Hey I am a decent coder and have been very excited to learn UE but I am a bit shocked at for example how recently, as if with 5.4, a LOT of the doc reference links are borken.
I’m having a very hard time simply finding some reference materials on the classes, methods, properties, features, etc, that I’m trying to look up.
Does anyone have a good response to this other than using 3rd party tutorials? How does Epic expect people to learn their tool if the reference docs are so difficult?
What can I do better here? I just want a ref manual…
As far as I know, UnrealEngine Blueprint and C++ references are scarce to begin with, so most of what you are looking for is nowhere to be found.
If you can’t find documentation, check the source code directly instead.
Here are the steps I would take to find out.
do a site search on the Epicgames site and enter the following in the URL.
“{SearchWord} site:https://dev.epicgames.com/”
*The search window in the documentation page is a dummy. Ignore it!
You will probably find the relevant page, but the content may be empty.
search Google for third-party information.
check the source code of the implementation part of the information you are looking for.
actually use it and see how it works.
I too have had a hard time finding information, but after I realized that the magnifying glass symbol was not doing any work, it became much easier.