A detailed example of how pure nodes in Blueprints can be executed multiple times. Definitely worth knowing for anyone that uses Blueprint. https://celdevs.com/unreal-engine-and-the-hidden-pitfalls-of-blueprints/ #UnrealEngine

Concrete tutorial on the steps required to add support for C++ template properties so that they can be displayed and edited in Unreal Engine's editor. https://celdevs.com/exposing-templated-properties-to-uproperty/ #UnrealEngine

A variety of tutorials from Salty Panda studios. https://celdevs.com/ #UnrealEngine

Preview of the Unreal Engine 5 motion graphics tool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLdq9m93FLI #UnrealEngine

Usually when debugging a Blueprint I set a breakpoint and mouse over values in the graph view. However sometimes it shows "not in scope" or it's hard to see how a variable changes in real-time. For this, use the Blueprint Debugger window. You can set it to show the live value of variables on

Rememeber to always explicitly initialize your FVectors. The default constructor does _not_ zero out X, Y, Z values. ❌ `FVector Position; // The value of X, Y, Z is undefined!` ✅ `FVector Position = FVector::ZeroVector;` #UnrealEngine

Plugin that allows editing of any metadata on uproperty specifiers. https://github.com/rfsheffer/DetailsMetadataExtension #UnrealEngine

Unreal Engine plugin to enable editing meta data of Blueprint Properties, Functions, and Function and Event Parameters. https://github.com/DoubleDeez/MDMetaDataEditor #UnrealEngine

Marketplace plugin for packing data into multiple channels of a texture. https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/texture-channel-packer-01 #UnrealEngine

If you're testing a multiplayer game, Unreal has a great "Allow late joining" experimental feature under Editor Preferences. It adds an "Add another client" button that is shown when you run the game. #UnrealEngine

Plugin and tutorial for how to edit HLSL code using an external editor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3BVsYV7ge0 #UnrealEngine

Huge book-like reference. https://ikrima.dev/ue4guide/ #UnrealEngine

Prints out text character by character like a typewriter. https://github.com/redxdev/UnrealRichTextDialogueBox #UnrealEngine

Editor plugin that has a nested tree structure. https://github.com/dhk-room101/UE5DialogueEditor #UnrealEngine

List of plugins to use as reference when learning Slate or making your own plugin. https://github.com/Sythenz/UE4-Plugin-Resources #UnrealEngine

Render particles in UI. Also (https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/niagara-ui-renderer) https://github.com/SourySK/NiagaraUIRenderer #UnrealEngine

Example of how to implement rich text and markdown-like text formatting. https://github.com/BraceYourselfGames/UE-BYGRichText #UnrealEngine

Uses the Windows Speech API to speak text. https://github.com/BraceYourselfGames/UE-BYGTextToSpeech #UnrealEngine

Alternative localization plugin that uses plain CSV files. https://github.com/BraceYourselfGames/UE-BYGLocalization #UnrealEngine

Tweening library for UMG written in C++ https://github.com/benui-dev/ue-uitween #UnrealEngine

Cheat manager base class that adds support for adding cheat shortcuts https://github.com/benui-dev/UE-BUICheatManager #UnrealEngine

Great Discord server for learning and asking questions. It renamed itself Unreal Source. https://unrealslackers.org/ #UnrealEngine

More 2D sparky shadertoy stuff https://www.shadertoy.com/view/wl2Gzc #UnrealEngine

2D shader showing a fire with sparks. https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MlKSWm #UnrealEngine

It's sometimes posible to end up with a corrupt Blueprint. Unreal can show an error like this when starting the editor "The summary for the package {Your Blueprint} is invalid. Check that the file is of the expected type and not corrupted" There's a `/Saved/Autosaves/` directory that may have an

Ghislain Girardot has another incredibly detailed tutorial on how to procedurally generate waterfalls. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2BLqPK5SLg #UnrealEngine

Enigma tutorials has a great video on how to deal with GC-caused crashes. I hit this a lot when first starting out with Unreal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYktCdC_4IM #UnrealEngine

Sick of accidentally stopping Play In Editor when you press Esc to open the menu? Rebind Stop to Shift+Esc (or anything really). Search for "stop" in Editor Preferences, then rebind "Play World (PIE/SIE)" from Esc to Shift+Esc. #UnrealEngine

Kieran Newland has so many incredibly useful networking and multiplayer articles on his blog. https://www.kierannewland.co.uk/blog/ #UnrealEngine

This tutorial from Kieran Newland has a great introduction to networking in games in general, before going into depth in a subsequent post on how to use Unreal's Network Prediction plugin. https://www.kierannewland.co.uk/unreal-engines-default-networking/ #UnrealEngine

How to use Unreal's built-in Network Prediction plugin to improve your multiplayer game. https://www.kierannewland.co.uk/using-the-network-prediction-plugin/ #UnrealEngine

The ever-increasing ambitions of the AAA videogame industry come with exploding design complexity, and keeping quality in check requires ever more ingenuity. That’s why Gearbox created Polaris, an Unreal Engine 5 plugin for automating tests, empowering the people who make the game with

Unreal Fest video talk on using MetaSounds and Quartz to make procedurally-generated music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFvR1v5smpY #UnrealEngine

Debugging GPU crashes on PC can be challenging. We'll go over best practices and the tools available in Unreal Engine to debug such crashes. This includes a new GPU breadcrumbs system, which provides the equivalent of a GPU “callstack.” Additionally, we'll examine case studies and discuss

Collision data is largely defined by content creators, but its users are mostly systems written by programmers. Big games have more collision data, and more systems using it. Unreal Engine provides a great framework for collision, but problems can emerge at scale. In this talk, George Prosser will

Velin Tchalakov, Senior Mobile Gameplay Programmer on Fortnite, talks about the workflows, lessons, hacks, and mindset you should keep when developing for mobile in UE. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfZ9BxrmYBU #UnrealEngine

Using the latest stuff in the audio system in Unreal Engine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOZrE-MkhM8 #UnrealEngine

Pascale Krabbe documented his experiences in localizing his game, including working with .po files an an external text editor. https://freetimecoder.net/unreal/Adventures-In-Localization/ #UnrealEngine

Interesting blog. https://georgy.dev/ #UnrealEngine

Shows how to implement a deferred paint container. Perfect for drawing widgets over others so they look "highlighted" during tutorials. https://github.com/Sharundaar/DeferredPainter/ #UnrealEngine

Example project showing how to create a 2D side scroller in Unreal. https://github.com/CobraCodeDev/TP_2DSideScrollerBP #UnrealEngine

Seems to be an advanced version of the other course offered by Cobra Code. https://www.udemy.com/course/ue-2d-action-platformer/ #UnrealEngine

A rare course focused on making a 2D game in Unreal Engine. https://www.udemy.com/course/unreal-2d-course/ #UnrealEngine

A helper widget that you can use to find and remove expensive lights in UE5. https://impromptu-games.itch.io/lightaudit #UnrealEngine

Really helpful Discord community started by Joe Wintergreen. People are very fun and friendly, mostly based in Australia it seems. https://discord.com/invite/TyexPhe #UnrealEngine

Unreal's save system can be kind of overwhelming but I found this tutorial an amazing introduction. https://www.quodsoler.com/blog/how-to-build-an-unreal-save-system-in-10-minutes-using-only-blueprint #UnrealEngine

Matt covers in great detail how to create a custom blueprint node from scratch, including adding custom pins, allowing renaming, wildcard pins. Simply the best in-depth tutorial for custom nodes. https://unrealist.org/custom-blueprint-nodes/ #UnrealEngine

Huge in-depth tutorial that covers how to create a new custom Blueprint graph node. Subclassing UK2Node, creating custom pins. https://www.gamedev.net/tutorials/programming/engines-and-middleware/improving-ue4-blueprint-usability-with-custom-nodes-r5694/ #UnrealEngine

Matt breaks down the four different stages where Unreal can show a preloading screen. https://unrealist.org/engine-startup-preload-screens/ #UnrealEngine

Matt aka Unrealist shows how to make a new exporter to work with the Unreal Header Tool. https://unrealist.org/uht-plugins/ #UnrealEngine