Unreal Engine 5 - Pong Tutorial - Part 1 World Setup & Basic Movement

Here's to the first ever video on the channel!
A very basic tutorial, I doubt anyone will learn anything new here but it is to begin the series.
This is a series aimed towards complete beginners. Pong is a great starter game, and can teach the fundamentals like variables, arrays, structs, characters, classes, etc.

Episode one will cover setting up our "world" which is 2 walls, a camera and a paddle. But starts us off with a basic blueprint, and the relationship between the game mode, controller and pawn.

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[tee]

I just read your description above. You say "I doubt anyone will learn anything new here". Not so! I did. I am a very raw newbie to Unreal, I wasn't aware of how to get input into the BP. But now I see it similar to how Godot does it. So if you are making a series for beginners go ahead and assume that they are beginners.

[dylanconnolly]

Dude, please slow down and explain what youre doing and why...it would be a massive help. Were trying to learn pong and youre flying thru it like youre explaing this to people who have used unreal for years.

[JonnyRobinson]

Great tutorial and this was super helpful. My only suggestion would be to make sure your videos are 1080 next time. Keep it up dude :)

[Salmacream]

I was told to make pong for my first game on unreal. Im super happy to have a guide. Its been a bit over a decade since i touched game dev. Last time was in highschool.

With all of that said, thank you for the video, you are awesome man.

[floresss]

Tried everything to make the player paddle move but still nothing, not sure what I'm doing wrong.

Edit: it moves now, i was using the wrong version of UE
However, now it moves all the way up without me pressing the W key and cannot be moved once it hits the boundaries lmao

Edit 2: Forgot to connect axis value to scale value lol, works!

[jrayalldaygaming]

Super easy to follow! Thanks for the tutorial! Onto the next video!

[tee]

Hi thanks for making this. I'm a very raw beginner and so very interested. But some constructive critique: You are moving the mouse very fast, give us a chance to see what you are doing. It would also be helpful, if it is possible on your computer rig, to increase the resolution of the video. If one full screens it, it is barely readable.

[QasimAli-tolk]

Hello, your pedal comtroller blueprint came with a camera?? Mine didn't for some reason, and when i went to auto possess to zero, it only worked for the pedal, the option simply isn't showing up for the camera

[Gamingwitsundae]

HELP MY PONG IS STUCK GOING UPWARDS PLEASE HELP

[Sivanot]

Hi, with the described method for moving the player paddle with the W and S keys being deprecated now, can you point us somewhere that describes the current way to do it here? Its been driving me crazyt trying to figure it out lol

Thanks in advance.

[Flowerpot]

I feel folks have been a bit harsh in the comments - pace was ok for me as I've been using UE for a while. But the audio could be louder... Nevertheless, appreciate the effort. How about an update for the new Enhanced Input Actions? I just got sidetracked looking into how we must do this now... I made Pong in Unity a couple of years ago using physics, I am trying to re-create the experiment in UE...

[darkwolf]

Something that helps to know is hitting B and right clicking bring in a branch without having to search it, also if you want to find a "for each loop" quickly press F and Right Click

[TheRealMacAndCheese]

Really enjoyed this. Thank you for making it!

[jemma]

Nice tutorial but having problems setting the player zero option on the camera in the details tab? there seems to be no option for it at all

[No-ttpv]

Hello. I've been having an issue where whenever I hit play, my character loads in the spot my editor camera was when I presssed play and I can't control the paddle. I've checked everything multiple times and I don't seem to have made a mistake. How can I fix this?

[zacharybeyer]

Hey man. Great video. For my first time using unreal engine you made it seem not so scary. I did have one issue I couldn't figure out and any help would be amazing. I watched the video over a few times. For whatever reason the paddle only moves up, and it does it by itself. It doesn't react to the input to move up or down at all. Again any help would be amazing. Thank you.