In-game UI

DVS includes a ready-to-use HUD widget, WBP_DynamicVolumetricSky, with three draggable, resizable sub-windows:

• Time (clock, date)
• Weather (current state, temperature, humidity, pressure, precipitation chance, wind)
• Location (latitude, longitude, biome, altitude)

The widget polls BP_DynamicVolumetricSky automatically and respects your unit choices (°C/K/°F, hPa/Psi/Atm, km/h/mph/m/s/ft/s).

Adding it to the viewport

In any Blueprint that runs at game start (a Player Controller, a HUD class, or your level Blueprint):

1. Create Widget, class WBP_DynamicVolumetricSky.
2. Add to Viewport on the resulting widget reference.

That is the full setup. The widget finds BP_DynamicVolumetricSky in the level on its own and starts updating.

Caution

If the clock shows 0:0:0 forever, the widget did not find BP_DynamicVolumetricSky in the level. Make sure you placed the actor (Quick Start step 3) before adding the widget to the viewport.

Composing your own HUD

The window panel itself, WBP_DVSWindow, is reusable. You can compose your own HUD with the same draggable container if the shipped layout does not match your game’s UI style. Drop WBP_DVSWindow into your widget, fill it with your own content, and you get the same drag/resize behavior for free.

Where to next

• System architecture: the read-only weather state values the widget reads from
• Reference: location and weather: unit settings the widget respects