Unreal Engine: Creating Widgets for UI
Learn how to create UI menu systems for games like Fortnite, Horizon Forbidden West, Final Fantasy, and Call of Duty!
4.34 (115 reviews)
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Aug 2023
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What you will learn
What are Widgets and why are they important?
How to create, display, and remove a widget from the viewport
How to create, customize, and utilize the most frequently used UI elements
How to add events and program your widgets using the Graph Editor
Tips & Tricks for using Unreal Widgets
How to create a simple Survival Game with pickups and damage
How to make a Game Instance to transfer variables between levels
How to create a Save Game to save and load your settings
Why take this course?
In this course, you will learn how to use the Unreal Widget Blueprint system to create UI (User Interface) for your games and applications. These are the same user interfaces that you see in popular games such as Fortnite, Madden NFL, Grand Theft Auto, and Final Fantasy! These menus also mimic the menus that I use to create visualization applications at a Fortune 500 company, and are proven techniques! It is vitally important for any Unreal developer to understand the concepts of widget blueprints. By the end of this course, you will have the knowledge and expertise to be able to create menus, on screen HUD's, and many other kinds of menus that you can use in your own games and applications! You will also have developed a fully functional Survival Game!
This course is a great starting point for users who are unfamiliar with the Unreal Widget Blueprint system. It is targeted at Unreal Engine users who have a basic understanding of Unreal 5. We will not be going over how to download and install the Engine or general navigation of the Editor. However, you will master how to design, program and debug widgets within the Widget Blueprint Editor! NO PROGRAMMING KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED!
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Lowell
October 19, 2023
A really good course and I enjoyed, though there was a lot of pausing while I followed along. I learned a lot and bought the next course while only about half way through this one, looking forward to that one. He does a good job of explaining things, clear and concise, if a little fast for me, but thats just me.
Christopher
October 12, 2023
Great course! Could've saved a lot of time learning many of the topics covered here had I just taken it in the first place instead of learning through trial and error.
Eugenio
October 11, 2023
This course is fantastic in regards building the UI Widget knowledge.
In some parts I found it a bit too fast and, as a programmer, I am not entirely sure about the efficiency of the blueprint crated in regards the gameplay mechanics.
I do understand that creating a course could be a never ending task and in some cases it's better to go fast and cut some corners, but I am the kind of person that wants to understand the reason behind some choices.
For example, I found a bit strange that there was a quick solution presented for fixing the sphere popping in the main menu when going back from the gameplay BUT there were no explanation about why that was happening. As a total beginner in Unreal engine, it would have been much appreciated an explanation. Same thing applies to the chapter 35: I appreciate the solution but there are no explanation about why that happens.
Overall, I would buy this course again, no doubts about it. :)
Alexander
October 6, 2023
I think it was a really good course.
Personally, as a beginner, I found the initial explanation for the widgets useful to understand overall what is going on and what we will be using, and then the exercise of creating a simple game a great way to connect everything together in a practical way.
I think I learned a lot from the course, and I might have to do it one more time to understand fully how everythings works together properly, but I feel that now I have the tools do start developing something on my own.
I would add that the speed and pace is fast, and it assumes that you know at least some basics of Blueprints and Unreal Engine to be able to follow and most importantly understand what is actually going on.
In conclusion, it was a great courseand I will continue with the advanced widget course too.
Ryan
September 25, 2023
Good beginner course, I took it specifically to flesh out my knowledge and make sure I didn't miss anything being self taught. I was very happy with the pacing and the contents.
Nick
September 13, 2023
Great course, the instructor starts with videos explaining each category of widgets. This makes it easier to go back and refresh yourself if you need help with a particular widget.
Most of the course covers making a simple survival runner game. A simple game with the focus on the design and functions of the user interface. Already looking forward to the instructors advanced widget course,
Herve
August 29, 2023
Great course! I was able to review things I'd seen a long time ago and learned a lot. Thank you for this course.
2 little things:
_How do you call the setting menu from a running game?
_I'd really have liked an even graph of the Survival Menu with more description of the nodes, because if I open the Widget in 3 months I'm going to have trouble finding my way around. It lacks commentary for me.
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Daniel
August 28, 2023
Excellent Course! I learned a lot from it. Explained a lot of things that would take a lot of troubleshooting to understand why they are done that way.
Yurii
July 6, 2023
Would be cool if instructor spend more time designing ui and talking about different features and examples of real world games ui elements created. But still informative and with practical usage!
ömer
June 19, 2023
to be able to understand this course it needs a basic understanding about unreal engine. But otherwise this course might be longer and boring. This course is great like this I hope the other courses you do continue like this ( I hope you make courses).
Zen
June 18, 2023
Very good instructions but I hope instructor can include every single node explanation, like "We add this node so the out come will be like how", also adding more showcase how the blueprints work when each step adding some nodes, make sure we understand why we add all kind of nodes
Matt
June 9, 2023
So far the course is very interesting. I know little to nothing about UI or widgets, but the teacher does a great job of going slow enough to where I feel like I could create something, even if I came in with little to no knowledge.
Cavalier
May 29, 2023
Good course for beginners.
In my opinion, the only thing to improve is the Graph Blueprint organization because some of the Blueprints ended being pretty messy.
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