How to Make a Simple Main Menu in Unreal Engine 5 - in 5 Mins! 

Thank you man! I really appreciate it. I always try to keep my tutorials straight to the point

Thats great to hear! yeah I always try to make my tutorials easy and simple to follow :) And I am glad I helped you discover that you can apply different game modes for different levels. It is a very powerful way to create different workflows through out your levels :)

@@GorkaGames Do you got a discord server? Would love to directly engage with you there!

@@Sygma_Kyle Right now I dont have a community server, however i do have a server for my Steam game, you can join there :) The link is in my channel

Thank you so much!! Yes good idea, I will note it down for a future tutorial!

thank you for watching my tutorial!!!

@@GorkaGamesey I need your help please! So when I start my game in the main menu map my enemy ai follows the player for about 5 seconds and then just randomly stops walking but on my normal third person map without the main menu my AI works just fine, I can figure out how to fix it please help.

Haha yeah that is actually a very good idea, I will think about it 😎

I gotchu! I had the same issue. If you make a new button (and make the Color Alpha 0, so its transparent) size it to the whole screen and set any other buttons z order to 1(leaving the background button at 0), so they function 'above' the others. Then you can click the background and not loose your cursor!

thank you for watching!!

thanks! I believe that in the widget. if you select the button, in the details panel, under appearance, style, there are some colors to exactly do that

you can make a new button whith its color as Alpha 0 covering the whole canvas and have that buttons zorder be 0 while the actual buttons the player will be clicking have a zorder of 1

I think you have to change the level, in the modes section in project settings to show the main menu.

Had the same problem my fix was: 1. In the MainMenu Widget Blueprint I added to the "On Clicked (Button_Play)" event: "Set Input Mode Game Only", right after "Open Level (by Name)" and don't forget the "Get Player Controller" and connect the Return Value of that to the new node. 2. Additional you can go to the Main Menu Level Blueprint Editor and add (right after "Add to Viewport") "Set Input Mode UI Only" 3. I also had a problem where my mouse cursor wouldnt want to show in the main menu, so right before the "Set Input Mode UI Only" and after "Add to Viewport" I added a "Set Show Mouse Cursor, checked the box and connected the return value from "get player controller So basically i set the input mode UI only when we are in our main menu , told the mouse cursor to show when in the Main Menu, and then switched the input mode to game only when we load into our level:) hope this helps

Yeah, I have in mind for the future actually making a whole multiplayer game mini-series. But I dont know exactly when I will do it, as it will require a lot of time for me. I will let you know when it will be available! As actually making a party and a friend system is pretty complex

I have the same issue.

That's because he made a little "make player not spawn" hack: defining the gamemode class - with no player. The point is that he didn't restore the gamemode nor the player class when pressing play. Just skip the part about creating the new gamemode for now.

you need to go into, project settings, maps and modes, and then you can change the default map

@@GorkaGames thank you it helped a lot

@@GorkaGames hey, just wondering - the "hack" of setting a gamemode works but - of course when you press play nothing happens - any plan to find a better way to do it? Just typing it here would be appreciated ^^

set as variable

make sure to set the cursor visible

@@GorkaGames figured it out! Thanks.

probably cause u have an infinite loop. Depending how u set everything up, your game starts immediately with widget loaded, clicking on button will load the same level with the same widget that will open main menu again and again. So instead of 'load level' function on button play you have to set function 'remove all widgets', and it will remove main menu.

ur clueless dont even bother developing something

Dont be so harse... i think you should use the event beginplay, then from that set game paused, create widget+add to viewport, set game and ui input, set show mouse cursor, and on the button action in the widget graph, reverse these actions so set game input mode, uncheck show mouse cursor, remove all widgets (or in any case just the menu widget

Yeah, I have it planned for a future tutorial. It is actually pretty simple to do, as UE will aoutomatically save it for you

they need to be different levels, one level with the menu, should open another one without the menu

there is an image tag in the left menu, add it and set z value to negative one or any number, so it goes behind buttons.

wdym?