0 - Introduction

The purpose of this document is to give a more detailed explanation on how Looting would work in the Mawforged MVP. Note that changes can be made to this system in the final game. Should the assigned programmer need any more information, contact @Alexandros Mloukie .

1 - Enemy Inventory

Every enemy in the game needs to have access to their very own inventory. This can probably use the MAWInventoryComponent already used for the player, though there are gonna be some extra things to it so a new component might be needed. The inventory will be populated with items on enemy spawn instead of on-death. The items that will occupy the inventory will be defined through a Data Table, so designers can easily tweak values later on.

1.1 - Enemy Loot Data Table

The loot entries struct that will fill the Loot Data Table will be in the following form:

The enemy uses a Data Table Row Handle to define which entry in the Data Table they will be using to populate their inventory.

2 - Looting Interaction

2.1 - Staring the Interaction

To start looting a target, the player must be within interaction range of the enemy's corpse, and press the interaction button while looking at said corpse. Once these actions have been completed, the player is presented with the Looting UI which displays both the player's and the enemy's inventories side by side.

2.2 - Moving Items

The player can move items from one inventory to another by Dragging & Dropping the desired item. The looting interaction has 2 types based on the container being looted: