Unreal 5: Working With Blueprints For the First Time

This article is going to show you how to use Blueprints in a project for the first time. Print your very first “Hello World” in Unreal Engine 5.

The Starter Content is added in to the Unreal Engine projects when the option is checked while creating a project. This article is going to walk you through how to access it as well as our first Blueprints code.

The new project window for Unreal Engine 5

If you start a new project in Unreal 5 using the Blank template, be sure to have the option Shared Content enabled. Once you create the project you will be greeted by two wonderful chairs and a table.

Unreal 5 blank project with starter content

Now on the bottom right hand side you will see something called “Content Drawer.” Click on that to open up a file explorer where you will be able to see the starter content.

Clicking Content Drawer

Project view with Content drawer opened