2D icons on a 3D mesh?

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Hi everyone,

I’m trying to create clickable, 2D UI elements on 3D meshes and I’m having serious trouble trying to figure out the best approach for this.

For example I want to do something like 2D icons that appear on top of and are attached to certain spots on a mesh.

Billboards at first seemed perfect, I can add them as blueprint components and attach them to sockets but they don’t support mouse events (even though you can add mouse events to them for some reason).

My next thought was trying to do something with the UI, but I don’t see how I could attach separate UI elements to a mesh and them move with it.

Any ideas on this one? I’m completely stumped.

Thanks for any input.

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Hi!

In UE 4.6 you can use 3D widgets.

In this video, you can see how it work

This tutorials - how to create 3D UMG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7w9OfPRpKM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U_Y2SxfXr8
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Hi, thank you! I’ll take a look at that :slight_smile: