It was a great idea to utilize UMG for editor scripting, thank you!
Some humble requests:
a) When working with more than 1 viewport pane, we can’t properly set pane camera orientation on project/map load (e.g. where every view should be in a different world location). The SetLevelViewportCameraInfofunction always sets the active pane, it would be very useful to be able to specify pane index there. More on this issue here.
b) It would be awesome to be able to automatically dock widget windows next to specified default tabs (e.g. one of the most ‘popular’ spots for that, next to the World Outliner tab) if needed. Very useful e.g. for a Marketplace product, for new users - for now they need to manually dock the widgets after they open in a new project.
Update, a major one: c) When opening widgets in one project, the widget windows remain opened also in other projects that use the same engine version. This is very cumbersome, e.g. I use an editor widget in project A, then I open project B and it shows empty windows where the widgets from project A were. I don’t use any widgets in the other projects, so I need to rearrange the window layout every time I reopen the project with widgets.
Please make the widget window arrangement project-wide, not engine-wide.
Hi. Just checked 4.23.1 and the construction script is not called when SpawnActorOfClass is used from an Editor Utility Widget. Any idea when it will be fixed? Thanks.
I would love to see editor widgets have the ability to work with things during runtime.
For example, I’d like to build an editor tool that monitors player network data, and displays each player in a server-list type fashion. However I can’t pull data from players mid-game.
I think this is one of the best things to be added to the engine in awhile. It’s going to help with tool creation a lot. Thank you!!! Please keep adding to it <3
Hello Guys, I am having problems to pass variables to TileViews when I am creating new child widgets, it seams absolutely broken, does someone is having the same problem?.
here is a step by step:
1.- Create a new widget utility
2.- Set a TileView Widget inside
3.- Create another widget utility and set the UserObjectListEntry interface
4.- Set a TextBlock inside the child widget utility
5.- Create a function to pass a string variable and set the text for the text block (or make a variable public and expose on spawn, not working either)
6.- go back to the first widget utility and set the child in the TileView settings
8.- Create a new widget and init that variable
Adding the widget to any other panel container works, looks like the TileView is generating a copy
Currently this isn’t scheduled for a 4.23 hotfix, and I’m not confident that a fix would follow hotfix rules, so I believe you can update with this for 4.23. Thanks!
EUW are a really amazing tool, but the current documentation isn’t really helpful. And there isn’t a lot information from other users other than this thread.
That being said I would really appreciate some help on the player controller issue. I’m trying to select specific mesh that I spawned, not the entire actor. I was hoping to trace from underneath my cursor like I would do from a normal Widget, but I haven’t been able to get any kind of player information while in editor.
I’ve seen this question being asked a couple of times, but it ended being unanswered.
Any kind of help would be appreciated
If the “Select Actors Using This Asset” function could be exposed it might be helpful. Someone needs a tool that can select all actors using a certain texture and put them in a folder. Sadly they dont use material instances, so there is no way to check if an actor uses a texture in its material.
Also I dont know if keyboard input is implemented yet.
I found another one: it seems that “set actor selection state”, from the Editor Scripting Plugin, is not added to the undo transaction properly. When I use it to add actors to the selection inside a transaction, then undo the transaction, the selection doesn’t change.
Done! I sent a simple BP Widget. I also found that the bug occurs only if something is already selected before the transaction, if nothing is selected then Ctr-Z works as expected.
Another little one: Class Description (the little text which you can set in Class Settings panel of the BP) is not showing up in the content browser. Check the pics below
I just tried out a test case in 4.24 preview and was unable to reproduce it. If you are still seeing it in 4.24 preview (in a copy of your project), can you report a bug using the bug tracker? Thanks!
Hello all! I’m dealing with an issue and I’m not sure if this is a bug or I’m doing something wrong:
With an editor utility widgets I’m trying to create children of a certain blueprint class, let’s name it as MyAssetBP, so I’m duplicating a child of that class (because I’m not being able to create assets directly).
Anyway, my new children have been created corretly but I’m trying to set the static mesh defined on MyAssetBP with a certain mesh and to do that I have to cast the resulting child (Object Reference) to MyAssetBP. This Cast should success as long as my duplicated Object inherit from MyAssetBP, but the cast is resulting failed.
Any clue? If it is not clear, let me know and I’ll try to explain it better.
Hi folks! The two above posts are more generally about editor scripting, so it would probably be best to start threads just for them. This thread is more for how the widgets work. Thanks!
