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

[Zainab Al-Ansari]

https://github.com/BlueVoidStudios/EdUtilExamples

Thank you!

[Amanda.Schade]

Apologies for the delay folks! - Here's the thread for your feedback on the Editor Utility Widgets!

[Mhousse1247]

Can we have the link to Nick's example project please

https://github.com/BlueVoidStudios/EdUtilExamples

[BrUnO XaVIeR]

This system should've been a priority since 4 years ago... Now many of us already learned how to use Slate for that, time investment that could've been put somewhere else

[Zainab Al-Ansari]

Can we have the link to Nick's example project please

[ConverseFox]

I'm thinking about starting a thread , so I deleted it , but if you have any suggestions you can drop them here !

I was just going to suggest the Procedural Mesh Component's "Create Static Mesh" function be exposed to blueprints so we can convert procedural meshes to static meshes with editor scripting.

[Mhousse1247]

Where's the forum post that was talked about to give feedback and suggestions for the Editor Utility Widgets and editor scripting stuff?

I'm thinking about starting a thread , so I deleted it , but if you have any suggestions you can drop them here !

[ConverseFox]

Where's the forum post that was talked about to give feedback and suggestions for the Editor Utility Widgets and editor scripting stuff?

[Maverick_tango]

Can't wait for this one to attend

[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.

[WAR DEAALER]

please take care of me in the future. thanks

[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

[Praxinos_Fabrice]

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

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

[jp77]

Really looking forward to this.

[Slash3rRr]

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