MrButier (Mr. Boo-Tear) Indie Dev since 2021 - UE5 since 2022
My journey with Unreal Engine began in 2022, after spending a year on CliCli, a UGC platform, and gaining several years of experience with the Warcraft 3 World Editor. After working on small projects within other games for a long time, I decided to start creating my own games, beginning with Unreal Engine, and now also with Godot.
Through these videos, I not only share my learning journey but also hone my skills in articulating game development concepts. It's a fantastic way to identify areas for improvement and to help others navigate the exciting world of UE5. I'm happy to connect with all of you, share insights, and support anyone interested in learning Unreal Engine 5. Come join the discord!!
I have an issue: when i am in the graphic tab and select another tab like 'Controls', when i come back in the 'graphic' tab the dropdown list have items duplicated. What i mean is: i click on the dropdown button of displaymode for example and i have fullscreen,borderless and window, then i click the controls tab and then i came back in the graphic tab, i click on dropdown button of displaymode and now i have fullscreen,borderless,window,fullscreen,borderless and windom. If i did it again, it will add another three and so on everytime i click another tab and come back. This happen for every dropdown list in the 'graphic' tab.
I will be very interested in seeing how you have done your system. I have worked on this for numerous projects. I am partial to the GameplayTag approach.
Ultimately, I built this for those without coding knowledge so they have an approach to handle stats easier. I personally would go with GAS and modify it to my needs since it has alot of the functionality built already. A friend of mine that im working on a project with has made some pretty nice custom nodes to make blueprints easier for us while using GAS so there's definitely alot out there people could do, but im not ready to share the code on this yet :)
I can't believe it takes 3 hours in UE5 to do something like this,if you were to make your own engine it would just be a matter of attaching a struct to the player's entity object, like quite literally a minute.
Within blueprints it’s quite the effort, however unreal engine has a plugin you can just turn on that does the same but requires c++ to set up so if you’re talented enough to make an engine then you know how to code enough to setup the plugin lol
It doesn't really take 3 hours. It takes about an hour, maybe 90 minutes. Shorter if you know what you are doing. Need to remember that a lot of explanation went into the video, thus making it very long.
This is fantastic, so glad to see this channel and the discord community growing I'll be coming back soon, or maybe I'll wait to 5.5 but this is def gonne be my first stop when I do, Keep it up man, you're awsome!
I am experimenting on a combination of GAS and a custom component for stats, XP and leveling up. I’ll watch this when I get home cause it might help me
Thanks for taking a look! While you may not need to structure/stats setup within this component, the functions and general concept should be insightful on how you could setup the Attributes within GAS. Although if you know c++, you could minimize the length of alot of these functions 😉
@@Drachir08 I do, I wouldn't say I'm an expert but this is basically a simplified blueprint replacement. If you understand enough c++ to use GAS then I would still recommend GAS since its built from Epic however this video can still teach the "how" on setting up related stats/scaling etc. 😉
@@MrButiier I know it! lol I tried to modify the last one as I was building it to work a little different and I almost got it working right. This one seems like it will work almost exactly how I was trying to set up the other one.
@@MrButiierI certainly am. I’ve almost made it through it. I’m so glad you made it in chapters because it gave me a few good stopping points to get a few errands done
@@GrumpyGillsFishing Honestly, really happy to hear that. I did my best to make this video very similar to how a "course" would set things up so people wouldn't have to sit and watch 3 hours straight and not know where to find things.
So in my stat widget I’m going to try to include attribute points that you can spend on the “primary stats” instead of having them based off your level. I think I can do it by subtracting 1 from the attribute point stat and adding 1 to the chosen “primary stat”. Not sure if it’s gonna work that easy yet but in theory it sounds right
Yeah that is definitely possible and it is about as simple as you stated, you’re able to subtract from attribute points and then when attribute is zero then just disable whatever buttons you have set etc. it’s covered a bit ahead of this video but it’s great to see you basically skipping ahead without knowing you are 😂
@@MrButiieroh sweet! I had no idea you were going to cover it. I’m having an issue maybe you could help me figure out. I’ll try to keep this short. I’m starting health is 10.3, I add a point into vitality it should go up to 10.6 but instead it goes to 10.9 and then when I level up it goes back down to 10.6. That happens every time I add a point into vitality. I’m not sure what’s going on.
yep! You can have a stat that is used to as attribute points. I believe i cover this in part 6 of this series however I also have a new Stat System coming out tomorrow to the public! It simplifies this series immensely, adds more functionality and puts it all together in 1 video instead of a multipart series. I highly recommend to check out that video when it releases tomorrow or join the membership to get access now. Either way, the new system will be much better.
It sounds like your delete function isn't properly being called at the beginning of opening the level. In this video i do that within the Game Instance which occurs when the game starts, I'd recommend trying to call the remove function within the level blueprint at the beginning of the level and see if that changes anything. However as far as the system breaking when not looking at them, this system I made in the video doesn't use any type of perception of sight so that would not impact anything unless its specifically a game mechanic of your game.
It depends on the intended use honestly, either or could be suitable however data assets may be easier to utilize to spawn creatures into the world so you don’t have to iterate through a data table with hundreds of lines. However like I said it depends on the “how” you use them
@@MrButiier yeah a bit to tricky to describe here.. with how I intend to use this. I will take it to the Discord server. Been enjoying the video playlists.
@@RoeJogan Oh great to have you join the discord! Glad you're enjoying the playlists, I spent some time 3 weeks ago adjusting all the playlists videos so i did it just in time for you haha
These are so great! There was just one thing that made it confusing.... Whats the deal with red squares on the event nodes? And there is one with some other icon..like it needs power or something
Ooo! Those red dots tie into a feature called "Event Dispatchers", when you bind an event to another event. That is slightly more advanced than what this video wanted to cover.
There's definitely ways to do so, I currently haven't created any tutorials myself or expand on the feature. CommonUI specifically is a bit annoying and requires using a console command to make mouse appear when using gamepad but otherwise controlling the mouse with keyboard I would imagine is just an input action set up with annoying math. Now that you mentioned it, I'll probably take a look to see what I could whip up lol
@@MrButiier Yeah, i'm getting into commonUI, and really liked how it works well between controller/pc. But the "cursor controller" is something weeks in I couldn't get a good result without messing up the whole commonUI. There are lots of alternatives without it, and it's not difficult with EnhancedInput, but common UI messes it badly
I just really hope Epic will make this easier at some point, finally had a fully working prototype after years and now im struggling with making the UI..its just a nightmare. mouse clicks/unwanted movement of it messes up focus all the time (only KB/GamePad should be used) because UI only uses 20 percent of the screen (just like the og FF7 Combat UI for example). Didnt notice that before as i was only putting something on the screen so i can test things out, but this gets me so frustrated for the last 3 weeks i just want to trash the whole thing. But thank you for the video, it gave me a bit more insight in CommonUI and the whole complexity of it so i subbed, lots of videos to watch :)
Haha you're welcome! I'm glad its providing some clarity on the plugin, it's definitely far more complex than it should be. Setting up Common Ui is a huge battle constantly but once everything is set up it becomes really useful and easy to create Ui's. We just need Epic to step it up on cleaning it up more.
Hello There, If i were to add some hover animation to the buttons, where should I add them and how? should it be in the WBP_ButtonBase? but I don't see how could I tie the hover event since the overlays don't have said option as buttons do. Thanks!
Hey! You would do exactly as you said! Under the ButtonBase, create an animation for that widget, then under ButtonBase use the built in event "On Hovered" -> then play the animation.. This way whenever this button is added to other widgets, the hover event will always trigger the animation.
Best guide on CommonUI out there! thank you very much! BTW, for anyone who show a widget and loose hes input when deactivating, just untick the EnableDefaultInputConfig in CommonInputSettings. CommonUI doesn't config out of the box all the game keys like move and everything and doesn't know how to handle inputs. This can be fixed in C++ but untick the checkbox solves that too.
The best tutorial on setting up a simple menu on youtube! And your tips on the button blueprints are great! Also how you showed solving the root-widget not opening the setting menu. I have seen quite a lot of tutorials on menus and honestly this is just great! I will keep watch on your videos! Thank you
Really appreciate the support 💪 glad you love the videos, feel free to comment if you ever have questions or come join the discord. Good luck on your dev log too!
Hi, do you know why when creating a "Common UI Data Table" and connecting it to the "Widget Blueprint", after restarting the engine, I get a window with the error "LoadErrors: Warning: CreateExport: Failed to load Outer for resource ‘AssetImportData’: commonenericinputactiondatatable /Game/Input/CommonUI/InputActionDataTable.InputActionDataTable"
Which version of UE are you using? I took some time to try and play around to replicate this but I haven't been able to. Have you set the all the project settings shown in the beginning of the video? Specifically the viewport and inputdata?
It's a fair assumption, the setup for Enhanced Input Actions is such a huge upgrade from their previous setup with data tables to be honest but it definitely has ways to go to make it easier because right now there is too many things that you could slightly mess up on and it ruins everything. The main thing i like about this is that once it is setup you don't really have to worry much about it as everything else just starts to click into place easily.
Hi! I used UE 5.4 and Common UI, but after restarting, I get a bunch of errors and the Parent is missing for every widget CreateExport: Failed to load Outer for resource 'OverlaySlot_0': Overlay /Game/UI/Widgets/WBP_ButtonBase.WBP_ButtonBase_C:WidgetTree.Overlay_21 Do you have any suggestion? Reloading them in the correct order seems to fix it until I restart the editor. I think the editor might load the widgets first then the plugin, but I'm not sure what should I do Edit: creating the widget in a BP class which parent class is a custom C++ class caused this error.
Oh interesting! The custom c++ class was causing your Common Ui to provide errors? Or was it simply the c++ wasn't compiling and causing the blueprint deriving from it to break?
I would make sure that you don't have overlapping IMC buttons, if the IMC_Default has buttons overlapping with the UI IMC then it would cause the buttons to not work, if they are overlapping you can set the UI priority higher than the IMC_Default to get it to work or remove the IMC_Default when using Ui and readd it after :)
@@MrButiier what I found is that if you have Lyra like stack UI_Layout (Common Activatable Widget) |___HUD_Stack (Common Activatable Widget) |___Game_Stack (Common Activatable Widget) |___Menu_Stack (Common Activatable Widget) |___Modal_Stack (Common Activatable Widget) and then on BeginPlay you create UI_Layout, add it to the ViewPort and push MainMenu Widget to the Menu_Stack, then the Enhanced Input Actions won't pick up but if you create MainMenu Widget and add it to the ViewPort on BeginPlay it works as intended
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Hey All! I made quite the blunder at 53:32 stating that it was an issue with Enhanced Input Action, this is actually not the case and just a mistake on my part :). You can fix this by going into the Button Style Base and changed the "Selected Normal" to have the same tint as the Hovered Tint, this will then fix the issue.
My god.. If you're going to write a tutorial, freaking start from scratch. People can't follow what you're doing if you already made your own... Saying what you did is not the same as doing it for people to be able to follow. E.g. How did you organized the widgets (settings, alignment, padding, etc)? Geez. Why do tutorials if you can't show how you're getting things set up?! Unbelievable.
@@MrButiier creating everything from scratch each time wont scale much. What I think you could consider is pushing the final version to GitHub. This way you can continue focusing on the main aspects and details and have a full reference for those who needs the entire set. Thanks for the great content One think I'm interested in tho is how do you listen on the "Clicked" events? Do you use the Input Action itself in the Blueprint or simply attached to the Button OnClicked event?
@@maxsaylor9333 It definitely something I have considered and may try in future videos to see how well that turns out! For the click events, you can use the Button OnClicked event, those event will work as they normally would.
@@MrButiier thanks for the response, that what I was scared about. I have a listener attached to the Button that holds the Input Action and it's not reacting. It reacts when I explicitly hit the Button with a mouse click but fully ignores the assigned Input Action. Probably missed something, will continue digging But thanks again for the great content, nowadays it's hard to find something in depth, especially in the painful UI topic. I wish UI is simpler and just works, but unfortunately, there is always some dancing around involved
@@maxsaylor9333 Hm is the meta data set to “is generic action” or are there any other IMC’s with the same button? If there are overlapping buttons in multiple IMCs that can prevent it from being called. And of course, happy to help man, I know Ui is quite painful and there’s not nearly enough tutorials out there helping people with it. I agree that I wish UE5 made it easier but with more functionality causes more complexity.
For everyone running into issues with Icons/Text not appearing on your buttons, feel free to join the discord so we can help debug! The input actions, Input Mapping Context and Metadata all have to be specifically set up as described in the video but it is easy to miss things. Happy to help when I can in the comment section but sometimes screenshots help best or voicechat :) I am also working on another video to provide examples of utilizing enhanced input actions within real game settings.
you should always start with a new project so everybody can follow like in the middle of the video i am completely lost i dont have the UI my buttons for example are showing but only in designTIme mode if i start my programm they wont show
Ah! Thank you for the feedback :) the main important thing here for icons showing is that the meta data and input actions are showing and that active IMC has the same buttons set. If button icons/texts are not showing then it means your IMC is not set properly. It's very easy to mess up.
