Unreal Engine 5 | Blueprint For Beginners (2023)

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Hello guys and welcome to my Unreal Engine 5, Blueprint For Beginners Course. In this video I will explain what are blueprints, why you should learn blueprints, and how to use blueprints inside of Unreal Engine 5. Blueprints are the visual scripting system of Unreal Engine 5, and you can use Blueprints to create complete games, or different tools to help speed up your workflow. This is the first video in my Blueprint Video Series. There will a Blueprint For Intermediate Users, and also a Blueprint For Advanced Users.
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Introduction
2:55 - Create The Project
3:55 - What Are Blueprints?
5:20 - Third Person Character Blueprint
9:44 - Blueprint User Interface
19:30 - Create Our First Blueprint Node
25:30 - Blueprint Variables
25:58 - Boolean Variable
33:00 - Integer Variable
37:00 - Float Variable
38:50 - String Variable
40:20 - Vector Variable
46:10 - Rotator Variable
47:14 - Transform Variable
48:59 - Getting and Setting Variables
50:50 - Creating A Door Blueprint
1:13:40 - Hat Pickup Blueprint
1:30:20 - Health And Damage Box Blueprint
2:05:02 - Soccer Goal And Ball Blueprint
2:28:00 - Creating A Hit Actor Blueprint
2:50:53 - Summary And Outro
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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

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@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.

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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!

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