Unreal Engine: Advanced Widgets for UI

Learn advanced UI techniques that will help you build complex menu systems like Skyrim, Final Fantasy, and Call of Duty!

Created by: Josh Triplett
Advanced Aerospace Technologies Specialist

Created by: Robot Brain
Academy

What Will I Learn?

• How to create data driven dynamic menu systems
• Utilizing data tables and structs to create dynamic menus
• Advanced widget rendering techniques
• Custom widget interaction
• 3D widget creation and interaction
• How to map a game controller to use your widgets
• Using a render target to render a secondary camera to a widget
• Using image sequence animations within widgets
• How to create drag and drop widgets
• How to create a Skyrim inspired inventory system

Requirements

• Recommended: Basic computer knowledge
• Recommended: An understanding of basic navigation for the Unreal Engine
• Recommended: A basic understanding of how to create and display widgets
• Recommended: A basic understanding of widget designer mode and graph editor mode
• Recommended: Unreal Engine 4.27 or higher installed
• Recommended: Visual Studio 2019 Community or higher installed (If you want to follow along with the short programming section)
• Recommended: Desktop PC with Windows 7 (or later) 64-bit - OR - a Mac with Mac OS X 10.9.2 or later
• Recommended: DirectX 11 compatible video card
• Recommended: Quad-core Intel or AMD processor
• Recommended: 8 GB RAM
• NO programming experience needed!

Target audience

• Students who want to learn how to create UI for games and applications
• Students interested in learning advanced widget concepts in Unreal Engine
• Students interested in creating complex inventory systems
• Students interested in creating an Action RPG