How To Make Pong In Unreal Engine 5 Blueprint Tutorial

Timestamps
Intro 0:00
Creating The Project and Player Character 0:22
Creating Controls 4:23
Creating The Ball 10:05
Creating A Physics Material 12:09
Creating An AI 15:00
Making The Ball Get Faster 21:25
Creating A Score System 24:09
Creating A Ball Spawn System 32:48
Creating A Win System 37:55
Designing The Game 40:08
Creating A Main Menu 46:08
Exporting The Game 52:28
Polish 53:40
Outro 55:15

[arredondojordan]

At 10:00, it looks like you switched from having the camera be attached to the pawn BP to it being its own actor in the level. When I try to do this, I cannot get the camera to work properly. Can you explain how you did this or point me to a resource that can show me how to make this simple change?

[DidierSampaolo]

First af all, congratulations. As a total beginner in the world of Unreal, your tutorials are really the best I could find.
My 2 cents: you say that the velocity of the ball can decrease when you hit it with an angle. I think you just miss-clicked when setting the Friction of the "Bounce_Mat" to zero, it stayed at its default value (0.7) so you didn't actually remove the friction. Other than that (which is easly corrected), thank you VERY MUCH for your work.🥇

[gamelyquest]

At 21:04, when I enable Sweep for the AI and drag Cube to DefaultSceneRoot the AI paddle no longer follows the ball. If I enable sweep but not drag Cube the AI paddle follows the ball but the paddle overlaps the walls. How can I fix it?

[TheRealMacAndCheese]

I'd love it if you could do a tutorial on an air hockey type game. That would be sweet!

[randya]

Great video so far. But I'm stuck at 21:06, kinda. When I check on the 'Sweep' checkbox for the AI_BP, the AI paddle no longer moves. If I turn the 'Sweep' off, then it moves again. As far as I can tell my blueprint matches yours as well as dragging the cube intro the defaultScenerRoute node. Not to sure what I missed. Any ideas?

[jarnine-dn]

He said ball a lot of times in this video. Thanks so much for the videos, tried to make pong a few months ago from a old video where there using unreal 4, it was a little broken. But your tutorial works great. I changed the paddles into a almost flat cylinder to get some more angles when hitting the ball. Also a simple pin ball tutorial for unreal 5 would be amazing.

[Maggis]

ERROR on 18:18 while compileing: the "set wrold location" block thats conected via x and z to "vinterp to consept" says it needs to be connected to something in the "target" output. displayed error: "The blueprint (self) is not a SceneComponent, therefore ' Target ' must have a connection." 'PLESE HELP!!'

[japanse_samurai]

Can you please make a video where you add a local co op option?

[anwintheanimator]

Great Tutorial, I had a question for 14:50. I made walls for my level, and I've assigned the Physical material (Bounce_Material)to the walls, but it's not working. My Paddle just clips right through. I closed and restarted the file and didn't seem to fix it. Im trying to make a collision out of it and that doesn't seem to work either.

Wondering what to do, and if I am missing something

[Flybird]

I had to disable the ball speed increasing because after a couple of hits it would end up overlapping the AI paddle after it reached a certain speed. Not sure why but game still came out good! Thank you for the lesson

[el-viejo]

i have a little problem with the camera, it does not appear in the world to move it like yours, when i start playing, it all perfect except it's just over my paddle and not slightly in the center between the 2 paddles, i was looking around in other tutorials but i could not figgure it out, thanks.

[markymark]

My ball is only being hit back at an angle is there anyway to change direction?

[Somordorp]

just finished your tutorial, thank you.

[Chajos]

i am stuck at 19:32 unreal tells me that Ai REF can not set the BALLREF and i dont know why

[RebelDude]

So I've got an issue, where when my paddles interact with the ball they start to wobble and that seems to have an effect on the AI Paddle. I've tried constraining it but that doesn't seem to work. Any Ideas?

[gauthamg]

Initially, the camera was part of the paddle BP. When starting the section 'Creating The Ball', the CameraActor seems to appear in the main tree. How was this moved (or made visible from the blueprint?)

[bropo]

Epic video! Helped me alot, thank you very much!

[mrrussiantv]

Great Video! Only one issue for me. If I play long enough eventually the speed seems to get too fast and the paddles let the ball slide through. I tried adding extra width to the paddles but still once the speed gets past 10k, the material let's it through.

[frameshifty]

I can't figure out how to get my paddle to move. :( I have copied your paddle Blueprint and settings exactly as far as I can tell. Can you help?

[MrLaggy]

I'm having a problem getting the paddle to move, i had this problem with another tutorial and it made me stop so i decided to try this one. still, when i hit up or down, i get no movement. i've triple checked everything! i'm sure it's me but any thoughts on common problems? thanks a ton.