Developing an Interactive Menu in Unreal Engine 5

Developing an Interactive Menu in Unreal Engine 5, available at $49.99, has an average rating of 3.15, with 82 lectures, based on 33 reviews, and has 502 subscribers.

You will learn about Learn Blueprints Learn Niagara and VFX Learn to make UI Art Learn to create games in Unreal Engine 5 This course is ideal for individuals who are Beginner Game Developers who want to create games in Unreal Engine 5 It is particularly useful for Beginner Game Developers who want to create games in Unreal Engine 5.

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Summary

Title: Developing an Interactive Menu in Unreal Engine 5

Price: $49.99

Average Rating: 3.15

Number of Lectures: 82

Number of Published Lectures: 82

Number of Curriculum Items: 82

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 82

Original Price: $89.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Learn Blueprints

Learn Niagara and VFX

Learn to make UI Art

Learn to create games in Unreal Engine 5

Who Should Attend

Beginner Game Developers who want to create games in Unreal Engine 5

Target Audiences

Beginner Game Developers who want to create games in Unreal Engine 5

Made by UNF Games, the first course taught by 3 veterans in the game industry is now available in Udemy.

In this course you will learn how to create a complete Game Feature in Unreal Engine 5 using the Style of Genshin Impact.

This course is not about showing you one part of game development, is about showing you the complete picture.

You will learn Blueprints, Niagara, Materials, UI and how to make them work together to create an entire Game Feature.

UI is one of the most least overlooked topics on Game Development and almost all games have one. To make a great UI is all about User Experience and that can make the difference between someone liking or disliking your game.

Learn Blueprints:

You will learn the best practices used by professionals in Game Dvevelopment to create Widgets and organize them to create any kind of UI. Not only that but you will learn Blueprint Communication and connect your Gameplay with the UI creating a great User Experience.

Learn Niagara and VFX:

You will learn how to decorate your Menu using Niagara and learn Materials to create magical effects. Niagara is one of the most important features in Unreal Engine and learning it can give you a huge advantage to make your games stand out from the croud.

Learn to make UI Art:

You will learn how to decorate your widgets using Photoshop to create nice and stylish themes for your UI and enhance the User Experience.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Project Setup

Lecture 1: Breakdown of the example

Lecture 2: Creating the project and adding the character

Lecture 3: Setting up the input

Lecture 4: Create needed framework and character classes

Lecture 5: Menu location teleport and menu character camera

Chapter 2: Classic UI

Lecture 1: Creation of Menu Widget and show it to the player

Lecture 2: Add mouse interaction to the menu

Lecture 3: Using modularity to our advantage to develop better interfaces

Chapter 3: Spacial UI

Lecture 1: Orb blueprint creation

Lecture 2: Using Polar Coordinates to generate the orbs around the character

Lecture 3: Attaching orbs to an actor to control their movement

Lecture 4: Clicking the orbs and sending information through event dispatchers

Lecture 5: Rotating the orbs to the selected one

Lecture 6: Idle Orb rotation

Lecture 7: Orb rotation state

Lecture 8: Creating the orb container class

Lecture 9: Orb selection working properly

Lecture 10: Creating the sub menu, and opening it through the orbs

Chapter 4: Orb Animation

Lecture 1: Making the orb go up and down

Lecture 2: Changing camera settings with each menu option

Lecture 3: Orbs should be hidden when I choose another option

Lecture 4: Character animations change when we select different options

Chapter 5: Background & Orbs VFX

Lecture 1: VFX Intro

Lecture 2: Making the Cloud texture and mesh

Lecture 3: Making the Background Material

Lecture 4: Making the Colored Cloud

Lecture 5: Making the Mesh UVs

Lecture 6: Making the Front Cloud Material

Lecture 7: Fixes & Making the Star Texture

Lecture 8: Star Material & Emitter

Lecture 9: Last touches on the background

Lecture 10: Making the Ring Texture and Material

Lecture 11: Ring noise and Material

Lecture 12: Implemeting Glow to the niagara system

Lecture 13: Ring spawn Texture & material

Lecture 14: Making the Flare Texture

Lecture 15: Flare Emitter

Lecture 16: Making the Flare stars

Chapter 6: Styling the Widgets

Lecture 1: Analizing our reference for Styling the Buttons

Lecture 2: Blocking out our Button

Lecture 3: Creating the Button Masks

Lecture 4: Animating the arrow

Lecture 5: Changing the Text Style

Lecture 6: Button Opacity tweaks

Lecture 7: Creating the Portrait Textures

Lecture 8: Creating the Avatar Material

Lecture 9: Creating the Avatar Button

Lecture 10: Creating the Avatar Hover Texture

Lecture 11: Adding the Hover Button State for Avatars

Lecture 12: Changing the Font for Character Menu

Lecture 13: Creating the Exit Button Texture

Lecture 14: Creating the Exit Button Widget

Lecture 15: Adding the Shadow to the Exit Button

Lecture 16: Switch Button creation

Lecture 17: Creating the Menu Symbol Texture

Lecture 18: Menu Symbol Widget

Lecture 19: Creating the Extra Menu Button

Lecture 20: Extra Menu Widget

Lecture 21: Creating the Item Button Texture mask

Lecture 22: Testing the First version of the Item color

Lecture 23: Painting Icons with fundamentals

Lecture 24: Refining the icon values

Lecture 25: Coloring our Icon

Lecture 26: Importing our UI texture

Lecture 27: Creating the Item Widget

Lecture 28: Fixing our Widget size

Lecture 29: Adding Text to the Item

Lecture 30: Using Grid Canvas to organize elements

Lecture 31: Polishing the Avatar Background Texture

Lecture 32: Creating the avatar image for items

Lecture 33: Creating the Star Texture

Lecture 34: Changing the Item Widget size

Lecture 35: Importing High resolution Item Texture

Lecture 36: Adding our Widget to the Orb Blueprint

Lecture 37: Fixing the Orb Icon Rotation

Chapter 7: Polishing

Lecture 1: Start the polish pass

Lecture 2: Removing the orbs debug number

Lecture 3: Adding the Anime Girl Character

Lecture 4: Fixing the lightning for the menu

Lecture 5: Added return to main menu button logic and fixed menu bug

Lecture 6: Added menu states for a smoother experience

Lecture 7: Polishing the camera after returning from the menu

Instructors

UNF Games
Industry veterans providing you the best tutorials in Unreal

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2 stars: 6 votes

3 stars: 5 votes

4 stars: 9 votes

5 stars: 11 votes

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