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Unreal Engine FPS Game

1. Unreal Engine Introduction

In this section you will learn how to install Unreal Engine and navigate in its UI.

Introduction

Download and install Epic Games

Download and install Unreal Engine

Create new project

Basics of the Unreal Engine Editor UI

2. The Character Blueprint

In this section we will continue with looking into the blueprints. Blueprints are at the heart of everything that happens in Unreal Engine and are what we will be working on mostly in this course.

Character BP Overview

Creating Health Variable + Functions to increase or decrease it

Weapon BP Overview

Projectile BP Overview and adjustments

3. Enemy Blueprints

What is a first-person shooter without some enemies? In this section we will set up the enemy blueprints.

Create Enemy BP

Create Enemy Movement

Enemy Projectile BP & Fire Projectile

4. Level Design and Aesthetics

Level design is one of the most important parts of any game. A good level not only creates a suitable environment but also considers the timing of events in creating an enjoyable experience. Coupled with that, a good level tells a story without using words.

Blocking out the level

Setting up the enemy spawn points

Marketplace and Replacing Assets

5. User Interface and Sound Effects

Widgets, UMGs, and UI; they are all basically the same thing really. In this section, we will take a look at how to make menus and HUDs using widgets. We also take a look at how to add SFX to our widgets and blueprints.

Main Menu

HUD and Gameover Widget

Pause Menu

Implement sound into widget BPs

6. Gameplay Logic

We are almost done with our game at this point! In this section we are going to set up a system to increase the difficulty of the game as we proceed! Lastly, we are going to set up the winning and gameover logic for our game.

Set Up Tiers

Winning Logic

Gameover Logic

7. Packaging for Windows

Packaging for Windows is very easy in Unreal Engine. In this final and short section, we adjust the final bits, and then package our game!

Project Settings and Preparation for Packaging

Final Touches and Packaging

Main Menu

To make a main menu, we need to take three general steps to create a main menu for our game.

First of all, we need to make a new level. Then we will make a widget that will be our main menu and implement some functionalities to it. Lastly, we need to set up the level blueprint so that as soon as we open the level and run the game, we see the widget that we just created.

To add an image to your project, simply make a folder in the content folder and call it for instance Assets. Then drag and drop your image into that folder! Just make sure that you rename the image so that you can easily find it later.

So let’s start with making a new level. You do this by simply pressing ctrl + n, then choose an Empty Level. Once UE opens this level (it should be pitch black) press ctrl + s to save the level. You may want to create a new folder and call it Levels and save the level there call it L_MainMenu.

Make a new folder in content and call it Widgets. Open it and right click in there, at the bottom of the right click menu there is User Interface, hover over it and choose Widget Blueprint. Call it WBP_MainMenu.

Set up the MainMenu as described in the video.

To have this widget open up as soon as we run the L_MainMenu level, we need to use something called the Level Blueprint. This is like a normal blueprint for the level. In the figure below, you can see how you can access this blueprint.

Take a look at the video to see how you can set up the level blueprint. But generally, you first need to make sure that you are giving the player the right set up for the controls by setting their controller to UI Only, and using a node called Show Mouse Cursor. Then you create a widget and add it to the viewport!