Make a Top-Down Shooter in Unreal Engine 4 

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I had so much fun going through this tutorial! It has made blueprints less daunting, and I'm getting better at moving around in them (plus I can no Compile and Save in my sleep). Here are some tips for some parts I really struggled with: 1. If your projectiles won't collide with anything despite all the collision boxes being checked correctly: It is VERY IMPORTANT that you make your Lazer/Projectile Mesh override the "DefaultSceneRoot" as can be seen at 18:07. He goes over it pretty quickly so I missed it the first time. 2. There is no Animation Montage in your downloaded Minion pack: I couldn't find it anywhere so I made a quick fix. Create a new Animation Montage, drag the Attack animation onto the timeline (this won't create a nice blended idle to attack animation but it works in a pinch), then THIS IS IMPORTANT make sure you right click on the Notify part of the timeline to Create New Notify, and drag it to the time point when you want an enemy's blade to start hitting like he shows at 1:20:30. Otherwise it will not print the Debug Sphere or later register a hit on your character. 3. And finally, when in doubt delete the nodes giving you trouble and redo them. That was how I puzzled out the issues I was facing. Hopefully this helps somebody so they won't have the same headaches I had. Great beginner tutorial, thank you!

Timestamps: 1:00 - Setting up the Project 1:25 - Adjusting the Camera 2:40 - Finding a custom character in Marketplace 4:20 - Adding animations to the character mesh 5:22 - Adding "gun-fire" action mapping 7:30 - Explains blueprints for fire action 10:30 - Montage 13:55 - Making the emissive bullet

I've been doing a lot of different tutorials recently and yours are some of the best for me. It really helps when you pause for a moment to briefly explain the reasoning behind what you're doing. A lot of other tutes don't bother, and it's so helpful. Thanks for the good guidance!

"A very long term lifestyle" HA-ha-ha, what he doesn't tell you is after you learn enough to be dangerous, you get hooked on the engine and your family comes looking for you because you haven't eaten or slept. It's a sickness! rofl I told my wife "Building games is the most fun I've had with my clothes on". Thank you again for another awesome video class. I always feel like you're speaking with me, not at me.

Just downloaded Unreal Engine last night and watched this and several other video's. Great job, these are some really excellent videos that allow you to dive into the basics right off the bat. Thank you for taking the time to make them!

I think what I love about your videos is that you show a bunch of stuff, and really the learning comes from just doing it. Thanks.

timestamps would make this tutorial even better.

Just wanted to let you know that out of all the tutorials out there, none helped me as much as yours did. Not only did you clearly indicate why you were doing all the steps that you did, but your methodology of teaching was amazing. I ended up learning so much about the engine in just 2 hours then I had previously by watching 15 hrs worth of tutorials! Thank you for taking your time to do this. I had given up on unreal but decided to watch " 1 more" video to see if it made any difference. I'm glad I did. Instant sub! Thank you!

Just what I need... I was about to give up on UE because it was too complicated, but now I’ll keep at it! Thanks 👍🏼

Thank you for these videos. You finally gave me a great starting point. I have struggled to get started in a way I don't feel completely lost. You are the man!

This tutorial looks promising, thanks I can't wait to get started! Awesome to have it in one video too so I no it will not be a waste of time like loads of other tutorials on here!

Thanks so much! So good for getting a real overview and creating something playable without too much problems

This was an awesome tutorial to get a hold of the basics, amazing!

Awesome! yes part 2 please!! Thanks so much for including the project, it really helps when you get stuck.

Tip for the people having an issue where the enemy suddently stops if you move while he's attacking, you can do two things to fix this: 1) Go to the enemy attack montage and move the Notity to 0 in the timeline. 2) Setup a hurt animation for the player character and stop its movement at the same time the animation for the enemy begins. Reason for this is the SphereOverlapActors that should catch the player is delayed by the Notify in the enemy's montage, so by the time it checks if the player is overlapping the sphere, the player has already moved.

dude this was awesome. i like the "learn as you go" format

This is a very helpful tutorial for getting familiar with the basics of Blueprints. Thank you for all the work that went into it. One thing I found tricky while following along was that sometimes you refer to things using generic language. For example, "Under Planer Movement. Check this and put 1 on Z." (31:34). Often I am not watching the video but rather listening to the audio and following along in my Unreal Editor. When these generic instructions are said I have to tab over the the video, and rewind to see what you actually did. I understand that this is a video from over a year ago so you may have already made an adjustment, however if not, using a little more specific language would help tremendously. Again, thank you for sharing your expertise. Cheers.

I think I can safely say this is definitely the best beginner tutorial to unreal engine blueprints on RU-vid.

To be honest with you. your the only person on RU-vid who explains things so very well. i have learned so much watching your videos man. I cant thank you enough. you deserve someone buying your courses. ill buy them and learn more. thanks very very much. now ill move to part 2 :)

Great video, I learned a lot and now have a solid starting point for a top down shooter. Thank you very much and keep up the great work!👍👍Great channel also BTW

Cheers, I've now learned the basics of using blueprints for coding, thanks to you. I've been scripting in GDScript and LUA for a while but this is a lot better once you get the hang of it.

Followed the whole video through and through. Your way of explanation was a bit fast at times but over all works like a charm. Thanks a lot for this video. I'm just getting into Unreal and game dev and this was very helpful in getting some of the fundamentals down.

My favorite RU-vid Tutorials comes from this guy ... whatever your name is bro, THANKS for your existence in this World :D :D :D I am improving my GameDev journey quite a lot because of you !

As a refugee from unity I have to say this beginner friendly tutorial is very handy, thanks!👍

This was super helpful, just getting started with unreal and you described everything very well, thanks

Amazing Video. First time ever using UE4 and I already feel soo much more comfortable after watching this video. Blueprints are awesome, i see tons of potential.

Thanks a lot for this! Such a great introduction to the engine, can't wait to go further on my journey :)

This is extremely valuable content, and it is well made 👌🏿 Major props to you. You deserve way more subscribers.

Dude, this is epic. You just earned yourself a sub

Awesome content yet again

Best tutorial ever! Love you~

Just adding some info, the animations are like that probably because they go with ragdoll right after that. Many games does that, one that comes to my mind is the call of duty series. Great tutorial as well

Thank you so much. Love this tutorial!

Thank you for making this video, it really helped me.

you are insaine and i like to thank you for uploading gold content like this. Subbed

Thanks bro, this is sooo usefull and I purchased all your classes in udemy

Great one Jeff

This is brilliant! this 2 hours was more helpful then an expensive courses. Even i'm from Russia but it's completely easy to understand, thanks a lot! We waiting part 2, I hope there will be about changing level or setting a main menu

Awesome tutorial! Really learning from your vids!

Great tutorial...Keep going

Awesome! Just what I needed.

Thank you for this video. It really helped a lot!

Thank you so much for this.

1:34:30 - you can actually make the animation a variable. It just doesn't have "Promote to variable" option. You still can manually create the variable with "Anim Sequence" type. Animation blueprint is still better way to do it though. ( I think )

You are a very good teacher, thanks for this it really helps! 🙏🏾

I know I'm late to the party, but this has really helped me. Thank you. Also, when the AI broke at 1:32:44 you dodged its hit, so the hit logic never triggered.

They dissolve/disintegrate before they hit the ground, that's why they stop so abruptly. Thanks for the video dude, a lot of help!

2 hour shooter? I am on DAY 2 and only half way through the video LoL Having a blast, love learning new things and you do a great job in getting a lot of info out in a good way, I remember when I was younger on my trs 80 and mainly my commodore 64 , I used to get magazines that had pages and pages of code and you had to type them in exactly. Could spend days typing to play a game of hangman but usually had a day or 2 of debugging before we could even play :=o

Thanks man - been working with UE for a couple months now and it's all starting to finally click after watching some of your vids. Subscribed and will be checking out your other content for sure.

Thanks. Great Tutorial, just purchased a couple of your classes on Udemy.

Awesome. Thanks

Good work thanks its a big help and save lot of time! I subscribed👍

yo love your content dude

Great tutorial. Had some trouble with the Minions not being compatible with 25.4 and higher, but i found that if you install it to a older version then copy the Minions folder into the content of your version it works fine. I'm using version 26.1.

This is by far the best tutorial on the subject on all of RU-vid.

thanks a lot for sharing what you know it really help others

I don't want to sound like a typical youtube commenter, but fuck bro, your stuff is the best. Subscribed. Everything makes way more sense when you explain it. Holy shit. Hard shit just got ezier. Thanks alot man! You are the best. Hope the comment finds you well.!

Good tutorial!

I got into trying to make games a few years back, I was spending 8 hours a day every day for maybe 6 months. And it felt like I was getting nowhere. I was using the unity engine. You just created in 2 hours what I couldn't create in 6 months with unity, mainly because I'm not good at it, but also because the stuff UE has built in to it, you have to pay for in unity. Competent character controllers, visual scripting, all this stuff wasn't included with unity at the time I was doing it. And because of that you had no base framework for anything. Like if I paid for a character controller, it wouldn't come with "states" that I could mess around with in the visual scripting side of things. Because that was something else that needed to be bought and was made by a different person. So my options were to learn how to make everything from scratch, or try to get different systems made by different people to work together. These videos make me want to give it another go, but using UE this time. I wasn't learning anything and I was just wasting time. It feels like with UE I could learn how to make it myself (by watching tutorials of course) so I would have control over everything. Instead of being limited to what other people made, that again, I couldn't get to co-exist.

That's actually an insane video, since you cover most basic things and even tell people about things like class inheritance. This is rare, 'cause most tutorials usually just go with a "Less make an enamy" and a single class, at least in Unity. Insta sub and like on this one. Thanks for your work! Also found out you can't add "Paragon Minions" to a project with engine version 4.27 as for jan 2022. I've found a replacement in marketplace, it's called "City of Brass: Enemies" - it's free and works with latest engine version. Hope that helps.

your killing it

Protip- if you split the get world transform pin, you can drag the loc and rot off of that, and set the scale directly ^^

oh its back up, nice :3

Paragon "The Frey" character looks so fun.. Honestly all of them do.

hey man, i know im a little late to the party. I was actually looking at your courses, I'll likely end up purchasing one because its only a 20 spot. but sometimes a 20 spot is hard for someone to drop. I'd be more inclined to drop that 20 faster or maybe someone else may be more inclined to think of it as less of a risk if you made video demo's of your courses. Perhaps start screen, a small info section of what you'll be covering and then a demo of what the final project will look like. I think ima check out the top down lecture course after i finish this video (only about 30 mins in) also this is all coming from someone that has zzzzzeeerrroooo knowledge about anything which i figure is the case for most folks watching a video like this one.

Part 2 please i love this

Coool, thanx!

man you are awesome

@ 18:23 i needed to check this Box:"Show Engine Content" under the "view options" tab to be able to use the Sphere mesh ;)

thank you very much !

Awesome!

Blueprints, blueprints everywhere !

Ehi @DevAddict I thank you so much, I'm attending a course in which I should learn a lot of programs all together and I find UE very interesting so I decided to follow as many yt videos as I could to get deeper into UE. I made it till the end and I'm extremely happy with that (I could also pracitce my English XD you speak quite fast to me ^_^"). I think i missed just one thing unfortunately. When Belica dies, the animation starts but i can still control her (like her corps is moving around and it is hilarious!). How should I interrupt the input of movements by the player? Thak you again, hope you'll read this

This was so helpful. When I become a famous game dev, I won't forget you

If your projectile doesn't get stuck in the wall make sure in BP_laser under collision under Object Type it is set to Projectile

gracias mister

Quick question, the health bar is working, but it only shows up once I’ve been hit? Any ideas? Like I say, it is working and can be seen when getting hit, just curious as to what you think may have gone wrong for future reference! Brilliant videos pal, really appreciate them. About to look in to your courses too as I find you explain things really thoroughly.

Around 1:20:00 we are looking for a Jungle Attack animation montage but for me that didn't exist. It wasn't hard making a new one using the melee attack, but I was having trouble getting my sphere to load. Turns out the custom notify I created on that montage wasn't working, I just needed to use the PlayMontageNotify preset. Ended up working fine for me after and everything else did fine just as you showed. Figured this might help someone else if they run into it and get stuck. Great tutorial, thanks!

First problem started at just the 3:50 mark. After unpackaging the character models of lT Belica I don't have any option to click back on Third person character. You have your thing set up differently than default or they changed ui in update. I can't find a way to get back to third person bp.

Thanks for the great tutorial! The only complaints I have is that you never got to the point of implementing the laser's audio or telling us where to get the free sound files, which you began to do earlier in the video but never finished. Also, you have a link to part 2 in the video description but it says the video is set to private. Thanks again.

If anyone had a problem with the laser hitting everything _but_ the enemy, I spent a while playing with settings to fix that. It turned out that the laser was shooting over its head, so I just lowered Spawner and it fixed that problem.

Note for myself (and for others) at 1:00:11 also if you want to stop looping the death animation if you keep shooting the enemy then inside the BP_EnemyBase create a Boolean variable (i name it IsDead) and right after Death Event i'll set it to True. After that right at the beginning of the Event AnyDamage create a branch that have the condition IsDead and continue your logic from your False branch. The True branch should be left empty

Dude, I love that you debug on screen! Most tutorials > We're going to put the spawner arrow for the laser a foot infront of the character, and you'll see why later. Me > never see why and More importantly, never learned. Akin to the teacher says 2 + 2 and we say 4 DevAddict > "We can use this arrow to spawn in the laser " Me> We should put the spawner arrow inline with the gun You> same Me > test play, shot gun, laser doesn't move Me > maybe it's coliding with the character?? You > Yes, It's coliding with the character You > we move the arrow (makes sense) You > use Rotation From X vector and make transfrom blue print Me > The F?? You > I understand this may not make sense to you now. Given time and exposure to blue prints it will. There are many great bluePrint tutorials Me > Thanks Bro! You're the best! post script. When I saw that orange Spawn transform paramater on the SpawnActor method ( not sure at this point if that's a paramater or method) I paused the video and google it. There's a lot of people stumped by that thing.

damn good, man

Okay so I have set up the sphere collision so that I can start applying damage to the player character and I have run into 2 problems. The first is the fact that the debug sphere isn’t loading in when the enemy attacks (1:23:42). The second is that after applying the damage output to the ai (1:27:05), the print string isn’t popping up with anything in the viewport. I have been trying to fix it for a few hours and I haven’t gotten anywhere, I hope that you could shed some light on it :D Edit: Never mind I have fixed it 😃 for anyone having the same problem as me you have to go into the montage editor, right click over the notifies tab, hover over add notify and then click on montage notify. This will add a notify to the montage which the play montage node will read and apply to the rest of the blueprint you have made. Hope this helps

best tutorial finally

Tengo un problema, no se que he hecho mal cada ves que quiero disparar las balas no van al frente sino arriba

In another video, for simple melee combat hit detection you used box attached to the actor with collision enabled/disabled by montage and with onComponentOverlapEvent. Here you are doing sphereOverlapActors and going through all overlapping actors. Is there particular reason for this?

22:50 The BULLET logic starts here

I believe that for performance reasons, one should use Interfaces instead of Tag and Cast to

at the lazer blueprint and i press simulate the lazer dosen't move also in game when i shoot the bullet it just get stuck in me and says "lightning needs to be rebuilt". How do i fix this?

54:08 - It won't print anything to me, so whatever additional logic I add (like Death), it just doesn't work. I reviewed the BP couple of times now and everything is same :(

Hey dude, at 48:00 my enemy did not have any collision, I really did not understand because my enemy's capsule component had block all but it did not block it and did not display the name, anyway thanks for the support, I am a huge fan!

Super confused everytime I open up Belicas meshes it closed my old third person game and I can’t copy the mesh or the animations

hey does this have to be made in 4.22.3 only ?? or you can make it in another vesions aswell

How its going I got a question for a special wave how would I summon that one monster instead of the original. for example in wave 10 I want to put a different monster instead of the other one . been on if for a few days figured id ask around.

Is anyone else missing the Jungle Attack Montage? I even searched for it in the editor and it's not there.

I have a question, can we also add a collision box around the weapons blade and let that check for "if animation attack is playing -> play weapons overlap event" ? I mostly see this version like you do but why not the other way? It sounds to me more realistic and surely not a new thought, might be that perhaps there are some performance issues?

*great sharing. can you make a video on how to make a top down game like diablo or poe*