I’m new to game development. I’ve gotten remarkably far having AI write the code and trial & error debugging. It can also somewhat walk me through steps to take in the GUI. The problem is these trial and error paths, especially the GUI-based walkthroughs, take up mountains of time comprised mostly of failed attempts and incorrect instructions. I eventually accomplish things but the rate of progress is so slow that it renders this method of development completely impractical for any serious use case.
So, I’ve decided that I’m going to create a RAG resource to provide to the AI with the goal of getting it to provide better instructions and making it better at controlling the engine directly via the API.
I’m now several weeks into this RAG project and I haven’t even completed the document collection phase. Epic provides the BlueprintAPI-HTML and the CppAPI-HTML as tgz files on github, but I’ve been unable to find the python API documentation in downloadable form anywhere. This makes me seriously concerned about what else could be missing from the documentation they have made available for download.
So for the parts of the documentation that are missing from what is available on Github I’ve had to resort to scraping and crawling the website. This has become a major project in and of itself. I feel like the old lady who ate the fly.
If Epic would kindly provide & periodically update a COMPLETE downloadable set of documentation for Unreal Engine it would alleviate months of work for anyone attempting to build out solutions in this space.