How to build a Health bar for Unreal Engine 5 the right way - Beginner Tutorial 

I like how you demonstrated that binding is inefficient. All it took was printing every time that binding was called and it was immediately obvious why it's bad to do it that way. I think it would be cool if you did more videos like this. I'm new to Unreal so I've been following a lot of tutorials and I have no idea if I'm learning bad habits. I like how you took a method that many other tutorials recommend and explained why it's bad and how to do it more efficiently!

Love your content. I had no idea bindings ran every tick. Keep up the amazing work!

My god. I had no idea bindings were called every frame. My whole UI setup is using bindings currently. Back to the drawing board lol. Love your channel! Thank you for all the great info and hard work!

One year later and your tutorials are still fire bro... this saved me so much headache

You are the first person I've found that shows how to make a health bar without binding. You even take the time to show why it's very bad for optimization. Thank you. You saved me and have earned a sub.

I always used to think why everyone just doing some way and not explaining why they are doing so. Here I can see you put effort on explaining why you should not do one method and also doing the right and in more efficient way! You have earned a sub 😇👏

Great tutorial! Thanks so much for showing how casting and binding could be inefficient! Keep up the great work!

thank you for making content so fast i hope you get more subs

great content, explaining bad and good of anything and everything you implement is always a delight to see ^^ also when we getting the update on your project :D Kepp up the good work !

I would be ready to pay for a tutorial of a fantasy game, like souls -like game or such. Your way of teaching things is A-class and the Unreal community really needs someone like you who shows how things are done correctly and efficiently. Unreal engine is really hard to learn and let's face it, there's not enough discussion and helping of each other out like in Unity community. Big thanks to you.

Very nice tutorial man,

A++ tutorial. Thank you much. God bless.

You Just Saved Me !! Thanks !!

so many tutorials teach bad habits! It's wild, and so difficult to tell as a beginner who is legit and who doesn't really understand the engine all that well and is trying to make a career out of it. I've already run into one guy who makes a few glaring, nonsensical mistakes in his tutorial, like nodes that don't do anything, and nodes that do the opposite of what he says they do. Thanks so much for teaching the proper way to do things!

Yup good video, doing this stuff in c++ myself. Good to know I was correct that binding was a bad idea cause it was on tick.

best channel!

Thank you :)

great topic

Hi, thanks for all the tutorials (and for answering some of my questions of the UE Reddit)! I was wondering if you plan to do a tutorial on inventory systems? There are a few out there but they're mostly focused on MMO stuff rather than on something like Breath of the Wild or Outer Worlds, for example. I find these are well designed for both PC and consoles. All the best!

Sadly nothing new for me, but really appreciate way of showing how should be done right from start! :)) Binding is one of that things which are like ticking bombs waiting to destroy your week when project grows enough :]

I have implemented this with my character, but I can't find a way to make it work for an enemy (since they do not inherit from the player controller). Do you have a video on how to add updating health bars to enemy actors, or some advice on how to do it?

Thanks for demonstrating how binding is not the way to go when it comes to doing things like this. I had no idea binds run on every tick! I am currently experimenting with different way of accomplishing the same thing within the engine, but have no way of knowing which is the better or more efficient method. Do you know much about how to identify performance issues in the engine and how to fix them?

Thanks for the video. Is there a way to use text going down instead of a health bar?

Thank you for this video; I’ve been looking around for this specific demo (on how NOT to use bindings for health). However, I make it to the end and try to update the starting health on EventBeginPlay using the function you created …but it just doesn’t update. I start the game and it only matches whatever I have the percent slider set to in the progress bar widget . What am I missing??

thank you !, great tutorial, first time learning about event dispatchers lol i did so much casting. any tips on how to make the health bar widget do a smooth 'health drop' and not snap down ?

Hello, I really liked the way you showed this in detail. I have a question. I have created a BP called UIHUD and put it in the scene so there is no characters to cast. So when I try to cast like you did at the end, can't find a suitable object as I cannot call get player controller or anything. (coz there is none in that blueprint) and I won't have a character in the game, (its an incremental game) so how can I overcome this problem? Got any idea?

Really liked the tuto, ut i try to add that technic to my enemies and it doesn't work, i can't figure out the last part, how to translate it to an AI.

Nice tutorial! Could you make a tutorial based on this when the health bar reaches zero then game over or quit game?

18:25 sadest thing is i saw 2 other HP tutorials that did it exactly wrong, while both having 100k + subs

in the W_HealthBar Event Graph, if you were doing a health bar for an enemy rather than the player, what would you do instead of "Get Owning Player Pawn"?

Tried following these steps and watched other videos that are similar. For some reason I cannot get the UI to show on my viewport. I've tried the exact steps did something change? I watch another video and the person added the UI interface but called it to the view port by using a different controller then changing the viewport settings to that new controller but that way seems a bit odd to me. Any ideas what I am doing wrong.?

Thank you so much, this is vary helpfull! If i want to restore the Health whit a healing pickup item I have to create a new event dispatches for make it work?

i have a question though, as you can see it's very cluncky, how would you smooth out the movement of the progress bar? i really dont wanna use tick lol

Hi, great tutorial, I'm new to the engine and I have a question. My EventBeginPlay is allready used by my movement input. Is there a way to fix that? because I have noticed I can only use the same 'Event' node once in a blueprint So I can't use it for the widget.

The only reason why I would use binding in UI is formatting. i.e: at @17:30 I get it, not casting or excessive calculations. but you can store local variables in UI and just do percentage "formatting" in binding function. OR create "binding to local variable" without function! I see in UE53 I can do that. I wonder if that's more efficient? Then either create custom Event in UI that will run formatting and update health bar OR do through event dispatcher as you did. If hit is taken then notify UI and update its local values. Damage or health up values are int/float, easy to debug & setup. but presentation logic could be done in UI. For now its health bar... but at some point you might want to change it to display health points or both. This way its easy to handle all data presentation in UI.

Please can you make a sequel to make a health pick-ups

I can't seem to get another "Event beginPlay" to be added to the 3rd person blueprint. It just jumps me back to the original one that is already there by default, and my only other option is to create a custom event instead. Am I missing something?

awesome as usual mate things like this really help people like me, quick question I'm using the right thumbstick for rotation in a top down shooter everything works fine i was wondering how i would implement the z axis so i can aim anywhere do you know of a way to do this cheers.

I'd love to binge your videos but hammering your keys is such a distraction. You might wanna learn how to filter those sounds out a bit. Very easy to do in broadcast software such as OBS and Slobs.

Great Video brother. I was having issues after binding my widget. I deleted my binding and formula after watching that portion of your video. I am still having an issue though where the health bar stays the same when I am playing the game. I threw a print string at the end of my health bar widget logic and it doesnt fire when taking damage. I did a print screen for when I am taking damage and it shows my health dropping so its a communication issue with the widget. Got any advice on troubleshooting or things to double check?

i have a simple potion blueprint but im having a hardtime connecting the two

Hi! Do you think you could do a tutorial on how to make MOBA stylized health bars? The ones which look divided and give you an idea of how much health the character has without a number, just knowing each division equals X a mount of health? I hope I'm explaining myself adequately 😅

Is there are reason people don't put this on the controller instead of the player? Wouldn't putting it on the controller and using interfaces take away the need to cast?

MY Health starts in the game as whatever value was set in the widget hud, when i take take damage it jumps up to what i set in the blueprint?then starts decreasing when im in the pain volume

I really appreciate all of your tutorials. I am trying to implement this but I am having trouble. If I am using a separate blueprint component for damage/health, how would I implement that instead of storing health as a variable in the player character? I tried to do the player cast, then pulled from my component, then tried to get the variables there but it did not work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

its crazy how many bad habits you will find when searching for solutions in unreal engine. this case is simple one, but i encountered so many way more problematic ones on my learning jorney. and there is a huge lack of stored knowledge. if i ask questions to best practices (in professional environments) i get no answers. i feel like i need to join a company or university first to get taught this stuff...research seems to be very difficult in this industry.

great vid, I didn't realise I was making a huge mistake when following the aforementioned tutorials. I have a problem though, when I try to create a custom event and bind it to the called event it says "Delegate (by ref) is not compatible with Delegate"

Do you have a video explaining the function : "Get owner" , " get controller", "Owning player" or the ones in this line of work? From what i noticed they are there to specify who is the code to be applied to, but i cant wrap my head around them. Some other tutorials use them as well, but only those who dont use ticks. When they rely on ticks theres no mention of those functions. Do you have a deep dive or some other explanation on those?

Of the bind is called every tick, whats the usecase where it is actually useful?

So this tutorial wont work when im trying to make a multiplayer game. Any advice?

I love Your approach, but I am running into a problem with implementing this in local coop game. where player 1 healthbar functions as intended, while player 2 does not update at all (player still takes damage). With binding it used to work fine.

Thanks for posting. Quick comment. When you say "lets do it the right way" then start the tutorial with saying 'you shouldn't do it this way, but I am for the sake of simplicity' 3:10 its odd ;)

how can i create a potion pickup with this health bar ?

Hmmm, how would I do this if my character manually spawns in after the level loads. The health bar doesn't update to full health.

How do you do this with text?

Does it work for multiplayer?😊

I am confused because this video seems different when i watched it a few months ago.

i cant set progressbar, i can only get it. why is this? this is driving me nuts.

This tutorial is also terrible, everytime I respawn the player after they die, they end up with a health bar that is completely empty? Has anyone figured out how to fix this? Why is this simple stuff always so complicated and convoluted? After I set a branch boolean that if is dead is true then remove from parent target is widget? But it doesn't work!!! Your tutorial is just as bad when it doesn't explain this! There is no point to building a health system if it is not taken into context of death and respawning of the player.