Project Packing in UE5

Name: Project Packing in UE5
Author: Ken Geary

Prepare your project for packaging and exporting

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Hello, welcome to this lesson in Unreal Engine. In this lesson, we will prepare a level for packaging in Unreal Engine. Start Unreal Engine 5, we're gonna go back and open the intermediate project. Project should open to the inventory level that we worked on earlier. We're gonna save this current level as, so file, save current level as, go to our maps folder, we'll name this final game, and save. Open settings, project settings. We wanna make this our default, that's very important when you're packaging for a game that you make the level you want in the game to be the default level. So we'll make the startup map, final game, and more importantly, the game default map, the final game. Close the panel. We also need to add a quit button and code it, so when players stand alone, you can quit the game. Open the inventory folder, open the WBP inventory widget. Click designer if you're not in the designer window already. This is the canvas we used earlier, and we had that horizontal box that we put our icons into for our inventory. We now wanna add a button to our screen, we're gonna make this our quit button. We're gonna place it in the upper right hand corner, little bit offset. In the details panel for anchors, we wanna anchor this in the top right corner. So if the screen scales, it'll scale along with it and stay in screen. We also wanna size to content, we're gonna place a text object into this, and as we make the text larger, it'll size up accordingly. Next we wanna do, scroll down to find texts. And this time we're gonna drag it on top of the button in the hierarchy. You'll notice this automatically puts the text in the button. The button's automatically scaling, and it's also a child of a button. Select the text in the hierarchy, change the text to quit, and we'll make the font size a little larger, we'll try 30. We need to add an action when this button is pressed as a game plays. Select button and hierarchy, scroll all the way down in the details panel, and under events, on click will hit the plus. This will jump us over to the event graph, and adds a note for us. Drag a wire out, very simply, when this button gets clicked, we wanna quit. Type in quit, and quit game. While we are in this event graph, we also need to enable the mouse cursor as the game plays, or you won't be able to click this button. So let's find the event tick node. There it is. And next to this node, we're gonna right-click, and in order to access the mouse we first have to access a player controller. So we'll type in get player, we want to get player controller, and return value will drag out a wire, and we want access the mouse. So we wanna set mouse, and we wanna set show mouse cursor. And very important, this is a Boolean value, we wanna check this on, or else the cursor won't go on, and we're gonna wire event tick to the set, and that's all you need to do. This gives us a button now, and now our mouse cursor will be available during the game. Click compile, save. Play the game, test it out. Using the WASD keys, and my mouse is available, and I click quit, and it quits the game. Open a content drawer, we'll save all, save selected. In the next lesson, we will package our project in Unreal Engine. Thanks for watching.

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Course Description

In these lessons, you will learn how to prepare the levels you’ve created to be packaged as a playable experience, and how to format a level for standalone playback in Windows. You will also learn how to code a Widget Blueprint to incorporate a quit button for your game.

Unreal Engine 5 is fun to work on and play your game or simulation within the Editor; but at some point, you will want to publish your game to run on a standalone system such as Windows or the latest PlayStation console. To do this, you will learn how to prepare your levels for packaging and package them to play standalone in windows. You will also learn how to add an interactive button to quit the standalone game. Finally, you will learn how you can create custom package templates.

What You'll Learn

Create a quit button for your game by coding a Widget Blueprint
Prepare your levels and project for packaging
Package your level using the standard packager or the Project Launcher
Format a level for standalone playback in Windows
Create custom package templates

Key Takeaways

Unreal Engine 5 projects can be packaged to run standalone on systems such as Windows.
Preparing levels for packaging is required before publishing a game or simulation outside the Editor.
A quit button can be added to a standalone game by coding a Widget Blueprint.
Levels can be packaged using either the standard packager or the Project Launcher.
Custom package templates can be created as part of the packaging process.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this course cover?

It covers how to prepare the levels you have created to be packaged as a playable experience, how to format a level for standalone playback in Windows, how to code a Widget Blueprint to add a quit button, how to package levels using the standard packager or the Project Launcher, and how to create custom package templates.

What will I be able to do after taking this course?

You will be able to create a quit button for your game, prepare your project for packaging, and package your level using the standard packager or the Project Launcher.

What lessons are included?

The course includes three lessons: Preparing for Packaging, Package Settings, and Using the Project Launcher.

Why would I package an Unreal Engine 5 project?

While Unreal Engine 5 lets you play your game or simulation within the Editor, packaging lets you publish it to run on a standalone system such as Windows or the latest PlayStation console.

How do I let players exit a packaged game?

You can add an interactive quit button by coding a Widget Blueprint, which lets players exit the standalone game.