Quests

Quests is a large part of the Narrative framework. It allows you to create rich, content filled quests with minimal work.

Creation

Create a new quest by right-clicking in the Content Drawer -> Narrative -> Quest.

Tabs

Here you will see two tabs. The Quest Graph and the Event Graph.

The Event Graph is where you can overwrite quest functions and add additional code to make your quest perform how you want.

The Quest Graph is how you build up the quest with quest branches and quest states.

Class Defaults

Click the Class Defaults button at the top, and we can now populate the Quests default settings.

The class defaults give you access to modify how your quest will work. It lets you change the quest title in the quest and more.

Quest Properties

Name	Type	Description
QuestName	FText	The name of the quest.
QuestDescription	FText	The description of the overhaul quest, different to objectives.
Tracked	bool	Whether or not the quest is marked as tracked. If tracked the navigation markers will be added, otherwise these will be hidden.
InheritableStates	TArray<UQuestState>	Inherited quest states. E.g. your parent quest could have a state called RanOutOfTime and that way any child quests could inherit the RanOutOfTime state instead of having to manually have one added to every quest.

Quest Logic

Understanding how quests work is the key to making AAA quests in no-time.

In Narrative, quests are made up of branches and states.

States are points within your quest where you are waiting for the player to complete the next task.

Branches are the tasks within your quest that you need to complete. A quest can have multiple branches connected to a single state.

Each quest will start with a State - the QuestStart, a series of branches and connected states, and then it will end with a State the QuestSuccess or QuestFailure

A state can also have multiple branches to create different paths in the quest. We will explore this more later.

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A common description is to think of states as rooms and branches as doors.

You enter the room (state) and wait. You then pick a door (branch) and go through it which is you completing the task.

Begin Quest

The main function to start quests is the Begin Quest function built into the Narrative Component.

Comments

You can add Unreal's comments around your quests to organise them or make them easier to debug at a glance.

Simply highlight your quest nodes and hit the C key to add the comment.

Copy and pasting

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Copying and pasting quest nodes have been disabled until further notice.

It was causing corruption in assets and until it can be resolved up to the high Narrative standard, it has been removed.