Custom Bluprint nodes with C++ function code in-editor :-o

[Nicat]

@BrUnO_XaVIeR

1 Script = 1 Blueprint Function.
That is what Unreal understands after I tell it to delete the script after converting it to a “Graph”…

The “script” only exist in the Editor, so whatever you can do with a Blueprint Function equates to what you could do with this node. That includes calling UFunctions not exposed to Blueprint Graphs.
(UFunctions yes, native C++ functions no)

Unreal has a ton of UFunctions “hidden”, not exposed, to Blueprint Graphs; this could be a way to access them easily.

Also, the “benefit” I dig the most is the possibility of “writing nodes” faster than dragging pins wires around which is sometimes annoying for simple “for loops”, array/set manipulations, etc… Typing words to do things like is simply faster than dragging wires around.

But anyway, I don’t have the human resources to effectively develop something “this big”. A fully working scripting node would require a team working on it full-time, it’s a lot of code to maintain.

I was just curious to see if it would run at all
I will learn how to generate node pins extracted from the compiled scripts, after that I am probably done with this!

Thanks for explanation. Calling non-exposed UFunctions is what I meant. And yes, there are times I wish I could write some scripts instead of playing with nodes.

You have probably thought/tried this but you should check out math node to see how they did it. It is kind of similar on the outside at least.

Well now that we know it can be done, we’ll just ask Epic to implement it as a feature, surely they’ll do it :D… oh wait, we don’t even have Quats in BPs by default . Yes I’m and will forever be salty about that.

Anyways, thanks for your awesome contributions :).