Creating A Main Menu - #51 Unreal Engine 4 Beginner Tutorial Series
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ค. 2024
- This is episode 51 of my unreal engine 4 beginner tutorial series, in today's episode we look at the first step of creating a main menu for use inside of unreal engine 4. We show you how you can create a menu widget, get it displayed on the screen, create a new menu game mode.
I also show you how you can import image assets for buttons, backgrounds and more and get them onto the screen. We also organise our buttons into boxes ready for the visibility to be turned on/off for each screen!
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I have been trying to learn unreal engine for a few months now with little success. but with your tutorials I've been able to learn more in the last week than all 3 months combined. I really like that each tutorial ends with something really rewarding. thank you for taking the time to make these
I'm glad that you're enjoying them... if there's anything else you'd like to see just let me know!
Just what I've been waiting for, thanks!
+Sir Spanner That's great to hear, best of luck with these tutorials!
Great tutorial man! Thanks!
Thank you for the tutorials !!!
Thanks man, your tutorial helped a lot.
Thank you, this is of great help !
You're on fire dude, please don't stop these!
+Georgi Semkov Thanks bro, there's plenty more on the way!
Best tutorial for UE... Hope you dive deep into UE4 in the upcoming videos !
OMG this tutorial is amazing! Keep going like this! Thanks a lot for this :P
thank you so much man
I tried this main menu series and although it was very good and I learned a lot I had trouble with the level change at the end, so I would advise learning a bit about the level creation beforehand since he works from the first person game mode, I found it easier to create a new level for the main menu and working from there instead, with that said, great work!
Thank you for making this very helpful tutorial, im off to the next step thanks to your help, btw i mistakenly deleted the canvas and was in a panic for about 15 min then noticed why i could not place the vertical box lol i just threw the canvas back in and all was well.... it was a newbie mistake on my end but everything worked out. thanks a bunch - Forest
You are the best hats off to you!!!!!
Thanks!!!!!
Nice!
Will you be doing an update to your excellent tutorials for Unreal Studio and their sample VR template? I would love it if you did! Many of my friends would benefit from this kind of tutorial.
Thanks! i made a nice hud :D really good tutorial THX :D
Perfect tutorial my friend. Thanks a lot for this!
+Studio Brokoola No problem, there's plenty more to come... just let me know if there's anything else you'd like to see!
Great :) I will be happy if you can make something like ''how to put enemy character in Unreal''
I'm actually currently planning and working on a series aimed at showing how to create and bring custom weapons and characters into the game. I hope you'll enjoy it once it's released!
Thanks a lot man and your tutorials are really easy to understand, so I think that it will help me a lot. I will credit you if I ever finish this game :)
Honestly, there's no need for that. I hope your game turns out well, just keep working hand!
My boy Virtus, epic stuff. Made my transition out of Unity a breeze.
Whenever I import a high image in the widget it turns low quality. How can I fix?
Hey Virtus, is there a possibility to fade-in into the white screen from black? I used a simple sequence at with autoplay but the Widget seems to be prioritized from level-start on. Would appreciate a hint. Thanks for the videos btw they are so good!
Hy, could you make a basic understanding for texture editing inside the engine? Like editing the lighting conditions on the surface ect. Oh and by the way you rock! I love this series and you really know how to teach this stuff. ;-)
I really hope this one gets answered. I do everything you say in these menu tutorials but yet when I launch my game the corners still show the sample level behind the main menu as well as the camera and mouse controls are still bound to the sample levels character model.
When loading the menu in the game the mouse disappears because the game level is already loaded but only the menu is visialized. You are at the level of the game with the menu covering the screen. If I press the start button it does nothing when I would have to disappear and watch the game. If I press the exit button it leaves the game correctly. How can I do so that when I press the start disappears to be able to see the game ?.
I'm wondering if this is an efficient method of creating menus for a business management style of game/simulator. I'm looking to design a game that doesn't have much in the way of 3D graphics or even 2D animations, but rather mostly 2D menu screens and a an underlying AI system for controlling the simulated environment.
Is it better to make a completely new project file for the main menu or can I do it in the current project? Very new to this so thought I'd ask.
thanks much ;)
hi Virtus, Would you know on how to add a video background to a main menu?
Hey Virtus learning hub. First of all thanks for the great tutorial. I do everything, follow all the instructions but when I load the game the image doesnt appear. The game loads like it normally would. Please help.
What version of UE4 are you using & can i make this on version 4.12.5 without any problems?
How can I make my own gamemode without duplicating the 3rd person game mode? (I wanna start fully from scratch.)
Hey can I use a animated video in background instead of image for main menu?
How do you get the vertical boxes to appear IN FRONT of the image?
Can a .GIF file be used as a background image for the Main Menu?
how can i put background music in the menu ? thanks for the video XD
thanks mate... when i finish my first game, i ll send you
3:34 *exits out of video to go check notification........
How do you make the background a looping video?
Had a wierd problem with 4.12 when trying to see a basic image on the HUD it wouldn't show. (Gamemode and HUD class set on both default and override). If you are having this issue, then just add a simple node to the Gamemode class' Event Graph. After adding an Event Begin Play it simply worked, I could even remove the node afterwards, but I have no idea why this was the case.
Thank you ! I was going mad checking again and again what did I do wrong. This was the fix, thanks !
i was getting the same problem here. But i have opened the GameMode blueprint, clicked in compile, then save and the image appears lol
It Worked for me as well I don't know why but it just does.
great thanks
Thanks. This was the same fix for me on 4.16.
But isn't it bad to have the game in the background already?
The game should start after pressing the button I think.
Or is this a behaviour in every common game?
No they make a new scene in unreal engine, And the there nothing telling it to do that
Thx
hey vitus i have a problem i do everything step by step until the minute 5.57, the image doesnt appear in my game
AddtoViewport node has already been removed in latest update i think. What's the substitute, SetFocustoMainViewport? Hope not bcus it's not showing up
Am I the only one who can't find the background image ?
I am also one of you
If you can't find the background image, and everything goes behind the image. Put the zOrder (look it up in details panel after you click on the thing you want infront of the image) put the zOrder to 1 it should then go infront of the image you use as a back ground
Glade to see more tutorial than usual , looking forward for the next episode . thanks , btw i have an out of topic question which is if you finish a game what do you suggest for a beginners to do ? publish it by yourself or give your game to a publisher ? and if you know a publisher which one do you recommend ? if you have a knowledge on these marketing stuff :)
+N Noni It's certainly not unheard of for developers to sell publsih, it's incredibly easy to do and doesn't require high costs if you've made the game already. If you've finished a game, you can get it onto steam or even xbox one quite easily without cost... the expensive bit is going to be doing advertisements however if you think about the cheap alternatives they work just as much too. You can post the game on numerous forums, ask for features in blogs, reviews, youtube videos and more.
Having a publisher will just streamline the process as they'll do it all for you and take a cut in return. You can simply cut out the middle man by doing the above yourself, it'll be hard work but it's definitely worth it.
It might be worth checking out one of the many self publishing guides, you'll see just how easy it is.
+Virtus Education thanks for the advice , i started to make my first small game (for test purpose :D ) which i will try to make it optimized for android first , once i finish i will try to research more about these advertizements which is the main thing as i heard .
When you're finished with the game, just hit me up a message and i'll run through the whole self publishing process for ya... being probably the longest staying and most dedicated/active fan for my channel I think you deserve something back!
+Virtus Education Hehe thanks man :) i will , i will make you my marketing manager :D
No problem, best of luck bro!
Okay, my image isn't showing up when I click play. Is it because I still have the main menu widget and main menu hud open? Should I compile, save and close them?
yeah you should sorry this is late you probably dont care anymore
at 3:44 that notification sound sounds like a mylol notification, I didn't think a youtuber would have mylol
can you make a series about how to creating sth in photoshop?
How can we remove Main Menu from viewport After GameOver screen ? Like
if we press restart button, main menu appears to viewport. I don't want
that, I want level to be restart without MainMenu.
I have a completed game, I did everything exactly as you did.
When i push play it loads up both the main menu and the game starts behind it. And when I push start game the widget doesnt disappear.
Did you set the button click event to load the level?
Also you need to change the game mode so that the game doesn't run in the background.
yes i did everything exactly the same as in your 3 vids...
and how do i make it not run in the background?
i changed the override game mode to the main menu game mode
hey, which link is the one for the buttons? sorry if i don't get it.
Hey i figured out the problem.. when i try to add the mainMenuwidget class to cusom widget, it wont show as a circle but with a different icon. Thats why it keeps the game start behind the menu. i dont know what is the issue there.
just look at 2:31
can you learn in app payment for android in unreal engine?
How would you get music in the main menu to fade out when the player clicks start? I've managed to fade the music in but when I try to fade it out it just cuts off. I've done it in the "MainMenuHUD" blueprint as I couldn't get it to work in the widget blueprint. Any suggestions or possible video main menu music? Thanks
You should be able to use the same method for fading in, I think the issue with the cut off is because it executes the load level command straight away and doesn't give the music time to fade out.
What it might be worth doing is using a delay before the load level command and it should work perfectly fine for you.
I hope that helps!
Thanks again, I used a delay and got the music to fade out first and now it works.
That's great to hear, if you need anything else just let me know. I'm happy to help!
is there a way i could make it similar to the COD Bo3's main menu? cuz that one is lit. it moves in the background and just looks awesome
Main Strain I think you just need to make the background transparent and have something going on in the background
Does this work on mobile?
the main menu doesn't disappear when I press start any ideas ?
can you telling me how to put name selection page in menu my mr boomchakalaka
I have to click inside the window to make it hover over the images. Is this normal? I watched other videos on which they didn't click inside the game to hover over the menu.
Mine's working fine but once I transfer to another level, my mouse cursor won't disappear until you click the screen again. Anyone know how to fix this??
3:43
*checks another tab*
What??
How to make a moving background?
How to make your own buttons, please ?
I noticed ur buttons have transparent background...like the ones u made....
Mine isn't working..And I know how to make pictures with transparent backgrounds....
...idk wht im doing wrong :( ...
Where do you get menu assets like that from??
made them more than likely
how do i make an image
i followed exactly what you did but for some reason my main menu will not show on screen.. i hope you can help i use editor version 4.12
It should work for ya, in the world settings did you also change the HUD class to the one that you created in this tutorial?
Maybe add the following video as a card to the end screen? As it currently is, it is not clickable, and we have to search for it in your channel :)
where at the rest of the tutorials of this series. I looked into your channel playlist but it looks like you dont have this #51 video anywhere on any of your series.. none of your videos reaches 51 videos... let me know.... this looks sexy as HELL!!
cheers and thank you!!
When I start the game and the Menu pops up I have to press shift + f1 first before I can use the menu because the cursor is not visible. How can I fix that?
You will need to go to your player controller and make sure that the cursor is set to visible, if you want to learn how to do that I actually have a tutorial on display the cursor at the end of the main menu tutorials. I hope that helps!
I've hooked the play button up to a map but i cant move my character when the map loads please help
i have that problem to if you find a way to fix plz tell me
I've followed the tutorial but can't seem to display the widget on screen. Need help. TIA
I'm using UE 4.12.2.
I tried using 4.11.2 and the widget appears there. What seems to be the problem with 4.12??
There's probably a difference somewhere in the projects for each version. You've just got to make sure that you have set the HUD class in the world settings and created the widget with the add to viewport node set up correctly. I hope that helps!
I was having the same problem, looks like a bug in the Editor. What you need to do is Open ThirdPersonMainMenuMode - in the HUD Class Set it to None, then back to MainMenuHUD, and Click Compile.
DantheCardboardMan Np
You sound like a really nice guy aha! I like listening to you bro,good tutorial
Okay this is an issue I've noticed from many people not on this video, but others. Everything works, but my menu keeps popping up every time I start the game. It appears my game loads my level in the background and the menu appears in front of it. This is annoying, and I would like your advice please.
If you want to fix that you need to open up the world settings for your level and make sure that your main menu game mode isn't used in the levels that it shouldn't. I hope that helps!
Oh okay i thought it was as simple as changing default level to something else. Thank you!
sorry but i watched almost all of your videos but this main menu tutorial is the one leave me hanging. because you didn't show us how to actually load the level. i typed in exactly the level name in the "open level thing" and same as MattJhonson here. the game just loads in the background and i cant get rid of the main menu.. please help. thank you more power!.
The message notifications literally had me checking everything I had open...... XD
my buttons are too big, what can i do please ?
I checked my fb messages and no one said anything. Need technical assistance.
HAHAHAHAHA
Why do I respond to old comments?
@@OninDynamics Why do I respond to old comments?
how to you take a picture of your own game like u did. (for ur menu background?)
Maybe blender. He might of rendered it.
render it with blender
Nothing works right from the beginning. HUD won't show up
does not leave the white box to play
no salga de la caja blanca para jugar
I'm looking for a way to control the volume of sound and ambience sound using a couple of sliders, with no luck so far :(
Adding to viewport doesnt work anymore.
slow down please! Great work though, very useful :)
I'm sorry to hear I was too fast, i'll try and slow down and explain things better for ya in the new videos.
You do not have to slow down. It is a video so everyone can play it once or twice again if not following,... I am a total noob to the UE4 and I am following. You are perfectly explaining every step. Not just how to do it but why you do it and what it actually does. So if you keep this good explanation, there is no need to slow down :)
5:46 subtitles
15+15+15=1hour?
+Hyperit Gaming I Roblox yes, but scream soul said 15+15+15. not 11+11+12
Quick mafs
Tilman EnglishTaste
100 min. = 1h
How can i make this work with the Health bar?
Sadpotata All you need to do is add a few variables and compare them alot to get the main health. I used a Progress Bar and made two variables, Current Health and Max Health and used them to make the bar.
Will Thank you :D
If at 5:58 the "MainMenuWiget" does not show, put the same "MainMenuHud" blueprints in the level blue prints and it'll work.
legit Analysis Where are the Level Blueprints
mine isnt popping up the main menu its just playing the game what can i do??
It sounds like you need to make sure that you change the game mode to the main menu game mode we created to ensure that it pops up instead of playing the game.
If that still doesn't work... make sure your HUD class is set and you create the main menu widget inside of it.
Best of luck!
Hello Virtus I need to ask something real quick. When I change the gamemode, the other Class changes it gamemode to MenuClass (
I'm not sure I understand exactly what you mean, if you change the defaults in the world settings it should be all good!
refreshing my browser continuously waiting for episodes #52 & #53.....
+FrequencyIO That's great to here, they're uploaded and scheduled to go live over the next two days. Stay tuned!
my controller appear on screen how do i make them disappear ?
I'm not too sure what you mean by that, could you give me a little more detail and i'll do my best to try help you out!
Never mind i was using a umg with a small picture and button for testing without any background, apparently if you have a umg without a background the joystick appear, solve it by adding a background, nice tutorial help me a lot thank.
stopped @7:03 (I haven't uploaded any images...)
9:51
I just cant click those buttons
I'm not able to place button on image
Pls help me asap
03:43
This tutorial at the first couple of minutes was rather all over the place. So, I couldn't follow through.
You wouldn't want to make it this way anyhow. This is not a main menu, but a widget that has the appearance of a main menue. You can still play the game while this asshat of a "menu" is up.
3:43 "oops it's not me"
UI textures should be set to Interface and not DXT!
I hope to add a translation of the Arabic language