Unreal Engine 5: Mini Maps Compass and Marker Systems

Create a point of interest widget blueprint in Unreal Engine 5, featuring a 235 by 35 size box and a point of interest icon image.

Learn to apply a color overlay to the point of interest icon by exposing a tint color variable and adjusting the brush tint color, with white default and color options.

Build a zoomable map in Unreal Engine 5 using vertical and horizontal scroll boxes, a centered image map, and M to toggle map via cursor, game and UI input modes.

Create fast travel points of interest using a fast travel component, wire them into the map system, and update the canvas dimensions during zoom and scroll.

Build a loading screen widget for the fast travel system with a black border, loading text, and a circular throbber, then use a fade-out animation and delays before removing it.

Create a marker actor with a distance widget in unreal engine 5, display real-time distance to the player, convert to meters, and destroy the marker on overlap.

Fix marker visibility by adding points of interest when the map opens, using an add point of interest event and owner references with validity checks to manage a single marker.

Adjust point of interest size in Unreal Engine 5 by creating a size variable, defaulting to 40, and applying it to the point of interest component and marker.

Build a compass poi math system for mini maps in unreal engine 5 by wiring map systems, poi components, and compass icons to a compass widget, calculating bearing.

Create a minimap user interface by building a minimap widget blueprint, adding a canvas panel, size box, overlay, map texture, and a centered player icon within a bottom-right anchored UI.

Create a dynamic material for the mini map that updates with the character’s world location, using UI translucent surfaces, texture coordinates, and zoom to center and show the player’s position.

Create a dynamic material instance to drive mini map coordinates from the player location, reverse x, and expose x and y as parameters. Implement zoom, clamping, and rotating the icon.

Fix mini map POI error in Unreal Engine 5 by validating the owning actor as a valid node, triggering the update, and removing invalid POIs from the minimap.

Optimize the actor component in Unreal Engine 5 by configuring a point of interest with mini maps, compass, and big map markers, including update data on spawn.

Create a new function to show all new icons by updating points of interest on the minimap, big map, and compass through UI widgets and map systems.

Set up a 2d scene capture to create a map texture, import it as a UI 2d texture with nearest filter, place markers, and switch levels via trigger boxes.