How To Create A Main Menu - Unreal Engine 4 Tutorial

Hey guys, in today's video I'm going to be showing you how to create a main menu for you games in Unreal Engine 4, we will be going through designing it and the functionality behind it, for example going between different widgets/menus, and starting and quitting the game.
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[@leviathansperch7228]

Thanx so much for these Matt. I was stressing about how to set up a main menu for my game. Again bud thanx a MILL!

[@3DAntonio47]

Amazing, really enjoying this series of tutorials. They're simple and straight to the point! If I wanted to use a game pad/Xbox controller to navigate the menu, how would I do that? Thanks for all your hard work!!

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[@1d33f1x3]

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[@Thunderony]

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[@rushcode.]

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[@MattAspland]

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[@MattAspland]

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[@blackbeangamer416]

Hey! Your videos are awesome! You're doing a great job thank you. I have a question about this one. When you start the level by clicking on the start button, how do you set a loading screen in there ? Because depending of the platform where you'll play the game the loading time will be different. I'm sure there are many people out there needing help on how to set a proper loading screen in blueprint (and not just an image hud with a delay). If you know how to do it, please make a video about it 🙏

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[@MattAspland]

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Awesome tutorial, you kept it simple and yet explained this very well.

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[@MattAspland]

@@noahegao5389 It's my pleasure to help the community :)

[@henryk1587]

One little thing make sure to anchor the background photo to the full screen so it stays the same on all resolutions. Thanks for the tutorial though!

[@root0062]

Hands down best tutorials for Unreal on KZbin!!

[@MattAspland]

I appreciate that!

[@SamuTheFrog]

Something I got stuck on for a minute was, events did not pop up at the bottom by default. To make them appear, you need to have "Is Variable" at the top checked, as I discovered.

[@tribalunder]

Great explanation and basic technics. thanks

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[@TheLandscapeProject]

You cleared all my doubts in one video, thanks a lot, I have one issue where I need to click the mouse to begin the selection process after the game starts, I cannot hover over the buttons by default.

[@tradde11]

Very good video. I tried to do this quite some time back. Got it partly working but had problems where the game actually started. I think the comment from User Name explains what I did wrong back then. Thanks @User Name.

[@kaifraser7395]

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[@polyatriton9801]

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[@milan.980]

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[@MattAspland]

No problem bro, and thank you! And from one young game dev to another, good luck with all of your future projects, it's good fun :)

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[@MattAspland]

Wow those 4 months have gone quickly, thank you for all of your support over these months :)

[@faymantaray]

Thanks for the great tutorial! In my case it helped a lot to include 'Set Input Mode UI only' and 'Set input Mode Game Only' nodes to avoid having to click once before being able to start your game or use the menu.

[@MattAspland]

Nice work, that's a great addition which I forgot to add. Thanks for putting it here too for others to see :)

[@makaronichef2506]

can you tell me exactly how you did that? im a beginner and dont know where to put these nodes

[@jefffitch8777]

@@makaronichef2506 I put it in the level blueprint for each level. Attach it to your begin play.

[@Goggalor1990]

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[@gtagam3r]

Awesome video, if you continue with this you will be a great youtuber for UE4 Tutorials :) p.s add multiple save system if you can.

[@MattAspland]

Wow thank you so much man :) And I can definitely look into that yeah, just working through some requests right now, then I'll get on to it :D

[@gtagam3r]

@@MattAspland Np bro, dont rush, and dont forget video for graphic settings with apply. I dont need that right now because i am buisy alot with landscape and youtube videos. Greetings from Croatia :)

[@MattAspland]

Don't worry I didn't forget :) And good luck with your project, have fun with it. And greetings from England, nice to know who I'm reaching :)

[@ameliemaheux6950]

Many thanks Matt !

[@MattAspland]

No problem mate :)

[@BrianSmithgrumpygit]

Loving the tutorials learning so much 1 quick question how do i play music while in the menu screens. Any help would be most gratefully received. Thank you

[@shaumte]

Thank you for not charging anything for this tutorial!

[@BieAnimation]

Thanks!

[@ItzValtCodm]

You can also use open level by object reference

[@belikebrett]

Hello, so my friends and I plan to make a picture based multiple choice game. Where you just click next, read the next, and then click your decision etc. I think I can create such a game with the blueprint methods shown in this video for sure, but is there a more efficient way or should the concept be the exact same? Import image, create buttons, blueprint them to go to different images, create text and repeat? Should I use a different pre made project, go blank or what. I ask this as you got the third person controller settings from your pre made folders. Also are there ways to make the buttons more fancy?

[@LDT7Y]

I have a couple of questions... Firstly, I changed my button text from black to yellow. The text looks fine in the editor, but in the game it's grey. I managed to get the colour to work by ticking the behaviour > tooltip > is enabled option, but then the cursor bar appears when I hover over the button text in the game. How do I get the text to stay the colour I assign to it while also not getting the cursor bar showing? Secondly, my game has the option of creating/saving up to 3 characters from a few race/class options. How do I link the menu to the save game data so it saves/loads/plays different characters? In your video you set it to load up a specific level map on Start, but obviously the starting map/location will change based on whether the character is playing the game for the first time or if it's a returning chracter that should start from the last location. Do you have a video doing a more indepth start menu with the above? Or could you make one please?

[@FairPlayGaming]

It is worth noting if the Game Mode options are grayed out under 'Selected GameMode', it is because you need to create a new one from scratch.

[@TheTrifel]

The question I would have is when you click start game and load the map when I check world controls it has the menu game mode set in game mode override, now say you have an existing setup with player controller, and save game hud etc etc all setup in the main map your loading into , mine seems to all work my saves and functions etc , but isn't showing the game modes set for that level in world controls display just the ones we set in the main menu level , strangely my save items and things all work, but im curious if that's just a glitch or if I should manually set those in the main menu widget before loading the level straight out ? or do i go into the level blueprint for the new loaded level map and manually set them there as it loads

[@Manofthebean]

thank you

[@jcgxp]

Thank you so much you saved me

[@MattAspland]

Always a pleasure to help man!!

[@artistical25]

Thank you for such an informative video. I want a 2D Menu like what you have to show up on the monitor but when I hit Play I would like it to open up a level in VR on the headset. I thought I had the settings right, but I'm not sure how to get that to work properly. The only reason I'm not doing a VR menu is because there's a lot of text and I find reading in VR gives me a headache. Any suggestions on how to get this to work? Thank you!

[@nasrali1297]

Hi Matt. Thanks always for great tutorials. I get issue which is (Navmesh needs to be rebuilt) when I hit play. any hints solving this?. Thanks again!

[@tomlightfoot6304]

when changing the game mode and the other properties in the world settings, is that only changing it for the main menu level?

[@kadler252]

хоть я не знаю английский все понятно! Так держать! although I do not know English, everything is clear! Keep it up!

[@JDHauser]

Great tutorial however I am stuck at the end - The menu screen functions how it should until i get to the 'choose character' screen, I click on either character (2 actors currently) and I do not load in the map, nor does the character selection screen disappear. Could this be caused as I am already in the map that I am trying to load? Thus it has nothing to load therefore will not spawn in desired location? Any help with this is greatly appreciated!

[@thelinkofmachi]

Hey Matt, nice video! i wanted to ask if you could make a video where you show how to pinch zoom in widgets in U5. I can do pinch normally, but in widgets even if the code is the same, doesn't work :/. Thanks in any case and keep it up!

[@LumiRev]

I'd like to add something that'd be useful for people starting in Unreal- there's a way easier method of keeping the mouse on screen in your title (and also makes it so the mouse focuses on your game upon starting!). At 2:29 Matt added the widget to viewport- directly after that node, add a node called "Set Input Mode UI Only" and make another node called "get player controller" and link it to your "Set Input Mode UI Only". Then, in the level blueprint for your main game, add a "Set Input Mode Game Only" node to Event BeginPlay and add the same reference to your player controller. This will make it so you don't have to create any extra game modes or player controllers just to make the mouse focus on your title screen and level and is way faster in general. Hope this helps!

[@kubabernat9084]

hey when i load the game in standalone, i cant see my mouse but the buttons can still be hovered over, can you help me out with this ?

[@DoubleStupidity]

@@kubabernat9084 try using "Set Show Mouse Cursor", then tick the box and connect to player controller.

[@rttsh1616]

Thanks I fixed my issue but could you do a video on how to change the audio volume with a slider for example ambient sounds Effects sounds Music sound Because I really appreciate it thanks keep up the good work

[@MattAspland]

That's great to hear, and I can definitely add that to my list yeah, thanks a bunch mate :) All the best to you!

[@comatoseenigma9200]

hey Matt i did everything in your video but ive come across an issue. So when i go to single player mode the level opens up but the mouse curosr is not going away. The default player controller is selected for the game mode but its not switching to it or something i guess

[@MrShadow-ol1eo]

Is there a way to make the background image loop through multiple images or a folder?

[@kid_greatness365]

hey matt quick question, after i set the start button to on click and i set the map and stuff i wanted to go to, it doesn't go to my main map that i'm on already

[@gpvelev]

Thank you! One question - when I package the project, its packs only the main menu, not the actual gameplay level. SOmething must be wrong with my project settings. Can you help me there?

[@douglashuh9109]

I have a question. I'm using your tutorials to make my first game, yet I'm starting to figure out some problems. Granted, I haven't finished watching this yet. I've learned that if I am in the third person example game level, then the main menu level doesn't execute, but if I am in the main menu level, then it does execute. So, my question is that do I have to be in the main menu level at first before I can export, or it wouldn't matter? I hope that this info with my question helps. And you're very detailed, thank you. :)

[@WolverineMKD]

Same problem

[@unrealdino8388]

Love the tutorial just one thing, when i press play my main menu screen is still there, can you help?

[@surrad9376]

Hi Matt; how to make it in a way where you don't need to click with the mouse after the game starts and the character spawns? I mean, to make it istantly controllable with buttons without having to first click with left button of the mouse. Thank you!

[@NorkAnimation]

WOW !!! Thank You !!!! I'm from Ukraine and i speak English very bad but i THANKS YOU !!!! You video VERY HELP ME !!!! Very usefull

[@koloios_beats]

thanks

[@Osiris261]

Managed to get everything setup and working. except start button. pressing start does not load my level. It stays in the Menu but can see my health bar pop up. is is like it does not shut down the menu when i press start.

[@tayam92]

I've learned a lot about organizing the widgets and UI from this tutorial, but I still can't figure out why the game will not start or go into play mode at the level I've specified in the "Open Level" function. My screen will still show the Menu page (won't hide it) and I can see the yellow SIMULATING message in the background when I minimize the Menu page, but the game won't actually play. Can you tell me what I did wrong?

[@andreaslyng]

Love your tutorials Matt!!! Unfortunately in my third-person game the cursor now shows up in game and makes it very hard to control the character. Is there a way to turn off the cursor when the game starts to have it only in the main menu?

[@dash1921]

Hello! I have the same problem. Did you manage to solve it?

[@andreaslyng]

@@dash1921 Yes I did, I was trying to find the tutorial that expalined it since my memory is not serving me right I could not find it. But there is a tutorial here in KZbin about exactly that.

[@Dr.Happywolf]

If I did want to do this all on one menu, how would I go about doing that? I've been trying to do that by changing the value of the color and opacity, but I can't seem to figure out how.

[@8TeyTSL]

whenever I try to override the gamemode to the mainmenugamemode it won't change and all the options like the playercontroller are grayed out, can you help? thank you.

[@danielrickman516]

Hey matt, great video again, I'm having some issues regarding the start button, it doesnt do anything I can hear it reacting correctly as the in game audio I have starts over and the quit button works fine but either my level doesnt load or the widget isnt going away once I press start, any pointers where I may have gone wrong please? I didn't create a seperate level for the menu creation as you said it was optional, would that have an impact?

[@danielrickman516]

I remade the manu using a seperate level for it and it worked, so it seems definately more mandatory than optional.

[@Keroyz]

when I package it, it just starts the map, and not the main menu first, any fix?

[@fortking5005]

how can I add background music to play while the menu is open, and stop the music while i got into the level?

[@Average_Tuesday]

Awesome vid. able to follow along much more easily compared to other tutortials i've seen. But when i click the back button from the credits, it just shows a black screen?

[@MattAspland]

Thank you, I really appreciate it :) And when you press the back button, are you removing from parent AND creating a widget for your main menu, then adding this to the viewport?

[@Average_Tuesday]

@@MattAspland you know what? I just realized my mistake. I did have the remove from parent and was creating the menu widget but on the node for connecting the menu widget and adding to viewport, i connected the grey pins, but forgot to connect the blue pins. Thanks for the follow up tho! just got yourself a new subscriber!

[@XLStudiosLLC]

What about using a blueprint animation as a background?

[@DenisZaharenko]

Can you explain how i can add music which only plays in the main menu?

[@retr0_455]

Can you add delay after click start like black screen or something

[@Side_effect_stu]

Matt, do a video on weapon selection menu where the player would select a weapon for Battle. There's no video about it at all

[@barend7900]

why is my Ai move to location activated via box trigger just standing still if i play via the Menu level. but when i just play via the normal level the ai move to postition works just fine. any help please?

[@Georgooo]

Hi I did a tutorial according to you but when I click on start the map will load but the playercontroller does not work, you help me with this please ?

[@taurusandlibra2638]

Anyway we could also use that image?

[@Preirin]

Hey Matt - thanks for the tutorial. I am new to UE and find your vids helpful. I am having an issue with the main menu feture, however. Creating it and getting the buttons to work is no big deal, but one of two things seem to happen. Either A: I have my game HUD overlapping my main menu screen or B: for some reason, when I create the main menu, I have absolutely no control over my pawn when I start the game. Anny tips I could use? Cheers

[@thebrightheart]

I have the same issue, with my hud showing up on the main menu. I followed the tutorial exactly and made a new level and everything, how do i fix that

[@chappy8919]

My map isn't in the gamemode override, even when I copied the map into the content browser in my "main menu" folder, is there a solution to this?

[@krill4413]

How do I get my game to start once the play button is pressed. i have an auto objective system that pops up on screen when playing. But with this main menu the objective pops up even before the player pressed the play button

[@ohtych1004]

It works but when I packaged it the buttons don’t work. They are there but when I click on it nothing happens (except the quit button). When I preview it though, it works fine.

[@Fa-ue4cw]

Hello I need help please. If I click on the start button the level appears behind the menu so the menu doesn't go away

[@thevengeance9999]

so when we save the game and press start, will the game start from the beginning?