Data table sheets

A data table sheet is something usually made by the game designers, and they pass it to the engineers inside the engine, so they can use it. It is basically just a table made in a third-party application.

You can use something like Excel to build the tables as Excel sheets, or you can just use something free and reachable like a Google spreadsheet, but in general it needs to be just a table.

Creating a table filled with information seems simple enough, but as it is going to be sent to Unreal, it requires a couple of specifications, in order for it to be processed:

• The first cell of the table, in all circumstances, needs to be called Name

• The table needs to be exported to a .csv (comma separated values), as it is currently the only acceptable data tables format

• The cell names have no spaces, because those names will be variable names in the future

When you are creating a table for your game, you have to make sure of those three things I mentioned.

By looking at Bellz, I decided...