WHAT
You’ve prototyped your game play, now what? walks you through building a simple project shell highlighting the usage of UE4’s Game Framework. Topics covered: UMG, Game State, Player State, Game Instance, and so on.
Here’s a link to the project is building on the stream:
WHEN
Tuesday, November 10th @ 2:00PM-3:00PM ET - Countdown]
WHERE
WHO
Dev Rel Technical Artist
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This sounds Brilliant! Will certainly be adding this to my calendar. I’ve always assumed that gluing a project together would require in depth knowledge of the C++ API until recently when I read a snippet on the GameState Blueprint.
[question] I’ve seen people house and initiate their UMG widgets from many different places - where is the best place? I currently use my player controller
Can you include level streaming in the twitch. This is an area which is difficult when passing gameinstance state between levels, and whether you should have a blank shell level to hold everything together, etc.
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[question] I’ve seen people house and initiate their UMG widgets from many different places - where is the best place? I currently use my player controller
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Personally I use the HUD blueprint class to initiate UMG stuff and to deal with the display logic.
I don’t really have a question, but I would like to see some UMG styling done. Like custom progress bars, animated textures, the progress bar marquee. There are lots of UMG tutorials out there, but none of them cover how to make them look pleasing.
I have done a lot of reading on this topic, but hope to watch this after it’s over (work always prevents me from watching any of these live), so I hope it is available to find/watch afterwards. Seems some streams I can never find later.
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[question] I’ve seen people house and initiate their UMG widgets from many different places - where is the best place? I currently use my player controller
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I personally use the GameInstance … since it exists from the running of the program to it being shut down.
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[question] I’ve seen people house and initiate their UMG widgets from many different places - where is the best place? I currently use my player controller
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What does housing mean? Is it about the variable that holds the reference to the widget?
I do initiate my widgets over the Pawn, and store all references to the them inside that Pawn as well.
I have been trying to get this type of setup going, and it is not straight forward knowing where to put things, and there’s a lot of casting to store local references involved… (and this is just single player, multi-level… hope they cover a bit of this too…
