Getting started

Plugin modules and dependencies

PulseCore is declared in PulseCore.uplugin and includes runtime modules for gameplay (PulseAbility, PulseHUD, PulseGameCore) plus editor-side modules.

Important plugin dependencies declared in the .uplugin:

• GameplayAbilities
• CommonUI
• EnhancedInput
• ModelViewViewModel
• OnlineSubsystem / OnlineSubsystemUtils

Core settings location

The HUD module registers project settings under:

• Project Settings → Pulse → HUD

Settings object:

• UPulseHUDSettings (Source/PulseHUD/Public/PulseHUDSettings.h)

Main settings groups:

1. **Input

   Player**

2. **Manager

   Global**

3. **Manager

   Player**

4. Modal (default modal classes/styles)

Enabling HUD managers

In UPulseHUDSettings:

1. Enable bEnableGlobalHUDManager for game-instance-wide HUD.
2. Enable bEnablePerPlayerHUDManager for local-player-specific HUD.
3. Provide FPulseHUDManagerParams with your HUD widget class (MustImplement = PulseHUDInterface).

Manager subsystems:

• UPulseGlobalHUDManager (game instance subsystem)
• UPulsePlayerHUDManager (local player subsystem)

Both initialize through IPulseHUDManagerInterface::InitializeHUD(...).

Interaction setup baseline

The interaction feature is driven by a gameplay ability:

• UPulseInteractAbility

Minimal practical setup:

1. Grant an interact ability to the owning ability system component.
2. Ensure interactable targets implement IPulseInteractableInterface (actor or component).
3. Call StartInteraction() / EndInteraction() from input flow (directly or via gameplay event trigger tags).
4. Optionally bind a UI ViewModel (UMVVMPulseInteract) to present focused/selected/interacting state.

GitHub Pages with docs/ source

This documentation is structured for a Pages setup that builds from the docs folder.

Required repository configuration on GitHub:

1. Open Settings → Pages
2. Set Build and deployment / Source to:
   • Deploy from a branch
   • Branch: main (or your docs branch)
   • Folder: /docs

Jekyll configuration is in:

• docs/_config.yml

Theme:

• just-the-docs via remote_theme