Michael Allar's Unreal Engine 4 Tutorials

How To Offset UE4 Pop-Up Notifications

I made a tutorial about how to move the notifications that the Unreal Engine editor can spew in case you... need to move them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4lpnOGt_M4

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Custom UE4 UMG "Screen Sizes" Configuration

Written 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

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Should I Use Blueprints or C++?

This is a common question asked when people are new to Unreal Engine. This question is a good way to spark a tired debate. If you aren't able to make this decision for yourself I have created an easy to use guide. This guide is also helpful when you find

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Populating Perforce With An Unreal Engine Source Build

This document covers how to set up a new Perforce server and populate it with an Unreal Engine source build alongside your projects. This is the most basic setup for 'beginner' Perforce pipelines and does not cover things like streams. Please note that you should only do this if you

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Updating UE4's Steam SDK

May 24, 2017 Update: Epic's 4.16 version of UE4 has had its Steam SDK upgraded to v1.39. This is still one version short of the latest SDK (v1.40) at the time of this writing but its significantly more recent. They even added SteamController fixes. I'm not sure

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Enabling UE4's Steam Integration

This is the first step in a series of guides that will show you how to enable the OnlineSubsystemSteam module for your project. It does not cover session creation, session management, app id association, or anything specific to OnlineSubsystemSteam. These steps are the first part in enabling a Steam integration

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Enabling UE4's Crash Video Recorder

Long time users of Unreal Engine 4 might remember an old feature that used be in the top right of the editor that would allow you to save the last 20 seconds of your editor's activity as an uncompressed .AVI. This recording would also auto-save on crash so that if

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Align Blueprint Nodes Like A Pro

For those who haven't discovered this magic yet, blueprint alignment lets you clean up your blueprint graphs real quick. This alignment feature comes with no keyboard shortcuts bound out of the box, which is a real shame. If you want to step up your blueprint game though, I highly recommend

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How To Set Up Completely Insecure Samba Shares on Linux (Ubuntu Server)

This document describes how to set up completely open, absolutely insecure, fully accessible Samba shares on Ubuntu Server. This is incredibly useful for rapid deployment testing from a Windows machine to a Ubuntu Server target as a deployment can be then done with a simple robocopy or even a "drag

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How To Setup the Linux x86 Cross-Compile Toolchain for UE4 On Windows

This document serves as a lean and mean guide to setting up the Linux x86 Cross-Compile Toolchain for Windows. The process is already mostly animated by Epic but the existing documentation is a bit verbose. Requirements * For 4.9.X or older, you need Visual Studio Community Edition 2013 [https:

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How To Set Up Dedicated Servers for Windows and Linux For Your UE4 Game (using Windows)

This document covers the bare basics on how to get your Unreal Engine 4 game project able to build both Windows and Linux dedicated server builds, using just a Windows machine for compiling. Requirements * For 4.9.X or older, you need Visual Studio Community Edition 2013 [https://www.visualstudio.

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How to Convert a Blueprint Only Project to a C++ Project (using Windows)

This document covers how to convert a Blueprint Only project to a C++ project without writing any C++ code using Windows. This isn't intended to fold down your Blueprint Logic to C++, it is meant only to wrap your Blueprint Project with a C++ project. Some plugins and engine features

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Get All Platform Dependencies Easily

If you plan on compiling Unreal Engine 4 across multiple platforms and don't want to have to deal with adding all the related dependencies per platform to your source control or making sure they are all in sync across platforms or simply don't want to run Setup.sh multiple times,

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Enable Marching Ants for Editor Selection Outlines

Epic left in some commented code in the selection outline shader that provides marching ants for occluded parts of your outlines. Made a short video about how to enable it.

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Setting up version control (Perforce) for Unreal Engine 4 using DigitalOcean and Ubuntu (Part 2)

New Version There is a completely new version that adds the Engine to Perforce in a completely different and much better way. You can read about it here: http://allars-blog.ghost.io/2017/04/05/populating-perforce-with-an-unreal-engine-source-build/ Video Version Condensed Version If you know how to use Perforce, basically... Make all

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How To Build Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) From Source Code

People keep asking me how to build the engine, so I put together a really basic video on how to compile UE4 [https://www.unrealengine.com] from Epic's Github [https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine].

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Setting up version control (Perforce) for Unreal Engine 4 using DigitalOcean and Ubuntu (Part 1)

A common question with Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) [http://www.unrealengine.com] is "how do you set up version control?" I think this is a very important question and if you have never used version control for your projects you are crippling yourself from the start. I won't go into