Unreal Engine 5 Blueprint Beginner Tutorial 🎮👨‍💻👩‍💻📝🔥🚪

Introduction & Overview

• Title: Unreal Engine 5 Blueprint Beginner Tutorial
• **Focus Topics: **What are Blueprints, why learn them, how to use them in Unreal Engine 5
• Applications: Creating games, tools, short films, interactive products
• Video Components: Explanation of Blueprint basics, user interface, variables, application via five different Blueprints

Blueprint Basics

What are Blueprints?

• Definition: Visual scripting system of Unreal Engine
• Uses: Full games, characters, cars, tools, UIs, AI, interactability; useful beyond gaming

Blueprint Editor UI

1. Viewport: Similar to main viewport, movable via WASD/right mouse
2. Construction Script: Pre-game logic (scroll & pan with right mouse)
3. Event Graph: In-game logic (scroll & pan as above), includes core scripting features
4. Components & Details Panels: Structure and detailed properties/configurations
5. Top Ribbon Toolbars: Save, compile, browse, find, etc.
6. My Blueprints & Compiler Results Panels: Manage graphs and variable functions; check errors

Example Blueprints

Creating a Simple Blueprint Node

1. Event Begin Play -> Print String: Basic setup to print 'Hello World'
2. Execution Flow: Left-to-right logic flow between connected nodes

Variables in Blueprints

1. **Types: **
   • Boolean: True/False
   • Integer: Whole numbers
   • Float: Decimal numbers
   • String: Text
   • Vector: Three float values (e.g., location)
   • Rotator: Three rotation values
   • Transform: Combination of vectors and rotators
2. **Creation: **Using the variabkes tab, setting default values and attributes

Application Blueprints - Practical Projects

1. **Door Blueprint: **Open/close door with key press

1. Components: Door frame, door, collision box
2. Logic: Overlap events with collision box, enable/disable input, timeline for smooth door movement

2. **Hat Pickup: **Equip hat to character

1. Components: Hat mesh, collision sphere, pickup text
2. Logic: Overlap and event handling, attach hat to character via sockets
3. Extra Step: Importing and setting up project files and applying sockets

3. **Damage Box: **Apply damage to the player upon collision

1. Components: Damage collision box

2. Logic: Overlap events, apply damage to player's health, looping event for continuous damage

3. Fixes: Complex Collision used for correct ball interaction; Continuous damage with health bar widget

4. **Soccer Blueprint: **Goal and ball setup, respawn

1. Components: Soccer goal, ball, collision setup
2. Logic: Overlap event, spawn particle effect, respawn ball location; handle collision for net and ball
3. Advanced Attribute: Expose variables for easy adjustments

5. **Hit Actor Blueprint: **Spinning obstacle that knocks back player

1. Components: Static mesh for hit actor, capsule for collision, arrow component, rotating movement
2. Logic: Overlap event to simulate physics on player, apply an impulse, manage rotation rates

Conclusion & Additional Resources

• Next Steps: Intermediate and advanced blueprint tutorials
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