Blueprints Visual Scripting for Unreal Engine - Second Edition

Creating ammo and enemy counters

Now that we have a display for Player Stats, let's work on our ammo counter and gameplay goal displays. Both of these will work in a similar way to our player statistics meters, except that we want to represent their values through text rather than a continuous meter.

To begin the setup, drag two additional Horizontal Box objects down from Palette to the Canvas Panel object in the Hierarchy panel. Rename these horizontal boxes to Weapon Stats and Goal Tracker by clicking on the Horizontal Box in the Hierarchy panel and changing the top field in the Details panel that appears.

Now, drag two Text objects onto Weapon Stats. Select the first text object, and change both its name and the Text value under Content ...