When dealing with float values, we’re often less interested in the exact value and can make do with a more human readable one. Unreal Engine has a couple of rounding functions we can use to make this happen: Ceil to Integer and Floor to Integer. Ceil rounds up, so 1.6 becomes 2 and -1.6 becomes …
Enums are a great way to create state lists with memorable names. Rather than having to remember numbers, we can create Enums and switch depending on phrases. This can be handy for game state switching among other things. We can create Enums by from the Content Browser under Blueprints. This brings up an empty list …
I didn’t know about a handy event that can apply damage to an actor, thanks to the OnTakeAnyDamage function. It’s an Event Dispatcher that Actor classes listen to, and if applied from another object, it’s really easy to pass on how much damage happened and also how it was caused. Consider this code plugged into …
Creating my first HUD widget in UE5 was a little disconcerting, as I didn’t see a reference to where any of my UI elements would end up on screen. Turns out there was an invisible default element called Canvas Panel in previous versions, into which we would place our UI elements. Thankfully this thing is …
The first thing that threw me in UE5 was the absence of that blue “make blueprint button” at the top of the scene outliner. No such option was obvious in the new interface, and a Google search yielded literally no results. Let’s change that, because I’ve figured it out! In UE5, we need to click …