Async Timing https://voithos.io/articles/asynctask-timing/ #UnrealEngine

A detailed article on options available for ticking in Unreal. https://voithos.io/articles/fancier-ticking-in-unreal/ #UnrealEngine

Game Font Library https://www.gamefontlibrary.com/ #UnrealEngine

If you want to make a custom editor keyboard shortcut, this plugin helps with that. It lets you define Blueprint code to be run when the keyboard shortcut is pressed. https://gameinputdatabase.com/ #UnrealEngine

If you want to make a custom editor keyboard shortcut, this plugin helps with that. It lets you define Blueprint code to be run when the keyboard shortcut is pressed. https://github.com/Adrien-Lucas/CustomShortcuts #UnrealEngine

A relatively simple event system for hooking up instanced actors and ability to broadcast events. https://github.com/brokenrockstudios/RockGameplayEvents #UnrealEngine

Make a cool material that looks like the background of Balatro. https://www.giovannichequi.com/work/tutorial-ue5-vortex-uv-distortion-balatro-inspired #UnrealEngine

If Unreal is requiring you to use TObjectPtr and you don't want it to, add the following to your Target.cs file: ``` NativePointerMemberBehaviorOverride = PointerMemberBehavior.AllowAndLog; ``` #UnrealEngine

Sharundaar has an excellent deep-dive into how to set up your game to run at many different resolutions, and how DPI is used under the hood in Slate. https://sharundaar.github.io/unraveling-the-dpi-mysteries.html #UnrealEngine

If you have a plugin and want to build it against multiple versions of Unreal Engine, use this snippet. https://gist.github.com/benui-dev/44ec00709a4e647933ce4e81ce17df5f #UnrealEngine

Bohdon's Game Items Plugin is not only a super useful tool, it's also a great way to start to learn how to use MVVM in your game. https://github.com/bohdon/GameItemsPlugin #UnrealEngine

List of recommended third party plugins for Unreal Engine, curated by Cade. https://github.com/CadeEvs/UnrealThirdPartyPlugins/ #UnrealEngine

Plugin that lets you see all characters supported by a particular font. Great for checking whether your font is correctly set-up for localization. https://github.com/ntystudio/UnicodeBrowser #UnrealEngine

Protowlf explains how to make materials completely unaffected by lighting and exposure settings. Often using just an emissive channel doesn't do the trick. https://protowlf.com/unreal/unreal-fixing-unlit-materials/ #UnrealEngine

Explainer on what the Custom Thunk specifier does and how to write your own. https://gist.github.com/intaxwashere/e9b1f798427686b46beab2521d7efbcf #UnrealEngine

Lets Unreal create separate config files for the SteamDeck, similar to how there are different configs for PS5, Xbox. Great for specifying default graphics options and controls that work great on SteamDeck. https://github.com/FeralCatDen/SteamDeckPlatform #UnrealEngine

As part of his VoxelPlugin, Phyronnaz has released some performant alternatives to TMap and TSparseArray that are a lot faster in some cases. https://github.com/VoxelPlugin/VoxelCore #UnrealEngine

If you work with multiple branches, you can often end up with multiple entries in your 'recently viewed' files all called the same. To make their names match the branch name, add this to your `BuildConfiguration.xml` ```xml <ProjectFileGenerator>

How to stop the analytics-related error messages that look like this: ``` LogHttp: Warning: 00000B26A492B600: request failed, libcurl error: 6 (Couldn't resolve host name) LogHttp: Warning: 00000B26A492B600: libcurl info message cache 0 (Could not resolve host:

Robin-Yann Storm works through the problem of improving the UX of a translate gizmo. A must-read for anyone interested in making editor tools that are easy to use. https://rystorm.com/blog/translate-gizmo-design #UnrealEngine

Tom Looman's full course on optimizing your game is well worth the cost. https://courses.tomlooman.com/p/unrealperformance?coupon_code=LAUNCH50 #UnrealEngine

Dr Elliot has some C++ tutorials on `constexpr`, networking and low-level allocations https://mrdrelliot.github.io/ #UnrealEngine

It's possible to set the value of preprocessor defines like `if SOME_VALUE` through your `MyProject.Build.cs` and `MyProject.Target.cs` files: ```cs // In Build.cs GlobalDefinitions.Add("SOME_VALUE=1"); ``` ```cs // In Target.cs GlobalDefinitions.Add("SOME_VALUE=1"); ``` #UnrealEngine

By default, `FName`s do not preserve case in built versions of your game. So the following is true: ```cpp FName("hello") == FName("HELLO") // true in editor, false in built game ``` Changing this behaviour requires you to build your own version of the engine. To change the behaviour you can

You may have heard that `FString` is case-sensitive and `FName` is not, but that is not the whole story. `operator==` is *case-insensitive*, so the following code will return `true`: ```cpp FString("hello") == FString("HELLO") // I am true ``` To add to the confusion, `FString::Equals` defaults to

An official tutorial from Epic explaining how to use materials in your UI. Materials really are the way to go these days for crisp and optimized UIs. https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/tutorials/PnvG/unreal-engine-materials-and-textures-for-ui #UnrealEngine

An official tutorial from Epic on how to use UVs in creating materials for UI. https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/tutorials/Y4Kb/unreal-engine-using-uvs-for-tech-art-and-ui #UnrealEngine

A fascinating deep-dive into how the targeting system in Psychonauts 2 was implemented. Even if you are not interested in the gameplay aspect of this, the developer tools and debug visualization is a great example of how to make designers' jobs

Daniel Torkar collates a bunch of great guidelines for newcomers to Unreal Engine. If you're trying to understand actors, components, the timeline that actors go through (e.g. starting with Begin Play), then this is a great page to start

Tool for analysing video clips to see if they are likely to trigger epilepsy. Record footage of your game in .avi and then drop it into this tool. https://trace.umd.edu/peat/ #UnrealEngine

This multi-part tutorial on how to create a minimal application that just uses Slate for rendering UI is very interesting. https://jiahaoli.org/blog/2023/03/01/using-slate-for-ui-development-and-editor2-simple-slate-standalone-program/ #UnrealEngine

Alex Swaim made an example repo for how to create a minimal Unreal program if you're interesting in using it just for Slate and not much else. https://github.com/Cidolfas/UnrealTestProgram #UnrealEngine

Quickly search for and open an asset with Ctrl+P or Shift+Alt+O. #UnrealEngine

Huge set of tips from (https://twitter.com/flassari). If you can read through and remember even half of these you'll be a much better Unreal engineer. https://flassari.notion.site/UE-Tips-Best-Practices-3ff4c3297b414a66886c969ff741c5ba #UnrealEngine

Allar's UE5 Style Guide is the industry standard. If you're not sure how to name your assets, variables, functions, it's the perfect place to start. https://github.com/Allar/ue5-style-guide #UnrealEngine

How to set breakpoints and step through Python code using PyCharm. Thanks Guillaume https://guillaumepastor.com/programming/debug-unreal-engine-python-using-pycharm/ #UnrealEngine

It's a little out of date, but this is an interesting standalone tool for editing translation files that are output by Unreal Engine. https://github.com/rionix/LocalizationUE4 #UnrealEngine

A great tutorial on how to add gender info to text so localization can work correctly in languages that require it. https://xabk.net/blog/gender-info-in-strings/ #UnrealEngine

Bryner Toma's video series on networking is incredibly clear and useful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEojA3VBXG8&list=PLemTaQ_N519DocM4AqiK08GfsUSnxRPdv&index=1 #UnrealEngine

It's possible to change UI contrast in Unreal Engine: Change `GSlateContrast` from C++, or `Slate.Contrast` from the cheat console. Maybe an easy accessibility win to add to your game? #UnrealEngine

Mateo Egey shows how to add a new entry to an existing menu in the editor. https://herr-edgy.com/tutorials/extending-tool-menus-in-the-editor-via-c/ #UnrealEngine

Mateo Egey's site is a mixture of tutorial blogs and interesting portfolio work. https://herr-edgy.com/ #UnrealEngine

It seems that every UI engineer has needed to create a loading screen at some point. Truong Bui's async loading plugin is amazing for that. To use directly from Blueprints or to learn from. https://github.com/truong-bui/AsyncLoadingScreen #UnrealEngine

It's a few years out of date now, but this loading screen template repo could be useful to learn from. https://github.com/ue4plugins/LoadingScreen #UnrealEngine

Semi-official but somewhat outdated plugins from Epic, posted to GitHub. A lot of them haven't been updated in a while but they could still be useful to learn from. https://github.com/ue4plugins #UnrealEngine

I just discovered (https://twitter.com/RyanDowlingSoka)'s amazing 3-part tutorial on making an Unreal Engine batch rename tool. It's a great intro to Editor Utility Widgets as well as how to hook them up to Python?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQO45KTKOhI #UnrealEngine

Splash Damage has posted their coding standards for both C++ and Blueprints to GitHub. https://github.com/splash-damage/coding-standards/ #UnrealEngine

Long rambling video that is chock-full of interesting data-driven design tips. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHHrDIRSr5A #UnrealEngine

Neat way of making a wiggly outline material. https://twitter.com/MMAn_nin/status/1530730495314567168 #UnrealEngine

My most commonly-used command-line argument is `-waitfordebugger`. It makes the game wait until a debugger is connected before continuining start-up. You can use this by creating a .bat file or by adding the "-waitfordebugger" to a Windows shortcut to your .exe. #UnrealEngine