Main Menu & Intro Screen¶

Main Menu Setup¶

For the main menu to work, some systems must be added to the level you wish to use as Main Menu. If you want an example setup check out the level L_EGUI_MainMenuDemoLevel inside the folder EasyGameUI/Maps

1. To start, you can either open the level you wish to use as Main Menu, or use a new fresh level by duplicating any level you already have/creating a new one

   

   This level should be as light as possible in order for it to load quickly at game launch, if you don’t want a 3D world to be displayed in your main menu, then remove all objects from the level and leave it blank.

2. Then, in your Project Settings, make sure to set this level as the Game Default Map under the Map & Modes category

   

3. You also need to reference this level inside your Global Config Data Asset in the setting Main Menu Level

4. Then, if you wish to have a 3D view of your world, place down at least one camera in the world (either a CameraActor or CineCameraActor). You can place as many cameras as you need, there are further instructions on how to use them below.

   

5. Once your level is ready and referenced, go to the EasyGameUI/EasySystemMenus folder, look for the BP_EasyMainMenuController and place it anywhere in the level

   

6. Then, if you have any camera to set up, select the BP_EasyMainMenuController you just placed and go in the Details Panel. Locate the Target Camera Bindings variable and add as many entries as cameras you wish to have.
   For each camera, you can then specify which buttons of the main menu will “trigger” the viewpoint to switch to the specified camera.

   
   In this example, the first 2 buttons will trigger the first camera, buttons 2-3 will trigger camera 2, etc. You can also specify the duration of the transition when switching to the given camera.

7. Finally, you can change the reference of the map that will be loaded by default when the player clicks on the ”New Game” button from the Global Config with the New Game Level variable

You now have your base Main Menu set-up, if you wish to edit the Easy Main Menu widget, you can find it inside the EasyGameUI/EasySystemMenus folder. You can also change the displayed logo from the Global Styling system

Intro Screen Setup¶

The Intro Screen can be automatically spawned before displaying the Main Menu, it just requires a few conditions to work properly:

• You Main Menu level has to be set up as shown before

• The Global Config variable Intro Screen Widget has to be defined with the desired widget

  If the widget reference is empty or invalid, the system will skip displaying the Intro Screen widget and proceed directly to the Main Menu (so if you don't want this Intro Screen, simply remove the widget reference from the Config)

• If you are using a custom widget for the Intro Screen (not the default provided widget), this widget needs to be a child of WBP_EasyMasterWidget (more details in the UI Navigation System section)

Finally, you can enable Game Credits on launch with the Global Config variable Play Intro Credits On Game Launch?
To configure the Intro Credits, you simply need a credits context Intro Credits defined in the Global Config, more instructions on how to set this up can be found in the Game Credits section

Additional Guides¶