Create an Animated Main Menu in Unreal 5

Let's create a Main Menu for our game, but add all of the polish details needed to make it feel good - fades, sounds, hover effects, animations and more!
00:00 - Intro
00:32 - Reference
01:17 - MainMenu Map
02:41 - Lock Movement Input
06:43 - Camera Setup
09:38 - MainMenu Widget
12:26 - Spawn Widget
13:28 - Button Layout
17:15 - Button Hover Effects
18:40 - Complete Buttons
20:09 - Sub Menu Layout
26:12 - Widget Switching
29:41 - Play Button
31:00 - Quit Button
32:06 - Return Game Input
33:13 - Camera Fade
35:13 - Background Music
36:33 - Button Sounds
38:50 - Create Menu Animations
41:07 - Play Animation
42:17 - Menu Enter Animation
45:49 - Menu Exit Animation

[@KarysGames]

Very good tutorial

[@DEM1GOD7]

i found it better to after adding the widget switcher to the main_canvas, add another canvas in the widget switcher. that way any stuff you add you will be able to change any sizes

[@fizzplosion8772]

Honestly Best Menu/UI tutorial out there for Unreal in my opinion. I just started trying to learn unreal more and this was super clear to understand and well taught! Great job on this tutorial, and appreciate the help!

[@acdev7027]

Thanks! I couldn't find a UI tutorial I liked for a Main Menu, so I thought I'd make one. Glad it helped.

[@vazzavyt]

how does this tutorial has less than 1k views best EVER! tutorial on main menue i have ever seen!

[@acdev7027]

Like and subscribe! Also thanks =P

[@NeatWolf]

Wut? I'm surprised this video didn't get more views - most tuts I found around were all but heading toward any kind of polish and - woa, had my very first menu working along with animations probably even faster than what I could do in Unity! Clear explanation, high production value. Thanks for the video - I'm looking forward to see how we could make anims reusable as "templates" in a new new video maybe. As in - it's all good as long as there are only 2 widgets to switch from/to, but I fear this could get messy very fast if you want to make a single change to the way each slide in/out works :D I'm new to Unreal 5 but I believe there's a way to reuse the same anim. The only "weirdness" I found was: Unreal corrupting my start scene for no apparent reason, and the fact that all my "is Variable" checkboxes are disabled by default (Unreal 5.3). Also onHover sounds play with a full 1 second of delay (?) Other useful things I'd love to learn would be: - Having an interface sound (menu select) continue to play between loading screen and next level - applying the postFX to the UI as well (fading only works on the scene) - creating and binding a basic options screen with persistent values (.ini?) - creating a simple (say, 5 controls) rebinding system widget using the new input system - showing the updated control binding icon (or text!) on an interactable object - principles on how to implement a reasonably reusable save system - implementing a basic drag&drop inventory system that is also gamepad compatible - basic dialogue system - as above, but localized, linked to the Options widget video - in-game options menu - best practices - bp interfaces vs bp components I know, nasty stuff basically :D

[@syco210]

You're the best! Thank you for this!!

[@DEM1GOD7]

i paused your vid before you started doing your sound. thought it was cool, so i went throe all the sounds and picked the ones out i liked. then i watched the rest of the vid you made. turns out i picked the same sounds as you did. haha. guess they are only the good free ones to pick. trick for you next time, just crt+left click each button and change the sound to all of them at once

[@5nealthy]

best youtuber evar

[@Roguestripes]

how did the vertical box make the text invisible ( 21:51 )

[@fizzplosion8772]

hi I'm having a problem at 5:26 in the video where u drag off and type self, for some reason nothing comes up for me at all -edit got it fixed just needed to add my getcharactercontrolelr

[@mobilegaming9987]

Why i can't link to set input mode game only to self ?

[@metalac190]

(alternate account) Self is referring to the FirstPersonPlayerController (a type of playercontroller), so if you were trying to do this in a blueprint other than a PlayerController then it prob wouldn't let you link it in. In that case you'd have to link it into 'GetPlayerController' node