - Inheritance helps animation data reuse
- Death
Controls with gamepad support
Simple UI
- Stamina + Health
Camera setup
- Camera following while sprinting without controlling camera directly
- Object translucency if blocking player avatar

Figure 1: Example of Weapon Action Set for the Short Sword

Figure 2: Example of Heavy Charge Attack AnimMontage with associated AnimNotifies and Events

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