How To Make A Health Bar In Unreal Engine 5

Hey guys, in today's video I'm going to be showing you how to create a dynamic health bar in Unreal Engine 5. This tutorial will show you how to use a custom image for a custom health bar design, link the player's health to the bar, and display this on the screen. This is very easy to expand on and customise. The custom image is also optional.
Health Bar Images: imgur.com/a/ZylPrDf
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00:00 - Intro
00:13 - Overview
00:59 - Creating A Custom Health Bar In Photoshop (Optional)
02:32 - Creating Our Health Bar In Unreal Engine
05:42 - Linking Player Health To The Health Bar
09:33 - Putting The Health Bar On Screen
10:21 - Damaging And Healing The Player
11:26 - Linking Player Health More Efficiently
14:19 - Final Overview
14:59 - Outro
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[@corrohsivegaming7077]

first one that has worked for me without needing a whole other tutorial series. thanks

[@melonadegg]

Mate, you're like the Brackeys of Unreal Engine. Keep up the great work!

[@charzxd6515]

for multiplayer, you can use the cast and reference on the event pre construct, it ensures it has enough time to initiate and will be perfectly synced to the servers game, but construct is fine too

[@casualsamuli]

Great video! Only hard part was doing the damage since you first put "add"-node and then switched it to "subtract". I missed it like 20 times but finally got it right. Thank you!

[@deadreadygames]

Once again...well done, Matt! Yet another quick and easy implementation of an otherwise overwhelming concept, made simple and scalable for any progress bar type features. Hope you have an amazing holiday and return to us safely at max health. Cheers!!

[@MattAspland]

Thank you so much for your support, super happy to help out!

[@MaxStudioCG2023]

@@MattAspland hey man ...the health system working perfectly but i try to make it on top of the enemy head ...all good is taking the damage and all but the health bar is not updating (the line not droping when enemy get the damage) .....done all exactly like il do to the character ..i dont know why not updating the bar itself

[@virgilhawkins3390]

Good tutorial! Straight and to the point. The only part I had to rewind on a bunch of times is when you were fiddling with the widget reference and setting the health values in there. It was really hard to see where all the blue return value lines were going at any given time. In future videos, could you pin the lines away from one another so each connection is distinct? Thanks!

[@whitecomet98]

this is seriously the best tutorial for this available, thank you

[@MattAspland]

Thanks so much!

[@ZeeroCool1979]

Another great video thanks a lot!

[@bamfyu]

Thanks a lot, this works well.

[@evolve9922]

Thx, thats realy helps me

[@wolfiedgr8t]

Thanks MAtt, yes please to damage system, maybe you could use and enemy ai to shoot the character so he takes different (or random) amounts of damage each hit.

[@SapphicWombat]

TYSM MATT!! LEGEND!

[@K0UK0U]

Thnx for this video !

[@Gam3inGpR0Zz]

Yes another vid!!!!

[@brighthammer5354]

Seen and seen again. I love all ur videos. thank you matt. I want to see the system of damaging and healing.

[@chadkruger]

If you have the health bar working, damage and healing are easy. It's just adding and subtracting of the health variable.

[@brighthammer5354]

@@chadkruger I tried to use apply damage but the problem is in the damage. It always get critical hit. in this case I set the health 475 instead of 100. so that's why I want to see the damaging system.thx for help mate. I hope u always be fine🙂👍🏻

[@joshmurphy6763]

Thanks for the tutorial dude, been getting to know ue for the first time and your videos are really helping! I just have one issue with my code, i think i may have left something un ticked but when i start the game the red in the health bar doesn't show until health is gained or damage is taken, do you know what may be wrong? Thanks again!:)

[@KutsalKurt]

Thank you so much for your help! Ca you make a health bar like in FPS games so numbers not a graphic?

[@Broockle]

awesome thx ^^

[@kup_guitarplayer]

Matt, you're risking: either create an image with a "PO2" rule (for correct mip-mapping), or use a "Compression Settings -> UserInterface2D" and "Texture Group -> UI" in the image details panel. Otherwise, you'll have non-smooth and kinda distorted image.

[@jacktomlinson215]

good Job mate

[@endvfxgamingraidingcg7293]

NICE!!!

[@MartKart8]

I have a health bar, but I want to have a different one, the health bar is hearts and work perfectly, Oh I used that Niagara the one you showed off in your latest video for free for the month assets (picks Heart) and used you campfire tutorial you did and my character gains health back. I like the idea of using a Wheel health bar instead like the one in Super Mario Odyssey.

[@ibrahimrezaee5342]

thanks a lot

[@JoseManuelRodenes]

Excellent video, would it be very difficult to combine the health system with a specific number of lives? That is, for example, 3 lives and when the number of lives runs out, you start again on the game start screen or on the game over screen. Excuse my English, i dont speek English, google translator, srry and THX!!...

[@skol45]

I cant choose a target for the Set Health node.. is there a reason ? its at 13:00 its always just a normal set health node without a Target

[@ZimMabu_GameDev.]

Thankya bra

[@FPChris]

How do you just a single 1 pixel thick black outline to the progress bar?

[@robpenfold9500]

Is there any way to make the health go up 1 value at a time? Rather than just snapping to the new value?

[@hashimshah7732]

Will you please make a healing system where when i pick up the health it will show in my inventory and there i can use my health anytime

[@lespaul1507]

Thanks for the tutorials ive learned a lot. But now i have my health bar on my main menu. How can i remove it from the menu?

[@deeznutts8073]

nice

[@thenerdydevguy8454]

hi Matt, I am a big fan of your work, but can you please make a tutorial on how to make guns, with different stats, such as recoil and bloom?

[@artdrawing6682]

mat thank you you fix my big problem i folow totorial respawn player and what hapend next my player if daying helth not updait i out from game and teke error more orror end finly fixed please kip going you are the best her

[@galberger3937]

Hi. Can you show how to add a you are dead menu with the options to play again or to quit the game? Can you also show how to create a healthbar when the player get damage the colors will change from green to yellow to red and when the player will find a pickup health item the health bar will increase with those colors?

[@adiltonazure]

You should use a Matt specific custom character in your tutorials, to make it feel extra high quality, in my opinion; of course.

[@wesss9353]

I'd like him to use the same character each tutorial. A shooter guy for shooty games A melee build for fighting And an generic character

[@ssneakyandfriends1626]

this also coincidentally enough, also works for other bars.

[@abos9118]

How can I make health and stamina together when I made it it has proplem

[@PRiMezGFX]

Hi Matt, just curious but what are the main benefits for coding the health bar this way compared to what you previously did within UE4? I understand optimization is a major benefit but is there anything else? Thanks

[@MattAspland]

Hi mate, it is predominantly just for optimisation purposes. However, some people may find this easier to manage and keep on top of when managing the player's health. It can also make it easier to adapt this to multiple players, instead of just the one. Hope this helps :)

[@PRiMezGFX]

@@MattAspland Great! thanks for the quick reply. I really appreciate it :)

[@unsupporteddevice]

whenever i promote the "create healthbar widget" to a variable it doesn't become a widget one like yours ( 12:30 ). I don't know what I'm doing wrong

[@carlosrivadulla8903]

U should try event dispatchers for widget comunication

[@offirbaruch7895]

Agreed. Using binding like is called out on every frame making this method (though easy to implement) really bad for performance.

[@patrickmiller1723]

please make a damage and healing system

[@xXBrutus67Xx]

Hi, first thank you for all the videos, they are well explained ! I do have one question though. So i did this exercise again, i created the Health widget blueprint with the two health variables and promoted it to a variable in the player's blueprint, but i cannot access the widget variables from there, any idea why ? Like this: BeginPlay - Create Health_W widget - SET Health_W - (cannot access its variables) - Add to viewport EDIT : for those who wondered, in the widget blueprint, in the Divide node, you have to promote the green connectors to variables. You can then access them from another blueprint. I originally created the health variables in the left panel which isn't the right thing to do.

[@virronenfin]

I have the same problem. I cannot to find event "begin play"

[@skol45]

o god thanks! im about to always set them each time no matter what haha... i always forget this and search for answers -.-.-.-.- its still a dumb procedure in ue5 imo.. though - i think you can just go into details of the variable you created and then check "Instance editable", youll get access then too

[@MaksymKyrychenko-dd9vg]

i cant connect hp bar to set variable like on 12:50 . Why its happening?

[@Wc3Tutorials]

please add a shield system and the damage system. For a upcoming tutorial

[@silverblank1139]

i'd rather see a damage an armor reduction system, shield is easy to copy

[@Archill]

I have a start menu and the health bar shows up in the main menu as well, how do I hide it in the menu and make it appear when in the actual game?

[@dondahighhh12]

if you didnt fix it yet, you have to change the visibility of the UMG elements

[@samizo5842]

Yeah we want a proper damage and healing system

[@Aikanarokun]

My progress bar fills the whole screen when I play.

[@Error-js7dp]

5:25 opacity not color

[@redwolf831]

How can you make it fade away when it is full like in destiny 2

[@gorgefompson4265]

within the player on event tick add a delay for every 5 seconds, then a branch to see if health is equal to whatever your maximum amount is, then if it is equal to max take a reference to the HUD and remove from parent, then on event any damage, take the same HUD reference and add it to viewport.

[@techno2776]

Hello, is this meant for UE 5.0.1? There is a BIG problem: The method at 9:17 is not working anymore. Am I the only one with this problem?? "Get health/Get Max Health" is not working because there is no more single-float available. It´s now Float(double-precision). It´s definetely not working. My same project in UE4.27 has a Float without "double-precision" and now in UE5 it´s not working. Is there a way to change it back to simple-float? I am searching since hours. Someone said the newest version fixed it but I have the newest version (5.0.1) and no update is shown in UE-Launcher. Did I miss something?

[@NoixNuts]

How do i resolve this please?

[@mootzartdev]

Didn't work for me either.

[@techno2776]

I still have the problem and I don't understand why so many don't have the problem. If every UE5 version only has double-precision float, how does everyone else do it? So I think the fault must be my own. On the other hand, nobody would be able to do it like in the video.

[@mushanwu3969]

Why doesn't my ue5 have a health node😥

[@mr.morningstarplays3188]

when I hit deal damage all 100percent hp goes down and not just 10 percent. in apply damage I tried base damage 1 , 10, 0,1 , 0.01 but it has the same result does somebody have same error?

[@mr.morningstarplays3188]

And 1 minute later I notice that right after event any damage the - box, I put helth in the botom and damage on the upper and that was the problem

[@mr.morningstarplays3188]

solution to put connect helth upper and damage to bottom conection in - box

[@mr.morningstarplays3188]

solution to put connect helth upper and damage to bottom conection in - box

[@MaksymKyrychenko-dd9vg]

tnx,its help me

[@baryafe]

i want dmg and healing

[@lilithtch]

i messed up my codes and i didn't know what to do i was getting an error from somewhere and it was restarting my game i was about to go crazy after reviewing the whole game it was because of the goddamn health bar

[@KarolDecyk]

my progress bar is showing empty life even i set it on 75%

[@liamhiggins9965]

My Health Bar doesn`t reset after dying... what am I doing wrong?

[@lordbambithird8919]

Might be a bit late but you would want to reset it when you destroy actor, or whatever event you use as "death"

[@liamhiggins9965]

@@lordbambithird8919 cheers man, but how exactly?

[@lordbambithird8919]

@@liamhiggins9965 just on the line that you destroy actor set the variable to its maximum. Use the set function to set the variable to 100 if its a healthbar of 100 health or if your healthbar changes due to ingame factors use that to set a variable called maximum health.

[@kashootme7722]

bloody annoying how long this took and then my mte showed me a easier way in under a minuet, could of been alot quicker/shorter to save our time!!!!

[@isolophobiaofficialgame]

WHAT IS IT]

[@azaelue5]

Seen and seen again... Make some original content pleeease

[@jakzak23]

I cannot make it work, although I do whatever you say.

[@grembenlin1903]

im having an issue where to progress wont go down on screen everything else works, when pressing 1 10 times and goes to 0 something happens but the progress wont go down when pressing 1

[@grembenlin1903]

i got it to work, i basically got rid of the the event construct part and pasted it on the get percent so on get percent node cast to player character, get player character then on as player character, get health, then divide, add the max health(or 100) then return node, ive had no bugs or errors pop up with this, this is using the efficient method, i didnt need the character reference