Unreal Engine 5: Creating Main Menu

Create Optimized and Professional Menus with Widget Blueprints from scratch (Beginner to Advanced).

What you’ll learn
Fundamentals for creating Professional and game-ready Main Menus.
Nesting Widgets (in depth explanations).
Responsive UI for all devices: Mobile/Tablet/PC/Laptop/TV.
Import and play Videos and Background Music in game.
Change the Video Settings in game.
Animated Logo Splash Screen.
Game Intro with Video and a Skip Button.
Custom Events, Functions, Variables, Timers.
UI Animation for Beginners: Hover Buttons, Dialog Boxes and more.
Optimization techniques and best practices that are not shown on Youtube!

Requirements
No programming knowledge is required, you will learn how to create Menus from scratch.
You must have installed Unreal Engine 4 or 5 (we will start working immediately).
Basic Viewport navigation in Unreal Engine would be beneficial.

Description
In this course you will learn how to create Main Menus for your games, using Unreal Engine 4/5.The Menus you are going to create will be fully responsive for EVERY screen size, such as: Mobile/Tablet/PC/Laptop/TV.This means, the Menus you are going to create will look beautiful and organized on every device.Why this Course is special:You can use any versions of Unreal, from UE4, UE5 and newerYou will learn Optimization techniques and best practices that are not shown on YoutubeLearn how Canvas Panels are used everywhere, but it should be avoidedThis Course is for very Beginners and Advanced usersWe are gradually increasing the complexity as we progressEach and every lesson explained in great detail, in easy to follow and understandable wayThe goal for this Course is to ensure that you’ll understand each and every UI element and Blueprint we doBy the end of this Course, you will master the following and more:Widget Blueprint Fundamentals:Design captivating, highly optimized, professional and production-ready Menus.Blueprint Programming:Navigate through screens, change Video Settings, UI animation, Loading screens and more.Blueprints best practices and optimization:What can cause unnecessary draw calls and impact performanceHow to optimize UI elements to improve performanceHow to avoid using Canvas Panel and what you should use insteadClean, tidy and organized Blueprints for readability and performanceWe are going to start from the very beginning with the design first, by learning the most important UI elements:Layer hierarchyLearn why you should never use Canvas PanelTextButtonImageProgress BarHorizontal BoxVertical BoxSpacerScroll BoxOverlay (most important)Widget SwitcherNestingResponsive UI and AnchorsNext, we are going to learn Blueprints programming, slow paced and well explained:Buttons: Hover/Unhover, Click Events, SFX and moreNavigating from one screen to another, BACK Buttons etcPlay videos and set to Loop or notAdd background music, Mute/Unmute functionalityUI animation for beginnersCreate new Levels and open themApplying best game settingsand much more!