Blueprint graphs and CPU/GPU usage

Development Programming & Scripting Blueprint
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Hello Community,

Unreal Engine 4 and its editor are great tools, thank you Epics for giving the opportunity to level up with your technologies.
But am I the only one who dislike these excessively decorated Hollywood-style Blueprint graphs, which unnecessarily load the system and actually do no useful job? I don’t worry about the extra Watts which my laptop consumes, but when its cooler becomes crazy when I just want to open a graph and play with a number, it annoys me. I am a minimalist by nature, that’s why I see it excessive.
From my point of view, the people, who build games, are not housekeepers (maybe there are some) and they don’t need a “crowbar with rhinestones”.

Is there any way to switch off these effects, like transparency and whatever loading GPU?

Thanks!

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My suggestion would be not to build your blueprints so large or move over to C++ for a super minimalistic approach. I don’t really know how they could make drawing boxs with lines between them use any less gpu / cpu then it already does.

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This may be related to the following 2 items on the trello board (though I’m not entirely sure if this applies to the Blueprint editor as well):

What the first one alludes to is that the editors are not built with typical UI components, which will not be drawn/updated when they don’t need to be, but rather drawn continuously using Slate almost in a game-loop setup. Here’s another recent thread about this: UE4 Electrical power usage a problem. - Feedback & Requests - Epic Developer Community Forums

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I prototype in Blueprints and then implement in C++, saves iteration times.
Why drawing a third-order 2D line must be expensive?

Thank you for sharing this, now I know there are other 28 people who also think about it =)

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Personally I much prefer the blueprint style to the old Kismet stuff. I think it strikes a good balance between minimalist and gaudy.