2D Game Template for Unreal Engine 5

Get the 2D Template:
/ 2d-side-scroller-87324546
Get my 12 hour course on how to make 2D games with Unreal Engine:
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Since Unreal Engine 5 discontinued the 2D side scroller template, I decided to make my own and share it with you guys.
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[@CobraCode]

Get the 2D Template: www.patreon.com/posts/2d-side-scroller-87324546

[@YannSchmidt]

I was following your course on Udemy and I was thinking: Maybe we could do a 2D template when starting a new project. And BAM ! You do it. Amazing :)

[@CreativeSteve69]

Yo Cobra, this is looking out really nicely done. Amazing work on this truly.

[@CobraCode]

Thank you :D

[@Take22952]

This looks so much better than ue4’s 2D template

[@thelionszen3352]

love your videos they're very helpful in building my 2.5d world. I'll be buying your udemy course this week as well.

[@CobraCode]

Awesome :D Thank you

[@MrPyCCkuu1]

The only thing left to do is to make a Top Down Template) Congratulations, well done)

[@CobraCode]

Thanks, I do plan on doing that as well :)

[@Mnerd7368]

Have anybody thought about making a 2D or 2.5D pixel game in AR or VR games if that's possible? Also, thanks for the 2D and 2.5D game development tutorials that I have been watching for hours implementing and playing around with Paper 2D and Paper ZD. Very good 2D development. Also, 2D and 2.5D games such as in 70's, 80's, 90's, and early 2000s arcade video games if it could be implemented in Unreal Engine 5 for 2D and 2.5D game development? I'm extremely satisfied with the tutorials. But gameplay 2D and 2.5D mechanics with Unreal Engine 5 blueprints and the PaperZD blueprint system is what I want to learn more.

[@CobraCode]

Thank you :) Yeah even for VR you could use Paper2D Sprites. You'd most likely end up mixing 2D and 3D things together like I'm doing in most of my videos. There are a lot of possibilities with this system.

[@geraltdirivia7328]

I'm a bit confused since there are a lot of different plugins and template for unreal 2d. For example what do you think about pixel 2d by poliarti plugin? It is the best way?

[@CobraCode]

Hey, I haven't personally used pixel 2d yet, but it does look pretty feature rich and cool. However I think it probably has a pretty high learning curve because it comes with so much stuff. I prefer to use PaperZD since it only does the most essential things, which is providing animation blueprints and anim notifies, so it's a lot easier to learn and more lightweight.

[@geraltdirivia7328]

@@CobraCode the 2d template you are talking about is using paperZD?

[@CobraCode]

@@geraltdirivia7328 This template is NOT using paperZD. However the next 2 templates I plan on making will use it.

[@geraltdirivia7328]

@@CobraCode ok thank you i follow you!

[@OniBojan]

Hello, I'm working on my second game, and this one is 2D. Tell me, do your tutorials, or this template cover jitterry sprites when camera moves? That seem to be the only obstacle I have now. I cannot use template, as I have existing project, but I need to resolve this.

[@CobraCode]

Hey it currently doesn't cover that since it's still using the perspective camera. It seems like a lot of issues with the orthographic camera will be fixed with UE 5.3 though, so if the issues there really are resolved I might update the template to use that instead. A user on our discord shared this project though which claims to have a pixel perfect orthographic camera, so you might be able to look at this for reference. github.com/tanis2000/Unreal-Test2DPlatformer

[@OniBojan]

@@CobraCode Thanks a lot for your reply. I tested my project weith perspective camera, and still the issue is the same. Sprites just flicker on camera movement, if camera is slow. As for the project you linked, I have downloaded it, but it has fixed camera that does not move, so I cannot see if it fixed the issue with sprite flickering.

[@CobraCode]

@@OniBojan Oh I see, sorry about that. I just found a couple of more resources that might be helpful. Sadly I still haven't had the time to look too deeply into them myself. github.com/Nauja/ue4-pixelperfect2d-sample#orthographic-camera weareludicrous.com/blog/2018/3-tricks-to-improve-pixel-art-rendering-in-ue4/ weareludicrous.com/blog/2018/pixel-sharp-graphics-at-multiple-screen-resolutions/

[@OniBojan]

@@CobraCodeAgain, thanks a lot. Yeah I saw the weareludicrous website much earlier, but their explanations are really vague. So if someone never worked on these stuff, cannot understand a thing. Like me, who created the whole game, yet I can't understand their material thing, and how to conenct function to the material. The project you shared also has static camera 🤣 . But thanks man, for all your devotion and help. Maybe in the future you can make a video about this, since I see that many people have this jittery issues with background and moving camera. All the best!

[@CobraCode]

@@OniBojan Thanks :D Yeah I'll have to take a look at the orthographic camera anyway once UE 5.3 is out so if I have time at that point I might also take a look at this topic.

[@zezo4079]

Yo man I wanna make a fighting game but I really can’t find anyone who is showing the tutorial of how to make a fighting game, if you really can show us how to make a full fighting game not just to show how the character attacks show us everything,, I will really appreciate you 😊

[@CobraCode]

Yeah fighting games are something I wanna cover, but there's a lot of things I still have to research, so it won't be any time soon. For now ShawnTheBro is the only channel I know of who covered the topic. However it's in C++ and the videos aren't very organized. kzbin.info/www/bejne/onmmfqKopLasps0

[@zezo4079]

@@CobraCode ok thank you

[@mullercreates2112]

amazing dude, thank you very much

[@Cuban]

If I’m familiar with coding will I be able to add multiplayer to this template? I just want to ask if it’s possible to add multiplayer at all to this template. Thank you very much!

[@CobraCode]

Yeah you definitely should be. I haven't tried it out yet, but I actually believe multiplayer should already be working since the character movement component is replicated by default and I set the sprite to replicated as well.

[@Cuban]

Sounds good I appreciate that. The template looks perfect for the project I have in mind.@@CobraCode

[@correytomford1715]

Hey CobraCode, any chance you'll do a HD2D template for patreon subscribers?

[@CobraCode]

Hey, yeah that's the plan!

[@correytomford1715]

@@CobraCode Amazing, patreon subs rejoice!

[@A1exVance]

Astonishing template! A true must have!!! But can you help me with something? It seems only the normal 2D side-crawler appears as a template, the rest are missing. Please assist

[@CobraCode]

Hey, you mean the basic side scroller one shows up but the 2 from patreon (2D/3D hybrid side scroller and Top down) aren't showing up in the template menu? Usually all it takes is to just drop them into the same folder. Are they correctly unzipped? Are you sure there isn't another layer of folders in between that would make them not get detected by Unreal?

[@LocoTony64]

what's the best workflow for creating tile maps in UE? Can you use tiled or LDTK with unreal?

[@CobraCode]

TBH the workflow for tile maps isn't great and it's probably the weakest link of paper 2D. I haven't used tiled or LDTK, so sadly I can't say anything about that. The good thing about UE is though that you could just create your own plugin and make a map editor right there.

[@alexlealch]

Is available for udemy students of your course?

[@CobraCode]

No sorry, that's a separate thing. It will be available to everyone in 2~3 months from now though.

[@Eneatube_Streaming]

Could you make a tutorial on how to make a 2d character creator in paper2d?

[@dimana7810]

for some reaosn the template isn't showing up in my menu

[@CobraCode]

Hey! First time I'm hearing about the template not working. Can you please double check the document and that all steps have been executed correctlly? Has the package been unzipped? Is there only 1 folder and the Uproject file isn't multiple folder levels deep?

[@Spamkromite]

I wish I could, but my bank doesn't like that Patreon swapped their business to Dublin to get lower taxes and rake more profit from its users 🙄It's blacklisted until they change back their country to California. It seems such a swap without the consent or informing its users is illegal. If you were on Ko-Fi instead, that would be a different thing and I would buy a tier in a heartbeat.

[@CobraCode]

Whoa that's the first time I'm hearing about this. Thanks for the info.

[@Ihasfinger911]

You should sell them on the market place!🤑

[@CobraCode]

I think these are still too basic, but once I have more advanced one then maybe yeah

[@Ihasfinger911]

@@CobraCode Personally I prefer any assets I buy to be

[@satishparupalli9493]

Full tutorial

[@CobraCode]

Full tutorial on how to make your own template? I was considering that, but it seems that interest in this topic is a lot lower than I expected, so it's not so high on the priority list right now :(

[@Xayturo_2]

Bro pls make it free

[@CobraCode]

It has been free for quite a while now github.com/CobraCodeDev/TP_2DSideScrollerBP

[@Bean-Sandwicher]

I dont wanna pay 12$ sorry

[@CobraCode]

IMO 12$ for something that would take you weeks or months to figure out is a pretty fair price if you think about the value of your time. But the template is now free and open source: github.com/CobraCodeDev/TP_2DSideScrollerBP