How are you supposed to find information regarding functions, classes, etc in the documentation?

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I’ve been trying to switch from Unity to Unreal and honestly I’m at my wits end with the documentation.

For example, right now I want to find in the API information regarding DrawDebugSphere() for the needed include. How do you look for it? The search bar in the documentation has no results for DrawDebugSphere(), filters do nothing and even trying to look for it on google returns only information on the blueprint function, not C++.

I even tried the API reference (Unreal Engine C++ API Reference | Unreal Engine 5.4 Documentation | Epic Developer Community), and it appears to be incomplete.

In your normal workflow if you need to use or look for a function or class, how do you do it?

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Hello and welcome Cluzore,

While it certainly would be nice if we just had doco pages telling us what headers are needed, we do have access to the something far better than documentation: the actual code.

This is how I find headers now, search the source for the declaration.

If you are not so comfortable with C++, then this may be a legitimate use case for GPT, one of few :wink:

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