Unreal Engine 5 - Learn to Make a Professional Main Menu

Learn how widget blueprints work in UE5, as I teach how to create an animated main menu and graphics settings menu!

4.43 (407 reviews)
Udemy
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English
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Game Development
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Unreal Engine 5 - Learn to Make a Professional Main Menu
2,657
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1.5 hours
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Aug 2021
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$59.99
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What you will learn

How to use Widget Blueprint to make UI menus

How to animate widgets to give your game a professional touch

How to make a working settings menu that adjust your games graphics settings

How to make a main menu

Why take this course?

In this course I'll show you the easiest way to create a professional main menu for your game.  The menu we'll be creating is nearly identical to the menus I've created for my own video games like Cloud Climber, and My Friend is a Raven, which have been played by hundreds of thousands of people.  That means these tools and techniques are "battle tested" and have proven themselves in a professional setting!

This course acts as a great starting point for anyone who is unfamiliar with UE5s Widget Blueprint system, and will get you up to speed on all the settings, navigation, and common errors that you'll run into, and how to fix them.  By the time you're done with this 1.5 hour course, you'll not only have created an animated main menu, with a fully functioning graphics settings menu, but you'll also have the knowledge you need to start creating many other kinds of menus and widgets for your games!

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This course is targeted at Unreal Engine users who already have a little bit of experience in UE4 or 5.  You don't need to be a highly advanced programmer, creating your own triple A games, but I won't be explain the basics of UE5 in this course.  I'll be skipping over things like installing the engine, navigating the engine, and won't be explaining the basics of Blueprint either.  This way, we can hop straight into the fun of learning about widgets and menus! 



Content

Introduction

Creating a new level
Cleaning and prepping our Level
Animating and setting out camera view
Widget Blueprint basics, and creating our menu background
Creating our menu buttons
Animating our menu buttons
Explaining 'Hit Tests' and programming our 'Quit' button
Programming our 'Play' button
Creating our settings menu
Integrating the settings menu and main menu
Conclusion

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Reviews

Tom
October 21, 2023
This course was exactly what I was looking for which is an intro to making a menu system. It was a bit short but covered the basics. I would suggest re-recording video 10 to the author. There is a small mistake he makes but fixes. It would be a 5 star for me if it didnt have this little glitch. Otherwise great and love it overall.
Phil
September 28, 2023
at some point too simple for a whole udemy course, also could've recorded again at such a short recording time, when he messed up the Animation settings and basically did it the oppsite of what it should look like
William
September 15, 2023
Great course overall on how to make a sleek and simple main menu for your game. With some prior experience in blueprinting and a little extra googling the overall menu can be optimized further for resolution scaling and such.
Jerry
July 3, 2023
I recommend this course. Some things I really liked: * It is really short * Teaches how to animate the UI (ie. like when hovering over a button, and animating the camera on the main menu) * While the teacher shows a simple settings implementation, it would be easy enough to expand on it if needed. I knew UE had a way to change various settings but I had never looked into it, so this was good to see how that worked, even if it is pretty basic. NOTE: This course does not cover Joystick support in the UI. If you have already created menus and hooked up button events and know how to animate the UI and how to switch between main menu to the game, or how to switch from main menu to settings menu, then there is no need to take this course. But if these things are of interest to you, then this is a quick and easy and clear course to learn from.
Trevor
June 22, 2023
The course provides a fair intro into the bare bones basics of UMG UI creation, but does so in a way that does not prepare the student with the skills that they would need to begin creating anything larger or more complex than a list of buttons.
Oleksiy
June 18, 2023
Good concentrated practical information in one place. Easy to use on real projects. Thanks for good course.
Sophie
April 30, 2023
Really good course on main menus, good teaching style. All I wish was that it was longer and covered a bit more menus and styles to use.
Detri
April 4, 2023
This was an informative course. Great explanation for all the features for what this course provides at a very base level.
Chase
March 11, 2023
Very simple course that doesn't help you create a 'Professional' main menu. It is VERY simple. You can build on the knowledge, but this is a very simple foundation. Some bad habits taught in the course, like not naming buttons, not always using anchors, etc. Not a bad course, but just understand it is VERY simple.
Dmytro
March 5, 2023
Generally ok, BUT! But way how author add elements etc. is awful. For complete beginners ok, but never publish game based on this tutorials pls. Now I understand why modern games so buggy...
Sven
February 14, 2023
I can only recommend the course, everything went smoothly, super explained, not too fast and not too slow.
Joshua
January 15, 2023
Der Kurs war einfach klasse und sehr einfach zu verstehen. Noch besser wäre er gewesen, hätte er noch zusätzlich Save-Game-System hinzugefügt. Aber immer noch 5 von 5 Sternen.
Arne
December 26, 2022
At first I wasn't sure if I purchased the right course. But this turned out to be exactly the right one for me. Great course for the basics!
Przemek
December 23, 2022
I really appreciate how tutor is presenting basics of UI implementation but there are a few things I don't like. In general there are some bad practices shown to the menu problem approach. I think it wasn't a big deal to keep proper naming, to make generalized buttons, to avoid unnecessary duplicates and to not use hardcoded values. It would be also nice if author introduced more memory friendly widget management instead of just creating and destroying objects on every possible click call.
Peyton
December 13, 2022
The course is very well made and teaches you the basics of how a menu should be designed in Unreal Engine 5, which is exactly what it should be teaching. 5 Stars!!!

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