[UE4] Overlay 3D Components Inside a Widget

[@Rose_Harmonic]

I wanted a little 3d solar system minimap that matches the rotation of the main camera and you have just solved my main problem.

[@gabrielepardi5178]

Simple and straight to the point: thanks!

[@RobVicars]

Just came to say this is exactly what I needed and I really didn't think I was going to find an answer! Felt too specific haha. Shame it doesn't work with the actual player blueprint - as I'm using this to showcase the cosmetics you're adding to your character from the start menu - but I've gotten round it for the moment just adding them to the OverlayActor mesh individually. There's probably a much better way to do it :D Thanks again bud!

[@assassinhitman]

What a great and simple to follow tutorial!

[@rickfuzzy]

Gosh this was fantastic. Feel like i've levelled up! I needed this for a HUD but this technique is dynamite

[@StevenDiLeo]

Fantastically explained, thank you for making this :)

[@kamiskillet]

quick, concise tutorials. Subscribed

[@duotwix]

Great video. I used this so collectibles spin in front of the player when they pick something up

[@BoodleBops]

Awesome! I used this tutorial to make a Kerbal style 2D/3D Navball

[@nucleartide]

This is a fantastic tutorial. Thanks so much Aaron!

[@al-sah-him4587]

when i put it into the widget the character is their but the background is black for some reason

[@sandakureva]

Well that's... exactly what I needed to know. Many thanks! :D

[@captaingamesz]

Exactly what I looking for, thanks!

[@dasistwalter96]

Awesome tutorial, thank you!

[@Trait74]

LIFE SAVER LIFESAVER OMG THIS IS ITTT

[@itsjxomusic]

Hey Aaron, I'd love to learn the full way of doing this. I'm not one to work from project files as I like to know how it's done and follow along. Anyway to do a more indepth tutorial with the UI design too? Looks amazing

[@SonicTheCat]

Cool tutorial, but that grey fringing around the character is pretty bad. That wouldn't be acceptable in a real game. Turning up the resolution makes it less noticeable but you can still see it. Any ideas how to fix that?

[@seanypdesign]

Great tutorial! Have got it mostly working, but having issues getting the background to render transparent. The actor is properly animating, but I am still seeing the sky in the background. Worth noting: On the material screen, where you see your character with a black background, I see only the black background.

[@Beh3D]

I also have this issue, any solutions?

[@ELau-yn8pw]

in the 'spawnActor Overlay actor' node, make the x transfer rotation to about 10000000 (ten million), so its outside the Ue skybox parameters

[@arunkarthik5820]

hey aaron fantastic tutorial🤩..........i have a small issue on it which is.Texture are not rendering properly could you please help me out in it?

[@marijnfuhler7246]

Great tutorial! But I have one question if you make use of pauses, is if also possible to let the animation of the character still run? Even when your game is paused?

[@glitchysparx]

WOW!! Thank you so much! You are a monster! (I mean so you are cool)

[@sgt_samples]

Fabulous, thank you..

[@isimbulamadmobenibulsun660]

I wasted so much time trying to do literally same thing but I never been managed to remove the background. I went outside came home removed everything and now it worked

[@RewiredRecords]

Awesome!

[@Admin-oe8zj]

amazing..thanks man

[@1979nige]

Brilliant tutorial thanks

[@Eminent-Web]

Thanks alot, soawesome!!! But, i got a question. Is this tutorial just for the inventory Screen ingame? because i tried out in the Main Menu (Character Chooser) and he dont move. The animation dont work. Whatdid i wrong?

[@n1lknarf]

Any idea why the material gives an error saying the texture node should be set to linear color? The tutorial is several months old so maybe something was changed in the material editor? I'm literally doing exactly the same you did. The texture is rendering a gradient color instead of the mesh color.

[@alabamaboy]

Have this issue as well, any idea how to fix that?

[@quechus13]

Could you teach how to make it persistent across levels?? Because kind of pointless having this if you have armors and when switching levels your character doesn't animate no more.

[@erendemirtas3906]

working on editor but nothing shows up on mobile??

[@ty_teynium]

Is the game paused? Because I tried this and my character was not moving; I am thinking it's because I set game paused.

[@uros119977]

i was stuck for a couple of days on this issue, it wasn't moving, you just made my day, my game was paused

[@Beh3D]

Wow i can't believe i spent so much time trying to figure out this issue, when i was just pausing the game during the menu lol, this solved my problem xD Thank you

[@InKrid-Studios]

you saved me bro

[@beton6532]

Is it possible to make 3D widget without spawning an actor on the level? I am planning to use that on loading screen so there's not supposed to be a place where you can spawn it. Or is it?

[@sgneurcuboid]

I guess your loading screen could be a level by it self so you could place actor inside it and your loading screen UI (not sure it's the most optimized way tho)

[@remosloot1280]

@@sgneurcuboid this would work yes

[@CausticSpace]

Could record a video instead unless the player interacts with it someway during loading.

[@MrDevonParsons]

super helpful, thanks!!

[@Drahoslav_Lysak]

Great tutorial :)

[@tommylee7102]

i owe u one dude

[@vmancool]

Really good video helped alot but any idea how one would have two of the same actors display on the UI cause right now it just displays two versions of the same one and its the always the last one spawn

[@josephscarce962]

Dose anyone know how I can get the overlay target to inherit my characters material because I'm using this for a character customation

[@A_WHISPER_IN_THE_TWILIGHT]

Very helpful., thanks.

[@APalatn]

Any tips on creating an isolated lighting environment for the captured actor? So far, without doing really esoteric multi-world hacks, I've used a separate lighting channel and just disabled a lot of effects in the capture component (which is not ideal since I still want access to those effects, just not the ones globally in the game scene itself)

[@shuanthereales8412]

Add it to the blueprint

[@r0dybuen0]

It works great for me! Though the character gets a small outline, do you know how to get rid of it?

[@n1lknarf]

That's because of low resolution. But keep in mind using 4k textures for a widget that updates on tick can be very expensive.

[@GhullieUser]

You can maybe feather the alpha output from the texture in the material editor with a little bit of wizardry

[@swrcPATCH]

Is this the only way to have 3D elements inside widgets?

[@n1lknarf]

Thank you so much!

[@Artidox3D]

Cool 😎

[@Nio0B]

Well i dont understand why i did that and now my unreal engine kills my PC with 13GB ram used each time i open it.

[@pratyushraut9120]

how can irotate an actor with 3d widget buttons ( on pressed and on released )

[@gandalfthegreen1827]

Rotate the camera?

[@Bomkikgames]

Hi! Im trying to do this in UE5 but I find that the characters appear static when I press play, In animation Mode within each skeletal mesh, it have selected, the animation and the blueprint but nothing change. If anyone has any idea I would really appreciate it because I didn’t find any more information than this video or similars that are doing the same, thanks for your time developers!

[@DailyPaily]

Dont pause the game.

[@Bomkikgames]

@@DailyPaily i didnt :/

[@maestro2550]

Thanks

[@hangrybeargaming7484]

Dope

[@kngparadox]

Everyone does the tutorial on render targets, no one ever does about doing it right lol

[@yosinciclos5908]

it seems that everything works correctly, but! You do not explain where you get your actor or what he is. A simple static mesh is not because it has animation and a character either because the unreal standard cannot be used. the question is: where to download this actor = "overlayactor" for a complete understanding?

[@stevesparkes165]

1:33 ?

[@WardHouse]

Awesome!