Making a Custom HUD

To create your own custom heads-up display (HUD), learn how to use Viewmodel in Unreal Motion Graphics (UMG) and follow this tutorial. These teach you how to create your own avatar backplates and make a custom squad view, including health and shield bars. For this tutorial you'll need:

• Custom UI Material Instances.

• The UI Material Lab texture pack.

• Any textures you want to use as part of your UI materials.

Creating your own HUD means using Creative devices to control the look of the HUD through the HUD Controller device. This provides a way for you to turn off the parts of the default Fortnite HUD you don’t want to use and to add a custom User Widget to the device with your own HUD design.

To learn more about setting up a User Widget for the different UI HUD elements in UMG, refer to the UI Pop-Ups documentation.

To familiarize yourself with UMG workflows and tools refer to the following Unreal Engine documentation:

• UMG UI Designer Quick Start Guide

• UMG Best Practices

• UMG Styling

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  Making Custom Backplates

  Create custom avatar backplates for your custom HUD.

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  Making Custom Health and Shield Bars

  Create custom Health and Shield Bars for your custom HUD.

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  Making a Custom Squad View

  Expand on the custom backplate knowledge to create a custom squad view for your project.