Create a Custom Kill Volume in Unreal 5
In this video we go into detail about how to kill the player and handling player death. There's MANY other ways to do this, but this is the long and detailed explanation of a simple way to handle it.
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00:00 - Intro
01:32 - Kill Z
01:56 - Kill Z Volume
02:33 - KillVolume BP
06:21 - Test Overlap
07:59 - Test if Player
11:27 - Destroy Player
13:10 - Player Died
15:13 - Cast to Character BP
17:59 - Died Functionality
21:56 - Disable Visuals
23:33 - Reload Sequence Intro
24:25 - Camera Fade Out
26:57 - Reload Level
30:06 - Death Sound
32:18 - Death Particle Burst
36:26 - Cleanup
40:21 - Outro