Hi, I just checked out unreal tournament editor and it seems to be just a limited unreal engine 4 editor, is there any way for us developers to create limited a editor like this and release it to the public?
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As far as I know UT does not use a different editor at all. At least the last time I checked I just opened the project in the regular UE4 editor. (Haven’t check it out lately)
Considering the fact that getting access to the editor is now free there is nothing stopping you from allowing your players to also use the UE4 editor.
Yeah I just saw that, I guess I can just ship my project files and editor as a steam tool?
There are several other threads about this. You can modify the editor code to make a ‘custom’ editor for modding for your game. But that can not be distributed with your game. Those who use it must register with UE4 as the license agreement does not allow you to ‘give away’ the editor to those that are not. And distribution needs to be through the marketplace or a private github branch so only registered UE4 people can get it.
Content files definitely, though I’m not sure if you can distribute the editor that way. You were not allowed to do that before the removal of the subscription and Epic might still want your modders to register with them even if it’s free.
You can’t distribute it outright at all, but you can put your modified source or even releases on your Unreal-accounts-only Github. They mentioned something about being able to distribute modding tools in the Marketplace, but that doesn’t seem to be fleshed out yet.
The main thing is that you need to ensure that anyone getting your version of the UE4 editor has an account.
I guess the way to do this is just by forking the engine on github right?
Yes indeed.
To make it easier on people who aren’t familiar with compiling, you’ll probably want to make a binary version and uploaded it to your forked repo as a release. At least, until the facility for putting modding tools on the Marketplace exists.