Engine Features Preview 4/29/2015

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@BSieprawski;281822

New: Customizable Editor and Project Settings

There is now a system for C++ programmers to expose customized settings for their game or engine feature to the Editor Preferences or Project Settings UI.

Simply create a class that extends from UDeveloperSettings. Your class’s DisplayName will control the section text for the settings, and anything you write in the comment for the settings class is the tooltip for the section. Here’s an example of exposing an “Audio” settings category to the Editor Preferences.

// Audio settings
UCLASS( config=Engine, DefaultConfig, meta=(DisplayName="Audio") )
class UAudioSettings : public UDeveloperSettings
{ 
   ... 
};

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This also works for games too! Say you are on a game team and want to make some config settings that show up in the editor. Just use the “Game” config type, like this:

// Game related settings
UCLASS( config=Game, DefaultConfig )
class UGameGlobals : public UDeveloperSettings
{
   ...
};

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If you don’t specify either “Engine” (for Engine Preferences) or “Game” (Game Preferences), your custom settings will be visible in the Project Settings by default.

Thank you Epic!

Woohoo!

More power for the C++ Programmers to then be able to Empower the whole Team!

Rama