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Moving the engine to a new spot wasn't too bad. Nuke intermediate, build, and re-run the project generator bat. Game projects though, lots of hand editing. Lots of full paths to DriveLetter:\Whateverpath to replace.

Not very pro of them
 
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Seems like this thread should be in tech or something!

Weather Channel used the Unreal Engine for their Hurricane footage of the rising water, cool shit, didn't realize that at the time, I just remember everyone in the Weather thread were impressed:

 
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Amod Amod can this be moved to the tech forum or somewhere more relevant?

The Unreal Engine is amazing, I've been dabbling in it for a couple years now, just saw this video on reddit.
This was Previs for a movie that was cancelled a couple weeks ago. Looks like it could have been amazing.

(After the 4 min sizzle reel, you can stop)

Amazing the graphic fidelity they achieved, this was produced in ~12 weeks.
A bit easier to do this without game logic running and only needing to generate the displayed scene, so we're unlikely to see this in a video game near-term.
Just a glimpse of the future.
 
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Ravishing said:
Amod Amod can this be moved to the tech forum or somewhere more relevant?

The Unreal Engine is amazing, I've been dabbling in it for a couple years now, just saw this video on reddit.
This was Previs for a movie that was cancelled a couple weeks ago. Looks like it could have been amazing.

(After the 4 min sizzle reel, you can stop)

Amazing the graphic fidelity they achieved, this was produced in ~12 weeks.
A bit easier to do this without game logic running and only needing to generate the displayed scene, so we're unlikely to see this in a video game near-term.
Just a glimpse of the future.
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Shit, I want to see that movie happen now!
 
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Is xzi xzi /OP around to give an opinion?
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An opinion on moving it? Go for it if that's what you were asking, would be far more suited in the tech forum (I think it originally was on the last forum?)

Also I'll be honest I completely forgot I made this thread lol

I need to start using this thread wtf
 
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Ravishing said:
Amod Amod can this be moved to the tech forum or somewhere more relevant?

The Unreal Engine is amazing, I've been dabbling in it for a couple years now, just saw this video on reddit.
This was Previs for a movie that was cancelled a couple weeks ago. Looks like it could have been amazing.

(After the 4 min sizzle reel, you can stop)

Amazing the graphic fidelity they achieved, this was produced in ~12 weeks.
A bit easier to do this without game logic running and only needing to generate the displayed scene, so we're unlikely to see this in a video game near-term.
Just a glimpse of the future.
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xzi said:
An opinion on moving it? Go for it if that's what you were asking, would be far more suited in the tech forum (I think it originally was on the last forum?)

Also I'll be honest I completely forgot I made this thread lol

I need to start using this thread wtf
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Thread moved to Tech forum.
 
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So I'm back working in blueprint again and still shocked that nobody has made an external diff tool for this. I'm not sure if I should do that, or try to hack the git plugin so it actually is useful.
 
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So I'm back working in blueprint again and still shocked that nobody has made an external diff tool for this. I'm not sure if I should do that, or try to hack the git plugin so it actually is useful.
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I have seen BP Diff tools before, a quick google search got me here:
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Diffing Unreal Assets

So, source control is awesome, and you should be using it! One of the benefits of source control is being able to look at previous versions of files and compare or ‘diff’ them to see how things have changed. However, regular diff tools don’t work very well on binary files like Unreal .uasset...
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Maybe it'll help.
 
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Yea it almost seems like everyone has perforce just for blueprints. There's a git plugin in beta but it sort of tries to guess your project root and doesn't let you change it. I can't imagine that working ever except in a really basic demo.

What I'd really like is an external tool like winmerge or something that you can use from a client like sourcetree. Maybe I should write one.
 
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I've started on this and the load code for blueprints is nightmarish. Deep call stacks, lots of hacks to get around race conditions. I'm now just trying to trick unreal into loading something on an external path or even from ram. It seems very determined to only deal with things in its own little asset folders.
 
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I've started on this and the load code for blueprints is nightmarish. Deep call stacks, lots of hacks to get around race conditions. I'm now just trying to trick unreal into loading something on an external path or even from ram. It seems very determined to only deal with things in its own little asset folders.
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Im a coding noob so dunno! I like Blueprints, but the best workflow I've seen is create a C++ base class and then make child blueprints.
For loading stuff, yes Unreal is picky and needs to have everything in the content folder.
You can drag & drop assets outside the program that don't have dependencies, but anything with dependencies should be migrated into your project's content folder.
 
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Is there a good idiots guide to UE4 any of you would recommend?
 
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What's your goal.
You could specialize in just 1 area and spend a very long time trying to master it.

I have a fairly massive collection of shortcuts to various UE4 resources, so I could probably link you to something you're interested in.


The Unreal Youtube is FULL of tutorials, I've watched most:

Linking to the playlists where there are tutorial series:
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If you just want to make a map, here's a tutorial I watched recently from the guy that makes a bunch of assets:

 
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So I'm back working in blueprint again and still shocked that nobody has made an external diff tool for this. I'm not sure if I should do that, or try to hack the git plugin so it actually is useful.
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Unreal Engine 4.23 Released!

https://docs.unrealengine.com/Images/./../../../../../Images/Support/Builds/ReleaseNotes/4_23/Banner_01.png What’s New Thanks to our next-gen virtual production tools and enhanced real-time ray tracing, film and TV production is transformed. Now you can achieve final shots live on set, with...
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New: UMG Widget Diffing
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We have expanded and improved Blueprint Diffing to support Widget Blueprints as well as Actor and Animation Blueprints! The new tools also show changes made to the structure of the Blueprint, adding property and function flags, class settings, parent class, and added Components, in addition to default property values (which now include the default properties of Widgets and Widget Slots) and changes to Blueprint Graphs.

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If you have written a custom Blueprint subclass that you would like to diff, you can override the FindDiffs function, which enables you to list specific changes you want to show, and to request subobjects for diffing.
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