Unreal Engine 5 Tutorial - Inventory System Part 1: Inventory Component 

I actually watched many series, but they're too long, or they don't explain the "why" behind everything, and I just end up copying stuff without understanding why or how it works. Just watched this first episode and this looks promising. Just 10 minutes and I understood how this will work overall.

Well, coming back here to say this ISN'T the series. At some point stuff isn't event replicated, and when you start working on saving, everything will break. Don't waste your time unless you don't care about replication.

@@Suleyk95 yeah i got to a later vid and wasnt working. Things not showing. Followed it to a T. Off to find another tutorial. LMK if you find one that works. Specifically for third person

@@JonathanBarrett-v3q I followed a few inv tutorials and to be honest this one is well organized and easy to debug/modify, the bad part is the replication and saving. My advice is to watch a detailed guide on savegame, do that part on your own, and understand replication too. I managed to save player inventories by generating a save slot for each player and storing the inventory array there. The player slot name can be made in many ways, for now I'm getting the actor display name, but make sure you get it from the server, because each client instance will give actors their own name and they will send inconsistent actor names replacing the ones it shouldn't. Basically make a server call and send it your actor reference and inventory array, and the server will get the actor from the input, get its display name, set the savegame object inventory contents to the one you got as input, and once the variable inside the savegame object is updated with the inventory contents call the save game to slot function giving it the slot name you generated. In the future you can use other stuff as the slot name, such as the steam id, etc etc. For manually placed containers it will also get the actor name and save it, but for generated containers such as lootbags you will have to make some stuff so when the level loads, it will spawn those lootbags and then they can load the inventory on the actor begin play. TLDR, follow this series to get an organized inventory functionality BUT you will have to work on your own replication and saving logic, since it's kinda broken here. Make sure you don't just copy what you're seeing, understand what and why you're doing it and even if you dump the whole thing, you'll have some new knowledge and you'll be able to make your own stuff. Get inspiration from everywhere, fit your own pieces together.

Yep - here to agree - broken bug filled mess by the end, despite being promising for most of it. Not usable by the end.

thank you i knoew it :')

thank god my uni course is making us make one without teaching us the engine first!

DO NOT follow these tutorials or "stick with it" - anyone saying they're brilliant or even fully work has not tested them properly. They are a broken, bug filled mess by the end and remain unfixed

@@rubbakeys16k99 Could you explain? It works perfectly in my packaged build.

Lol, I thought it was just me )

Same

@@ZatriX_ZA same

same

@@rainy2063 what do you mean "same"😂 it's in the video, everyone will see that too

hey man i followed this tutorial and made an inventory system but i'm really struggling with making an equipment system working together with the inventory system i made following this series. u got any tips?

how is this going bro?

Check out Jonatan Isaksson. He is in the middle of doing a very useful guide of Inventory system/equip system. Good content, videos aren't structured as well as Ryan's videos but sounds like it might be what you're looking for? Not to advertise him and poach traffic; just trying to help everyone out. :)

I was wondering the same but for my Structs I always prefix them with an "S", its just easier for me to find them.

tru, have u found out, if he does sth important there? still wondering how nobody noticed, this happens quite a lot

At around 2:11, right? I was wondering why none of the top comments mentioned this. Wasted like 15 minutes trying to figure out if it is an issue on my end or not. Sometimes it happens because I watch videos at increased speeds most of the time haha

Because the system you will build in BP is broken enough by the end of the tutorials, so why bother with C++ on top??

A well optimized BP system is good enough to not bother with coding it yourself. Don't forget that BPs are just codes as well in the end.

You can do it!

I am using 5.3 and it works perfect.

sounds like when you close your inventory you havent set the input back to game input, i think thats all you would need to do.

is ok for ue5.4?

Naming convention

You didn't follow the video correctly and either haven't added the inventory size variable yourself or have messed it up somehow

The system isn't broken in the way you say and you have gone wrong, however the system is broken and unfixed by the end of the tutorials. It's a complete turd, unfortunately

@@chrispetersen3613 substitutes, not subtitles. I believe I create multiple characters.

Yeah, let's have a buggy, broken crafting system to go with our buggy, broken inventory system

Good - you'd just learn how to build broken shoddy garbage and to go elsewhere to learn the right way and end up with something that works

Good. The more times you have to trash everything you've worked on and start over the more times you will deeply understand methods and procedures. As for him not mentioning it, he mentions it at the beginning of this video. Based on what he was saying, it sounds like the old project was bugged out anyways. So you don't want whatever he was building before.

@@chriswaller8780 Then he needs to remove it.

Skill issue.

@@alex-qn5xpfr bruh

@@chriswaller8780 The new one's also bugged and broken, so what's the diff?

I thought he must have left something out couldn't figure out wy it wasn't bringing up the item as a refreenced output, thanks!

Tutorials usually expect you to have some basic knowledge of whatever they're using, in this case Unreal Engine. It's not his fault you don't know what you're doing.

⁠@@alex-qn5xpwell, sum of us are here to learn 🙄 happy u literally kno everything tho, good for u 👍🏾

@@jeramiahgentry4660 That's not what I'm saying at all. I'm saying it's expected for you to have basic knowledge, especially for something as complex as an inventory system.

He made a tutorial for people who don't know what to do though, didn't he?​@@alex-qn5xp

Oh no, someone might need to earn money on work they do. What a terrible thought. Or, instead of being a whiny tool, maybe shorter videos work better because there's less to debug when the viewer has to go back if they made a mistake. It's easier to roll back and repeat a 10min tutorial section than a 3hr one when what you have doesn't match what he has at the end of the video. Or maybe it makes sense to confine the building of each component to a single video.

the thing is that i'm paying and apreaceate his work great tutorials, but to pay for tutorials when you have to wait a week just to see one video, in which one shows just how to create actor component and add few variables and video finished... it makes me feel like - i'm supporting him, and just to see few minutes and then wait again, wtf... it's just my own opinion. Imagine leave the car in service and paying for monthly subscription, waiting to change all tyres, and they will change one tyre per month, but here becoming even less - just removing one tyre per month... whatever..

@@smelge Depends on people, personally I would prefer a multihour one, start to finish different types of inventory. I'm assuming this is going to be a simple gridbased thingy again. Would be nice to also talk about equipment version, technically also inventory, bonus points if those even combined. Having certain suit gives more inventory slots etc, but I think My brain can manage it if I get basics down and memorised at some point.

We need to keep in mind that video game developing courses are pretty costly. They can easily range between 7,000 - 40,000 dollars, depending on the institution organizing them. Even if you are a Diamond tier patron (paying 50$ / month) that's still nothing compared to what you'd have to pay for an "official" learning course. Not to mention all the videos that he uploaded for FREE. I think people should be a little more grateful that amazing devs like Ryan are willing to put the time and effort into things that are either very cheap to access or absolutely free. I wouldn't have gotten far at all without Ryan or CodeLikeMe giving us all these amazing videos from which we can learn. Because I doubt I could ever afford even the cheapest course out there. The internet truly is a blessing, and these people even more so.

Short videos are better to learn from actually.

Yep, it's trash by the end. Promising for so long, and then degenerates into broken unfixed garbage