Item Static Data Asset

Every item are constructed from a data asset, it's appearence (both in inventory and in game) and all relevant attributes which are static, is holded here. Such as: Mesh, weight, base price etc.

Using Inheritance in Data Assets

You can create new Data Asset Blueprints which your item instances could will from. For example a weapon class should hold its basic damage values, but armor items should hold its armor stats.

This way you can create a clean the data structre by only showing items relevant info, structure assets based on inheritance hierarchy, easily make changes via Property Matrix or make use Editor Utilities (which plug-in has some built in) while editing.

Default NIA Item Data Asset

By default NIA only provides the attributes that are nececarry for the inventory system to work. Giving developers the maximum flexibility to work with.

classDiagram
    class ItemStaticData {
        ItemStaticInfo ItemStaticInfo
        ItemSettings ItemSettings
    }
    class ItemStaticInfo {
        Text NAME
        GameplayTag Type
        SoftObjPointer<Texture> Icon
        bool IsStackable
        Int32 MaxStackSize
        IntPoint GridSize
    }
    class ItemSettings {
        PayloadTemplate PayloadTemplate
    }
    ItemStaticData --> ItemStaticInfo : contains
    ItemStaticData --> ItemSettings : contains

ItemStaticData

ItemStaticData is a class that contains the following properties:

ItemStaticInfo: An instance of the ItemStaticInfo class that contains information about the item.
ItemSettings: An instance of the ItemSettings class that contains settings for the item.

ItemStaticInfo

ItemStaticInfo is a struct that contains the following properties:

Property	Type	Description
Name	Text	The name of the item. By default it is used for showing tooltips when mouse hovers around items at template inventory.
Type	GameplayTag	The type of the item. Used for checking if the item could enter a section. For example Sections are A: Item B:Item.Armor C: Item.Weapon, Item Type is: Item.Armor.Helmet: Item can enter A and B but not C. For more info check Gameplay Tags.
Icon	`SoftObjPointer<Texture>`	The icon of the item. Used in template inventory icons. Grid size and resulation of the image should match to avoid straching. Eg: GridSize: 1x2 -> Res: 256x512
IsStackable	bool	Whether the item is stackable.
MaxStackSize	Int32	The maximum stack size of the item.
GridSize	IntPoint	The grid size of the item. For the size of it takes in the inventory.

ItemSettings

ItemSettings is a struct that contains the following properties: