Paper 2D

Paper 2D is a sprite-based system for creating 2D and 2D/3D hybrid games entirely within Unreal Engine.

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Paper 2D in Unreal Engine is a sprite-based system for creating 2D and 2D/3D hybrid games entirely within the editor. At the core of Paper 2D are Sprites (which are a Texture Mapped Planar Mesh and associated Material). You can edit Sprites inside Unreal Engine with the Sprite Editor and create sprite-based animations with Flipbooks (which animate a series of Sprites sequentially by using key frames and specifying a duration in frames to display them).

Refer to each section below for more information and the Paper 2D map inside the Content Examples project for additional examples:

Starting Out

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Paper 2D Flipbooks

Description of Paper 2D Flipbooks and how to create them.

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Paper 2D Import Options

Importing assets from third party applications for use with Paper 2D.

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Paper 2D Sprites

Description of Sprites in Unreal Engine and how to create them.

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Paper 2D Tile Sets / Tile Maps

Overview of how to create Tile Sets and Tile Maps for use within Paper 2D.

Guides

Setting up an Animation State Machine 4.9
Applying 2D Physics 4.9
Using Sprite Sockets 4.9
Top Down 2D Game Setup 4.9
This page was written for a previous version of Unreal Engine and has not been updated for the current Unreal Engine 5.1 release.