Running Ability

The biggest difference I've found moving from Unity to Unreal are the frameworks. Unity provides a very nice game engine, whereas Unreal has the Gameplay Framework, Gameplay Ability System, and now Lyra on top of the core engine.

I created a game feature plugin, which works inside Lyra using its framework and the new enhanced input system. I started with a run ability, which is implemented as a gameplay ability and uses a custom movement component. Its built with new attributes for both stamina and stamina modifiers (damage/regen), which follows Lyra's example by sending damage or healing effects rather than modifying an attribute directly. This is done through custom Gameplay Effect Executions.