Get my 12 hour course on how to make 2D games with Unreal Engine: tinyurl.com/Ultimate2D Get the Pixel Perfect Plugin, Samples and much more on Patreon: tinyurl.com/PixelPerfectTools

If anyone is looking to learn games seriously, this course is very low cost, but more importantly, it is literally the best one I have ever seen. I have used it and I freaking love it! It's super easy to follow! I highly suggest getting it if you wanna learn 2d or 2d 3d game making.

@CobraCode

7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much :D

just bought your online course with a 86% discount. for sure i will use it!

Thanks mate! Always best information and tutorials!

this is so useful! I saw a reddit post just the other week asking for exactly this kind of a tutorial!

You have earned a subscriber, First person to actually show me how to do this properly, thank you

@CobraCode

5 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful :D Thank you

Great suff ! I probably should do that 😃

Legendary!

Content is great keep it up

@CobraCode

4 ай бұрын

Thanks, will do!

Works perfectly :)

I AM IN 😃 UR COURSE ,THANKS

@CobraCode

5 ай бұрын

Thank you :D

So I would love it if you made another course or maybe some mini courses that follow some of your views desires. Meaning like specific thing. The way you show efficiency is awesome, and I want to make a game that allows random rolled armor and weapon stats and things like that. I mean I have already purchased your first course and absolutely love and and I would gladly buy new ones. You are by far my favorite teacher in this field!

@CobraCode

7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much :D I was prototyping a course about Beat Em Up creation, but it's on hold for now since I hit a lot of roadblocks when it came to the art assets. I am now 80% done prototyping and planning out a mega man style action adventure course though and that will be the next one to release. I do also plan on making a JRPG course and many more, however these do take a lot of time and work and my plan is to release one new course every 6 to 8 months.

@HavekAttacketh

6 ай бұрын

@CobraCode oh I will be buying everyone! That make me so excited!

Thank you, great video! Do you have any tips to achieve pixel perfect UI as well?

@CobraCode

Ай бұрын

Haven't gone down that rabbit hole yet, but I think for all things where you can use materials instead of just textures, you'll be able to use the same thing we did in the sprite material to align things to a grid. For fonts, buttons and such this will probably be hard though.

Can you do a tutorial on 2d platformer enemies and level traps like spikes and saws etc

Thank you! It helps to eliminate annoying jittery, but at the expense of smoothness, as it always snaps to the grid. Do you also show other solutions in your courses?

@CobraCode

4 ай бұрын

Hey! No this is the best solution we've come up with so far. Don't think anybody has found a solution to make it smoother yet and it might take a while for the community to figure it out.

@marcozedler505

4 ай бұрын

@@CobraCode Solutions can be found, but they usually require direct intervention in the render pipeline, sometimes even changing the engine. I haven't found much for Unreal so far, actually only what you have already found. I think for most people it's enough to at least have a grid-sync camera with a lag factor.

Hi Cobra! Loves your courses! I have a cuestion about screenshakes. I have the grid and solve the jittering, but when the screenshakes plays the jittering comes again, how can i solve this problem? Many thanks 😊 Sorry for my English 😅

@CobraCode

3 ай бұрын

Hey, thank you! Sadly with this solution there is currently a limitation of not being able to use the built in screenshake since it doesn't respect the pixel perfect system. You'd have to somehow hook into a tick that happens AFTER the screenshake is applied and make sure everything is aligned to the grid. There might be something like 'AfterUpdate' in the camera manager to do that. Or you'll have to create a screen shake system from scratch, which is a bit more involved.

A great tutorial as always. I've been learning a lot from your 2D/2.5D tutorials! However, one issue I've noticed for the unreal editor and packaged game builds on windows is that the Unreal editor and packaged Unreal games don't seem to display the GPU usage directly in their own processes under windows task manager. I was wondering if you have experience with this issue?

@CobraCode

7 ай бұрын

Hey, sorry but I actually didn't know about that and don't have any advice to give on that. If you want to optimize things, it's probably better to look into the profiler into the engine itself. Of course there's gonna be some performance differences between running the game in the editor and as an executable.

@PorkChopSuey

7 ай бұрын

@@CobraCodeHey thanks for the response! I've actually been using the profiler for the builds and general stats in the editor. The builds and in editor are all fairly performant, including the GPU usage. I've just been a bit confused that the GPU usage isn't directly displayed in the task manager though, but I suppose it's not a huge concern for now.

Please make another course, for example with such genres as jRpg, Adventure of easy roguelike game. Yes, I know what is more difficult to make, but you can show something basic, like with a platformer. For example, a 2D city and merchants and turn-based battles with monsters.

@CobraCode

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion. Already on my TODO list

Hey great videos! :) I also bought ultimate course and did it in 3 days - great job! I have a question about pixel perfect. Can I in >_UnlitPixelPerfectMaterial change Blend Mode from Masked to Translucent? So I can still manage visibility by translucency sort priority?

@CobraCode

3 ай бұрын

Hey, yeah both masked and translucent should work with a pixel perfect set up.

@0006Arek

3 ай бұрын

@@CobraCode Great thank you very much for fast response! :) I'm also wonder if you found some solution for jittering when moving diagonal?

@CobraCode

3 ай бұрын

@@0006Arek Sadly I have not found a solution for that quite yet :(

Help! The jitter didnt't Stop for me. What should i do?

Im sure you're very busy but it would be awesome if you could make tutorials for Top down 2d games, and more specifically custom AI navigation ( Since as far as I know Navmesh doesnt really work for 2d ) Or if you know of any good ways to learn about that it would be very appreciated!

@swinny_

7 ай бұрын

Theres no reason navmesh wouldnt work for top down. source: I am using nav mesh for my isometric top down 2D chars

@MoshiMoshiDoppio

7 ай бұрын

@@swinny_ there’s no floor for my game though, all the character are using the flying movement mode because I’m using the X and Z axis instead of X and Y

@CobraCode

7 ай бұрын

That's a very specific case then and me making a general tutorial also wouldn't cover that. For flying you might need to look into 6DOF navigation. www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/ja/product/don-s-3d-pathfinding-flying-ai?sessionInvalidated=true But you only mention 2 axis, so you might be able to somehow crate a fake floor and use the regular navigation system.

@MoshiMoshiDoppio

7 ай бұрын

Thank you for the reply, Ill look into this a bit more. Thank you for the link as well.@@CobraCode

Hi, Amazing tutorial! I can see that the Jittering is fixed but the ground is Jittering IT seems blurry. IT happend when you run fast 🤔

@LudvikKoutnyArt

7 ай бұрын

Make sure you also disable motion blur in project settings or postprocess volume.

@Yntoxicboy.

7 ай бұрын

​​​@@LudvikKoutnyArtI did all of that but maybe IT is something else. also you can see in this video at the end that IT happend to Cobracode's game. in minute 15:10

@CobraCode

7 ай бұрын

Hey. The blurryness is probably just youtube compressing the video. But yeah, now that you say it, it does feel a little bit jittery when going diagonal. Would have to look more into how this looks in actual retro games, but I think they probably have the same issue because they are also just snapping the camera on the grid.

Do you know any solutions, or links, for a custom made "camera lag" function ?

@CobraCode

4 ай бұрын

That's actually something which is covered in my second course: tinyurl.com/2DActionPlatformer We set the spring arm to absolute location and then on tick interpolate it manually to the target location. In that case we don't apply the pixel perfect solution though and you'd have to add a bit to it to make the movement respect the pixel grid.

@Voudoo1

4 ай бұрын

@@CobraCode Thanks! I've just signed up for your course!

@CobraCode

4 ай бұрын

@@Voudoo1 Thank you :)

Very good tutorial! But i have one question, when i package my 2d game all the textures are blurry, why is that so? is there a fix?

@CobraCode

5 ай бұрын

Hey that's a bug with the texture settings. 'Apply Paper 2D Texture settings' sets the texture filtering to Default (from Texture Group), however when packaging a game it needs to be set to 'Nearest'

@tempest2490

5 ай бұрын

@@CobraCodeokay thank you! Im sorry, im really new to UE, but where can i find it? When im searching in the Project settings for it, i cant find it. The only thing i can find is "Defaul Sprite Texture Group", and that is set to "2D Pixels"

@CobraCode

5 ай бұрын

@@tempest2490 Hey, it's not in the project settings, but in the settings of each texture you import. You can double click it and search for filter on the right side, that's where you can set it. Editing them one by one is very cumbersome though, so you can select all of them, right click, asset actions and bulk edit. docs.unrealengine.com/5.3/en-US/property-matrix-in-unreal-engine/

Do all the sprites need to be 0.25 PPU for visuals to look consistent? For Instance, I have my enemy sprites around 0.5 PPU. Will this be an issue?

@CobraCode

5 ай бұрын

They will all have to have the same PPU. But even if you're not aiming for a Pixel Perfect look, mixing PPU is something you should avoid since it leads to 'mixels' and makes the game look inconsistent.

@hasanshafy_

5 ай бұрын

@@CobraCode I've been going back and forth with this. Some of my Sprites are 8x8 while others are 16x16. If I put all my Sprites to 0.25, the size varies. Any idea on how to solve this? Or should I just stick to the same sprite size?

@CobraCode

5 ай бұрын

@@hasanshafy_ I would stick with the same sprite size from the get go for a consistent art style

Noice

I know you're super busy, but I can't seem to get my pixel size to stay consistent - some always look slightly too wide or too tall compared to others. Pixels per unit are 0.25 like yours, camera ortho width 1024. Nothing seems to work :( Would love your thoughts on how you got them to look so perfect

@MrKubson1

10 күн бұрын

I have same issue, but didnt found good solution for this. I guess, problem comes from layers separation but never confirmed this. If you scroll close to Your map You'll see that each layer is seprarated, form Translucency Sort Priority. You can try to separate them manualy by Your pixel per unit ratio (incase of video it is 4) sometimes this helps. Also for map You can try padding textures but this is horrible solution and is irreversible so MAKE A BACKUP. Now question comes, what sprites size You use. For 32x32 pixels this seems to not exist so You can try to export bigger sprites. For 16x16 pixels this is bad and seems to be even worse for 8x8 pixels. From what i remember Cobra Codes sprites are 32x32, but i guess He must confirm this...

Can you make tutorial about 2d ragdoll in unreal please🙏

@CobraCode

7 ай бұрын

I don't think there's support for anything like that in UE. You'd probably have to code a plugin from scratch :( That does sound really cool though.

Hey Cobra Thanks Mate for the informations ^^ (it destroys my game because i need more EXP with unreal .... be careful make maybe a copy of ya project just a tipp :)

@CobraCode

4 ай бұрын

Hey, yeah like I explained in the video, you have to be careful to not miss a step or things can get messed up. Please double check that you didn't skip anything.

@ZimMabu_GameDev.

4 ай бұрын

yes everything is fine cobra code thank you very much you can't help it that I'm still too inexperienced But the fact that you as a teacher are trying to earn money and thus help other people deserves a blessing :)@@CobraCode

@ZimMabu_GameDev.

4 ай бұрын

@@CobraCode yes everything is fine cobra code thank you very much you can't help it that I'm still too inexperienced But the fact that you as a teacher are trying to earn money and thus help other people deserves a blessing :)

tbh, i worked with ue2d since early ue4, and i have to say, if you dont wanna use something special that unreal offers... switch to another engine. I recommend godot. As much as i love unreal, its just to big for 2d. I hoped they added a seperat 2d fork while i was waiting for years, but that was not the case.

@latef3663

2 ай бұрын

Hi! Out of pure curiosity, whats wrong with the “too big”? Would that make the game run slower? Or its just very hard to use

@Punisher1992

2 ай бұрын

@@latef3663 its not like "out of the box" 2d, you have to fiddle around, what you can achieve in second in godot. You can buy 2d plugins like paperzd, but its money spend not wise. Also gdscript is ez af and easy to learn. Its fast and lightwheight. Unreal the minimum space is 150 mb or something unlike godot which is 5 mb. Unreal uses the 3d engine for 2d, and godot has a seperate 2d engine and 3d engine to choose from.

Help! The jitter didnt't Stop for me. What should i do?