Documentation takes a very long time to load.
eg. Opening any non-cached page such as when 5.4 came out takes several seconds.
I am on ethernet with gigabit internet, 128 gb ram 3200 MHz, AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 3975WX [32-cores base 3.5GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz].
I know this seems minor, but continuous navigation through documentation becomes painstaking when every page takes this long.
Where things are really weird is with a deleted cache the actor page for 4.27 docs uses over 500 MB but loads way faster than the 5.4 doc which only uses 118 MB.
This is a ton of data for either of these (the html for 4.27 uses 1.2 MB, and 5.4 uses 0.8 MB)
I recognize that these pages probably have a lot going on under the hood. As a user I don’t care though. When I switch over to a wikipedia and the content loads instantly for what seems like way bigger pages it by comparison makes Unreal’s website feel broken.
What is really compounding this issue is the poor navigation and searchability.
eg. searching UProceduralMesh yields zero results. but UProceduralMeshComponent produces three where none of them are actually the procedural mesh component page. The top result which is UDynamicMeshComponent happens to have a link to UProceduralMeshComponent.
Epic has always had poor search results so it’s not that big of a deal on it’s own.
Googling “unreal engine <thing_to_search_for>” would often yield the proper documentation page instantly and in the top few results. Now it seems that the results no longer come up on google (probably due to url change from docs.unrealengine.com to dev.epicgames.com).
Other websites seem load fine in this browser and I am not too keen on having to switch browsers depending on the website.
waiting a few seconds per page isn’t the end of the world just an annoyance. I found a workaround though so it’s not a big deal (including site:https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27 to my google search) .
Figured out a solution to this. Apparently the engine ships with documentation zipped.
in file explorer navigate to `\Engine\Documentation\Builds
then replace the addressbar contents with cmd "/k "tar -xzf CppAPI-HTML.tgz"" and press enter.
then replace the addressbar contents again but with cmd "/k "tar -xzf BlueprintAPI-HTML.tgz""
Both these commands can run at the same time so no need to wait for one to finish first before running the second.
The main page is at
\Engine\Documentation\Builds\en-US\API\index.html
I never found a solution to page navigation being a little funky, nor the missing icons for const, virtual, static for function signatures.
If someone else does figure that out let me know
