Author's Note After Release I'm really blown away by the reception of this article. It has spread far wider than I could have ever imagined. The many comments and discussions it has prompted that essentially confirm what I believe is truth by not just fellow engineers but many in all fields of game development...
Read MoreIn the middle of setting up a automated build server and I ran into an issue when trying to build dedicated servers for blueprint only projects. I basically needed to be able to auto-generate the *Server.Target.cs file for the project if its missing. I wrote an over engineered and bloated Node.js...
Read MoreWritten using UE4 4.17 and 4.18 Preview, results my vary. Sometimes its useful to have your game UI work correctly with weird screen sizes that most players will never use. One example of this is if you frequently do multiplayer PIE testing where your client windows might have odd sizes such as...
Read MoreA tumblr side project of mine that collects bad blueprints from people was just shared on 80.lv of all things, so theres that. Go ahead and submit your terrible blueprints....
Read MoreIf you're a marketplace plugin maintainer and would like to maintain backward compatibility between 4.16 and 4.15, you've most likely run into the issue of the change of module target files moving to a ReadOnlyTargetRules constructor. Epic has provided an undocumented preprocessor to help govern this change. #if WITH_FORWARDED_MODULE_RULES_...
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