UMG or Unreal Motion Graphics, is the GUI based editor for the Slate GUI library. UMG was introduced as an experimental feature in Unreal Engine 4.5, and has become stable and accepted as a major feature in later engine versions. Use this tag for all questions relating to Unreal UMG and widgets.
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How to update widget in UE4 C++?
I'm creating a "target widget" which basically I want it to do the following: put a widget on the closest actor if the player is targeting. It cannot be itself.
I created a widget component to create the widget so I can call the widget inside of the…

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Click event not detected after changing canvas overlay visibility
I have a mobile phone interface (below image) and I want to switch between different views - in this case overlays - depending on where you click.
Click events in the first view are detected, then it switches to the second view. However once I'm in…

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SAssetView Slate Compile Errors
After trying to add a SAssetView slate widget to my code, I run into some compile errors.
The picture here is from the class that is extending SCoumpoundWidget, and the second picture is of the compile errors.
Code Snippet:
Compile Error:

Ido Mtn
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Unreal Engine 4 - Blueprints, Need Help Creating UI Elements Based on Int Value
I have an array of ints (I.E: 12 , 55 , 33) the length and contents of that array are variable.
In a for each loop, I need to take every single array index and create a set number of ui images based on its number, for example if the first array…

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How does a plugin get a project-agnostic hud to display a widget to in C++?
I'm making a plugin that I want to display a widget to the user. All the examples I see of creating a C++ widget, and adding it to the viewport, require modifying the game mode, or player character, or something that I wouldn't have access to, being…

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Sound attenuation for web browser
I have built a web browser in my project and put it on a wall. So the thing that I wanted to do is when I play a video on YouTube then I walk away from that wall I want the sound of that video to decrease depending on the distance.
I am looking in…

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