[WIP] Blueprint Assist Plugin

[fpwong]

Would you say your most pressed hotkey is align left and straighten connections?
Is your OCD turning your "this will only take 5 minutes" task into an hour long blueprint artwork?

Well the blueprint assist plugin might just be for you!

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This plugin provides automatic formatting and mouse-free node editing when working with blueprints.

As someone who has been using blueprints for the past 2-3 years, I started creating this plugin with two goals in mind:

1. Save developers hundreds of hours otherwise spent aligning, positioning and straightening blueprint nodes
2. Quality of life keyboard shortcuts which avoid tedious mouse usage (constant disconnecting and reconnecting)

And so the plugin includes these 3 major features:

1. Automatic node formatting: A command to format nodes into nice readable, aligned form. Including a format all symbols command.
2. Mouse-free blueprint controls: Keyboard shortcuts for node navigation, creation and linking
3. Quality of life functionality: Useful commands such as Link Nodes Between Wires, Replace node with, Disconnect execution, and more

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Media (watch with captions):

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Example of mouse-less blueprint creation

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Example of the formatting feature

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Where are the resizing comment boxes?
Some of you might be wondering what happened to the resizing comment boxes feature. Well to get a grasp of the marketplace submission process, I've moved that to a separate plugin called AutoSizeComments and released it for free. Please download it and give some feedback!

[Sertac Ogan]

OMG! This is very cool.

[DanteStormdark]

WOW, i like it and i want it!

[Nicat]

This plugin deserves to be showcased in E3 Pure awesomeness!

[Blue man]

I really like the Antispaghetti feature

[Harcarik]

this is so cool! i need this in my life!
i have few suggestions for you to consider

wire drag to copy - what i mean is detailed here:
https://forums.unrealengine.com/show...-to-the-source

shortcut for toggling context sensitive check in the context menu

[Blue man]

[MENTION=126311]fpwong[/MENTION] For how much are you going to sell it?

[fpwong]

wire drag to copy - what i mean is detailed here:
shortcut for toggling context sensitive check in the context menu

Wire to drag sounds useful! From what I've seen it's not possible to access the dragging functions from a plugin, will have another look though.
But I will have a hotkey which connects selected nodes, achieving a similar affect.

The context menu buttons I have no idea if I can access that, will look into it.

[MENTION=126311]fpwong[/MENTION] For how much are you going to sell it?

Currently thinking either $15 or $20. Also might look into getting a dev grant and putting it into the engine. This way I could also add other features which aren't possible in a plugin

[ronm6667]

As soon as I saw this, I thought it would make sense to try to get it into the engine. Glad to see your dev grant app for that. Hope they take notice. /luck.

[Tbjbu1]

Oh man you are gonna be a millionaire.

[overreal]

I want this now! When?!

[Travistyse]

You're the anti-spaghetti lord. May dev grant funds rain upon you.

[Froggler]

Wow this looks incredible!!! Can't wait for this to be available

[Yun-Kun]

00:06 into the video, you can already count me in.

And even more since it's already the same ordering way I use (pure nodes below functions).

[CryShader]