Weapon tutorial

Are there any examples/tutorials of making weapons in UE4, because i can’t download the Shooter Game demo from marketplace (the unreal launcher is not working, and i tried all solutions).

This is the closest tutorial I have found that might help you out with what you’re looking for: Unreal Wiki

I haven’t found anything that shows how to make a raycasting weapon from scratch, the best example is in ShooterGame, but it’s all C++. I’m pretty sure you can do it in Blueprint though, I would start by running a single line trace from the first person player camera, or from the muzzle of your weapon is doing a third person shooter.

Here is a tutorial that shows how to use line tracing/raycasting in UE4: Video Tutorial

Example:
For a machine gun, you would want to make the gun shoot over and over quickly when the player presses the fire button (i.e. trigger on a gamepad or left mouse button on mouse) and stop shooting when the player releases the fire button. When it does fire, you would execute one of the line traces so that it flies out into the world and hits stuff (i.e. walls, barrels, someone you really don’t like, etc.). When it makes a confirmed hit with stuff, you can then cause something to happen (i.e. effects of sparks, smoke, blood) and if that “stuff” happens to be an enemy player, you can apply damage to them when a hit is confirmed.

Does that make sense?

I also have a Weapon Essentials Tutorial series on my Youtube Channel. Link here

you could get blender to make the meshes, its free! and if your a noob at blender (am am kind of a noob too), then put a material on every shape you make so that you can easily edit textures in UE4. export the blender gun as a FBX, then in unreal engine go import - then the file you made. make sure you import as skeletal. if you have a coloring program, such as gimp, which is free, you can make an alpha channel file, and import it into the materials folder. then right click on the texture you imported, and turn it into a material(click “make material”). you can put that material onto the scope bone to make a clear scope.

ALSO… if you google ‘ue4 shootergame’ i betcha you’ll find a download.

i hope this helped.