Developing your character throughout a playthrough is a key component of the RPG experience. To be able to do this effectively you need easy access to detailed information about your character and their abilities. Our first step towards this is adding a stats page, accessed by pressing "C". This shows all the the player's current statistics such as level, health, movement speed etc. I then also added icons representing the 5 abilities the player has equipped, with the icon displaying the button the ability is bound to. Hovering over one of these icons with the mouse brings up a tool tip menu which displays all of the ability's information in a digestible format.
This system is a little complex and required some tinkering with UI game object settings which is ironically a bit more difficult to show off in images than chunks of code are. So instead of a series of convoluted paragraphs attempting to explain how I got here, I have recorded a single rambling video explaining the process instead:
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