Introduction to Common UI | Inside Unreal 

17:30 Required engine settings setup 21:00 Setup data table for input actions 26:20 Generic data input blueprints hold info about button icons 36:00 Common input data blueprint 39:00 styling assets 45:00 UI 48:00: Don't use the canvas panel 50:00 StackCommonWidget 53:00 CommonButtonBase 1:10:00 MainMenu 1:16:00 PlayerController 1:31:00 PromptMenu

17:30 - required engine settings setup 21:00 setup data table for input actions 26:20 generic data input blueprints hold info about button icons 36:00 common input data blueprint 39:00 styling assets

Watch out! You don't want to have UCommonActivatableWidget as a base class of the UI_Base (47:34)! Base class should be UCommonUserWidget. This is the reason why focus is not returned back to the main menu when the yes/no dialog is closed (1:54:54).

As much as I like Inside Unreal streams, I think it would be preferable to have technical videos like this one in the same format as "Unreal Engine AI with Behavior Trees" : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iY1jnFvHgbE.html It's faster, more concise and straight to the point. It saves us a lot of time. Ok, I know it's not possible to ask question and have an answer "in real time", but it's much more easier to digest. Why not have a short and fast presentation in the format I 've mentioned, and then, a few weeks later, a stream to ask questions live and answers those already asked in the forums ?

I wish we could get some written documentation of this stuff, instead of nearly 3 hour long streams that haven't been planned out beforehand, with a host who talks super slowly.

Amazing work, i shift from cinema 4d to unreal engine 5, my first month on UE 5 and is crazy powerful ! I love everything on it, nanite is a powerful weapon, lumen and everything! great work guys 🙏

A huge thankyou for doing this from scratch on camera! I find this very helpful vs some videos where you just talk about things you made earlier!

As mentioned by Michael at 1:41:21, a way of doing this with interfaces would be to create a UIPromptConfirm Interface with a function called "OnPromptConfirm" that passes an ID name parameter. Then any class that needs to listen for prompt confirmations can just implement this interface. Then do a simple name comparison on the id and if the id's match, that class can execute it's logic.

ok.. weeks into this topic now.. and CommonUI clearly is ten steps backwards in Userfriendly UI development.. Since there are no InputEvents like with Legacy Input.. you can't have multiple triggering Action triggering Events in a Button or an Inventory Slot. Like Diablo.. FaceButtonBottom = use FaceButtonLeft = move 1 FaceButtonLeft (hold) = move stack ..etc not possible with CommonUI.. cause it only allows one TriggeringAction per CommonButtonBase. And there is 0.0 documentation of anything related to that topic.. so.. i think this won't change.. which is a huge NoGo for RPGs with Gamepad Support.. They added Enhanced Input (=EIS) support a time ago.. But not even at the beginning of being fleshed out. The InputActionWidget can't bind EIS Inputs if a CommonInput is available too, making the Widget stay invisible or blank white with an "unable to bind" error. If 10 Buttons have an EIS Confirm as Triggering Action, the CommonBoundActionBar has 10 times the same Icon shown.. even the ignoring of duplicated inputs is set to true.. sometimes EIS Inputs get not registered or make Widgets losing focus.. etc.. again.. Epic Games hide themselves in their own comfort zone, just doing FPS Plugins..cause CommonUI clearly is not Common.. it better be called ShooterUI, cause it is clearly made with lyra in head only.. If epic continues with their speed in updating this plugin, as they do now, CommonUI will still be in a pre-alpha state for the next years.. with nonsense documentation and zero development benefits, compared to the legacy Input system.. And if you say "But it has better gameoad support".. i think there are many plugins in the marketplace, handling that topic better than CommonUI... Epic should add the experimental / beta Tag to this.. cause it clearly is not ready to be public! too bad.. I'd to write my own Subsystem to handle focusing better than CommonUI, cause it sometimes has a button hivered, sometimes teo at the same time.. and sometimes it has a button in focus but triggers the action if a different one.. it was so frustrating...

For the mouse over issue, around 2:09:18, where you can still interact with the main menu when the prompt appears if you use a mouse, you can solve by: 1. In BP_GenericPrompt, set Activation > Activated Visibility to "Visible." (I know this is the default, but it is key to actually select it for some reason) 2. In BP_MainMenu, set Activation > Deactivated Visibility to "Not Hit-Testable (Self Only)." This prevents the main menu from being interacted with, but it is still Visible. You have to do these two things together to lock interactions to the prompt when it is present.

These videos are so valuable dude. For us who are serious about unreal, we need to see whats available and the best ways to do it. This is a great way to do it. Thank you!

52:32 I would recommend create an Interface with those two functions, and add in the Blueprint. So you don't need to 'cast to' to used it.

Honestly, this is s frustrating, I tried using this, and I get confused the more I watch the video. I don't know the potential of Common UI because there are no many resources on how to use it extensively on the internet.

1:29:24 I was expecting to see that hover state on keyboard

What concerns me is, with the lack of online documentation, what little nuggets of wisdom might not have been mentioned in these videos. Edit: don't get me wrong, every single one of these training videos are like droplets of wisdom from God's savory lips! I appreciate everyone because I'd be without a prayer of not for them! Keep doing your magic, epic!

1:45:43 I think the "cheat" is where you create a dispatcher called click button. Then in the generic button you bind the dispatch call to the function click button. Then in the parent ui when you use an instance of the button you create the function in the parent ui.

For anyone, like me, who has been googling this trying to figure out how to do checkboxes, it's around 1 hour mark that he talks about it. All a checkbox is in commonui is a button with the 'selectable' option enabled. This information was way too hard to find.

Can you explain how we're supposed to use the Q and E or R1 and L1 to navigate the UI??

2:09:40 I find it good that it needed the override on what the back button expects. My favorite games as a kid was the Golden Sun series. The back button in a conversation was taken as a no or bad frown face. Many games have this so being forced to see it here is a reminder to think about this.

Great presentation! Learned a lot. CommonUI seems a big improvement over default UMG. I really didn't like needing to make arrays for every button I want to use to be able to use it with my controller. Good job

Michael's stream is always informative...

Starts @ 13:30

no matter what I configure in the CommonUIInputData, Unreal seems to want only FaceButtonDown(A) as the click action 😿 what could I be missing?

This'll come in very handy!

At 1:59:45, actually i'm still able to go over to the main menu options even with quit game prompt enabled, i followed everything exactly like this video, how do i fix this?

Great video! Are there any videos or tutorials about adding dynamic buttons to a scroll box? I don't fully understand how CommonUI detects any buttons you add to be able to use gamepad.

2:01:37 you dont need two stacks , use only one to push and pop with deactivate and the system return to activate

the first hour is intersting, after that it's a complete mess

The plugin says its in beta and not ready for shipping. Can i still use this to make a ship-able game?

Epic please post us a professionnal video about Common UI, 2h40 in webcam here, seriously ? by the way, why is so hard to implement the gamepad navigation in widgets section ! I guess I would pay any expensive plugin in your market place to fix that ! Gamepad navigation in menu is a basic setting in video game industry ! Never see that !

21:21 That manufacter will be Microsoft, right? Because SNES controller already had A in the right and B in the bottom. Microsoft change it to evade copyright issues.

The closed captioning on this video is broken.

Looking forward to digging into this video!

Erm this is old but.. at 1:12:30, is using spacers for padding really a good idea? You could just go to Vertical Box and add padding above and below right?

Does anyone know how to disable the feature that sets mouse position to middle of the screen when switched to a controller? This also makes the cursor disseapers. I have a topdown game that gamepad can control the mouse, so I need to disable this.

He has improved so much as a public speaker. Thanks for the info!

Thank you! I learned new and necessary thing today

I love how the first 7:13 of the video is totally unrelated to the title of the video. :| Use the link to skip to the actual content.

Am I missing something? It doesn't highlight the button when I set the focus on activated..

1:08:30 Here there are two options, one set content and another set text (of Widget), that is the one he used, but this says this will wipe any bidding of 'text'. Each one should I use and why?

Can't get the main menu to show despite being pushed. Not sure if it's a Linux thing at this point.

Is it just me or are the closed captions way out of sync?

Hello im have troble with losing controll after a level is loaded up.

When I add the FreeRoamHUD it consumes all the inputs, how I make ignore/pass throw?

I CAN'T CREATE AN INPUT ACTION DATA BASE TABLE

Hi! So I saw a question in the chat that I find interesting and I can't find an answer to it in the stream. Is there any benefit of using player controller to spawn UI over using a HUD class for it?

The problem with the back handler was most likely the system trying to find the root and not finding one which was fixed by using IsModal. No need to override any function

Hey, if this video is confusing, check out my simple tutorial on Common UI, I made it for beginners, so it's much easier to follow: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uQisYatymjg.html

How to get the details and world setting panel on the right side of the screen ??? My UE5 interface has changed and viewport 1 is taking the entire screen. Please help !!!

what's up with the subtitles? Especially around 25 minutes

Almost 3 hours watching a man strugling to remember anything. Such a waste of time

32:35 InputData_PC_Keyboard 51:15 StackCommonWidget

Nice tutorial!

Good evening. Please advise, How can I reduce the sensitivity/speed of the camera in the viewport?

1:43:24 - You can use an enum insted index for more readable code

Is there a github rep link of the demo project?

Where to download the UI assets?

Please bring back HTML5/WebGL/WebGPU support for UE

I'm on UE 4.27 and I have two problems 1. @1:20:21 I don't see my UI on screen 2. @1:21:50 There is no function called Get Desired Focus Target when I search for it

at around 1:46:20 the (set text) option can't be found, alternatives?

I don't have the default tab like he has at 1:13:04 to change the name of each button. Can someone help me please

Yeah, no canvas. But If you want more interesting menu with more complex animations you still go back to canvas.

The only thing I want is to be able to import footage

2:18:00 - Common UI in VR (per the time of this video)

I love the content but please stop scream talking into your mic or adjust your levels.

So far, I see very little extra functionality than normal UMG. And the extra work it takes doesn't seem worth it.

So now we have GAS and CommonUI, all hidden away and very advanced to use but better than what’s default… Unreal is starting to smell like Unity, I’m afraid… 😟

2:27:51 Talking about a Search bar I have done a Easy Filtering with a Input field Tutorial ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3gPIKLxSVqI.html

1:27:48 - How its possible that the teacher dont kown a very important thing like use arrows! This is core for the system

Useless. more 2hours make nothing

6:20 much better the tone mamen ;)

This is useless if it doesn't work with enhanced input. Not to mention the severe lack of documentation and just overall confusing design.

47:59

Bring back the previous community manager!

Epic Games, you can’t tell me you can’t get AI to “summarize” these and timestamp for you. Look at software like “Gong”. This ain’t even hard

Please tell me this woman is gone by now 🐳 🤡

Found a thorough annotation here: x157.github.io/UE5/CommonUI/Annotations/EpicGames-Introduction-to-CommonUI.html (I didn't make it)

the old community manager was a better fit