How To Create a Top Down Drag & Zoom Camera System in Unreal Engine 5

I’m building my own real-time strategy game, and the first challenge I had to tackle was creating a functional top-down drag-and-zoom camera system. In this Unreal Engine 5 tutorial, I’ll walk you through how I solved it, step by step. If you’re working on your own game or just starting out with Unreal Engine, this is the perfect place to begin. Let’s learn together and bring our projects to life! Timecodes 0:00 Intro 0:47 Input Actions for Drag and Zoom 5:29 Game Camera Pawn 8:25 Move Game Camera By Dragging Mouse 15:23 Zoom Game Camera with Scroll Wheel 22:13 Outro