Hi.
I’m newbie to UE4. I have generated a HUD using UMG that is a HorizontalBox.
I wanna use an image or color background in that horizontalbox.
When i create an image and set its parent to HorizontalBox it add as a new element to it logically.
Here is the HUD:
Here it is the hierarchy:
Is there any tricks such as wrapping or somthing to do this?
You could wrap your Horizontal Box in an Overlay Panel and add and Image before the horizontal panel so that it lies beneath it:
Set the anchors of the image to fill its parent so that it fills the horizontal panels dimensions.
Thanks for your solution. And next question is how to fit this background with horizontal box? Duo to volatility of size of horizontalBox?
I have attached the size settings for the different panels.
The overall layout:
Set the overlay panel to “size to content”:
Set the image size to fill in both directions:
With this setup you can also achieve bordered panels. To do this grab a 9 tile border image (see [Setting Image States][4]) and set it as the image and give the horizontal box a padding:
Very very thanks. I have used a complex trick to do this but i think your solution is much mush simpler than my solution.
I have wrapped overlay with a border and set the image to it. I have check out size to content of overlay too.
My solution with the overlay panel is good if you have a complex hierarchy since an overlay panel can have multiple children. For example you can add multiple images to use as a background to add more details.
If you just have one child, your solution with a Border Panel is simpler (and I guess the intended use). See image with a Border Panel:
