Make 2D Games the EASY way in Unreal Engine 5 - PaperZD Tutorial

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Making 2D games in Unreal Engine the regular way can be quite hard because Paper 2D lacks many features.
In this video I show you how you can use PaperZD which is a plugin that enables you to make 2D games the easy way through adding animation blueprints and anim notifies!

Prototype Hero Asset (It seems like this asset was deleted, I reached out to the creator to see if there's something we can do):

Character Turn Snippet:

PaperZD in the Unreal Engine Marketplace:

PaperZD Documentation:

Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
0:40 Setting up PaperZD
1:47 Preparing character sprites and flipbooks
5:11 Setting up the Animation Source
6:40 Setting up the base character
11:23 Switching to Run animation
14:40 Anim Notifies for Footstep Sounds
15:50 Setting up a State Machine
19:34 Jump and Land Animation
26:09 Particle Effect Flipbook
28:40 Advanced Anim Notifies
35:00 Making the character turn

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[CobraCode]

Get my 12 hour course on how to make 2D games with Unreal Engine:

If you're on UE 5.1 or higher the way the movement system is set up will be slightly different.

[Striker]

I honestly gave up the ghost on ever making my own game. I legit don't know how or why this video popped up in my suggested, but dude, I'm glad it did. I'm downloading unreal and gonna give this a shot.

[px]

This is unlike most other tutorials. We can see the clear planning went prior to recording. Extremely dense packed and not a single second wasted. 🎉🎉

[retroid]

Man I just want to say thank you. With each new video I'm coming closer to my dream which is making 2.5d beat'em up on unreal. You can't even imagine how happy I was when I saw that first video about 2d/3d hybrid. Also want to say that your tutorials are getting better with each YouTube release.

[charzulu]

Followed all the way through just now. Awesome Tutorial, I learned a lot. Def one of the best instructors out.

[MacetheBlader]

I’m so exited to try this when I get home. I have been thinking of trying to make a 2d game for a *long* time now and this tutorial is finally teaching me how to start. This is so helpful!

[Skybii]

Fantastic tutorial, thank you so much! Honestly helped me understand state machines and how to set up transition logic -- that's something I've been struggling with. Appreciate the way you talk through your process!

[Pac-bqsn]

yesssir was waiting for some vids on the workflow, cool stuff

[JJZ]

It's been my dream to make a 2.5d metrovania-metal slug-Contra style side scroller, start to finish, by myself. No monetary gain wanted, just to say I did it.
Then I got older, get into a different career and years have passed.

With these new tools like Unreal 5, it seems like the perfect time to dig out my old sketchbooks and notebooks full of ideas and do this on my own time. So far your tutorials have been very informative and I appreciate your efforts! Thank you!

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[YahyaDanboos]

It's finally out!! Gonna help so much with 2d game making for Unreal Engine

[SARIN]

i dont even use unreal engine, but you've convinced me with this, super useful, and WAYY faster

[croppedcrit]

I think this is what I have been needing. lol going to follow this and see later today, thank you for the upload!!

[Another_youtube_animator]

This has been extremely helpful so far. Very happy with this, I’m trying with my own sprites so it’s a bit difficult but I’m getting through 😅

[evogarciagaming]

This was very useful. I'm doing right now a 2D game with deep movement and just with this information I were able to adapt it.

Also, for the turn around I just check whenever there is a movement and multiply the X of sprite by minus 1.

[SuperMalachiDude]

When I start making games with this, I'm probably going to make 2 or 3 landing animations, (still land, run land, and maybe a slide land) so the movement doesn't stop. Great tutorial! Definitely saving this for later.

[DeadPixel]

I just started learning Unreal Engine a few weeks ago. I love classic Doom, so I thought making a few classic Doom-themed maps would be a good place to start for experimenting with game development. And just to have fun. I extracted all the texture and sprite assets from classic Doom and Doom II. And now I have this tutorial, which will be a huge help. Thanks a lot for making this guide.

[VinoVenitas]

This was amazingly helpful. Thank you for this. I am trying to figure out how to make my character fly instead of jump. But this was really useful.

[heretiko]

Thank you so much for this, i think you're one of the few, if not the only one properly taking time to explain and create these tutorials (as far as i'm aware ofcourse). I always wanted to create a "2D HD" game but i've never used Unreal Engine, so i really think i will subscribe to your Patreon or something in due time!

[nubunto]

the fact that this tutorial works perfectly with Unreal 4.27 is a statement of how solid PaperZD is. Happy so far!

[Alphax]

This is what I've been looking for. Thank you very much.