Blueprints Visual Scripting for Unreal Engine - Second Edition

Customizing the meter's appearance

Now, we want to adjust the UI elements and place them on the screen. Select the Player Stats object from Hierarchy and look at the central graph panel. You will see some size controls that allow you to manipulate the size of the selected objects. Resize the elements so that you can see two sets of the words Text Block and two tiny gray progress bars stacked on top of each other.

The large rectangular outline in the Graph view represents the boundaries of the screen that the player will see, which is called the canvas. This is the Canvas Panel object that is at the top level of Hierarchy. Elements positioned toward the top-left corner of the canvas will appear in the top-left corner of the in-game screen. ...