PDA_ItemCharData

This asset stores 4 things. Requires Free Hand: This lets the Pickup and Slot Systems know if 2 Hands are required, this is important because some items may only be equipped in 1 hand but the other hand can be occupied by other items, while Rifles require a free hand for holding the barrel or magazine or grip. Montages: This Map stores Gameplay Tags as keys which we can use to lookup the Montages based on what Gameplay Tag they were assigned too. This allows us to just call Find->DAO.Action.Weapon.Fire and it will return the Fire Montage. This also allows for you to easily expand the logic of this system without the need to add Static variables specifically for your Equip Montage for example. Linked Anim Layer Class: This will be the class of the Animation Layer which you wish to be Linked to the Main Animation System for Layering, when this item is Equipped. Linked Anim Sets: The Linked Anim Set will store two things. The first thing is a PDA_LinkedAnimSet asset which will store the Poses and Layering Data. The next thing it stores is a PDA_HeldObjectSettings asset which will store the IK Retargeting correction settings for this character's Anatomy. When Anatomy changes, so do the offsets that occur as a result of this change, which is why you will need a copy of this asset pointing to different PDA_HeldObjectSettings for each character with a differing Anatomy within your game. There is no loophole when it comes to this problem! Retargeting these animations to your character and fixing them for one and sharing a Skeleton WILL NOT FIX THE ANATOMY PROBLEM! The Linked Anim Sets are stored Via Enum, I simply chose not to use Gameplay Tags as the keys in this example because I wanted this aspect of the system to be more fool-proof. RightHand and LeftHand are self-explanatory, but EitherHand is used a bit differently in different places depending on the circumstances. The Pickup System might use it to mean that the item doesn't care which hand it is equipped in. You may have noticed that the Item Blueprints track this as well, they actually use this to mean which hand they are actually being held in at the moment so that we can load the correct LinkedAnimSet or Holster them into the correct slot (For Example Left Pistol Holster vs Right Pistol Holster).