Unreal Engine Livestream - Creating Editor Utility Widgets - April 4 - Live from HQ

[VictorLerp]

WHAT
Editor Utility Widgets arrived with Unreal Engine 4.22, which allow you to modify the layout of the editor user interface, and set up Blueprints just like UMG widgets. Lauren Ridge and Nick Pfisterer will join us in the studio to give us a hands-on demonstration on how to utilize this new powerful tool!

WHEN
Thursday, April 4 @ 2:00PM ET - Countdown

WHERE
Twitch
Youtube
Facebook

WHO
Lauren Ridge - Tools Programmer - @lrridge
Nick Pfisterer - Founder, Unreal Slackers - @heypfist
Amanda Bott - Community Manager - @amandambott

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ARCHIVE

FEEDBACK THREAD
Feedback for Editor Utility Widgets

[pbdarcey]

This look really neat. Can't wait to see it in action...

[Mount Jaime]

Finally Eipc focus on this.

[U N E A S Y]

i'm looking forward to watch this

[Praxinos_Fabrice]

Great to have more details about this new feature !
Will there be a replay available at some point ? Unfortunately, I not in the same timezone as you to watch it live :/

[Amir.P75]

Seems like a great tool. Looking forward to it.

[ScorpyX]

I've been waiting for these features a long time

[wickerman123]

Great to have more details about this new feature !
Will there be a replay available at some point ? Unfortunately, I not in the same timezone as you to watch it live :/

Replay's usually go up within the week on YouTube.

[Slash3rRr]

Thanks for the recurrents streams, it is very usefull , thanks again

[jp77]

Really looking forward to this.

[Praxinos_Fabrice]

Replay's usually go up within the week on YouTube.

Good to know, I'm looking forward to discover that new feature.

[TheHugeManatee]

Quite interesting topic! One question we came across was how to create actual assets (we tried to use blutilities for that) that would be persistent, for example for creating a set of static meshes, or creating a number of blueprints that have specific sets of parameters. Maybe this could be covered in the stream, if it's not too far from the topic?

Praxinos_Fabrice I think the twitch VOD is available right away, and usually Epic uploads a replay to youtube some days after each stream

[WAR DEAALER]

please take care of me in the future. thanks

[Night Watcher]

After watching the livestream I started experimenting with Utility Widgets and I am starting to face a few challenges.

-How can I detect the right mouse button is down? So far only found an event to detect when the mouse clicks the widget, but I need to know if the mouse is pressed anywhere in the viewport.
-I want to convert the mouse position from screen to world, but I can't without a player controller, get player controller returns null since it's in-editor, and get widget owning player also returns null, any workaround?
-Set simulate physics does change the checkbox of simulate physics, but the object does not simulate physics when I hit play, I have to check and uncheck the object manually again for it to work.

Having access to the mouse world location and click, I can start creating a brush and paint items in the scene.

Hope you find this feedback useful, and thanks in advance for the help.

[Maverick_tango]

Can't wait for this one to attend