How powerful is UE4's 2d game egine?

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@The Britain;283980

As a 3D engine, it is insane. I wouldn’t use anything else. As a matter of a fact, even with those problems (minus the get and set frame, the devs patched that up) we STILL use it. Ultimately, the Paper2D is still experimental and it was our choice to tackle that. This being said, yes most of those problems are still present. We got around allot of them by using blueprints, which should speak for how powerful the blueprint system is.

Most 2D games these days are for phones, and needs to be a relatively small size. Right now, Unreal cooks very large. A blank project - without content - will compile to around 50mb last time I checked.

We had to be hacky, but it is workable. Depending on what type of 2D game, it can be allot of work.

We may end up pushing a plugin that addresses most of these problems.

Any chance you can throw a plugin that allows multiple sprite sockets pertaining to what direction your moving… i trying my damnist to get this and finaly got movement working and getting a south facing hat in but doesnt seem to have a great format of allowing the other directions without changing the WHOLE sprite setup

IE naked man where hat and jacket thats
4 sprites for naked player char
4 with hat
4 with hat and jacket
4 with just jacket?

This is alot of changes and ppl say UE4 vs Unity but least they have that part down…
UE4 SIDESCROLLER only and ROTATION based character TopDown??

No Zelda Style Sprite Usage