Porting to consoles using blueprints only?

Development Programming & Scripting Blueprint
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Hello there, i have a quick question.

Does anybody knows if this still apply?

“This first console release is provided in source code form, so it’s for teams which include at least one C++ programmer. In a subsequent version, we’ll add support for binary-only development, so artists and designers can deploy their creations to console without ever compiling the code.”

That is from 1 year ago, so hopefully by now, things already changed.

Cheers :smiley:

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Blueprints get converted into a language consoles understand, just as c++ does. It is just a visual representation of code being generated under the hood.

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Hi Droxon,

This note is still mostly correct. Iterating on your content (including Blueprints) shouldn’t require recompiles, but you’ll need the compiler/toolchain installed and have to build from the GitHub source code at least once per engine release in order to deploy to consoles.

Cheers,
Noland

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Blueprint is not generating C++, it’s full virtual machine same as UnrealScript was. In other words it will work anywhere where UE4 is working without even need to recompliation, same as Java

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Thanks a lot for the replies, now it’s clear.

Regards,

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It looks like you read my answer about as closely as I read the initial question. :slight_smile: