Software & Hardware That I Use
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Welcome! This is a place where I write down what I learn, as I make user interfaces in Unreal Engine 4. 🌱
Recent Unreal Tutorials
Accessing Unreal’s Global Variables
How to use GAverageFPS, GAverageMS
Pause Game When Window Loses Focus
Want to pause the game, reduce FPS, mute audio when the game window loses focus?
How to set up UI in a UE4 project
Use C++ and Blueprints to create a solid foundation for your game UI.
Buttons with custom hitboxes
How can I make a button with a non-rectangular hitbox?
Why TOptional<T> is my new favourite tool
For optional parameters, and explictly marking undefined state.
Unreal Console Cheat Manager
Cheat your way to success!
Testing and Test Driven Development in UE4
It’s so satisfying when all the lights turn green!
Character Health Bar UI using C++
How to set up widgets attached to actors.
C++ & Blueprints UMG Workflow Video
A introductory tutorial on how to set up UIs using C++ and Blueprints.
Creating Resolution-independent UIs in Unreal Engine 4
Design at lowest resolution, scale with DPI Scaling and Custom Application Scaling
Help & Resources for Unreal Engine 4
How to get help, and help yourself
Data-driven Design in Unreal
Data Tables, Data Assets and others
Pluralizing Item Names
When “strawberrys” won’t cut it.
Unreal UI Best Practices
A completely subjective list of things that I do.
A UMG C++ Tweening Library
Animate UMG widgets from C++
Things I wish I knew coming to Unreal from Unity
Gotchas and surprises I encountered
Localized Strings Using StringTable and C++
Store localizable strings in a CSV file and use them in the editor and C++.
FRunnable and Threads
One way to set up threads in Unreal.
UPROPERTY EditCondition and CanEditChange
How to make variables editable or not based on other variables
Using Curly Braces in FormatText
tldr; Wrap them in backticks
Return Arrays of the Correct Subclass Type in Blueprints
Avoid casting with this one weird trick.
Fix Tick Not Being Called on Widgets
I see this one being asked quite often in the Unreal Slackers #ui chat.
Updating UserWidgets in the Editor
Using SynchronizeProperties() to show changes to Blueprint properties in the editor.
Using the RetainerBox Widget
How to apply material effects to a group of child widgets.
Using Materials in Unreal UIs
How to apply shader effects to your UIs.
Connect C++ to UMG Blueprints with BindWidget
How to control logic from C++ and configure visuals in Blueprints.
Unreal UIs and Performance
Make Unreal go fast brrm.
Unreal UIs and C++: Slate
After you have mastered UserWidgets and UMG, let’s get down to the nitty-gritty.
Unreal UIs and Localization
Common pitfalls to avoid as you implement user interfaces in Unreal.
Creating new UWidgets in C++
Create your own custom re-usable widgets in pure C++. No Blueprints required!
Introduction to C++ UIs in Unreal
What’s the deal with Slate, UMG and Blueprints?
Controlling UMG Animations from C++
How to call UMG animations defined in Blueprints from C++.
Lambdas with TFunctionRef<T>
Unreal-style lambda functions that can be passed around to functions.
Asynchronous Loading with TAssetPtr<T>
In both C++ and Blueprints.
Unreal UIs and Texture Sizes
tldr; Multiple of 4 is probably good enough.
Introduction to UIs in Unreal
How to start making user interfaces in Unreal using UMG, Slate and C++
Unreal UIs & Animation
UMG offers support for crafting animations within the editor.
Creating a UserWidget in C++
How to build user widgets base classes in C++.