Unreal Engine and UI

mattslack

Hello,

I want to know if the sort of animated and interactive screens (computer monitors in the game world) in Prey can be done in UE using UMG or if it would be done in another way.

Same question for Prey's game menus (inventory, data, etc.).

I just don't want to invest a lot of time in UMG if that's not enough to make equally good menus. I know Prey uses CryEngine and I don't know what that engine uses for UI.

I think that a lot of highly animated/interactive menus seen in many games are made using Scaleform or something else Flash-like. How does UMG stack up, and what are the options?

Thanks.

Obscura

UMG is perfectly suitable for this.

mattslack

Do you know if released UE games in general tend to use this built-in solution? Perhaps you can point to an example of a game using it?

Obscura

Most of the UE4 games use it. Paragon is a released example. There are tutorials on youtube about how to get it working in the way you want it. There is a widget interaction component for tracing against world space widgets to interact with, with cursor.