Did you know about Blueprint Math nodes? I didn't! https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/math-expression-node-in-unreal-engine/ #UnrealEngine

Watch (https://twitter.com/joyrok)'s amazing Advanced UI Templating talk here! (starts at 6hr 29min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeWtslAEtyc&t=23340s #UnrealEngine

I found this really nice tutorial and source code on making a Python text editor within Unreal Engine, including: 🎨Highlighting 📝Autocomplete suggestions 📚Jump to online documentation It would serve as an amazing jumping-off point for adding support for any scripting

Laura (landelare) has a great blog. https://landelare.github.io/ #UnrealEngine

Oh my god I just put two and two together. So I've been fighting to add editor tooling on a BP class rather than a BP instance in a level. As usual with Unreal if something is hard it usually means there's a preferred workflow that you're not using. So (https://twitter.com/Scampleton) told me this

I gave a talk on Slate in Unreal Engine as part of JetBrains GameDev Day, and the individual video is now up! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n3oIfI7nBM #UnrealEngine

If you work with UI in Unreal Engine, make sure you check out Project Settings > Editor > Widget Designer (Team) It lets you disable the should-be-deprecated Property Bindings, change what widget is automatically created at the root when you make new UserWidgets, set custom Debug Resolutions, and a

Use `meta=(ForceInlineRow)` to display `TMap<K,V>` entries as a table rather than a bunch of nested expandable entries https://benui.ca/unreal/uproperty/forceinlinerow #UnrealEngine

If you have a function that returns whether an item is sold, according to Unreal Engine code style it should be called `IsSold()`, not `GetIsSold()`. Allar's (https://github.com/Allar/ue5-style-guide?tab=readme-ov-filebp-funcs-naming-bool) explains more. #UnrealEngine

I found the source of 80% of my merge problems with PlasticSCM! In the Branch Explorer, you can right-click and choose "Merge from this branch..." or "Merge from this branch to..." The first merges locally in your current workspace. The latter merges on the server. I was choosing the latter because

Every time I install Unreal on a new machine I always make to change Editor Settings > Asset Editor Open Location to "Main Window" It stops new windows being opened up as separate tabs, always keeps them docked. #UnrealEngine

YukiYa posted a great shader graph to make curled pages. https://twitter.com/ko_yuki_lo/status/1632364616226574336 #UnrealEngine

Make lights that look like Wind Waker or cartoon shader stuff. https://protowlf.com/unreal/unreal-stencil-lights/ #UnrealEngine

The debug camera is incredibly useful for visually inspecting what you are looking at in the editor. The cheat `ToggleDebugCamera` or the semi-colon key can activate it in the editor. https://twitter.com/flassari/status/1631925402171056128 #UnrealEngine

When adding things to a project from the Asset Store, it generally dumps them into your project in whatever folder the asset chooses. Instead, UAsset Browser lets you choose where to put it. https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/uasset-browser #UnrealEngine

You can set where Play In Editor windows are spawned with the `MultipleInstancePositions` setting. This is especially useful if you often test multiplayer and often to spawn multiple windows. In the example, Marcus sets up 4 windows to take up a quarter of the screen each with

Hold backslash to summon a preview mesh at your cursor #UnrealEngine

WizardCell has a huge number of tips on making a multiplayer game using Unreal Engine. https://wizardcell.com/unreal/multiplayer-tips-and-tricks/ #UnrealEngine

You know the "Launch Game", "Generate Visual Studio Project Files" options that are shown in the right-click context menu in Windows when you click on a .uproject file? How do those get generated? What's going on when they break? Sharundaar dives into it to work out what's going

Three different ways to improve what happens after you import assets into your project. Python, C++, and Blueprint approaches. https://ryandowlingsoka.com/unreal/post-asset-import-rules/ #UnrealEngine

Found a plugin within Unreal Engine for extending test automation in Unreal. It's goal is "to add the before/after test abilities, while resetting state between tests automatically." https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/tree/ue5-main/Engine/Plugins/Tests/CQTest #UnrealEngine

This is _the_ thing to read when learning about multiplayer in Unreal. https://cedric-neukirchen.net/docs/category/multiplayer-network-compendium/ #UnrealEngine

A searchable and exhaustive list of console variables available in Unreal. https://www.unrealdirective.com/resource/console-variables #UnrealEngine

Hard references can really slow down your editor, your game, your life. Omid's plugin can help solve this. Check out his (https://twitter.com/heyomidk/status/1646372849144446976) explaining how to get started. https://github.com/heyomidk/HardReferenceFinder #UnrealEngine

A huge selection of useful command-line tools: clean all generated files, migrate https://github.com/XistGG/UnrealXistTools #UnrealEngine

Quod Soler describes how to use Unreal Engine's Data Tables to store data, imported from CSV or JSON, and how to access that data from C++. https://www.quodsoler.com/blog/using-datatables-to-store-game-data #UnrealEngine

Lets you create and share gamepad control layouts. An amazing way to collaborate with team-members to suggest control schemes in your game. https://www.padcrafter.com/ #UnrealEngine

What if you want to make a box with rounded corners, but you want a smooth gradient in the background? This post is in Japanese but putting it through translation software or just looking at the graphs is enough. https://historia.co.jp/archives/33412/ #UnrealEngine

Utilize these new C++ macros to declare and define Native Gameplay Tags in your project. https://www.unrealdirective.com/tip/declare-define-native-gameplay-tags #UnrealEngine

Best fitting plane using Gradient Descent in blueprints. Also available through Ghislain's Patreon. https://twitter.com/GhislainGir/status/1663886415837446146 #UnrealEngine

Material that does the "circle grows from click location" thing that a lot of touch UIs have. https://twitter.com/MMAn_nin/status/1664268341207531523 #UnrealEngine

Plugin that replaces the default _slow_ bindings in UMG widgets with something performant and designer-friendly. https://github.com/DoubleDeez/MDFastBinding #UnrealEngine

It's possible to set Perforce to use Unreal as the diff tool for .uasset files in P4V. Go to Preferences > Diff. Then add a new file type. Set the Extension to `.uasset`, the Application to point to your local install of `Editor/Binaries/Win64/UnrealEditor.exe`, and the arguments to be `-diff %1 %2

This tutorial from Epic shares practical tips on how to use console variables to change the max FPS that your game can run in different situations. For example after inactivity, when on battery for

June Rhodes' 5-hour workshop is the perfect programming-focused introduction to Unreal Engine. It starts from early C++ concepts of pointers and references and works all the way through to UObjects, garbage collection and interacting with

This small tool lets you browse Unreal Engine's Editor icons/brushes easily, search for specific ones and copy slate code for the selected icon. https://github.com/sirjofri/SlateIconBrowser #UnrealEngine

Whenever customizing Unreal Engine, I want to build only what I need. By setting up an example game project with a source build of the editor, only the parts used will be compiled. https://twevs.github.io/2023/06/19/unreal-engine-how-to-set-up-a-source-build.html #UnrealEngine

The Console Variables Editor is a panel that displays information about all the console variables set in the project, and provides a central location to view and modify all the variables. https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/console-variables-editor/ #UnrealEngine

A plugin that simplifies the process of writing to 4K textures in realtime. https://github.com/PreyK/Unreal-Fast-Dynamic-Texture #UnrealEngine

An example implementation of how to integrate Unreal Engine with the Flecs entity component system. https://github.com/PreyK/Unreal-Minimum-Viable-Flecs #UnrealEngine

Steve's tutorial on animating text using the Rich Text Block shows exactly how to achieve wiggly text without needing to write any C++. It just uses the standard Rich Text Block and a few custom

Ghislain posts a huge number of practical tools and tutorials on his Patreon; materials, Blueprints, post-processes. https://www.patreon.com/GhislainGir #UnrealEngine

Incredibly useful tutorial from Ari Arnbjörnsson on advanced debugging techniques. Includes the Widget Reflector, Debug Camera, others. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS5N41F4fZQ&t=18173s #UnrealEngine

Cog is a set of debug tools for Unreal Engine built on top of Dear ImGui https://github.com/arnaud-jamin/Cog #UnrealEngine

A standalone tool that modifies an Unreal Engine install, changing which plugins are enabled by default. This is super useful if you often create new projects and are tired of disabling a bunch of plugins every time. https://github.com/DarknessFX/UEPlugins_DisableDefault #UnrealEngine

Adds a Quick Actions pop-up panel to the editor. https://github.com/outoftheboxplugins/QuickActions #UnrealEngine

Plugin that provides a bridge between Blueprints and editor Message Log functionality. https://github.com/aquanox/BlueprintMessageLogPlugin #UnrealEngine

Plugin that adds a Subsystem Browser panel for Unreal Engine Editor to explore running subsystems and edit their properties. https://github.com/aquanox/SubsystemBrowserPlugin #UnrealEngine

Snippet that checks the metadata Category tag and adds those properties to the Groups buttons at the top of the Details panel. https://gist.github.com/intaxwashere/5895a50aec9958ce080288dd7d66bdae #UnrealEngine

Reference site with screenshots and videos of a huge number of games. Amazing for seeing how other games do it. https://www.gameuidatabase.com/ #UnrealEngine