Unreal Engine 5 | Blueprint For Beginners (2023)

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Hello guys and welcome to my Unreal Engine 5, Blueprint For Beginners Course. In this video I will explain what are blueprints, why you should learn blueprints, and how to use blueprints inside of Unreal Engine 5. Blueprints are the visual scripting system of Unreal Engine 5, and you can use Blueprints to create complete games, or different tools to help speed up your workflow. This is the first video in my Blueprint Video Series. There will a Blueprint For Intermediate Users, and also a Blueprint For Advanced Users.

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00:00 - Introduction
2:55 - Create The Project
3:55 - What Are Blueprints?
5:20 - Third Person Character Blueprint
9:44 - Blueprint User Interface
19:30 - Create Our First Blueprint Node
25:30 - Blueprint Variables
25:58 - Boolean Variable
33:00 - Integer Variable
37:00 - Float Variable
38:50 - String Variable
40:20 - Vector Variable
46:10 - Rotator Variable
47:14 - Transform Variable
48:59 - Getting and Setting Variables
50:50 - Creating A Door Blueprint
1:13:40 - Hat Pickup Blueprint
1:30:20 - Health And Damage Box Blueprint
2:05:02 - Soccer Goal And Ball Blueprint
2:28:00 - Creating A Hit Actor Blueprint
2:50:53 - Summary And Outro

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[diosleftcheek]

At 1:03:05, if you add the node in the target, you will be able to open the door from anywhere on the level. To fix that, you can add it on the player controller to only allow the actor to open it from inside the collider

[Spellbound_]

@1:12:26 A better option would be to plug these into just "play" and "reverse". This is so if you press the key again mid animation, the door doesn't snap to the beginning or end in an unnatural way before playing.

[LarsPau]

Many thanks. This was so helpful to get a starting point with a lot of valuable and well balanced insights. I'm looking forward to other courses like the two beginner courses.

[RogueBearEntertainment]

Hey Poly! While making your door blueprint I noticed that the End Overlap event does not actually work because when your character leaves the box he can still activate it from a distance! The issue was that the Get Player Controller node had to be connected to the Disable Input PLAYER CONTROLLER node and not the Target node! Just wanted to clarify. Great tutorial!

[elefantspidsmus]

Thanks for your tutorial - love it! There is a bug in the door script though. At 1:03 you plug the GetPlayer Controller into Disable Input with Target. This results in the character being able to open and close outside the box as if she never left it - which she didn't. You need to plug it into the Player Controller, and I'm sure that's what you meant 🙂

[virgilhawkins]

As of UE 5.4, @1:48:00 you have to use "Get Player Character" instead of "Get Owning Player Pawn" for the percent progress bar to work.

[johnrex]

Just wanna say again these videos are terrific, and I really look forward to watching those other videos on intermediate and advanced.
Keep of the great work, man. You're helping a lot of people right now.

[Eftiar]

Just finished the tutorial and I love it. I was tired of doing tutorials that only shoow you how to use blueprints to make a specific type of game. This was just how to use blueprints as a whole and I loved it.

[shawnboundy]

Great tutorials as always!! A note to anyone who might have had this problem: I was having problems with the soccer ball part - not causing the fireworks, not getting destroyed and reloaded. I found that the error was me updating some things to the goal and saving that, but the goal that was already present on the map was not updating. So deleting them, and replacing them with the latest saved version fixed that problem (Unreal v5.3.1)

[EmergencySerotonin]

This tutorial is amazing. I did notice that when I left the doors hitbox I could still interact with it. I triple checked my blueprints and to the best of my beginner knowledge they matched yours exactly. While troubleshooting I linked "Get Player Controller - Return Value" to the "Disable Input - Player Controller" rather than "Target" and it worked exactly as intended. If you see this I'd love to know why we initially connect Enable Input to Player Controller and Disable Input to Target. Regardless thank you for the amazing tutorial!

[Fevwy]

ive spent hours in the last days watching ue5 tutorials and basics because me and a few friends want to make a game and i saw this video and i can say no one explained everything so simple to understand but detailed enough to learn like you did. thans

[spilth]

Been watching a bunch of UE5 videos the last week or so and this is the clearest, most well paced and organized video I’ve come across. Kudos! I’ll be subscribing and watching more of your work.

[jojodelivery]

I've been going through tutorial hell in my game development journey of 2 months. This video made blueprints A LOT easier for me to understand. Thank you!

[petethechin]

Given up Unity for Unreal, things just seem so much easier here, thanks for this its been very helpful so far.

[SuyashGamerOP]

Thank you man, I was so eagerly waiting for this because your old tuts and UE5 have some diff stuff in blueprint .. Thanks for providing quality content for free :)

[krzysztoftoch]

Thanks man. You make very good videos. Really nice editing and teaching skills. Nice voice also.

[tomsolidPM]

Man I love your tutorials! They are to the point, considering obstacles that we can run into and very useful examples! I restarted my UE journey several times the past years. With your help, I think I finally get the hang of it!! Also bought your Survival Game course. Probably wont have time to do this massive amount of value you provide there, but I still wanted to support you! Keep it up! 🚀

[jaydeusmortis]

At 1:19:45 - The Return Value needs to go into the Player Controller for Disable Input, NOT the target. Otherwise, once you've passed the collision once, it never properly disables the input, and you can equip the hat from anywhere in the level.

[slseric]

Thank you for these courses. They are helping me a lot in learning the basics. This was the second course I watched and it was AWESOME. You speak in a very comfortable tempo and also the chapters help a lot to find information that I missed or could not remember. Thank you so much ❤❤❤❤