How to Play Videos in a Widget (Unreal Engine 4 UMG Tutorial)

[@kapetong7433]

3:53 for those who cannot play video correctly instead you only get a black square: in your project setting change your directX setting to directX 11. It's probably that your graphic card does not support dx 12 and that setting somehow became default in UE5.

[@ReginaldusGaming]

Thank you so much for this video. It's hard to find quality 2d tutorials

[@suvigyamishra4604]

Joe. Pal! My widget plays the video alright but there's no sound in the media. I am confused.

[@alexjr977]

Thanks Joe :)

[@mikewilliams287]

Thank you for this, extremely helpful. Im wondering if anyone knows how to make the flipbook material only play once (instead of loop), and for that playback to be triggerable (ex: press G key) ? Thanks!

[@josephcharette7453]

Plug a "Constant" node instead of a "Time" node into the "Animation Phase" input. Then convert the Constant to parameter. Animate the parameter from 0 to 1 in the timeline

[@williewen5433]

Hi my Media player not working after packaging. It’s work on my pc but not work for other.

[@perschistence2651]

2:30 It does not let me drag my .mp4 video into the movies folder.

[@CCIGAMES]

Hey Joe. At the 5:55 time mark, for the 'On Clicked' variable leads to 'Set Input Mode' (Target is main menu widget). How do I go about making that and what does it do exactly? Much appreciated. This is the most comprehensive video i've seen so far. keep it up!

[@JoeVonD]

Hey there Jacob! I’m glad it helped out haha. I probably should have left a link to the previous video “How to Create a Main Menu” because that’s where we make the function Set Input Mode. If you check out that video the function should be explained beginning at 7:28. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aV7Kf2eqotx9atE

[@JoeVonD]

You also can create the function directly in the Player Controller and call it off the reference in the Widget. It would work exactly the same way except maybe a little better because you’d more easily be able to call it from other Widgets.

[@ARMORHOUS3weplay]

I was curious if I have my videos hidden are they still running in the background? I have rollover states that unhide them...

[@dodart273]

Thanks joe,very cool

[@JoeVonD]

Thank you! Hopefully it’s useful!

[@dodart273]

@@JoeVonD it is!

[@Miranda-ry4ob]

Love your videos, Joe! I was wondering if you had already made a video about narrative choice in video games and how to add them. Keep it up 😄

[@JoeVonD]

Thank you Miranda! I made a simple dialogue tutorial but it doesn’t include different dialogue choices. Giving the choices to the player isn’t hard but it’s keeping track of the chosen choices and keeping the game context sensitive that can get a bit confusing 😬

[@Miranda-ry4ob]

@@JoeVonD haha thats what I thought 😆 I'm brand new to game development and your videos have been pretty helpful. Thank you!

[@JoeVonD]

@@Miranda-ry4ob Welcome to the wonderful world of video game creation! It has its ups and downs haha.

[@artsgalaxy5383]

Hey bro i am also do this it's perfectly working on pc... But my problem is when I export to android it's black screen appears.. can u give me a solution for this.. pls 🥺

[@pablomonfortgames6723]

same stuff happening, where is epic engineers when we need them lol

[@artsgalaxy5383]

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[@artsgalaxy5383]

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[@BreakBackReality]

Thanks a lot, very helpful! Great job!

[@JoeVonD]

Thank you! I’m glad it helped.

[@unknownbruger]

Thanks!

[@JoeVonD]

Any time!

[@arthemisdesign1831]

What can I do if video doesn’t play in build on another pc?

[@TorQueMoD]

You shouldn't refernce the video in a random location on your HD, you should move it into a Movies folder in your Content Folder so that way it's always inside your project.

[@JoeVonD]

This is correct! And definitely best practice.

[@jpmorillo07_]

hey my pc crashes after i try to play it in the media player what should i do

[@JoeVonD]

Sorry you're having that issue. I haven't had that happen in any of my projects. Maybe try to remove parts of the code to find out what section is causing the crash? That's actually a really difficult issue to diagnose.

[@jpmorillo07_]

@@JoeVonD thank you also when i import my mp4 video to my media player it doesn't play

[@DarkHacker201219]

Why i can't choose Media Texture for Image??????? It's not working in 4.27.2!

[@JoeVonD]

If they’ve changed that you may be able to create a material with the User Interface domain and have the Media Texture plugged into the base color of that material and then use that material in the Widget. Best of luck!

[@anadelgado5189]

Nice job, thank you for sharing, blessings

[@chopzymalone]

Does anyone know how to add a video player into a widget, like give the users the ablity to play and pause a video export (with audio)?

[@octolex]

Hey, in order to play sound from a media player you need to have an actor with a media sound component in the scene, then you can set your media player actor as input "media player" of this media sound component. I have a widget that plays a video, as both share the same media player when I play the video from the widget the audio is played automatically :3

[@nathanspyro]

SIm mas como eu transformo um VIDEO em uma tileset dessas '-0' ?

[@elocnat]

Great tutorial, thanks. Couldn't figure out why my video wouldn't play - all the Google results were 2+ years old and unhelpful.

[@JoeVonD]

Thank you! Glad it helped you out!

[@a1ex3d]

Hello. How can we add logic to this animation? for example I push on this image (button) and character walk. Then I push again he is standing. Main question - can we add partial animation of spritesheet by some logic ? For example I animate button in AfterEffects and make spritesheet. I want to use parts of this spritesheet to actions (push button, hold mouse over button)... Thanks.

[@JoeVonD]

You can update the material being used with a dynamic material instance. That’s probably the easiest way. I’m not that well versed in 2D but I’m sure there are other methods to create 2D character states for animations and maybe those can be used as well.

[@michaelysmaelfernandez4444]

how bout the sounds?

[@JoeVonD]

The easiest way is probably to create a sound cue from the audio file you’d like to have as background music, set it to looping and place it in the main menu level. Should work just like that. Or if you mean sounds when you click on buttons, luckily buttons have that customization built in. While on your widget design tab select the button you want to set the sound for, in the details panel on the right side scroll down and you should see “hovered sound” and “clicked sound” and you can select the audio file there. Hope that helps!

[@ooidwrioo8968]

You have a lot of weird bots on this channel, Do you know had to do animation?

[@JoeVonD]

Lol there’s a couple bots sometimes. I took some animation courses in college but it’s definitely not my specialty.