Unreal Engine 5 | Blueprint For Beginners (2023)

[@SmartPoly]

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[@Ghrimm]

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[@RomanSherin-lm9cs]

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[@Spellbound_93]

@1:12:26 A better option would be to plug these into just "play" and "reverse". This is so if you press the key again mid animation, the door doesn't snap to the beginning or end in an unnatural way before playing.

[@dollynhooetdevarginha8]

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[@AndrewVanDeHey-op2dp]

Found this out too 😂

[@MessrUppr]

After a half-hour of trying to Google this, you solved it. Thanks!

[@TheSoprah]

Instead, I created a variable "isMoving" so the process of closing/opening only initiates if isMoving is False.

[@diosleftcheek2012]

At 1:03:05, if you add the node in the target, you will be able to open the door from anywhere on the level. To fix that, you can add it on the player controller to only allow the actor to open it from inside the collider

[@Thomazzdt]

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[@QuantumConudrum]

tnx helped so much

[@nazonrev5087]

found that out on my own. he should pin this comment

[@RougherEsportsTV]

Worked out perfectly. Thanks

[@diosleftcheek2012]

@@RougherEsportsTV Anytime, mate

[@LarsPau]

Many thanks. This was so helpful to get a starting point with a lot of valuable and well balanced insights. I'm looking forward to other courses like the two beginner courses.

[@krzysztoftoch1074]

Thanks man. You make very good videos. Really nice editing and teaching skills. Nice voice also.

[@Eftiar]

Just finished the tutorial and I love it. I was tired of doing tutorials that only shoow you how to use blueprints to make a specific type of game. This was just how to use blueprints as a whole and I loved it.

[@RogueBearEntertainment]

Hey Poly! While making your door blueprint I noticed that the End Overlap event does not actually work because when your character leaves the box he can still activate it from a distance! The issue was that the Get Player Controller node had to be connected to the Disable Input PLAYER CONTROLLER node and not the Target node! Just wanted to clarify. Great tutorial!

[@Archaoen0]

yes i saw that as well, thanks.

[@randomveryrandom4565]

thank you soo much i was actually wondering why that was happening

[@empiregfx2303]

Man thanks I was facing same issue 👍

[@taobowen2016]

I'm confused for that part until I saw this, great!

[@oldzkr]

Great!, thought i've made a mistake somewhere for a sec.

[@elefantspidsmus]

Thanks for your tutorial - love it! There is a bug in the door script though. At 1:03 you plug the GetPlayer Controller into Disable Input with Target. This results in the character being able to open and close outside the box as if she never left it - which she didn't. You need to plug it into the Player Controller, and I'm sure that's what you meant 🙂

[@MrDJsArcade]

I just applied this fix and it works! Thanks!

[@insramrehmat4500]

Thanks

[@NeoQJ]

Thanks!

[@SlombyChannel]

i was also confused. Unreal engine is quite diffrent from what im used with. Unity

[@SnakeCrossEye]

I also noticed that. I set the Flip Flop (B) to "reverse", instead of "reverse from end" to prevent the door from snapping into a fully opened position before closing, if the animation hasn't finished.

[@virgilhawkins3390]

As of UE 5.4, @1:48:00 you have to use "Get Player Character" instead of "Get Owning Player Pawn" for the percent progress bar to work.

[@slimp6532]

Thank you, I was wondering why my bar wouldn't move.

[@JohnToenjes]

Unreal drives us crazy with all these little changes...KZbin tutorial makers should ALWAYS label their titles with version numbers--but very few do...at least this one says (2023) so that's helpful, somewhat.

[@SirGentlemenJ]

Just swapping that didn't fix it, any suggestions?

[@Levita_]

@@SirGentlemenJ 'Get Player Pawn' was what I used because I've made the ThirdPersonCharacter into a masterclass, might work for you.

[@manuguillin7852]

@@SirGentlemenJ im also stucked here..

[@jaydeusmortis]

At 1:19:45 - The Return Value needs to go into the Player Controller for Disable Input, NOT the target. Otherwise, once you've passed the collision once, it never properly disables the input, and you can equip the hat from anywhere in the level.

[@vectorms9000]

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[@johnrex7108]

Just wanna say again these videos are terrific, and I really look forward to watching those other videos on intermediate and advanced. Keep of the great work, man. You're helping a lot of people right now.

[@frenchyboy4804]

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[@shawnboundy3716]

Great tutorials as always!! A note to anyone who might have had this problem: I was having problems with the soccer ball part - not causing the fireworks, not getting destroyed and reloaded. I found that the error was me updating some things to the goal and saving that, but the goal that was already present on the map was not updating. So deleting them, and replacing them with the latest saved version fixed that problem (Unreal v5.3.1)

[@Fevwy]

ive spent hours in the last days watching ue5 tutorials and basics because me and a few friends want to make a game and i saw this video and i can say no one explained everything so simple to understand but detailed enough to learn like you did. thans

[@spilth]

Been watching a bunch of UE5 videos the last week or so and this is the clearest, most well paced and organized video I’ve come across. Kudos! I’ll be subscribing and watching more of your work.

[@EmergencySerotonin]

This tutorial is amazing. I did notice that when I left the doors hitbox I could still interact with it. I triple checked my blueprints and to the best of my beginner knowledge they matched yours exactly. While troubleshooting I linked "Get Player Controller - Return Value" to the "Disable Input - Player Controller" rather than "Target" and it worked exactly as intended. If you see this I'd love to know why we initially connect Enable Input to Player Controller and Disable Input to Target. Regardless thank you for the amazing tutorial!

[@jedhaydney4176]

I noticed that as well. You can get rid of the link between 'Get Player Controller' and 'Disable Input' to also stop it.

[@dongerification]

Yeah if you change the "Get Player Controller" and move it from the "Target" node to the "Player Controller" node it works.

[@Rico.308]

Thank you this helped me save some time and solve this problem quickly

[@ultimate1769]

@@jedhaydney4176 Thanks :).

[@rekker1104]

I also noticed: When pressing “E” to open the door while the door is in it’s closing animation, door will snap instantly to its closed position and then will begin opening. Did you have this too? Do you know how to correct it?

[@benjaminzarkhin1293]

At 2:43:51 I saw you could optimize a bit and instead of using separate relative location and rotation nodes you can use a "set relative location and rotation" node.

[@hotcher2]

Best beginner blueprint course I've seen. Perfect pacing. Well done and thank you.

[@petethechin]

Given up Unity for Unreal, things just seem so much easier here, thanks for this its been very helpful so far.

[@Psycked]

I thought and did the SAME thing!

[@mrfirespark]

hows it going?

[@sparshsingh7543]

absolutely man! everyone says unity is easier, even though i am not new to programming at all, unity still seemed so much harder to learn, i might have been following a wrong tutorial for learning it, but unreal honestly seems so much easier!

[@SuyashGamerOP]

Thank you man, I was so eagerly waiting for this because your old tuts and UE5 have some diff stuff in blueprint .. Thanks for providing quality content for free :)

[@ThePatman412]

Easy to follow and understand as the tutorial goes on. I appreciated the "mini projects" within the course. Thumbs up from an. absolute beginner. Thank you.

[@danielfrohlich9040]

Great video mister. Took me nearly 3 days to get through it with a lot of breaks but I managed and accomplished everything mentioned here with a little bit of extra (I set up the hit actors to spin at random rates when they spawn etc..) Can't wait to begint he next one! Thank you!

[@RitzBitz13]

thank you so much for these videos, they're slow enough for me to keep up and not have to continuously pause, but also fast enough that it keeps me interested! i am going to wait for your 5.4 new video series and ill be the first to buy it!

[@forgettablejelly8673]

Thanks for the lesson. Unfortunately, at 1:14:30, I can't transfer files to the engine. The exact error in the output log is: "LogAutomationController: Ignoring very large delta of 2.81 seconds in calls to FAutomationControllerManager::Tick() and not penalizing unresponsive tests". Unreal version 5.4.1 I will be grateful for any help.

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[@dalcon4]

Man, I learned more from this than I have from a few weeks of digging around other stuff. Great course, great content, and great Instructor. TY

[@jojodelivery5916]

I've been going through tutorial hell in my game development journey of 2 months. This video made blueprints A LOT easier for me to understand. Thank you!

[@ForTheForsaken]

This is baffling me so much 1:12:18. Where is the Z axis valued stored, because my door is not moving. If I delete the rotator that I made from the set relative rotation, the Z value is 0. How are you saving the value for the rotation?

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Finished it! Its great how you just dive in. I learned a lot, but still confused. However, the more i completed this tutorial, the more i started to understand what we were doing and why. Great video, great job, and thank you so much!

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This is one of the most thorough, yet simple tutorials of Unreal 5 and Blueprints. Great job!

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[@Speed-TV]

1:03:00 you didn't explain what target and player controller means edit: I think I get it but I still don't know why you had to plug anything into target

[@Chewbert]

This is great! I just finished this part and I genuinely feel like I took a LOT away from this guide! Cheers, and I hope you have a wonderful 2024!

[@melodym5492]

one step two step. Bless you. Learning... and sometimes beginning tutorials are just too fast. Fear of no time stamps I guess. But after watching their click, click click and I have to watch the video 6 times before I know the keys they pressed to get to that step I'm learning then realize I didn't know step 2. Mahalo!!! Learning blueprints for cinema and games.

[@matterofprinciple919]

Hello. I noticed, that after setting character mesh's collision preset to ragdoll it broke the physical interaction with default movable blue cubes. Now if character gets on top of one, it starts to sink down into the floor and bounce or just fall through. How to solve this?

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[@laughinglads642]

45:39 tip if it doesn't show your vector play it in the view port sub heading and it works😊 😉 don't know why this happened but I'm clawing back some of my sanity 😢

[@de0750]

Thanks to you, I now understand what I didn't comprehend in blueprints. I really appreciate it!

[@aliali-ix6db]

thanks for this amazing course! but i have a note : at 1:12:19 you should use play and reverse instead of play from start and reverse from end because the play from start and reverse from will make the door look unsmooth when you press E quickly

[@aaronvanpelt3000]

Wonderful tutorial! I found that it bothered me in other tutorials how they would say things like "don't worry about how this works, just know that it works" and that sort of teaching style just doesn't work for my brain. So I really appreciate the detailed explanations of how things function and why things work! Can't wait to work through your other videos!

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[@normal_game_developer]

this helped me a lot since i'm trying to make a survival/sandbox game I have experience with other game engines thanks!

[@frodox10]

Such a good crash course on blueprints mate, nicely done.

[@jesusguillen5054]

Man this is great. At the beginning I was getting bored and i thought it was all going to be very slow paced, but i was wrong. Thanks a lot!

[@Lion-up5rz]

If you having problems with the way the characters physics after enable the ragdoll Collision Prestes in 2:37:25 like if you stand on an the Soccer ball an it just gets pressed under the ground. You need to change the Collision preset if its on ragdoll to coustom and put the marker at PhysicsBody to overlap and youre good to go (sry for my bad english)

[@Susuer]

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[@SnoutBaron]

1:12:46 It's better to have the flip flop A/B nodes in Play and Reverse rather than the respective From Starts, as when you spam the E key it will smoothly open and close from where the door is even mid rotation instead of jumping to the start or end.

[@The.Real.Andrew.Cooper]

Best blueprint tutorial series i've found by far!

[@JRENUGZ]

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[@thesue112-v2r]

Amazing man! Hands down the best explaination on getting started with blue prints thanks! :)

[@henrybear4600]

Great video. Very intro to blue prints. As I progress, I will look forward to your intermediate and advanced videos. Thx.

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Loved it. First time I have been able to understand anything so I can make stuff. Thank you very very much. Awesomely amazing!!

[@hatonafox5170]

34:17 - if blueprints follow C++ data types then that is a 4 byte number whose max value would be: 4,294,967,295 Most people won't need a number that big but I did want to clarify you can't put "any" number in there. Larger numbers would require an integer64. A good game example of where you couldn't use the integer datatype is damage numbers for games like Diablo where the damage values can get well above 4,294,967,295 for endgame builds. It might also not be good for currency in games with guilds that pool resources. Not sure if the video clarifies the size limitation of Integers later in the video because I've only made it this far.

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[@EchoEld]

This might be the only time I get excited about a working door, thank you for the tutorial

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I took a computer science class at Columbia University, and it was the most needlessly convoluted class I have ever taken. This video gives like 40% of the concepts learned in that class, but in a fraction of the time, and in a way that is significantly easier to understand due to the visual of the blueprints.

[@tandomransom9981]

Thank you for existing dude. I’ve had this project in mind for a year now and been jumping from tutorial to tutorial and nothing seems to really give me a good sense of what I’m actually doing. Just doing their own thing and having me follow along. I never really learned anything until I found your vids. I greatly appreciate you dude

[@fenottilore7972]

this video was so super cool, ive always wanted to become a game dev but ive always struggled with unity and learning code, this visual blueprint system seems so much easier for my brain to follow! thanks for the awesome series :)

[@MrRandomPlays_1987]

1:29:35 - Wow, cool, I managed to figure it out on my own before continuing watching the video to see how you do it, I guessed it that I should use the output socket as a delete something to delete it, and I searched for delete node and guessed it was the delete actor one, now it works, it deleted it for me after picking up the hat :) cool

[@dyotoorion1835]

Great tutorial Cheers! :-) At 1:15:00 there is the import warning "No smoothing group information found..." This is a common minor warning for files created in and exported from Blender 3D, This issue can be fixed in the Blender 3D FBX Export options by going to the Geometry drop down menu and changing the Smoothing method to Face (It's Normals Only by default.) Please bare in mind that changing this setting doesn't actually change anything in the mesh, it just solves the warning. :P And there isn't anything wrong with the mesh even if that warning is shown. Hehe.

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This was amazing, thank you so much! Looking forward to the rest of them!

[@jayelborg]

I love you! I watched 20 hours of unreal engine tutorials and got barely any progress. Now I understood more in this 3 hours than in the 20hours before that :O

[@ForTheForsaken]

50.55 I was wondering why the E input was not disabling and so I changed the 'Get Player Controller' return value to 'Player Controller' on the 'Disable Input', and it fixed it. May I ask what setting it to 'Target Self' did?

[@MrRandomPlays_1987]

22:55 - I figured that you dont have to press first compile to run it, you can right away press play and it would automatically first compile it and would launch the gameplay window

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[@2ra0]

there should be a rule for anyone willing to make a tutorial and it is to explain WHY doing this and not doing that, this is how people wont be needing to follow precisely what u do and make their own thing

[@garlicdbread7210]

wanted to thank you for making this tutorial. I'm only half way through, but I already appreciate your way of teaching in this. Highly recommend for people looking to get started in Unreal Engine!

[@undholio1206]

Big thanks for these tutorials! One thing, I noticed that I can open/close the door from distance if Disable Input is set to Target. Setting it to Player Controller removes that.

[@cayenigma]

Thank you!

[@jeffdavies2824]

Great work on these videos. You are very thorough and have a relaxed presentation voice that is clear and unrushed. This is important because if your voice doesn't sound rushed, I, as the student, don't feel rushed. This is very helpful for a total Unreal noob like me. In areas where I need to, I can skip ahead a little bit and learn at my speed. Some youtubers speak very quickly and show things as fast as possible. I'm very much against this approach as its almost impossible to slow things down in the video, but its much easier to skip around in a longer video. Your use of chapters is also a huge help in this regard. I watched the first video in this series and at first, the 2+ hour long runtime made me pause. KZbin has trained me to have a short attention span (yeah, I blamed YT, not me, lol). I had already spent a couple of confused hours in the Unreal editor so I was able to rationalize the video time more easily. I spent 3+ hours watching it in real time but I watched it in its entirety, after which I gave it a like and subscribed. You describe things very well and cover the little details that are easy for a subject-domain expert like you to overlook. Keep up the great work!👏

[@japama_]

The tutorial was amazing, but I would like to know if there is a way to have to character just get flung away and not reappear at the hit actor.

[@flames0042]

Videos are awesome. The pacing of the instructions are great. I can follow along and repeat what you are doing while you are doing it and its awesome.

[@_Franky4Fingers]

Thx for this tutorial @Smart Poly! I know the "cast to third person character" is just for demonstration kinds in this tutorial. For all beginners... try to never use it !!! Simply replace the "cast to third person character" Node. For example (open door): Connect Other Actor (from Component begin overlap) with a "==" Node, connect this with a "Get Player Character" Node and also connect the "==" Node with a "Branch" Node. Will do the same and safe the performance. I guess that´s the only point as an additional info which also important for beginners. Thank you for your work Smart Poly :)

[@JohnToenjes]

This works but what is wrong with "Cast to..."?

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[@samanson2001]

Subscribed recently due to the level of detail you go into with these videos. I'm primarily a C# Web Application developer and these videos remind me of when I was being taught how to use Visual Studio initially.

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Great tutorial, great examples, amazing ressources, no useless bloat, clear consice and complete. But man, the "okay?" as punctuation got me aggressive after 3h x_x

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Thanks for making this video. Been watching a bit each day grasping more. You make it easy to follow with a lot of good information :)

[@USBEN.]

This makes me love unreal even more.Thankyou .

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This is a great tutorial my dude. Thanks a bunch!

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[@dyadica]

This was my first Unreal tutorial and it was great! thanks for this!

[@JJDRAGO]

I have just finished this tutorial and it is great. Very informative, fun to get through, and I've got a grat game idea from it. Thank you man!

[@niansenx]

Thanks

[@raykenney0562]

Bro I just Started Learning Unreal engine and This is already Epic You make us understand things Really easy

[@pulkitminz1998]

So, I just want to say, thank you! It's a great video, and very helpful to those who want to learn Blueprint.

[@instancesofawol7968]

Another note to add for anyone.... Make the collision box bigger if you want to open the door without having to stand right next to it. - use the grid as reference, So I made the box bigger by about a full sqaure and a half so now the door opens when I'm standing away from it instead of right up next to it which will stop clipping issues.

[@foncon9642]

I think I've finally found a good starting point. Thank you very much.

[@新蒋]

Excellent! As a beginner to UE5, I was so happy and satisfied to learn from your beginner's blueprint! Learn each step very clearly, and if you can, would you consider teaching UE5 about the VR Blueprints? I'm willing to pay!!

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