# important question about unreal 5

**URL:** <https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/important-question-about-unreal-5/143583>\
**Category:** Feedback & Requests\
**Tags:** unreal-engine\
**Created:** [May 14, 2020, 2:05pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/important-question-about-unreal-5/143583 "2020-05-14T14:05:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![DomusLudus](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/domusludus/32/1215140_2.png) [@DomusLudus](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/DomusLudus)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 2:05pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/important-question-about-unreal-5/143583/1 "2020-05-14T14:05:04Z")

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I wonder if the lizard icon will stay?

Thank you

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**Author:** ![Slavq](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Slavq](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Slavq)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 3:35pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/important-question-about-unreal-5/143583/2 "2020-05-14T15:35:34Z")

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Indeed, that’s quite important 🙂 Some interesting info:

> [@Default Blueprint sprite](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/default-blueprint-sprite/5445/2):
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> This icon design dates back to 1995, where it was the default actor icon in Unreal Engine 1. It was created by Dan Cook along with the other original Unreal Editor icons. Why is it a dragon head? Well, that’s another story that goes back to the very early days, where the game Unreal arose from combining James Schmalz’ early 3D prototype work (featuring a dragon flying over 3D terrain, written in hand-coded assembly language) with my work creating the 3D editing tool for the project (which later grew to become the original Unreal Engine). At that point, a dragon was the canonical character representing the game, hence the dragon head icon.
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> For the state of the art as of 1998, see this link [http://tinyurl.com/mjwjuox](http://tinyurl.com/mjwjuox) and this one: [http://tinyurl.com/kkfandd](http://tinyurl.com/kkfandd).
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> The icon was later recreated with a higher resolution, but the original design was preserved.

Source:  
[https://forums.unrealengine.com/comm…ueprint-sprite](https://forums.unrealengine.com/community/general-discussion/7145-default-blueprint-sprite)

… BTW. I always thought that it was a bird (like a stylized eagle head or something).

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**Author:** ![anonymous\_user\_2709d010](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@anonymous\_user\_2709d010](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/anonymous_user_2709d010)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 3:55pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/important-question-about-unreal-5/143583/3 "2020-05-14T15:55:56Z")

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Dammit and I thought it was a Velociraptor.

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**Author:** ![ZkarmaKun](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/zkarmakun/32/1194545_2.png) [@ZkarmaKun](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/ZkarmaKun)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 5:40pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/important-question-about-unreal-5/143583/4 "2020-05-14T17:40:10Z")

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Lol, so much time using UE and now I know, they should renew it a use it as an official pet!

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**Author:** ![Luos](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/luos/32/918700_2.png) [@Luos](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Luos)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 5:56pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/important-question-about-unreal-5/143583/5 "2020-05-14T17:56:10Z")

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This thread makes 2020 slightly better.