ShooterMaps Dissection

The ShooterMaps plugin uses ShooterCore for the base game play. It defines some maps and experiences as follows:

Interesting Maps

Common experience settings are further below, but 2 maps in particular warrant further investigation as they implement two different types of experience.

• L_Expanse – team death match (elimination) experience
• L_Convolution_Blockout – team control point experience

Other Maps

• L_Expanse_Blockout
• L_FiringRange_WP
  • Essentially a test map
  • Contains all the elements of the other maps, in a compact area, and the bots hit like kittens.
• L_ShooterFrontendBackground
  • This map is hard-coded into Lyra to be the front-end’s lobby background scene.
  • Worth looking at to see how they did the cinematic camera sequence, if nothing else.

Differences to ShooterCore

Because ShooterCore contains an elimination map similar to L_Expanse, I’ll not cover that here.

Instead I’ll focus on the L_Convolution_Blockout map which is a control point experience.

Experience: B_LyraShooterGame_ControlPoints

• Activate ShooterCore GameFeature Plugin
  • Required because we’re now in the ShooterMaps plugin, so ShooterCore is not active unless we activate it

Pawn Data: HeroData_ShooterGame

Same as Elimination experience

Action Sets

Same as Elimination experience

Experience Ability Sets

LyraPlayerState injections:

Component	Parent Class
AbilitySet_ControlPoint	ULyraAbilitySet

Ability Set: AbilitySet_Elimination

Ability	Input Tag
GA_ShowLeaderboard_CP	InputTag.Ability.ShowLeaderboard
GA_AutoRespawn

Experience Component Injection

LyraGameState injections:

Same as Elimination experience, except for:

Component	Parent Class	Tick Group	Scope
B_ControlPoint_Scoring	B_ShooterGameScoringBase	During Physics	Client + Server
B_MusicManagerComponent_ControlPoint	B_MusicManagerComponentBase	During Physics	Client

Experience Widgets

Slot ID	Widget
HUD.Slot.TeamScore	W_CPScoreWidget
HUD.Slot.ModeStatus	W_ControlPointStatusWidget

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Game Logic

All the same logic happens as for the Elimination experience, except for the few components that were swapped out above.

Logic from LyraGameState injections

B_ControlPoint_Scoring logic

todo

B_MusicManagerComponent_ControlPoint logic

todo