More works for programming tools

General Feedback & Requests
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As I mentioned, I’m re-visiting this thread with more ideas & feedback around programming with UE5.

  1. Built-in HTTP Support on Blueprints.
    We have plug-ins, I know, but one thing that I faced in the past is: one plug-in was doing HTTP in a particular way. Then, its maintainer stopped maintaining it and I had to migrate - and with that, all the code I produced around that old plug-in got automatically deprecated. Please, Epic, help. Besides, we are living a connected age. Even for leaderboards or something, most of the games today have some sort of networking - and HTTP is a core.

  2. A built-in Loading Screen manager.
    It doesn’t matter the industry: architecture, movies or games - most of production applications require a loading screen and it makes me shocked knowing that UE is so poor when it comes to managing loading screens. Really, it seems to me a must-have functionality, specially at an engine with this scale. We have plug-ins sorting this out, and I know it’s impossible for you, Epic, to create and maintain everything all these plug-ins do, but please, note that the points I’m raising are not specific, niche scenarios.

  3. UMG.
    I’m a full-time front-end developer working with web technologies to build UIs. I’m confident to say how mature these tools are to build the web we know. UMG is your solution when it comes to UI, but it’s waaaaay behind web technologies. I mean, way behind. And that’s expected - it’s pretty complicated for a single company with several divisions and focus to create something that would compete with, well, the entire web. So, why not leave this duty behind? What I’m encouraging here is to, perhaps, flirt more with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. In a project I’m working on, I’m using CEF to render a React app to use as a UI, but not having a built-in integration makes everything more complicated, and I have no one to ask about. Besides, have you ever imagined a world where people wouldn’t create threads on ‘how do I create a rounded button?’? Yeah, that would be heaven, lol.

Anyways, these are the top three in my mind recently.

If you ever read this, I anticipate my personal gratitude.

Gui.

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