Level streaming with C++

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I’m so glad freakxnet has asked this question and remained true to C++. For me it’s about being able to allow programmers to do the part that makes sense for them to do, adding level loading with nodes is crazy mad man terrain… Rambo styley. You want to be able to leave the artists to do artsy stuff and level designers to plop things around and get the level working schweeet… and let the programmers do the underlying engine stuff… amirite!

Actually finding that you have to be very careful not to slip into a blueprint coma. now that I have a grip on things, I tend to start with a C++ class and try and aim for properties that the level and artist designers would want to play around with…

Thanks for ddvlost actually helping out there… cool stories all around people.

I have to tell you, at least for me, it seems that the best way to make an ue4 game is simply this:

1. Anything that happens on every tick for lots of objects, make in c++ if you can. Optimizing something that happens every tick gives visible results. The difference between c++ and blueprints is pretty large in execution time. So every object, every tick adds up pretty fast.

2. Everything else use blueprints. It just doesn’t justify your time IMHO to make a level streaming c++ function. It happens once every few minutes. And you simply wont get any optimization out of c++. Time much better spent elsewhere.