Experiments - Allar's Blog

Fixing UE4 Marketplace Comment Usernames Being Unknown

Today I was looking at the customer comments for my marketplace assets on the Unreal Engine Marketplace and found that across the entire site, usernames were being reported as "Unknown". For those who know my antics, I thought this was a perfect excuse to mess with the marketplace's

Dedicated Servers

Building Dedicated Server Target Files

In 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

Experiments

Keyboard Shortcut (Hotkeys) for Unreal Engine 4

I made a custom WASD keycap set using the templates over at WASD Keyboards for my Das Keyboard. You can get the source vector files I made here on my github.

Experiments

Proof of Concept: Routing Unreal Engine 4 to Resolume through Spout

As a silly challenge, I made a solution to what I thought was the unasked question of "How to use UE4 with Spout". I set up a special Camera Actor in the world that would send its render texture target to a Spout listener using some really hacky

Experiments

Controlling Lights in Unreal Engine 4 with MIDI

Mimicking light controllers used in Hollywood, I rigged up an Akai LPD8 MIDI Controller as a proof of concept to adjust some lights in Unreal Engine 4 using the experimental LiveEditor plugin.