MultiEdit - Collaborative Level Editing Plugin

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@dimitrov;318595

This is awesome!

A feature suggestion: Identifying modifications’ owner.

It would be nice if it’s possible to show who edited which actors last. So for instance I click on user Piggy34 and all actors in the viewport that have been edited by him last get selected, or turn green etc. (only in my own viewport) This way in a session with multiple people you would be able to:

1. Know the influence of various people.
2. Make sure nobody edited your part of the level after you.
3. Make sure you don’t edit something you shouldn’t.

It would be nice to also filter based on time. So only show modifications made in the past hour, for example. This way you’ll know what’s currently being worked on and by whom (otherwise without this filter - it’s obvious that all the objects would be selected, cause everything was edited at sometime in the past)

This should also extend to feature 2: Lock objects.

This one allow you to show others that you’re working on certain actors and nobody should/can interfere.

Feature 3 - Rollback.

It would be nice to be able to Undo actions on certain actor (a bit far-fetched maybe). Everyone works on different things, so Ctrl+Z has a completely different meaning. It would be great to be able to undo wrong changes that somebody did on one of your actors, for instance. To elaborate further, it does not have to be a full Undo feature (so not saving every single step), but more like “Rollback this actor to my version” or something similar.

Just ideas. Keep up the good work!

P.S. Indeed it feels like full support from Epic on this would be a very good idea.

Hi dimitrov and others,

First I would like to tell you guys and girls that I’ve been silent in this thread for the last few months. I am really sorry about that, my internship takes a lot of time. The good news is that I am done with that next week and I be working on MultiEdit again !!!

You have some really nice suggestions! I also thought about those features, so it is really good to get the discussion going again! I really like your idea about selecting a user and see what he has been doing lately.

Right now I am mainly looking for a networking protocol that makes sure everything is “perfectly” synchronized. And supporting everything in the editor also be really hard, since UE4 is ssssooooo big!

About your comment that it is a good idea to get support from Epic, I may have some news about that in a week as well.

PS. You (and others) can always add me on Skype if you would like to chat!