Unreal Engine: Advanced Widgets For Ui

Learn advanced UI techniques that will help you build complex menu systems like Skyrim, Final Fantasy, and Call of Duty!

What you'll learn

How to create data driven dynamic menu systems

Utilizing data tables and structs to create dynamic menus

Advanced widget rendering techniques

Custom widget interaction

3D widget creation and interaction

How to map a game controller to use your widgets

Using a render target to render a secondary camera to a widget

Using image sequence animations within widgets

How to create drag and drop widgets

How to create a Skyrim inspired inventory system

Requirements

Recommended: Basic computer knowledge

Recommended: An understanding of basic navigation for the Unreal Engine

Recommended: A basic understanding of how to create and display widgets

Recommended: A basic understanding of widget designer mode and graph editor mode

Recommended: Unreal Engine 4.27 or higher installed

Recommended: Visual Studio 2019 Community or higher installed (If you want to follow along with the short programming section)

Recommended: Desktop PC with Windows 7 (or later) 64-bit - OR - a Mac with Mac OS X 10.9.2 or later

Recommended: DirectX 11 compatible video card

Recommended: Quad-core Intel or AMD processor

Recommended: 8 GB RAM

NO programming experience needed!

Description

You already know how to create UI, now learn how to master it!In this course, you will learn advanced techniques 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 Skyrim, Madden NFL, Hogwarts Legacy, 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 how to create more advanced menu systems using the widget blueprint system. By the end of this course, you will have the knowledge and expertise to be able to create complex, data driven menus, utilize advanced rendering techniques, and create virtually any kind of menu within your own games and applications! You will also have developed an advanced dynamic inventory system inspired by The Elder Scrolls Skyrim!This course is a an advanced course for those who already know the basics of the Unreal Widget Blueprint system. It is targeted at Unreal Engine users who have at least a basic understanding of widgets, though you will be able to follow along no matter what level you are currently. We will not be going over how to download and install the Engine or general navigation of the Editor, nor will we be going over how to create or display a widget. However, you will master how to design and program advanced widgets within the Widget Blueprint Editor! NO PROGRAMMING KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Project Primer

Lecture 2 Making The Most Of This Course

Section 2: Data Driven Dynamic Widgets

Lecture 3 Object-Oriented Programming

Lecture 4 User Created Widgets

Lecture 5 Creating Dynamic Menus

Lecture 6 Data Tables And Structs

Lecture 7 Importing Data At Runtime

Lecture 8 Parsing Data At Runtime

Lecture 9 Asset Registry

Lecture 10 Data Driven Widget System

Section 3: Custom Widget Interaction

Lecture 11 Overriding Events And Functions

Lecture 12 Drag And Drop

Lecture 13 Preconstruct Event

Lecture 14 Controller Mapping

Lecture 15 Binding External Events

Lecture 16 Editor Widgets

Section 4: Advanced Widget Rendering

Lecture 17 Responsive UI

Lecture 18 3D Widgets

Lecture 19 UI Materials

Lecture 20 Render Target Texture

Lecture 21 Retainer Box

Lecture 22 Widget Alpha Mask

Lecture 23 Advanced UI Animation

Section 5: Inventory System

Lecture 24 Introduction And Set Up

Lecture 25 Item System

Lecture 26 Creating The 3D Pickup Widget

Lecture 27 Creating The Inventory Item and Inventory Widgets

Lecture 28 Creating The Stat Widgets

Lecture 29 Creating The Inventory Type Widgets

Lecture 30 Creating The Overencumbered Widget

Lecture 31 Setting Up The Inventory Menu Functions And Variables

Lecture 32 Character: Input Mapping

Lecture 33 Character: Initializing Widgets And Getting The Closest Item

Lecture 34 Character: Finishing The Character

Lecture 35 Inventory Design: Inventory Section

Lecture 36 Inventory Design: Description Section

Lecture 37 Inventory Design: Bottom Section

Lecture 38 Inventory Functionality: Keyboard Or Gamepad Function

Lecture 39 Inventory Functionality: Add Item

Lecture 40 Inventory Functionality: Populate Inventory

Lecture 41 Inventory Functionality: Update Weight

Lecture 42 Inventory Functionality: Set Favorite

Lecture 43 Inventory Functionality: Drop Item

Lecture 44 Inventory Functionality: Click Inventory Item Button

Lecture 45 Inventory Functionality: Change Inventory Type

Lecture 46 Inventory Functionality: Open Inventory Function

Lecture 47 Inventory Functionality: Finishing The Main Inventory

Lecture 48 3D Item

Lecture 49 Debugging

Lecture 50 Populating The World

Students who want to learn how to create UI for games and applications,Students interested in learning advanced widget concepts in Unreal Engine,Students interested in creating complex inventory systems,Students interested in creating an Action RPG