How To Create A Pause Menu - Unreal Engine 4 Tutorial
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ก.ค. 2024
- Learn how to create a pause menu in UE4 with this step by step tutorial.
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0:09 Demonstration
0:46 Project Setup
1:50 UI Widget Layout
3:53 Main Menu Blueprint Setup
4:38 Pause Input Setup
5:18 Pause Functions Setup
5:36 Pause Function
7:42 Unpause Function
8:30 Event Graph
9:06 Adding Functionality to the UI
9:21 Resume Button
10:03 Save Game
10:38 Exit to Menu
11:04 Quit Button
11:31 UI Anchor Setup
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For those who use this tutorial, it is great except don’t used remove all widgets since that includes any in game widgets you use in your game. Instead use “remove from parent” and connect to the pause menu variable so when you click resume it just closes the pause menu and nothing else.
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I scrolled in the comments to see if there was a specific answer to this issue. Much respect, SENSEI!
thank you so much!
I would give a gigalike. The fact that you show on the BEGINNING of the video what will be the results is priceless. Thanks.
Unreal desperately need more tutorials this efficient and simple. This did in 13 minutes what many blueprint tutorials would have spent 30 plus minutes to do. Very well done video. Thank you!
Dude these are amazing tutorials, straight to the point and gives examples, unlike slow tutorials. Sucks that you don’t post anymore, really hope you see this and start posting again!
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these videos are very useful. I see a lot of other vids but they are slow, boring, don't show example s and other stuff but this is actually great. keep up the hood work.
Thanks! Yeah, I've always found slow tutorials to be a painful experience so I try and stay as to-the-point as possible. Glad you noticed.
@@alkazarcz5382 was it working in the preview? If no, did you make sure that you were calling the menu in the character blueprint?
A really good tutorial, thanks! I have two small suggestions. One, you really should show the cursor, as there are a few places where it is difficult to follow. However, you constantly say what you are clicking on which is really, really great and kept everything quite easy to follow anyway. My second suggestion is that when you are selecting something from a drop-down menu, mouse over it so the choice changes color, and then pause just a second so we have time to read what you're hovering over. But top notch tutorial, very to the point!!
I appreciated your tutorial. It was 100% what I exactly wanted to know.
Thank you so much!!! You deserve way more subscribers!
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Worked great to implement into my project. TY.
Great tutorial and I can`t believe it worked! Thank you!
thanks for this amazing tutorial I was trying to do that since march and your tutorial was so well explained ^^
Awesome tutorial. Well explained and no time wasted :)
Really, really useful! Thanks a lot!!!
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Great video, thanks for making this.
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Great tutorial!
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Exceptionnal videos. Subbed.
nice tutorial bro. thanks a lot. one more thing, i just want to know how to create option setting like resolution, audio n etc? thank you again
Thank you 🌹
Please someone help me! When I make the code at my character blueprint the "p" don't respond, so i tried to do that in the open level blueprint and there the "p" works, the problem is, when I use the open level blueprint to pause, it's impossible to use it function in other blueprints, because you don't have "Cast To Level X". So I need to make it in my character blueprint, anyone know how to fix that ?
Great video, right on point. Just quick question. How can I unpause the game with the same button for pause (P) and have character movement disabled at the same time? With that "set input mode UI only" node, it's preventing me to unpause the game with the P key.
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Very very useful
Is it possible to tell it to only remove the pause widget? Because I have another widget that is a speedometer and resuming the game removes that, which I don't want it to.
Thank you
Thanks for the tutorial, dude! Very useful! But I have a question. If we want to resume the game with the Input Pause key, how? because it's impossible put the Input key on the EventGraph of the HUD :(
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Hello, is posible create a button to move the Third Person for one position? If so, can you help me? Because I tried and I can not do it. Thank's
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How can we do the same thing but for VR? with HTC vive? I can't see the menu with the headset! Thank you in advance
Hi can you please do a tutorial on how to make a game over menu? Like when you die it pops up.
Is it possible to mix 3D graphics in widget redactor with standard 2D graphics. I've seen tutorials only with 2D hud's. And only one tutorial with pretty easy stuff with 3D graphics instead of 2D
Could you do a video on how to setup volume sliders for BGM and SFX in an options menu?
I'm watching this to add it to my game, but I'm stuck at 8:50. I have Input Axis Pause instead of Input Action and that's where it freezes from the start. It says the widget WBP Pause Menu was already added to the screen.
what if you have a score ? does it get deleted as well from the viewport after you unpause ? :/
useful :D
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Good video, but is there any way to target a widget to destroy? Because it's destroying my HUD too
nice!!!! Subbed! Please keep making these tuts and lmk if u are accepting question!
Thanks Daniel. Lots of new tutorials are on the way! :)
And yes, if you have any questions then don't hesitate to leave them here and I'll answer them as best I can.
can you play with wight to show II this on screen click the pouse the game
I dont know if you can help me with something. I already have a main menu with a Play button and when I click it the new level starts normal, but when i pause the game, quit back to the main menu and click Play again in the main menu this second time i have no input over the main character, the pause button or even the escape button. I dont know if i miss something about the tutorial but i have no idea what could cause this issue.
Well, turns out it was just a little change, add a Set Input Mode Game Only after the Return to Main Menu button. For anyone having this issue I´ll leave this link that has the solution to the problem i was having. answers.unrealengine.com/questions/404989/pause-menu-to-main-menu-loop.html
Is there a way to pause and unpause by pressing the P again without resorting to create and click a resume button?
Can we do it that if we press ESC again the menu closes itself?
Thank you. but what if I want to hit P again to close the paused game? Does the game need to be set to game&ui mode?
you can use the flipflop node to do what you want.
@@xxjesusfreak it doesnt work.
Great stuff, man! Very easy to follow along with, and well-organized.
Question. My existing HUD gets removed along with the menu when I use the 'Unpause' function. Do you know of an alternative to the 'Remove All Widgets' node?
Or remove from parent
@@yanceyboyz I tried doing that for mine can you go into more detail
options back button?
Excellent! how could I use the control stick instead mouse cursor?
DronX I don't think you can.
Can you do this in the first person, or other game modes like the vehicle, or the blank game mode in unreal?
yes
Does anyone know how to hide a button depending on a level youre in?
My cursor is missing when I unpause the game : (
Edit: I fixed it by breaking the links between any input mode blueprints in both the pause and unpause functions. I didn't need them to have a cursor in the pause menu.
Hi, for multiplayer games, i wanna know if i can do a escape botton that freeze the player but dont freeze the game,is that possible?
Keep the tuturials, nice work!
I mean like a options menu, or just a freeze screen
ı dont have third person character what can ı do 09:50
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i'm not getting unpause game function in button. video at 9:40. plz help.
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So, how do you set the resume button without the third-person character as the base character? For example; an empty character blueprint.
You just use the name of that empty character blueprint then
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After hitting resume button, i received a bug that causeed all the HUD's to disappear.
please help! i made a health system and when i pause and unpause the health bar and sheild bar disappear!
Grab the "Pause Menu" from the actors tab under Variables on the left and "Set" that in your function. Drag off of the "Pause Menu" with a "Remove from Parent" function and put that in place of the "Remove All Widgets". It should look something like this: prntscr.com/hv6zj8
Jam40e thanks man
Imruax I'm had the same problem, but now my health and shields are visible when in the main menu and paused.
Question... Why did we use 'GetPlayerPawn' and not 'GetPlayerController' in PauseMenu Widget EventGraph?? 9:28
because Controller in not active after "Set input Mode UI only", but Pawn is active
I an trying to add both the main menu and the pause menu in my project and it is not working out so well...help please??
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@@manvithdevadiga8442 it wasn't opening when I pressed "p" even though I had perfectly followed the tutorial
my controller becomes disabled when entering a new game after leaving a game via the main menu button.
Fixed it. Copy the 3 nodes from the resume code (Minus the event node) and paste them inbetween the event node and level transition node of the return to menu code, all in the event graph of the games pause menu.
since the unpause code is never enacted during transition to main menu, the games controls become permanently disabled.
@@davidgread511 thanks c:
@@davidgread511 Hello, i'm french and i have to admit that i have the same problem as you, but I can't undestand very well your explanation, wich 3 nodes ar you talking about and where do i have to paste them ? And what is the level transition node ?
I'm a bit lost sorry
Hi. I encountered an issue when you quit to main menu and tap the play button the game will be stuck. How can I fix this?
Re-watch the pause function part. I got the same problem, and I just missed some stuff cuz this boy is so fast.
I had it to, remove the bind to input if there, replace with the chain used to create unpause
it works but when i unpause i lose my hud ui
will this pause everyone in the game?
I think it will only pause the set character controller.
I started with a blank project so i don’t have a Third person character. How do i do it now???
I think in Unreal you can click Add New -> Add Feature or Content Pack, then select Third Person under the Blueprint tab. You may need to change some values in Project Settings under Maps and Modes however I could be wrong.
Thanks for the video , I have a problem I made the menu pause and when I send back to Main Menu and I press again the Start game ( from your other video ) the game is frozen and I can't move , I need to press esc to start over .
I have the same problem
@@UnexpectedBanana same problem...
when unpause is will remove all widgets what i do i want all buttons
yes dude, its happens to me also
Instead of the 'Remove All Widgets' node, use the 'Get All Widgets Of Class' and then select the Pause Menu Widget, then hook up 'Remove from Parent' node and then connect the 'Found Widgets' to the 'Remove from Parent', this will now only remove the pause menu widget.
Hope this helps!
When I go to put in the unpause function into the button, it doesn't appear at all in my search... what the hell do i do?
On the "All Possible Actions" where you type in "unpause" you have a box saying "context sensetive". Remove the x there and you can find it.
@@Haircoolass Not working at all, what else can I do??
November 1st, 2018, Can no longer hook the Main Menu widget up to Event BeginPlay as shown at 4:21 in the latest build of UE4, as it is now 'incompatible'. Need other solution.
I can't make an options button to work, I click options then back, and it takes me staright to the main menu
Don't add that to the Pause Menu but instead add it to the main menu. you can watch Matt Aplands video:th-cam.com/video/uLCNedDnWTY/w-d-xo.html
if anyone's menu only appears once. Set the pause menu variable at the end of the unpause function code
set it to what
i cant see my mouse cursor after opening the PauseMenu and i dont know how to show it
same here :(
@@nahiansharif4200 i already fixed it but i dont remember how
@@nahiansharif4200 maybe Just Put a 'set Show Mouse cursor' right behind one of those boxes
@@eemil333. It worked! thanks. I misssed thay boolean, but I set it to true now
@@nahiansharif4200 nice
deleting all widgets are just what should I do if I want to delete one?
same problem you figure it out?
@@shaynea7784 Remove From Parent, make the target a reference to the widget you want to remove from the viewport.
It doesn't work for me. Pressing P in game does nothing. The only changes I have made is the player, since I don't have a TPC.
Although this is an old video, Can anyone help me with an issue? I cannot get the pause menu to appear when pressing the pause button
I have the same problem... Have you found a fix for it?
@@mxlion I did! I was able to get it working by doing the code to bring up the pause menu through the level blueprint instead of the player blueprint. There was another guide somewhere on youtube that did it like this. Hopefully this helps!
@@kevril4143 OMG! TYSM!!! It worked!
This tutorial still actual. You made smth wrong, man
Is there an alternative to remove all widgets? What if you had other widgets in the game?
Answer my own question, you should "remove from Parent" and a reference to the widget you want to remove. If you have a HUD on the screen when you pause the game it'll remove the entire HUD this way. You'd have to add it all back after unpausing. Using Remove from parent just removes the pause menu and nothing else.
@@crossmr would I connect that to the remove all widget mode can you provide a pic please
@@leonsomirWhen you create a widget, pull off and turn it into a variable. Then use that variable to 'remove from parent'
why open level to next level charactor no run ?????
You need to add a node "Set Input Game Mode only" after clicking the "Quit" or "Go to main menu" buttons
If I pause the game, unpause it, then pause it again, it seems to just freeze and not offer any UI options so I have to just close the editor. Is there a way to fix this?
Never mind, I missed the IsValid connection to the viewport when setting up the PauseGame function.
when i press resume it removes all my other widgets too.. what if i just want to remove the pausemenu widget?
mentioned in comment above: "Remove from Parent" - I had to remove context sensitive checkbox to find
i can,t find the player pawn please help me
You should just be able to type "Get Player Pawn". Where are you trying to access it from?
context sensetive "unmarked"
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Hey I thought there was going to be a new tutorial every week. There are only 4 tutorials that was like 3 years ago
The game can be paused in main menu.
Rocket Bunnya change the game mode of your main menu
buttons
When hitting P nothing is happening :(
I worked it out, in my event graph for my character, instead of InputAction Pause, I just had keyboard Pause. Simple mistake :P
Thx but slow down just a bit
wow nice to know but ... you do it so fast ... it's hard to follow step by step...
Not working
In First Person the don't show
@「 CRoNic 」 cuz I am creating an FPS game and I need the pause menu but the UI won't show up