How to make a 2.5D Platformer in Unreal Engine 5 - Beginner Tutorial 

Get my 12 hour course on how to make 2D games with Unreal Engine: tinyurl.com/Ultimate2D The input system has been changed with UE 5.2, so if you're using that one you might have to look into how to use the enhanced input system and apply that to this tutorial. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tKA4XFGAjx0.html

I just watched the whole video without having any interest in unreal or game development. Thanks RU-vid. Good suggestion.

The tutorial still works for me just fine, except for the Enhanced Inputs. With a tiny modification, the camera setup works fine as expected. Since the Input Blueprint has been updated to Enhanced Input in UE 5.3, for the section involving BP_CameraManager and Event BeginPlay, simply follow the steps that @CobraCode specifies with one simple modification. Begin by breaking the link between Event BeginPlay and the Cast to PlayerController in the Add the Input Mapping Group in the BP_ThirdPerson blueprint. Follow every instruction that @CobraCode gives, up to the point where you create the Set View Target with Blend. Connect the top rightmost pin in Set View Target with Blend to the top leftmost pin of Cast to PlayerController. Continue the rest of the tutorial as is. Good luck!

I’ve watched hours of beginning with unreal. The first 5 minutes of this answered nearly every question I had. Thank you.

Code Cobra respect for these 10-30 minute tutorials great for Warm ups and learning on the go before a longer tutorial

First time watching your videos, but you're very clear and precise with your instructions, and you show what they do. Good work!

wow, so much explained in just 16 minutes. Thanks for the very clear tutorial

Thank you so much for these tutorials!

amazing tutorial thanks! even for me as a noob with 2 hours in unreal engine. i subbed thanks!

Thank you for the concise and thorough tutorial man.

Your channel is AMAZING, and this tutorial was incredibly helpful!!!

Love the transitions BIRTH! 💪💪💪💪💪

Wow, the video I wait for long time ago. Thanks you so much!!

man you must be kidding, its awsome and quick to learn you deserve the best !!! thanks

Really great tutorial, thanks so much!

The instructions here would have saved me hours of headaches caused by troubleshoot my prototype. Better late than never, thanks for the tips 😊

yo seriously thank you. You just saved me a lot of headaches. I appreciate this.

Thank you, easy to understand and follow, Just what I needed.

your instructions are very calm and good understandable (also for a german). Very nice, thank you very much!

Thank's for that video man! really helpful

Please make more tutorials about 2.5D Platformer in Unreal Engine 5

Damn, thank you! Your video was short and to the point, AND it was showing what seems like the proper way to do things. Other videos I've seen on the subject did a few dirty things.

You just make my 1st game AMAZING!

for the inverted key directions, just go into the project settings -> inputs -> Axis Mappings... Move Right/Left mapping set movement scales to A=(1) & D= (-1). for keyboards atleast, change the other left/rights accordingly also. You don't have to rotate the spawn

very good your video helped me a lot

It was awesome, thank you.

This was useful thank you

damn good job! well done!

In love with pretty much every video you do, thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge with such clarity !

Amazing tut. You should do a complete course on how to create a donkey kong-style platformer, I would buy it immediately!

Top Tutorial thanks

Amazing tutorial

thanks so much buddy!

the part of setting the camera to rotate quickly also works for sprites, you just put a high value like 99999 and it will make your sprite rotate immediately without the need for any C++ code or blueprints, just with this little adjustment of the camera you have it will make your sprite rotate

I'd made a little 2.5d metroidvania platformer prototype just removing the forward/back inputs and never got around to solving the physics constraints, it's surprising how far you can get before that becomes an issue but thought I should finally look up how to actually fix that, thanks

Thanks A lot...... please make more the same 2.5D Climb Ladder System

Was going through this. Had a solution for the Camera inverse control movement. In the Event Blueprint for the movement before the it sends the vector to world direction, we can just use negate vector. That way we can control the character without the inverse input key.

thank you very much

Wow tnx

Thanks

Question here, i want to make a variation of that where the camera is in the center but moves up and down depending on the characters position, is there a way to lock the camera on the x axis and only move it on the y axis ?

Does having the whole game rotated 180 degrees on the Z axis pose some problems in the pipeline of assets and coding things in the future? Will everything you code have to have flipped negative -X value to move something Right.. Doesn't that have some funkiness with animation in Unreal?

Very easy to follow and a great tutorial overall. I'm glad I finally found something that helps!! Does anyone know of a good tutorial for added a weapon to a player for a side scrolling shooter? Also, my world camera is starts off facing the wrong direction and not on the player position. Can that be fixed?

Hey Cobra, very helpful thus far. How are you able to attach the camera actor to a player such as at 7:20 ? With 5.1 Unreal update adding the Enhanced Input I cannot figure it out. Thank you for all your videos!

Tutorial is just a 10 with a + . Please show me how to make customizable control for android/ios . I really need this ! Tks!

where did you get those mario 3d assets?

How could I recreate the max distance functionality on the spring arm for this camera system?

Is this system of "Add movement input" work with a spline if I wanted my character to run along a curved road?

Would you be able to make a coding language varient of this video? Or is there already a verient of this tutorial withiut visual scripting?

maybe I did something wrong, but the following camera part doesnt work anymore since the UE Interface has slightly changed.

How do you get the red line from the camera component to align with the character after moving said camera component?

Hi!! This tutorial helps a lot! Can you make a tutorial for a minimap like metroidvania? I cant find anything about this.

A tutorial about paperZD with enhanced input system is needed since the controls no more works with the classic input axis mapping.

In a certain part you mentioned how one can create a camera crane for when the character might enter a higher area. Do you have a video for that?

When you switch direction there is point where character look at camera, is there way to rotate immediately? And i dont want to use rotation speed, since it can mess animation.

Fantastic course! Any chance/plans to get the more in-depth one?!

Thank you very much! But I'm having trouble with the 1:56 control I'm using Unreal Engine 5.1 and don't know what to do at this point

At 13:00 I have all the code in the right spot but my camera goes flying towards the sky. When i adjust the pins(on the final splits) I can get the camera to not fly away but instead its only offsetting to one side? Any fix. Trying to self learn is making me want to pull my hair out. :(

Hey! Ty for the tutorial, its very helpful. Im actually a newbie and i have few questions. Maybe you heard about the game "inside", its 2.5D platformer, and im curious how to make camera movement like there? I mean in some locations camera can move up or down or even turn a bit right to show a player what's going on forward. Any chances you can help me with that? Maybe you know some tutorials about this topic or you made something similar. Because im trying to do my own first game and i need to implement this mechanic but i dont know how

@CobraCode Is there any chance of seeing a tutorial from you on how to integrate camera splines in Unreal Engine?😁

15:11 my character doesnt seem to bounce off, it actually slides off the enemyBP, no bounce whatsoever. Is there a setting that I'm missing?

3:00 Does anyone have a solution to make the player rotate differently?

Amazing tutorial! I wonder how do you get all those information what all those "actions" in BP doing? I mean how do you know, that you should take function "Event BeginPlay" than SpawnACTOR and set some class to BP_camera to get this or that result? I didnt think this will workout by trial&error because Unreal is massive with all those functions. I didn´t get it or I´m to stupid or both... :D anyway thanks for sharing you knowlegde!

How i can make it work with respawn system? Even if i switch follow target to respawned character it changes nothing and camera is inside his head...

I don't have the same BP_ThirdPersonCharacter as you do and I do not know where you got yours. Mine does not have the same blueprint sheet event graph as your's does. Mine is the lady character that comes with Unreal.

Is there any chance to update a video to the UE5.2? After reaching 7:18 in your video, the differences between your version and 5.2 make continuing the project very hard.

Great video. I have a respawn system and I'm trying to get the camera to go back to the new player once they respawn. Any clue on how to do this?

that was relly relly amazing man..very thank to you.

Hey man can you make a vid about parallax effect for background in unreal for 2.5D games like I'm really interested in that and can't find anywhere

‏‪9:12‬‏ I just got an erorr masege And i am sure of the steps Is there any virsion defrences ???

Hey! this is awesome to watch your videos, is it possible that you could make some sort of clicker game that collects gamecoins, and then with said currency you can enter another window to buy collectibles from a case opener of sorts and the "won collectible" goes into a collectible screen where you can watch everything you earned? :D

in the 5.1 update im using, on thee bp camera i cannot get a reference to self on the event graph for follow target please help

How would you make it so that the character could move with depth? Similar to the arcade beat em ups like final fight.

Interesting, thanks. You used 3rdP project to make SS. Im in UE4.27 > SS and going in reverse to add 3rdP controls. Can you make a tut or direct me how to make a Magnet actor/zone that pulls my SS character back onto the correct axis alignment (course correction)? [Simple Move to Location] node is not working well. I have Mover platforms that take the SS player -100 X units into the depth of the map. Thus the new path plane is at X = -100 (all the pickups and path ramps). When the Mover activates (moves), I have it temp disable the Axis lock on the SS player (4:19) > [Set Plane Constraint Enabled] = false. Then after moving, it reactivates the lock on the SS player. I need the Course correction Magnet in case the Player bumps an enemy while 3d traveling, which reduces his speed, and thus he may not exactly travel to the Stop location of the Mover (which is set to move X = -100 units off normal path). But what movement node do I use (for UE4.27) on a Player character to smoothly pull him to a specific X = -100 location while he is moving Left/Right (Y plane) towards that Magnet point? I searched the forums and it's harder because only AI controlled characters can use certain move to Nodes. 1. So I made a BP, added a Box collision in the center. Set scale to 0.01, 0.01, and 3 high - so it is closer to a specific X,Y point instead of an area. This it the “Magnet Point” that I want the Player to pull to. 2. Then I added a bigger Box collision, scale 8, which is the zone-area (“Mag Zone”): when the Player enters, I want the Magnet (movement) code to start: pull Player from current loc (wherever they first touched the zone) to the Mag Point. 3. So I used [Simple Move to Location]: Goal = the loc of Mag Point, and Controller = Get Player Controller. 4. The problem is that [Simple Move to Location]'s Goal loc does not work to pull my character exactly to X = -100.01 (the location of the Mag Point in the BP that is placed on the map). It sometimes shifts to X = -102 or -105 (if my Player is falling down a slope, and I have a Mag Zone corrector BP at the bottom of the slope to catch and correct his path - it's not working). 5. And if my Player runs too fast into the Mag Zone - his movement is fighting against the [Simple Move to Location]'s movement code. Thus sometimes he snaps back instead of a smooth blend of allow Y movement, but slowly blend X Player-location to X Mag-Point location (until he touches the Mag-Point box, which shuts off the code) - no matter which side of the Mag Point that the Player is on. 6. So do you know a better node (that works in UE4.27) to slowly pull the Player's X location to a specific point, while still allowing Y directional travel to change as it gets closer to X Goal point? Thank you 7. I also tried Spline Path BPs: with enter and exit Box collisions on each side. The spline looks like a zig zag (from top view), that only changes the X offset, while path being Y = 500 units long. So when Player enters the zone, the code Unlocks Plane Constraint, and the Path is controlled by the Spline. 8. A guy did a tutorial on it (for UE4). But he didnt 'finish' 'this video is too long' the code for it to work while jumping (Z value changes). 9. So the movement doesnt blend correctly when the Player jumps while moving along the Spline (which is changing X depth). (It does some weird thing where the greater the Z distance from the Spline (on ground level, thus Z=0) - the greater the pull is on the Character's movement, when I only want to restrict X,Y while hooked on the Spline path.) 10. So I cant use it on spiral paths going up, because the Z (of the Mesh ramp) changes too much (vs the Z of the Spline path, too hard to edit Z points to exactly align 100 units above current Z location of Mesh ramp). Thus it creates too much Z pull on the character.

You absolutely should redo this video because of the enhanced input control change bc the event graph we get now and your event graph in this video are completely different

When I set the camera to absolute rotation the camera jumps infront of the character when I turn left.

Hey I have an issue in 5.1 with "Follow target". It is renamed owner on SpawnActor, I linked that to self and referenced it in target in SetActorLocation for Camera but I get an error

so around the 2:30 we set camera to world and when i hit play the camera shifts to front of the player in 5.2. Any idea what to do to keep the view on the side?

Don't know what's wrong with my character, but when i turn left it turns it's back towards me, but when I turn right, it turns it's face towards me.

Thanks for the tutorial, is there a fast way to prevent player from facing Y axis? Like a quick snap? I am having problem coding with launch and adding force, my char is getting pushed onto forward axis.

Lets say I have a side scroller and after the player gets all the way to the right of the screen, the road does a T. How would I make it so the char rotates and now goes left / right on the X axis instead of the Y? If I get this figured out i'll be good to go.

Hey, can anyone help me with a problem the problem is that whenever I press ctrl + V to paste the Camera but then when I have to put the character in the variable type it says, " Cannot edit variable type when they are inherited from a parent". I tried to paste it individually, but it still didn't work. Can anyone help me out here? Whenever I paste it the SpringArm doesn't appear its DefaultSceneRoot and below its camera

Hello ! Thank you for this great tutorial ! I have one small issue : when I set the Constraint to Plane on the Y axis, my character rotate but won't move. Did I miss something ? Thank you :)

13:14 this solution does not work for me? it still zooms out and breaks the character offset effect. can anyone help?

Is there a way to set up the constraint in the code? I have it where the player starts out with a third person camera and can go anywhere on any axis. But then it can switch to side scroller platforming which I figured out how to set it all up but the constraint I can not figure out how to turn it on and off in code and only when the player is in sidescroller parts. Also I am working in 5.1

Could you explain how you solved the jumping on enemy issue im running into? The character class relies on the capsule collider,and during jump animations the capsule collider is below the player meshes feet. This causes a very noticebale gap between the players mesh and the targrt enemies mesh as the two capsules collide before the meshes do.

That little mustache lol Perfection.

I'm curious if anyone's having the same problem as me- the camera adamantly refuses to go above or below X height. If I build a level with varying heights, it is STUCK at the height it spawns at. Also, when the character turns to face the camera (while switching directions), the camera will push outwards, towards the player (irl). It's quite... goofy.

Is it at all possible to set up a game like this, as in only side to side movement... but allow the character at predefined spots, to jump into the background and travel left and right there, using this method?

Inn Unreal 5.3 the Event Beginplay is already on the ThirdPerson BP so I cant add a new one and connecting it to nodes we made here undoes all the input mapping nodes. Im not quite sure what to do. Any help?

My spawn actor BP cameramanager box does not show an option for "follow target" as yours does. how do I fix this?

i found this really helpfull till the whole blue print part for the side movement. the red boxes in the blueprints ( i forgor the name of them) you hade two but when i did its only 1 big one. think you can help :(

I've been scrubbing from 7:20-9:20 trying to troubleshoot how I turned this into a permanent FPS game 😆 I am so stuck getting the camera to reappear on the side of my character. All the Blueprint steps from 7:20 are not congruent with what is the behavior in current UE5.3

Bro I just pressed X on the components and it deleted What shuld I do now 😢

My FollowTarget variable doesn't show up in the SpawnActor from Class. Any suggestions for how to fix this?

dont u have double camera lag now once by the copyied cameraboom + camera(u copied it without deactivating) and second by the inteper of the cmanager u manually setup ?

can you make one on 'how to make a top down zelda game' , something similar to links awakening.

i'm getting a BP runtime error on the Set Actor Location of the UpCamPos saying it's accessing 'None trying to read property Follow Target'. It is referencing to Self now ?!

in my blueprint for the character it was already using a Event BeginPlay node and wouldn't let me spawn in another one. What do I do?

Hi! I did everything as shown in the video, but then I replaced the initial character model with a new one, and everything broke, the camera appears at the starting point and nothing happens. What should I do to attach a camera to a character with a new model? I'm new to this and don't see obvious solutions, thanks if you help))