How To Create A Mission Objectives System - Unreal Engine 4 Tutorial

Hey guys, in today's video, I'm going to be showing you how to create a mission objectives system. In this we will have one blueprint which you can quickly set the written objective for, so you can walk into it, play a sound, and have the objective appear on screen.
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00:00 - Intro
00:12 - Overview
01:17 - Creating The Objectives
04:11 - Displaying It On Screen
10:57 - Final Overview
11:33 - Outro
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[@stevenwynn819]

Beautiful! I need something like this in real life so I remember why I went upstairs.

[@MattAspland]

Haha, that would be so helpful! You wouldn't believe the amount I forget lol

[@GaryParkin]

I thought it was just my age getting to me.

[@zamn4348]

Current objective go upstairs and forget what you're doing

[@Dark_Crow_Official]

Go up stairs and destroy third person character 💀💀💀

[@the_extruder]

Thank the heavens, someone that gets down to the gritty details and skips the fluff. Quick and concise with good presentation. Thank you.

[@stefanleroux8750]

Short and powerfull as allways. Thanx Matt. This is allso going in my game. 😂👍🏻

[@MattAspland]

Thanks Stefan, that's great to hear!! :D

[@DanRickmanMedia]

Great video, worked a treat thank you!

[@karlchurch1137]

Great job mate, very helpful!

[@WarmOnion]

he has done it again! ❤❤❤❤

[@MattAspland]

Thank you!! Happy to provide :)

[@holley8887]

Thank you so much!! It works

[@SafaAlkan]

Thanks again!

[@harishvijendiran5234]

Yo man, get some sleep 😂 but all these hardworks will get you to a high place in life. I wanted to know about the mission progress, thank you so much for making one tutorial🌺

[@MattAspland]

Hahaha I try lol. I appreciate that though man, that means a lot. It's my pleasure to help out, and grind away!

[@wolfiedgr8t]

Nice one Matt 👍

[@MattAspland]

Thanks dude!

[@supermariogolden6444]

Thank you so much

[@kresus10]

Nice :)

[@virusocyrus]

Do you think you could make one of these where it unlocks a door and/or cutscene? This is well done

[@rifat.ahammed]

Thank You

[@DeputyChiefWhip]

Nice video, pretty handy, The way you have made this is simply an overlap notifier not really an objective system. Id like to see a 2023 version of this video. Where the missions are in order drawing the info from a list that can be altered as and when.

[@MattAspland]

Great suggestion!

[@belekass]

You're the best

[@mattplowman8800]

Matt Aspland always coming to the rescue, Thank you again for saving my grades lol.

[@MattAspland]

Happy to help! Best of luck with your course!

[@GaryParkin]

I love that transition from 3rd person to 1st! Every tutorial I've seen parents the camera to the head which moves around in Idle. Gives me motion sickness. Yours seems to replace the character somehow. Is it possible to kill the 3rd person animation when you're in 1st person I wonder. I'm not the only one with this issue, Matt. My friend said "then just use the 1st person template" but then I get no arms or legs in the shadow.

[@LeisaTheGreat]

This is awesome, thank you so much!! Is there a way to remove the objective, once it has been completed? Like my current objective is for the player to kill a deer (it's a survival game) and I want the objective to be completed once that's done.

[@BhaktiiKiShaktii]

Loved your video, Please start Online Multiplayer TPP/FPP tutorial If not done, Just Cheking your playlists 😊

[@MattAspland]

Hey mate, I can definitely add that to my list :)

[@Alex_Panagiotidis7]

thats great but how i can do one quest before other like the one wont be collectable until u go to the first one

[@AdakaiMation]

Nice! Vid!

[@MattAspland]

Thanks mate! :)

[@AdakaiMation]

@@MattAspland Your Vids have gotten me far in my game, I really appreciate it man!

[@MattAspland]

That's amazing to hear, happy to help! All the best of luck with your game :)

[@samuelagius716]

Hi Matt, how can I implement this for another character because I have 2 characters which the user can select from. Because when attaching the text bind to the return node only 1 can be connected and i tried using a sequence but it doesn't work. Thanks.

[@angelbliss__]

how would you do this for some sort of sequence, like you spawn in the game and a task appears, once done that, another one appears and so on

[@peterdoerstel8247]

Matt Aspland: The bible of UE4 tutorials !!!

[@iijune8172]

Can u pls make a video on how to make a race position and distance system?

[@Cyesine]

it says the "As Third Person Character" output in the "Cast to Third Person Character" node is incompatible with the "Set Current Objective" node "target" input.

[@vito502]

Hello, i love your videos! Can you do a tutorial how to make a multiplayer game please! :D

[@MattAspland]

Hey, thank you man. I can add that to my list yeah :)

[@0range180]

Thanks for the tutorial, is there anyway to get a fade in and fade out effect for the objective?

[@MattAspland]

No problem man, and yeah in the widget you can use animations. I can add that to my list if you'd like? :)

[@0range180]

@@MattAspland thank you so much, I’ve been learning UE4 since November 2019 and you’ve helped me so much I can’t thank you enough

[@MattAspland]

@@0range180 That's great mate, no worries. Always happy to help. I wish you the best of luck with your future learning and games :)

[@DYLOGaming]

Is there a way to animate the objectives as they appear?

[@theunicorn4224]

Love your vids as always! Im just curious how can I make the objective update AFTER an action? Like in my game the player has the objective to pick up sleeping pills, and I want the objective to update again after they have picked up the pills.

[@stheno1116]

I'd love to know how to do that, as well.

[@frankthetank0012]

I don’t have the “Node Widget”. Where do I make that?

[@vladaslav]

Gd vid man you must long days doing these with edits, is this same system used for race car track games? 🤘

[@MattAspland]

Thanks man, and I get by lol. You could definitely use this system for that yep, set "Current Position" when overtaking or being overtaken :)

[@vladaslav]

@@MattAspland thanks man 🤘

[@MattAspland]

@@vladaslav No problem mate

[@nzaproduction8116]

can you do this on level blueprint?🤔

[@AHabib1080]

can you make rappelling system in Unreal engine 4?

[@thelazylobster717]

Done everything correct but nothing shows up, using a prebuilt character blueprint off the market wondering if maybe that's the problem

[@user-vp9iz8vq1k]

is there a way to make it so you can only find one objective before u find another ???

[@Sparky617]

Works perfectly, just trying to find a way to hide it from showing up when the game starts on my main menu. Any advice?

[@ncwhit1501]

what did you do for event begin play code? the code to the far left in the video its never talked about

[@Sparky617]

@@ncwhit1501 The event begin play node is there by default on the beginning of the video. I know that's not really an answer, but beyond that I'm not quite sure which string of code you're referring to. I'm assuming that it is the first one. If you can clarify so I can know exactly which part you're talking about, or we can chat about it through Discord if you would like. My Discord is linked on my channel page.

[@DushevniyDrive]

But what if in the game tasks need to be completed sequentially, and the player will not walk as expected?

[@archiestutorials8716]

Matt: Escape the hanuted house Viewer: Ok?

[@FlockersDesign]

Can you make a AI health system for exemple the AI gets hurt and the player gets a notification to go and heal the AI There is notting you can find about this i looked on youtube and google notting

[@sanscoolson5125]

Hey I have a problem I can’t see the default section when I want to put on the objective, what did I do wrong?

[@yehya-zi884]

Did you know how?

[@Vertlex]

1st

[@sophhbophh4412]

My objectives dont appear when i collide with them :((

[@aimanfakhrullah5722]

Hey there, just saw this comment and I'm sure that you need to change the Objective variable to public on the objective blueprint

[@ncwhit1501]

because he didnt explain the code that goes with event beginplay thats why

[@ak-gi3eu]

hey matt plz make ai speaking a dialouge to player response

[@MattAspland]

I can add it to my list for sure :)

[@zenerationgfx6604]

Can follow the same for unreal engine 5

[@ty1978]

I just followed this in 5.3 and can't get it running. The 'current objective' is displayed on screen but the objective itself doesn't appear when entering the trigger box

[@priyarooprai1532]

Can anyone help? I am getting an error when compiling run at 3:31. I am pretty sure I've done everything right. But Unreal gives me a compile error saying 'Current Objective' could not be found. HELP! EDIT: It's ok I got it! I forgot to compile and save the ThirdPersonCharacter

[@gr8aaron17]

I did the same, thank you for the help

[@charlesanderson533]

This still work in UE5

[@nataltyfortnite904]

Tutorial 1:17

[@egekiymaz9674]

Sequence- Then 0----- depending on where????

[@denisliber]

UE5.1 all working

[@ncwhit1501]

What did you put for event begin play? he didnt explain it

[@Goyr]

The "Objective" text shows up in my main menu as well as in my playing level. Anyone know why it shows up in the main menu?

[@MattAspland]

Hey, you could do something similar to the below image. Where you are putting the widget on screen, before that run this check. This will check to see if you are in the main menu level, if you are then don't put it on the screen. So replace "MainMenu" in the "==" to be whatever your main menu level is called. And replace the print strings with what is written inside of them. Hope this helps :) Reference Image: imgur.com/a/UBVIAB5

[@Goyr]

@@MattAspland thanks for the answere! I’ve already delivered my assignment (had to go with a different approuch) but I’ll try this later if I’m going to use it again :)

[@MattAspland]

Ah great okay, good luck with your assignment too then :)

[@Goyr]

@@MattAspland Just came back to say again, thanks for that solution! Had to use this objective system again in my new assignment and it worked great! :)

[@channenmacom9396]

Would this still work in ue5?

[@juliendewallers6374]

yes i'm 5.3

[@xbrisk8808]

Didn't work. Got a "accessed none trying to read property as first person character" error been trying for hours to figure it out. need help

[@huayuxiang321]

did you fix it

[@DNIMTN]

The Hanuted (?

[@MrRybizzle]

Can you please make a tutorial on how to save them??

[@MrRybizzle]

Cause currently i have alot of them in game, And i want for when i die/Leave the game and you rejoin you are in the location of the latest objective. I tried 10000 tutorials on save systems and none work, I really need your help.

[@user-xb1jc7lf8x]

;)

[@alexjr977]

What i say 😐 Thanks as always :) now thanks word is becoming low respect for you

[@MattAspland]

Ha thank you man, and no problem. A thank you will always be more then enough respect and praise. It is hugely appreciated :)

[@blackprince1637]

This not actually mission system. You can't control game with this system. example : You want to kill someone but this system cant understand did you kill him ? or collected pieces ? ... Just displaying titles. And this is not objective system sorryyy

[@EchidnaFolder]

Am I the only person completely confused by the event begin play at the end it wasn'y explained and not shown how it was done. Totally rushed

[@ncwhit1501]

YES I AM TOO WTFFFF

[@ncwhit1501]

figured it out, you dont need any of it just a sequence from where you event beginplay is

[@moonwalkbackward]

hanuted