Creating new items
Creating new items is very simple. To start off, you'll need to go into the engine and find your content browser, right click and go to Inventory Framework -> Inventory Item Asset and a pop up will appear asking you what parent your data asset should derive from. You might have your own children or have removed some of the children that come with the asset, but whatever asset you choose must derive from DA_CoreItem at some point in its hierarchy.
I suggest creating a folder for your item and placing the data asset in there.
To create a blueprint actor for your item, you will have to create an actor who at some point in its hierarchy is a child of BP_ItemActor, then set that as your ItemActor
The actor will automatically get the blueprint inventory component assigned to it. You will need to go into the component settings and change a few things.
Set InventoryType to "Pickup"
Add one index to ContainerSettings and set the ContainerType to "ThisActor". This will then hide most of the settings except for the items array.
Your items array should only have one index, which will be your newly created data asset. All settings can be left to their default.
(Optional) If your item has containers associated with it, the data asset should have an array of DefaultContainers. You will want to populate these with your containers and also assign the widget. This variable only exists for weapon and equippable item types. An example can be found in the example project with the gun and backpack item.
To have the asset manager pick up your data asset, it can not be identical to another data asset. (This includes the base file, so if all your variables are set to default, the asset will not get picked up.) Typically you want to immediately give your item a name and a developer image for the InventoryHelper.
Creating new C++ children of DA_CoreItem
You might want to create your own category of items, and since the engine does not allow you to mix C++ and blueprint children of data assets, you are unfortunately forced to create C++ children.
I suggest installing the plugin directly to your project, and then creating new children inside the Items folder, which is found inside the plugins Core folder.
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