Unreal Engine 4 - Widget Blueprints

What is a Widget Blueprint in Unreal Engine 4?

• An asset type meant to hold the "rules" of your game.

• An asset type meant for creating interactive menu screens and a game HUD.

• As asset type meant to create interactive objects in your level (such as levers, moving platforms, collectible items, etc.)

• An asset type meant to contain your player's health variables.

What does area "6" of the Widget Blueprint Editor show?

• The visual representation of your layout.

• The space in which script can be added to your Widget Blueprint.

• A visual representation of the animation tracks added to your timeline (it shows key frames and what not).

• The components added to your class BP thus far.

What does area "4" of the Widget Blueprint Editor show?

• The parenting structure of all widgets in your Widget Blueprint.

• The different editing modes you can switch between.

• Which variables can be added to your Event Graph.

• All the Widgets that you can drag-and-drop into the Visual Designer.

What type of widget should you use if you want to click on an area of a menu and have something happen?

• Image

• Button

• Text

• Click Area

What does this area of the Widget Blueprint editor show?

• All the widgets available for you to add to your Visual Designer

• The relationship of widgets added to your Visual Designer

• The values of all you widgets added to your Visual Designer

• The animations created in your Widget Blueprint

What does a "Vertical Box" Widget allow you to do?

• Neatly stack many "child" widgets inside of it and on top of one another

• Animate a widget vertically

• Place widgets inside of it side by side

• Bind widgets that are inside of it to functions

What does area "3" of the Widget Blueprint Editor do?

• Switches the Widget Blueprint Editor between Designer and Graph modes.

• Displays the properties of the currently selected Widget

• Lists all the Widgets that you can drag-and-drop into the Visual Designer.

• Displays the hierarchy of all the widgets.

What does area "8" of the Widget Blueprint Editor show?

• The animation track of a property (or properties) on a given Widget.

• All the contents that make up your Widget Blueprint.

• All the variables and functions available in your Widget Blueprint.

• The properties of the currently selected Widget.

Name that Game!

• Jet Grind Radio

• Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep

• Akihabara

• Persona 5

How do you pass information from OTHER BLUEPRINTS (such as a Game Instance BP) to a Widget Blueprint?

• You can create a widget "binding" to marry a variable from some other blueprint to a widget present in your Widget Blueprint.

• By using a "Link" node within an event graph.

• You can ONLY pass information from a Widget BP to some other BP....not the other way around.

• You can't.