Accidentally Disabled Plugins

Development Pipeline & Plugins Plugins
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If you accidentally disabled the plugin browser… Here is how to fix it.

I.E. You can’t find the plugins section anymore, Maybe you were trying to reduce your game size and disabled the plugin browser accidentally entirely.

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HOW TO OPEN THE PLUGIN BROWSER IF YOU DELETED DISABLED IT ACCIDENTALLY:

  • Save your project
  • Possibly clone your project in case you are worried that it might bug out
  • Exit out of your project, Unreal Launcher, AND wait 30 seconds.
  • Make sure the correct version of Microsoft Visual Studio is installed
  • Go to where your game is located.
  • Usually C/UE4/SavedProjects/YOURGAME
  • Don’t go into any folders
  • Scroll to where you see the file YOURGAME.uproject (it has the Unreal Engine icon in blue)
  • RIGHT click and click OPEN WITH >> Visual Studio
    (if you get an error at this stage, it’s cause you don’t have visual studio installed most likely)
  • Visual Studio Code will pop up with a bunch of text.
  • DO NOT EDIT THIS
  • Scroll down under the Plugins section of the code.
  • There should be a ton of them I.E. “Name” “ActorSequence”, Enabled true, etc
  • FIND the one that says Plugin Browser.
  • You may EDIT the text “false”
  • CHANGE it to “true”
  • Click File
  • Click Save All
  • Open your project back up