Extending and Customizing Unreal Engine Editor

Methods for Improving Workflow and More Robust Scripting
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-84040-6
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 286 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 442 g

This book provides a broad overview of editor extensions and modifications that can be made to speed up your workflow in the Unreal Engine. It covers tips for both initial content creation as well as debugging already existing content.

The book explains how several editor systems work, with a focus on how you can extend and modify them to suit your own workflow. Chapters cover how to create your own editor modes with several different kinds of tools in them, covering tools for artists and for gameplay scripting, giving you the foundation to build further tools and personalize your workflow. It also covers how to personalize toolbars and editor windows and create custom variable visualization and Blueprint nodes.

Whether you are making a small indie game or an AAA game, this book will help you and your team in creating the tools needed to improve your workflow.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mattsson, Roger

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Spiele-Programmierung, Rendering, Animation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, 1. Editor Modes, 2. Toolbar, 3. Editor Windows, 4. Data Visualization, 5. Commandlets, 6. Extending Editor Debugging, 7. Google Sheet, 8. Blueprint Nodes Customization, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Roger Mattsson has worked as a gameplay programmer and a game designer for over 20 years at several AAA studios and small indie studios. He is currently working at Neon Giant as a Principal Programmer, a studio focused on making big ambitious games with few people.