UMG Basics

In UE4, the main way to create a game UI is by using the UMG tool. This tool will allow you to make a game UI in the form of Widgets, which can be created using UMG. It will allow you to easily edit your game UI in a visual manner, through UMG's Designer tab, while also allowing you to add functionality to your game UI through UMG's Graph tab.

Widgets are the way UE4 allows you to represent a game UI. Widgets can be basic UI elements such as Buttons, Text elements, and Images, but they can also be combined to create more complex and complete Widgets, such as menus and HUDs, which is exactly what we will be doing in this chapter.

Let's create our first Widget in UE4 using the UMG tool in the next exercise.

Exercise 8.01: Creating a Widget Blueprint

In this exercise, we will be creating our first Widget Blueprint, as well as learning the basic elements of UMG and how we can use them to create a game UI.

The following steps will help you complete...