Unreal Directive

So... I rebuilt the Unreal Directive website from the ground up. A sleek new design, vastly revamped resources, amongst other improvements. This is just the beginning, please let me know what you think 🙏 unrealdirective.com/updates/the-ne…

Exited to share a new resource: a complete list of Unreal Engine keyboard shortcuts! Search, filter, discover shortcuts to help simplify your workflow. Check it out here: unrealdirective.com/resources/keyb…

Rider is a great IDE for Unreal Engine development, so this is pretty hype

Not as exciting as MegaLights, but my contribution to UE 5.5 is that now you can define drop-down options for your String / Name variables in BPs! :D Just create a function that returns an array, and select it in the Advanced panel. You can even use static C++ methods! 🌟

We are Mega excited about this in particular 🔦 MegaLights, a new experiential feature in 5.5, enables artists to use orders of magnitude more lights. They are movable and dynamic, with realistic area shadows, and can light volumetric fog. See this capture of our live, real-time demo using Quixel Megascans and KitBash3D assets. #UnrealFest

👀 I’ve been waiting for this! Can now start testing out Rive UI assets in Unreal Engine using DX12.

@UnrealSensei They'll be free from Fab launch to the end of 2024. Get them for free in that timeframe and you'll own them forever, like free games on the Epic Games Store: x.com/quixeltools/st…

Epic Games will no longer offer the Quixel Megascans library for free starting next year. A big reason a lot of people started using Unreal Engine is for the free library. Now each Megascan asset will be a separate payment.

A really cool feature that snuck into @UnrealEngine 5.4 is Landmass Erosion. You can set up your standard landscape then drop this in to make it do an erosion pass on your environment. Only a couple of clicks for a glow up. Check it out! #UETips

When dealing with Gameplay Tags in #UnrealEngine, remember that you can declare and define them in C++ using built-in macros - UE_DECLARE_GAMEPLAY_TAG_EXTERN - UE_DEFINE_GAMEPLAY_TAG - UE_DEFINE_GAMEPLAY_TAG_STATIC I explain it in a bit more detail here unrealdirective.com/tips/declare-d…

Gameplay Tags have been one of my go-to features since I discovered them a long while back. Not only are they lightweight, but they are also incredible versatile. I recommend checking them out 👍

Gameplay Tags in Unreal are incredibly underrated! Create tags for attributes like ‘has red key’ or ‘has been to castle’. Then designers can set tag queries as variables on things to control game logic without having arbitrary bools on their character to describe things. #UETips

@Dmitriy_Vusatiy Where do you think I got the initial data? 😆 Anyways, not everyone has Unreal open, accessible, or knowledge to generate it themselves. In addition, I plan on adding more information than what's generated.

@UnrealDirective You know you can generate it in unreal, right?

I developed a sleek list of Unreal Engine console commands & variables over on my website. While there's still more work that needs to be done, I'm pretty proud of it. Is there anything missing on it that I should consider adding? unrealdirective.com/resources/cons…

Another great resources from Chris that goes over many useful (and hidden) features in Unreal Engine! I recommend giving it a watch, you'll definitely learn something new 😉

@Peter87257618 Thanks for the suggestion Peter!

@UnrealDirective It would be awesome to be able to read pixel data from texture and put it into array. Or even shader data directly from the GPU. This way we could achieve a lighting/postprocess image data after render, and then RT our own texture details over it

Last night I released v1.3 of UDCore, which brought 7 new functions and 2 function updates. Got any suggestions for new features? I'd love to hear them!

Some of you were curious about the "Array_NextIndex" and "Array_PrevIndex" functions and their use cases. It basically simplifies getting the next or previous valid index of the array. In the case for "Array_NextIndex" -- - If the array is not valid, return -1 (INDEX_NONE). - If the next index is less than 0, return 0. - If the next index is less than or equal to the last index, return the next index. - If the next index is greater than the last index, and bLoop is enabled, return 0. Otherwise, return the last index. An example use-case would be an event driven incrementation, such as a UI carousel or moving to the next destination.

Released v1.3 of UDCore - Added multiple clipboard-based functions - Added `Array_NextIndex` & `Array_PrevIndex` - Added `GetProjectVersion` - Improved `Async Move to Location` - Replaced `SortStringArray` with `GetSortedStringArray` Full Changelog: udcore.unrealdirective.com/docs/changelog