JohnADaniels:
Great post marsonmao;. I am going through the exact same thing, trying to find an animated loading screen for the game. I had just a regular static loading screen which was fine but console requires an animated loading screen if any of the levels go over 30 seconds. And when you set the slow hard drive section on sometimes maps will go over maybe by a few seconds which triggers having to have an animated loading screen. Which I didn’t think was going to be that big of a deal but now the game’s finished I’m in testing and now I was looking and they said to get an animated loading screen I’m going to have to convert the whole thing over to level streaming.
I think epic has done some incredibly amazing things with the unreal engine, and I think they have some of the smartest people on the planet working there. But it never ceases to amaze me on some of the simplest things that you would think is just a core piece for the game is totally left out. It would seem like in the project settings they would have an option just like they have an option for a movie that loads when you first start the game it seems like they would have an option where you can just choose a loading movie between levels. It seems like that would be a basic 101 option that any game engine would have. But I degress.
I have read and gone through everything that you have gone through and have spent over week researching this which I’m sure you have and others many many others have done the same thing. I’m not for sure what the best way is at this point I did try the plugin that Nick created and it did work in the editor but I could never get it to work when I packaged the product and most likely the causes I think the project has to be c++ and I was working in a blueprint project. So it looks like from what I can tell just like you wrote the only way to get an animated loading screen in blueprint is to use level streaming which says like such a pain and especially since the game has different game modes.
Maybe somebody smart out there will create a blueprints plug in and put it on the marketplace for us. Or maybe epic will finally wake up and put this much needed option in the engine for everyone. Please disregard any grammatical errors, I am using Google speech to text.
Does this help you out? Sounds like a predicament, but I just saw this a minute ago and it came to mind. Apologies if you’ve already seen or considered it:
“Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) offers support for displaying videos or images while a level loads when using Oculus, Gear VR, SteamVR, and PSVR Head Mounted Displays (HMDs). The loading movie or image will run on the rendering thread and can also help to mask frame rate issues while your content is loading. In the following document, we will take a look at how you can set these VR Splash Screens in your UE4 projects.”