Unreal Engine 5 – Page 5

Bringing back the dotted outline in the Widget Editor

February 4, 2023 by Jay Versluis

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 …

Converting a Static Object into a Blueprint in Unreal Engine 5

February 2, 2023 by Jay Versluis

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 …

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