Unreal Engine 5 | Blueprint For Intermediate Users (2023)

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Hello guys and welcome to my Unreal Engine 5, Blueprint for Intermediate Users video. In this video, I will explain some intermediate blueprint topics, such as enumerations, structures, arrays and functions. We will use all of the things we learn in the start of this video, to create a simple inventory system. This is the second video in my Blueprint Video Series, the third and final video will be called Blueprint for Advanced Users.
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Introduction
2:40 - Project Setup
3:00 - Enumerations
10:00 - Add Comments To Blueprint
11:00 - Structures
22:13 - Arrays
35:00 - Functions Explained
43:00 - Setting Up Our Inventory System
47:37 - Creating The Master Class
50:00 - Blueprint Inheritance Explained
56:00 - Importing The Project Files
1:00:55 - Setting Up Our Item Blueprints
1:07:17 - Setting Up Item Pickup Logic
1:13:40 - Adding The Item Inventory Array
1:17:00 - Adding A Hotbar Widget
1:23:00 - Show Item Icon on Our Widget
1:29:00 - Adding Item Selection
1:39:00 - Adding Item Swapping
1:51:00 - Adding Use Item Function
1:53:40 - Consume Item Function
2:05:40 - Equip Item Function
2:14:00 - Read Item Function
2:22:20 - Summary and Outro
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[@notemarket2742]

Hi. 1:27:11 for some reason I have no Update image in the Widget reference*. This function simply does not exist, even if you manually log in to *Call Functions*. Except *Add Custom event there is nothing else....Could you tell me what it could be? Thank you.

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@@notemarket2742 1:24:00 he sets it up, it's a custom event

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[@Speed-TV]

1:37:16 I think you can just set all 3 of them to default, then set the correct one to yellow. You won't be able to see it because it all happens in one frame.

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Hi bro, your blueprint tutorial is the best I have ever seen, looking forward to your blueprint advanced videos

[@k3rm173]

1:37:00 - I believe if you put the 'set brush color' of all borders between the 'Select Item' event and the 'Switch on Int', you will get the same result making it easier and scaleable.

[@Ganon616]

This works! Saved me 2 minutes. :D

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Thanks so much can't wait for part 3 :)

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[@VIVALARAZABIANCONERA]

EDIT: I found the solution, I didn't connect an execution pin when creating the Widget reference, in the custom event "CreateMainHUD, just after "Add to Viewport". Gonna leave this comment in case someone else got the same error! Loving this tutorials, I plan to follow them

[@klaw7705]

Mate thanks for the comment, I wasted 1 hour of my life try to debug this problem too

[@jimothywayne]

I also ran into this issue and went all the way back checking my blueprints... it snuck right past! Thanks for posting your problem solving!

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ran into exact same problem ... Knew I wouldn't be the only one

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[@Axel0689]

This video intermediate was very helpful. Especially talking about Enumeration, Structure and Array. Also, the different functions are equally useful. On this tour, everything worked correctly for me. Good job. 💪💪😎😎

[@timo_b3]

awesome, thank you for this video ❤

[@carlosrivadulla8903]

Looking forward to the advanced video, I would like to suggest u to cover the "set by reference var" concept and async loading soft references if possible.

[@ArrowTech374]

the thing i love about your vids is i dont know if anyone else understands what I'm about to say but do you how if you look at blender vids on geometry nodes or scratch vids they say what the code does but not what it can be used for. i understood the first vid in this series so well that i was all ready thinking about what i can do with it and how to do it. and the way he's explaining it is so good that that help me to understand it. to get my point (if you dont) you can go see blender geometry nodes vids for ur self. and i just want to say that this has helped so much. i cant actually explain how and what the differences are between smart polys way of explaining it are and everyone elses but if you get what i mean you get what i mean

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Great stuff. Thanks.

[@psychxx7146]

First 40 min were painful, but when you get to create pickable items and understand what's going on and why we're using these nodes, it's the greatest feeling ever

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Amazing Content! Thank you

[@rremnar]

Enums and Structs work pretty well together. In my project I have complex enumerations, and using structs helps with storing that data. Though I had to break up my code into separate functions to keep it clean. For example, I have 1 enum that determines what other enum(s) to use. So you do that by nesting the first enum into other nested enums using the switch node. Edit: Where the struct comes in is storing the 2 (or more) valid enumerated variables. You could do without using a struct, but that would mean you'd be using more variables.

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[@elisios7349]

This is an incredible blueprint tutorial. I should show it to programmers in my team next time they say that it takes 4 weeks for inventory system prototype...

[@flurishart612]

More content I'll need to get through lol. I bought the survival course from Smart Poly and it's awesome still working my way through it

[@poisonouscupcakes]

Really great @smartpoly. One suggestion that woulda helped me a lot is if you had your key press overlay for your keypresses! There was several times where i wish i coulda seen the keypress right off instead of having to look them up.

[@billyboy1er]

This was one of the best tutorials I've ever followed (all softwares/skills included)! One small thing I would suggest for your next tutorials would be to give the viewer a few exercises to figure out some of the implementations by themselves, which is kinda what I did by giving myself a few extra-curricular tasks to improve upon your design. For my fellow viewers here are a few suggestions of things I implemented by myself to apply the knowledge learned here: - Make the first inventory slot highlighted by default, before any mouse scroll (super easy) - Create a drop item function that you can call with a keyboard input, and also call inside the AddItem function - add an "IsEquipped?" variable to our item structure, to check if you should actually drop it or not (useful if you had more than one weapon in inventory) - create a scale variable in item structure, to adjust how big an equipped item will be in the player's hand

[@Zanktus]

Nice ideas, to add onto that there is also an issue in the end with the book. When you open the book and then go and pickup the hatchet, you won't be able to close the book anymore. So another good exercise is to fix that issue.

[@Scr1ptd]

I done the same after the video, another thing people can try to do on their own is to try and change the scroll system to allow you to start from slot 1 again when you scroll past the last slot :)

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Thanks a lot ,keep going

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[@ricardobaeta3184]

cant wait for the advanced video

[@TheChyamp]

There's a bug at 'Consume Item Function'. After removing the consumable, the left click still triggers the consumable path. Infact, if you don't pick anything up at all, it triggers the same path. You can also test by adding a print string node to the consumable path and you will always see it trigger when clicking left mouse button, even when you have not picked anything up. To fix this: 1. Add a 'none' option to your Enum and move it to the top. 2. Change the default setting 'Item Type' in your Inventory Array to be 'none'. 3. When removing the item from the array after consuming, you mayu need to explicitly set 'Item Type' to none. Split the pins in 'Set Array Elem' and set it to None.

[@hjrkami]

Thanks dude B) been losing my mind over this

[@user-db2si9bv2n]

GREAT VIDEO. WAITING FOR PART 3.

[@Ampe96]

Hey man, this video was very helpful, thank you. I wanted to ask you if the advanced blueprint tutorial is still coming, thanks and keep it up

[@ItsMeJuvyYT]

waiting on the advanced tutorial great series.

[@Regisseur12]

Great tutorial! I am really looking forward to the third part! When will the third part be released?

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Amazing tutorials. When is advanced coming out?

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Love the videos, regarding the survival game course, do you get to keep the videos for infinite future use?

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Thank you so much!!!!

[@danbear5689]

For anyone watching in the future, I found an easier way to reset the image. Although I haven't done extensive testing with it, so there might be a downside I'm not accounting for. But instead of calling its own event like SmartPoly does at 1:59:00, you can just call the update image event and set that to a blank image. So far this has been working, and saved me a bit of time. Happy developing!

[@skdadd6549]

Love it

[@maurokoller3910]

I would love to see an abstract on how to view BP. So how do you go about setting up a system and what thought processes went into that.

[@LuxLunox]

Danke!

[@-Toon-]

If your items don't seem to be swapping correctly (specifically if you swap an item once, then try to swap it back) it's because you have to move your character outside of the collider and then back in to reenable input. He's actually doing this at 1:49:49 but I don't think he mentions it :)

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Any idea on when the multiplayer fps course releases? cant wait. will be buying it the second it comes out :D

[@GoalRift]

we need the blueprint for advanced! thanks for your efforts

[@SwaMusic]

I know it's not a part of the tutorial, the MetallicSmoothness maps should have the (R) routed to Metallic and the (A) with a 'One Minus' node to convert to Roughness! Loving your videos and they are helping make learning Blueprints an enjoyable experience! Thank you, Smart Poly! :)

I've already purchased your full course on teachable, and it is amazing, i can highly recommend to everyone! But since it's so detailed and quite specific to that survival game, it's a bit hard to filter out and implement the knowledge to my own needs (because i don't want to just copy your game, but learn how to do one on my own). How wrong i would be to assume that this video is roughly the summed up version of your long lecture? In terms of game structure, scalability, general directions for a game's dev, etc. Of course i will keep using your course, especially when details are needed, but how big of a mistake i would make if i started building my game according to this video, at least in terms of a general frame? Thank you very much!

[@BT-Bombertrebor]

I want to mention that you don't really need extra components to split things like vectors into its floats, you can just right-click any node that has a combination of pins while it is not connected to anything and select split pin structure that will have the same result with less unnecessary extra tabs like our Break S_TestStructure

[@BonkBonkad]

where is the advanced tutorial? btw.. it's a great tutorial.. has been addicted to this playlist..

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Thank you for teaching us. When will the First Person shooters course be released?

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You're amazing.

[@MonderMurshed]

Hello! ,where is the third video? we need it so hard, thx for these useful videos, really helped.

[@itsworm4247]

Can't wait to finish this with everyone here early.

[@whyameye]

Thanks

[@kucirulz]

Let's gooo!

[@DiaaAlhalabi376]

Maaan plesssssssss we need to a The third video, which is the advanced course,

[@mlgjman1837]

Hello, thank you for the tutorial. Where is the Blueprint Advanced part?

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Hey Poly ,I really apreciete you thats for you know

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When is #3 coming?? Great videos!

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we need the advanced course!✅

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