Learning UE from a book detailing older version where are various features in 5.6?

[wildthyme25]

I’m reading Unreal engine projects for non coders by Myron Mortakis and it has various beginner projects in it. I’m only at the start of the book but it looks like the book is based on an older version of UE 5.5.1 it looks like whilst I am playing around in the current 5.6 version.

The book is just going over the UI and settings and currently we’re looking at a settings tab that used to live in the top right corner (that isn’t there for version 5.6) with settings such as world settings, project settings, plugins, snapping settings and importantly engine scalability settings. I can’t find these in 5.6 at all and it seems quite important to be able to adjust the resolution and quality of things like view distance, global illumination and reflections etc so to improve performance or visual quality. Do these settings exist in 5.6? If so where do I find them?

[Astrotronic]

Hello,

That UI just changed recently in 5.6.

You’ll now find the scalability settings under the ‘Gauge’ icon:

Let us know if you have trouble finding any other menus.

[wildthyme25]

Perfect thankyou astrotonic.

Bonus question for anyone:

I typed in stat FPS in the console command prompt at the bottom as was suggested in book intructions and it brings up the framerate in the viewport, fine, but now I would like to get rid of this if possible please any idea how?

[HaydenPrismatic (Hayden Simpson)]

Hi @wildthyme25,

To answer that latter question of yours, you can either type in stat FPS again, or stat none. Both should do the trick.

Thanks,

Hayden