Need to Know Nodes in Unreal 5 Blueprints

This videos goes over the nodes you need to know to use the Unreal Engine 5 Blueprint system.
- Content -
0:00 Intro
1:13 Event Basics
4:55 Variables
10:21 Branches & Bool Tools
14:48 Flow Control
18:32 Custom Events
20:43 Collison Events
24:55 Commenting
26:46 Moving an Actor
33:10 Inputs
37:00 Character Movement
40:58 References & Functions
48:37 Outro

[@katherinedrennan228]

Thanks bro this actually doesn’t suck 😂

[@SeanBarr-hl2kj]

Most other tutorials tell you which blueprint you need to do a specific thing. Thats cool but they never actually explain what everything is. This video explains what the different things are and how they work so that i can actually make my own blueprints instead of relying on tutorials. Good job fam!

[@CasonQuisenberry]

Glad I could help make sense of Unreal!

[@pigeonade]

A lot more practical and less tedious than other tutorials, thank you so much!

[@bohun670]

The explanations and simplicity in this guide is mental. Amazing. I started using UE5 3 days ago with no prior coding/engine experience and I understood everything. Phenomenal.

[@CasonQuisenberry]

Glad I could help you start to learn Unreal!

[@Josh_Alfaro]

First video on KZbin I found that actually explains these nodes. Most tutorials seem to assume you already know how to use them….like hello why do you think I’m watching a tutorial??

[@CasonQuisenberry]

Felt the same way when I started, glad I could help you out

[@Josh_Alfaro]

@@CasonQuisenberry much appreciated brother, please keep em comin!

[@bernhardhelbling3412]

One of the best "Basic Nodes-Blueprint-Tutorials" in the net! Thank you for uploading.

[@Dev.Dynamics]

you have taught me more in this video then a 2 hour video on blueprints

[@CasonQuisenberry]

Thanks, really great to hear that!

[@endtasid]

the first time someone cared to explain properly what the cast to node does. Thank you for the effort.

[@StudioAntoine]

Thanks! Finally a video explaining basics things like whats a hard ref, casting and others simple stuffs. Most tutorials even for begginners just use it without explaining it or just hovering. Would love the same kind about more nodes, or differents kinds of Blueprint classes (actor, component etc...) or other simple things. (I still wonder why you have to give a player charachter reference to the Cast To, both seems to have the same action to me since the Cast To is also supposed to give you that ref)

[@NeverduskX]

As someone interested in trying UE5, this is incredibly useful. Thanks!

[@TheBubbajuju]

Thank you. You are a good instructor.

[@mohammadsaeed4511]

Make Another one, moving to other blueprint functions and how to use them. I got this video very very very useful. You are such a good person.

[@cortano2878]

Loved the structure of this video, easy to keep up with, and I feel like you gave a decent explanation of the nodes you went over, thumbs up man

[@Prajwal____]

Fast paced but easy to understand! And wholesome! Please make more of such tutorials!! Subbed!

[@AstralComposition]

You explain things so clear and concise even I can understand it. Thank you sooo much bro I’m so passionate about this and I feel like you’ve just fueled me to learn even more

[@davedevs8349]

Thank you so much Cason! This tutorial has helped me a lot!

[@tangyorangegames7488]

This is an excellent tutorial Mate, you have really just cut through the BS and got straight to the point, thank you :)

[@sum_rains7899]

Thanks for the video. definitely a refresher on understanding bools. You've earned yourself a sub, Looking forward to seeing more videos from you!!

[@iamwatmissu9938]

Thank you for your great tutorial, I'm a beginner and this help me a lot get into Unreal nodes.

[@timkimzach]

Nice. Just the basics. Great video!

[@erizzt586]

Nice. I learned a few things, keep em coming

[@SkribblerStudios]

LIFE SAVING! Thank you so much!

[@MOOSELFLiES_CS]

Great video! At 44:30 you mentioned that casting is expensive in terms of performance. While this is potentially true, the performance cost is memory related, not processing power. This is because when you cast to an object or class (only in Blueprints), the engine needs to have an instance of that object loaded. If this cast exists inside of an object that will always be loaded (player character, game instance, level bp, etc) then whatever you are casting to will also always be loaded. The easiest way around this is using interfaces as you can call their functions within an object regardless of whether that object implements said interface (at least it appears to operate that way within Blueprints). Because of this, the engine does not need to keep an instance of that object loaded.

[@lampham2954]

Thank you for this wonderful content. Please keep up the good work. Subscribed and liked 😊

[@kacktustoo]

Thank you sooooooo much for this. I'm learning unreal but I'm someone who needs to understand the "why" in doing something, a lot of tutorials, though amazing don't really explain why each node is required, so this has been phenominal.

[@CasonQuisenberry]

Glad the video could help you out!

[@xlCallMeDaddylv]

Thanks to your videos, along with taking notes, I may be able to solve my mistake of starting a game off with KZbin tutorials and diving to deep as a “first game”. But than again I’m trying to solve these errors in these codes so maybe it could only help me in the future.

[@justanopinion3588]

prolly the best video Ive seen on blueprints! Video Liked! Thanks keep up the good work!

[@tdglu]

You can do (select nodes) + q on keyboard to align your nodes straight like you were doing

[@lifeasneil]

This is a fantastic resource as I try to make sense of this convoluted program. Thanks for the effort, I've subscribed!

[@CasonQuisenberry]

Glad you found it helpful!

[@outtoplay]

Very nice job... well-paced and informative. Props and sub'd!

[@campionpesate4647]

You're great at explaining this stuff

[@juleswombat5309]

It would useful to have a Part 2. The next most useful Blueprint Nodes (that you believe or use).

[@CasonQuisenberry]

I have been planning on making a follow up video for a bit but life stuff has kept getting in the way, I am trying to record it in the next two weeks if everything goes well, thanks for the interest and I hope to deliver it soon

[@roberterdos]

thanks man, this was very useful to me Cheers!

[@ehab5406]

subscribed, now I can understand blueprint basics thanks to you

[@mindful.milli0naires]

Thanks alot for this video

[@murfmusik3407]

Brilliant instructions here mate! Absolutey top class explanation!! Appreciated and hope to see a more advanced video in this series soon!

[@Gokusbetter]

Hey, I love the video but, I've one thing to mention, I've seen a couple times where you right clicked on the nodes to straighten them, there's an easier method you just highlight both of them, and press the Q key

[@soak8930]

Appreciate this alot

[@hemnnigar6594]

thanks that's great tutorial.

[@megaKRZYWDA]

Super content🎉

[@nassergreatdeveloper3745]

clear and understandable

[@Charlostacos]

Good stuff. Wish this was the first video I watched.

[@moviemaker2011z]

for the deactivate and activate time during this video, you could also just use a flip flop node to switch between on and off when Q is pressed. its a bit more complicated but more effective and easier on the fingers i would say.

[@mil3880]

Thank you

[@63OO]

thank you so much

[@naminex4443]

Could you maybe do an advanced one? Ty for this wonderful explained video!

[@stasiu.666.]

you are god!!!! thank you!!!!!!!!! maybe part 2 in the not so far future ?

[@VictorJ-blog]

Hey just to shout out that I am glad you made this video because I was following a begineers tutorial on making games inside UE5 blueprint but I had no idea what the lecturer was talking about due to the lack of explanation on the nodes ! I had subscribed to your channel as I found this video useful ! thank you again !!!

[@Neyavva]

Bro all can say is tq very much, out of soo many messy video's your telling perfectly straight to point with examples I loved it again tqs a lot Pls post more basic concepts 🔥👍 Edit: can you make video on input system it really sucks as a unity game dev i cannot figure out to work like if i press a key do this method I really hated unreal input system

[@stevenbelcher5658]

Thanks a lot!

[@LTadas]

good stuff

[@BillyRanch]

Thanks boss

[@GeekL30N]

nodos realmente importantes

[@ping_th]

Thx❤

[@jeevanathams7299]

Your content pretty cool man ☠💥💥💥💥

[@couchbrogames7499]

Thanks

[@ear4745]

Thx

[@MagistroFF]

thx +sub

[@mozthoven2414]

Around the 32-33 mark, could I mess with things a little bit to make my character lean forwards and backwards in the air while moving one of the left thumbstick axis while in air. I got it to do it another way, but it was messing with everything and made my character offset from the camera. I was told to just get a backflip animation and blend it to a point, but my goal is to get a movement similar to rocket league while in the air so you have complete control of your car while in air.

[@std_void]

Bro, thats super helpful and handy, but please!!! Upload videos in full hd please! I can't see some text titles because of the low resolution :(

[@surprenantzac]

23:00 - Collision Events. I've seen people do Cast instead of Actor Has Tag, is the Tag better performance? Or the same?

[@CasonQuisenberry]

Depends on what you are trying to do. If you need the Collison to only recognize 1 actor like the player then tags are way less expensive. However, if the Collison needs to communicate with multiple of the same actor then a cast definitely works. Like I said in the video you want to limit the number of casts you have as much as possible, but if you need to use one then use one.

[@surprenantzac]

@@CasonQuisenberry typically in tutorials I see, even from Unreal, they don’t use a Tag. They just use a Cast for the Player only, and then mention how expensive Casts are lol. Glad I learned Tags! Thanks!

[@springcar]

Magic fire your teaching unreal engine blueprint code logics. I wish more these someway with easy game math maybe? Kindof ball rolls certain amount if moving certain amount

[@laughinglads642]

Great video is it me yho or do you have poor fps have you tried lowering the quality in the settings to boost fps

[@CasonQuisenberry]

Ya I didn't know that recording at the same would affect my fps so much at the time. In my more recent vids, I set the engine scalability to low to help compensate for the recording. Thanks for the feedback tho

[@UnchartedWorlds]

Cason, how do I disconnect texture node from material? I can't find out how anywhere on youtube. Do you have shortcut for that?

[@CasonQuisenberry]

You should be able to break it like any other node. Right click the connection point on one of the nodes and a drop down menu should appear. Click break link and it should work.

[@UnchartedWorlds]

@@CasonQuisenberry Thanks, didn't occur to me I'm able to right click on the connection points.

[@Shinde1000]

@@UnchartedWorlds simply press alt and click on the connection

[@cadenpabon1122]

Need a note book

[@klovvin]

Plz record at higher resolution. 720 isn't enough to read fine text

[@CasonQuisenberry]

The newer videos I have are in 1080p now, thx for the feedback tho

[@hemant5718]

Very nice video bro. You just didn't explained those soft references.

[@vklymenko]

Does anyone have an example of a “big” game done using blueprints?

[@Shinde1000]

Choo choo charles

[@CasonQuisenberry]

Mortal Shell and Bright Memory also only used BPs. However most big games use a combination of C++ and BPs.

[@vklymenko]

@@Shinde1000 choo choo charles looks fantastic, thanks, I was watching the game trailer like it was a full movie, so cool

[@Shinde1000]

@@vklymenko yeah👍

[@ComfortZoneComic]

BROOOOOOOOOÒOO

[@user-mo7fh5mj1i]

Thanks for the soap. Why not go to 144P?

[@katherinedrennan228]

It’s everything you need to nodes ha ha

[@CasonQuisenberry]

No-des

[@henrydeadmin7983]

@CasonQuisenberry a channel called Unreal University blatantly stole this video. The thumbnail, content, and the name are all stolen. Need to Know Nodes is in the video name and thumbnail. Clearly they are ripping you, and they don't give you any credit in the video. Just wanted you to know!

[@CasonQuisenberry]

Thanks for telling me ig but I don't really care about that. I just making these for fun. I hope their vid is helpful to people trying to learn Unreal too.

[@AzoTheRed]

​@@CasonQuisenberry Not the hero we deserve...

[@Bloodywasher]

Cason you're the reason why nothing good exists in the world and monsters trample over everyone. You hope this helped the guy who ripped of your content, it's not like using your help to create games. He's being lazy and ripping your content off who's next? When he hires people I bet he'll claim their work as his own too. Bet he'll become a politician with the issues we have today "well nobody ever came after me for stealing ideas or taking advantage of public kindness better keep going." Address it in a video GETTEMMMM

[@CasonQuisenberry]

@@BloodywasherNothing I have ever done in my entire lifetime has ever been that deep. Wish u the best tho

[@Bloodywasher]

​@@CasonQuisenberry until now!! Hahah i'm just messin' anyway thanks again for the great content and for sharing your knowledge!

[@taariqmartin7743]

I love the tut but most of these are not unreal engine 5 nodes they are unreal engine nodes in general it's not special

[@LikeTeeMO]

dude, it suppose to be great video but video quality is so poor i can't even read the text )

[@call_me_mado5987]

At 23:00, becareful to put the tags EXACTLY like they are typed, spaces, uppercase letters ARE taken into account, would definitely recommend copying a tag and pasting rather than typing, just saves unecessary trouble down the road.

[@Neyavva]

Yes even I have confidence in me I always copy and paste😂😂