Creating Our HUD | Unreal Engine 5 First Person Shooter (FPS) Beginner Course | #5

Welcome to Virtus Creative Hub. In this episode, we'll be showing you how you can start developing your heads up display for our shooter game using UMG (Unreal Motion Graphics). We'll cover the whole process of setting up widget blueprint, bringing the elements in and setting up the foundation for the next video where we start stylizing everything.
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0:00 - Intro
0:35 - Widget blueprint setup
4:56 - Spawning the widget
6:13 - Linking the HUD data
10:30 - Displaying health/energy
15:07 - Testing the HUD
16:03 - Outro
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[@coldavison7363]

Really enjoying this course, nice pace and very informative.. Looking forward to the next parts.. Keep up the amazing work.

[@prakulsingla1363]

Man, this system is so easy. I have been looking youtube for a long time for a simpler video and almost gave up. Thanks for the save.

[@ahmdshbz2267]

Back to back videos for the weekends. Noice!

[@VirtusEdu]

Enjoy!

[@upcomingvillain]

Epic presentation!

[@blanelondon9117]

5:32 I have no idea when that M4A1 variable was set in the tutorial before this, and I don't know how to find that specific "Set" node because there's so many types. Did I forget something? Why is it even there if the gun is working just fine? Help please!

[@cazdoyle2490]

After right clicking on the Blueprint for the FirstPersonCharacter, I typed M4A1_Gun, scrolled all the way to the bottom and found Set M4A1_Gun under Defaults. I hope this helps

[@paulbeeley6210]

@@cazdoyle2490 Thanks :-)

[@ezekielhabegger]

Will you go over using montages in first person in this series? I've been using a full body awareness first person setup but I can't get the camera to follow the action of the montage after disabling input.

[@prakulsingla1363]

do you also have a video for a simple inventory system?

[@tias8723]

HI, I've been following your videos for a while now, how would you cross this with a trivia simulation game , where each answer has a different variable effect (mental, money, social and Academic ) excited to hear your thoughts

[@shannenmr]

Can I suggest you NEVER Cast every frame let alone in AnimBP, in other scenario's on Begin Play you would Cast and store the Reference and then do a Valid checks on tick and only Cast if its not valid BUT with AnimBP's you should be using C++ but for our BP friends in UE4 it would be better to use the "Property Access" node retrieve this data more optimally and for UE5 you would leave the EventGraph empty and instead Override the "BlueprintThreadSafeUpdateAnimation" function and use the Thread Safe Property Access Node (see Lyra doco / example).

[@JohnRiversOfficial]

beautiful!

[@VirtusEdu]

Thank you!

[@makeitunreal6057]

can you make a inventory series?

[@kagi852]

EZ to keep with your vid as always

[@VirtusEdu]

That's what we're hoping for!

[@ClxssicFN]

How do u make a loading screen and main menu to play and load into a server like fortnite

[@redwolf831]

Can you make a video on weapons overheating like a mini gun turning orange in the front or just any color we would like

[@VirtusEdu]

Hey Red Wolf, that's a really good idea. We don't have a mini gun or a weapon planned for this course that would over heat. I'll definitely keep your suggestion in mind though!

[@pocketmasterex1976]

noice and what do you think about an tps game ?

[@VirtusEdu]

It's on the list of potential future course ideas!

[@TheLoreLabs]

oooof 9th video i watched and cant figure out why mine isnt showing up for my 2.5d platformer

[@rederstv]

How often are these videos being released a week?

[@VirtusEdu]

Hey, we're just releasing one video a week for the FPS course. We do however have the whole course available on our website, link is in the description :)

[@imrazvan9514]

cool

[@VirtusEdu]

Thank you!