Create a REAL Loading Screen in Unreal Engine 5 with Async Loading Screen Plugin

Create a REAL Loading Screen in Unreal Engine 5 with Async Loading Screen Plugin
In this Unreal Engine 5 tutorial, I'll guide you through the process of creating a genuine loading screen using the free Async Loading Screen plugin. Learn to incorporate animated spinners, helpful tips, and engaging intro movies to enhance your game's overall polish. Elevate the player experience with a loading screen that's not just functional but visually appealing.
Async Loading Screen
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Async Loading Screen Docs
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Assets used:
Polygon Street Racer (paid):
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Narrative (paid):
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I really hope you enjoy it. Thank you!
My Specs:
OS:
Manjaro Linux
CPU:
Intel Core i7-4790K @ 4.00GHz
GPU:
Nvidea Geforce RTX 3090 24GB
RAM:
16GB
Headphones:
Audio Technica ATH-M50X
Mic:
Audio Technica AT2020
DAC:
Behringer UMC22
Keyboard:
Keychron Q3 QMK with Krome Keycaps - Pudding rainbow kanji-hiragana caps
Mouse:
Logitech G403
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
1:35 - FREE Plugin
3:39 - Intro movies
7:34 - Intro movies result
7:42 - Background image
10:15 - Fiverr Artist
10:50 - Background image p2
12:05 - Background image result
12:33 - Tips text
14:03 - Patreon
14:13 - Tips text p2
15:15 - Tips text result
15:34 - Animated throbber
15:50 - Blender model
17:38 - Animated Throbber p2
20:04 - Animated Throbber result
20:55 - Result
21:38 - Outro
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[@D3kryption]

Is this a proper loading screen or what?!? Have you made your loading screen? what are you thinking of adding? Let me know below! 👇

[@FredrikBlixt-mn9re]

This loading screen thing is what I need for my open world RPG, thank you

[@davidtaylor8195]

Why was this video so hard to find lol THANK YOU !!! Been looking for this info my whole life LOL

[@D3kryption]

Happy to help! Its a cracking plugin for free :D

[@LFA_GM]

Fantastic plugin, thank you for showing the detailed steps. Your game is looking interesting, btw, keep it up!

[@D3kryption]

Thank you for watching! I'm glad you enjoyed it! :D

[@chad5893]

Fantastic video, thanks!!!

[@D3kryption]

Thank you!

[@chadwilliams4373]

I was excited that we were about to learn some new async C++ and then relieved I could just use a plugin :)

[@D3kryption]

One day I plan on looking over the C++ too! :D This plugin is great but after a while there are some limitations I would love to fix :D

[@jasongolo5125]

@@D3kryption The C++ method, or 'MoviePlayer' method is also somewhat restrictive. It uses the older 'Slate' system to display the loading screen 'widget', and the way the system is implemented, when any persistent UWorld is requested to be loaded it will call the functions to switch the displayed thread. Therefore for every transition between persistent worlds you ideally need a slate widget designed (does not have a helpful design UI like UMG, it uses older HTML-esque principles). This can make dynamic hints or screenshots more complicated to include in those loading screens.

[@GladiyGame]

Thank you so much!!!

[@D3kryption]

Most welcome! :D

[@darkalleywaystudio3975]

You been putting out banger videos my man! I was just about to add a loading/ menu in my game and this helps a lot! Have you made a dialogue event like Until dawn with sequence events? Eventually, I'm going to look into that in combination with Narrative.

[@D3kryption]

Thank you my friend! :D I haven't yet, but I'm waiting until the next update in Narrative comes out as there is some BIG changes for sequences :)

[@darkalleywaystudio3975]

@@D3kryption Nice =)

[@speedmilesgood]

Ok, so to be able to see your movie, you need to place your movie like that "Content">"Movies>place it here. If you place it in another place it will not work

[@D3kryption]

This is correct. Its slightly annoying Unreal doesn't show it in the content drawer however but it does work :)

[@lesterzamora8671]

Nice work. I think we cannot have multiple assets for throbber? like the index we can use for the tip? I wanted to have 2 or different throbbers using image sequence. Thanks

[@D3kryption]

With the current version no, you can only select a single throbber. but I think if you open the source code and find all the references to it, it shouldn't be too hard to duplicate it :)

[@Utopia2023Game2]

good job

[@D3kryption]

Thanks for watching!

[@KnightsPathGame]

Was this video inspired after playing the Knights Path? 😅 Good job, btw, exactly what I need, thanks! 😊

[@D3kryption]

Knights Path? You mean that amazing Knights game coming to steam soon that plays, looks, feels amazing? It could have been! 😅

[@wilismatrix9847]

This plugin is good, but it doesn't work well when you work on a project that you will stream with pixelstreaming. After trying this plugin and other payed plugins I found that it is better to make the loading screen using the async nods via blueprints. It is the best solution that works in both local and pixel streaming. another issue I faced after the game loads is stuttering when because even by using async loading, the textures and shaders in the loaded levels have to compile once they are loaded therefore the only plugin that fixed this issue is the shader compilation screen.

[@D3kryption]

This is really interesting! I've never actually heard of pixel streaming so thank you for that! I have noticed that the textures have to compile but that is only once. After that it all works fine. Which Async nodes do you mean? Streaming Levels?

[@TheRealCrappyGamer]

Does this work with 'ServerTravel' to switch maps in a multiplayer game? It looks like it specifically looks for 'open level'

[@D3kryption]

I'm not 100% sure. I've checked the docs and it doesn't say anything about it. I think it does only work with OpenLevel so maybe not.

[@samanson8763]

I don't want to show a loading screen at startup as I already have a widget for that. Only between levels so I've set up a background for the Default loading screen and not Startup loading screen however it's still showing the default one in startup for some reason. Any idea how to fix this? I'm also having another issue where when changing between levels, the layout of the loading screen loads before the actual background does which is bizarre.

[@D3kryption]

That is really odd! If you don't assign any startup loading screen details it should just ignore it. You aren't using the old style startup movies property are you? This disables that Is your background huge in size / resolution? It has to load it into memory and if its huge it can lag / be low quality while it does :)

[@samanson8763]

@D3kryption Nope haven't used the old style at all as I'm still a beginner and have never made use of it 😂. Also nope the background is only 2MB in size so surely that's not too large?

[@D3kryption]

@@samanson8763 2MB is a little large for an image. Have you tried converting it to a JPG and trying it? My images at 1440p are normally less than 500kb

[@alexegelston7984]

I'm having the exact same issue, did you find a work-around for it?

[@samanson8763]

@@alexegelston7984 unfortunately I haven't yet

[@zimai]

Can I set my own screen for the loading interface? I can't download your comparison table.... You can use a flat ui umg to click and then load it. Can't the button directly open the map using open level? He can't use the normal preview, he can only use the game mode! This way I will lose some files...

[@D3kryption]

Hey! Sorry I don't fully understand. - Yes you can use your own images for the loading screen - What comparison table? - Yes you can use Flat UI UMG, it just shows when you use OpenLevel :) - What do you mean only use the game mode?

[@utkuertugrul4252]

Why does my opening cinematic start on the small screen?

[@D3kryption]

Is your opening cinematic image / video really small as in resolution?

[@speedmilesgood]

So my movie doesn't start up, and I don't know why because its a media file in mp4 format in my project

[@D3kryption]

Glad you found the solution! :)

[@Publius883]

same issue, how did you resolve it?

[@D3kryption]

​@@Publius883 Double check you have the exact right movie name. Try removing spaces from the video and make sure its a .MP4

[@franklingamedev]

Is this works in Server Travel? Thanks.

[@D3kryption]

I don't know waht server travel is. Assuming you mean changing levels on a multiplayer game but I don't know. It doesn't say anything about mutliplayer

[@GladiyGame]

I almost believed about C++ XD

[@GameDevAraz]

my game was showing up before the load of the level, looking very unprofessional, and async load fixed it, i tried add lots of loading screen, except for streaming since thats more complex levels i believe but it was next, but once i saw async work perfectly for my mobile game, it was very well!

[@D3kryption]

Happy to help! hopefully I'll get to see your game one day! :D

[@GameDevAraz]

@@D3kryption yeah 😅

[@Guizinhoo_]

How do I regulate how often the image changes?

[@D3kryption]

Do you mean during a single load sequence? I don't think you can. I think it shows the loading screen background then doesn't change. I think you would have to look into the plugin and add that :)

[@durgaprasadgamingofc]

Could you please do a lobby or UI for a battle royale game ❤

[@D3kryption]

Thanks for the suggestion! I've wrote it down to find out for myself but I have 0 experience with multiplayer games haha

[@durgaprasadgamingofc]

Thanks for accepting my suggestion ❣️. Btw I hope you will find it and do the video or battle royale series 😅

[@Lumitech.Studio]

For world partition ?

[@D3kryption]

World Partition doesn't need a loading screen as it loads on the fly

[@stormplaysgr]

i dont understand why it doesnt work... i got an mp4 intro i use the same exact name inside the text box without extensions. i got the file inside Content/Movies/ im here trying 2 days to find a solution... ive watched your video like 15times already :P thats crazy

[@D3kryption]

It could be the codec used in the mp4 as that sounds all right to me. If you download Unreal startup intro video (google it you'll find it real quick) and try that instead. If it works, your setup is good and its the video.