#lockdown Nick.Penwarden
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MAJOR FEATURES + CHANGES
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Change 2716841 on 2015/10/05 by Mike.Beach
(WIP) Cleaning up how we setup script assets for replacement on cook (aligning more with the Blueprint conversion tool).
#codereview Maciej.Mroz
Change 2719089 on 2015/10/07 by Maciej.Mroz
ToValidCPPIdentifierChars handles propertly '?' char.
#codereview Dan.Oconnor
Change 2719361 on 2015/10/07 by Maciej.Mroz
Generated native code for AnimBPGC - some preliminary changes.
Refactor: UAnimBlueprintGeneratedClass is not accessed directly in runtime. It is accessed via UAnimClassInterface interface.
Properties USkeletalMeshComponent::AnimBlueprintGeneratedClass and UInterpTrackFloatAnimBPParam::AnimBlueprintClass were changed into "TSubclassOf<UAnimInstance> AnimClass"
The UDynamicClass also can deliver the IAnimClassInterface interface. See UAnimClassData, IAnimClassInterface::GetFromClass and UDynamicClass::AnimClassImplementation.
#codereview Lina.Halper, Thomas.Sarkanen
Change 2719383 on 2015/10/07 by Maciej.Mroz
Debug-only code removed
Change 2720528 on 2015/10/07 by Dan.Oconnor
Fix for determinsitc cooking of async tasks and load asset nodes
#codereview Mike.Beach, Maciej.Mroz
Change 2721273 on 2015/10/08 by Maciej.Mroz
Blueprint Compiler Cpp Backend
- Anim Blueprints can be converted
- Various fixes/improvements
Change 2721310 on 2015/10/08 by Maciej.Mroz
refactor (cl#2719361) - no "auto" keyword
Change 2721727 on 2015/10/08 by Mike.Beach
(WIP) Setup the cook commandlet so it handles converted assets, replacing them with generated classes.
- Refactored the conversion manifest (using a map over an array)
- Centralized destination paths into a helper struct (for the manifest)
- Generating an Editor module that automatically hooks into the cook process when enabled
- Loading and applying native replacments for the cook
Change 2723276 on 2015/10/09 by Michael.Schoell
Blueprints duplicated for PIE will no longer register as dependencies to other Blueprint.
#jira UE-16695 - Editor freezes then crashes while attempting to save during PIE
#jira UE-21614 - [CrashReport] Crash while saving during PIE - FKismetEditorUtilities::CompileBlueprint() kismet2.cpp:736
Change 2724345 on 2015/10/11 by Ben.Cosh
Blueprint profiler at first pass, this includes the ability to instrument specific blueprints with realtime editor stat display.
#UEBP-21 - Profiling data capture and storage
#UEBP-13 - Performance capture landing page
#Branch UE4
#Proj BlueprintProfiler, BlueprintGraph, EditorStyle, Kismet, UnrealEd, CoreUObject, Engine
Change 2724613 on 2015/10/12 by Ben.Cosh
Incremental update for blueprint profiler to fix the way some of the reported stats cascade through events and branches and additionally some missed bits of code are refactored/removed.
#Branch UE4
#Proj BlueprintProfiler
#info Whilst looking into this I spotted the reason why the stats seem so erratic, There appears to be an issue with FText's use of EXPERIMENTAL_TEXT_FAST_DECIMAL_FORMAT which I have reported, but ideally disable this locally until a fix is integrated.
Change 2724723 on 2015/10/12 by Maciej.Mroz
Constructor of a dynamic class creates CDO.
#codereview Robert.Manuszewski
Change 2725108 on 2015/10/12 by Mike.Beach
[UE-21891] Minor fix to the array shuffle() function; now processes the last entry like all the others.
Change 2726358 on 2015/10/13 by Maciej.Mroz
UDataTable is properly saved even if its RowStruct is null.
https://udn.unrealengine.com/questions/264064/crash-using-hotreload-in-custom-datatable-cdo-clas.html
Change 2727395 on 2015/10/13 by Mike.Beach
(WIP) Second pass on the Blueprint conversion pipeline; setting it up for more optimal (speedier) performance.
* Using stubs for replacements (rather than loading dynamic replacement).
* Giving the cook commandlet more control (so a conversion could be ran directly).
* Now logging replacements by old object path (to account for UPackage replacement queries).
* Fix for [UE-21947], unshelved from CL 2724944 (by Maciej.Mroz).
#codereview Maciej.Mroz
Change 2727484 on 2015/10/13 by Mike.Beach
[UE-22008] Fixing up comment/tooltip typo for UActorComponent::bAutoActivate.
Change 2727527 on 2015/10/13 by Mike.Beach
Downgrading an inactionable EdGraph warning, while adding more info so we could possibly determine what's happening.
Change 2727702 on 2015/10/13 by Dan.Oconnor
Fix for crash in UDelegateProperty::GetCPPType when called on a function with no OwnerClass (events)
Change 2727968 on 2015/10/14 by Maciej.Mroz
Since ConstructorHelpers::FClassFinder is usually static, the loaded class should be in root set, to prevent the pointer stored in ConstructorHelpers::FClassFinder from being obsolete.
FindOrLoadClass behaves now like FindOrLoadObject.
#codereview Robert.Manuszewski, Nick.Whiting
Change 2728139 on 2015/10/14 by Phillip.Kavan
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Change 2717513 on 2015/10/06 by Robert.Manuszewski@Robert_Manuszewski_EGUK_M1
GC and WeakObjectPtr performance optimizations.
- Moved some of the EObjectFlags to EInternalObjectFlags and merged them with FUObjectArray
- Moved WeakObjectPtr serial numbersto FUObjectArray
- Added pre-allocated UObject array
Change 2716517 on 2015/10/05 by Robert.Manuszewski@Robert_Manuszewski_EGUK_M1
Make SavePackage thread safe UObject-wise so that StaticFindObject etc can't run in parallel when packages are being saved.
Change 2721142 on 2015/10/08 by Mikolaj.Sieluzycki@Dev-Core_D0920
UHT will now use makefiles to speed up iterative runs.
Change 2726320 on 2015/10/13 by Jaroslaw.Palczynski@jaroslaw.palczynski_D1732_2963
Hot-reload performance optimizations:
1. Got rid of redundant touched BPs optimization (which was necessary before major HR fixes submitted earlier).
2. Parallelized search for old CDOs referencers.
Change 2759032 on 2015/11/09 by Graeme.Thornton@GThornton_DesktopMaster
Dependency preloading improvements
- Asset registry dependencies now resolve asset redirectors
- Rearrange runtime loading to put dependency preloads within BeginLoad/EndLoad for the source package
Change 2754342 on 2015/11/04 by Robert.Manuszewski@Robert_Manuszewski_Stream1
Allow UnfocusedVolumeMultiplier to be set programmatically
Change 2764008 on 2015/11/12 by Robert.Manuszewski@Robert_Manuszewski_Stream1
When cooking, don't add imports that are outers of objects excluded from the current cook target.
Change 2755562 on 2015/11/05 by Steve.Robb@Dev-Core
Inline storage for TFunction.
Fix for delegate inline storage on Win64.
Some build fixes.
Visualizer fixes for new TFunction format.
Change 2735084 on 2015/10/20 by Jaroslaw.Surowiec@Stream.1.JarekSurowiec
CrashReporter Web - Search by Platform
Added initial support for streams (GetBranchesAsListItems, CopyToJira)
Change 2762387 on 2015/11/11 by Steve.Robb@Dev-Core
Unnecessary allocation removed when loading empty files in FFileHelper::LoadFileToString.
Change 2762632 on 2015/11/11 by Steve.Robb@Dev-Core
Some TSet function optimisations:
Avoiding unnecessary hashing of function arguments if the container is empty (rather than the hash being empty, which is not necessarily equivalent).
Taking local copies of HashSize during iterations.
Change 2762936 on 2015/11/11 by Steve.Robb@Dev-Core
BulkData zero byte allocations are now handled by an RAII object which owns the memory.
Change 2765758 on 2015/11/13 by Steve.Robb@Dev-Core
FName::operator== and != optimised to be a single comparison.
Change 2757195 on 2015/11/06 by Jaroslaw.Surowiec@Stream.1.JarekSurowiec
PR #1305: Improvements in CrashReporter for Symbol Server usage (Contributed by bozaro)
Change 2760778 on 2015/11/10 by Jaroslaw.Surowiec@Stream.1.JarekSurowiec
PR #1725: Fixed typos in ProfilerCommon.h; Added comments (Contributed by BGR360)
Also fixed starting condition.
Change 2739804 on 2015/10/23 by Robert.Manuszewski@Robert_Manuszewski_Stream1
PR #1470: [UObjectGlobals] Do not overwrite instanced subobjects with ones from CDO (Contributed by slonopotamus)
Change 2744733 on 2015/10/28 by Steve.Robb@Dev-Core
PR #1540 - Specifying a different Saved folder at launch through a command line parameter
Integrated and optimized.
#lockdown Nick.Penwarden
[CL 2772222 by Robert Manuszewski in Main branch]
UEB-261 - Ensure that compiling AutomationTool in VS will compile all other Automation Projects
* Just set AutomationTool as your startup project and pass the command to execute.
* VS will build the script modules at build time, instead of every time at runtime.
* To make this happen, "UBT.exe -ProjectFiles" now generates a companion AutomationTool.csproj.References that make AutomationTool depend on all Automation modules.
* AutomationTool.exe defaults to not building script modules at runtime. Pass -compile if you want to dynamically build them.
* Without the .references file, AutomationTool will only build itself and you will need to pass -compile.
* RunUAT.bat still works that same, defaulting to runtime compilation and supporting -nocompile flag. It then passes -compile (or nothing) to AutomationTool.
Other
* All Automation projects target .Net 4.5. Some already were and had hard dependencies on them (Rocket and SyncGithub -> Octokit). Now that AutomationTool directly depends on them, everything had to use .Net 4.5.
* Decoupled logic for -NoCompile and -NoCompileEditor. The flags are still confusing, but -NoCompile is no longer linked to -NoCompileEditor.
* Had to leave in stub support in UAT for -NoCompile else RunUAT.bat passes it along and UAT complains that it doesn't understand it.
* Added a CommandUtils.Run option to support run command, but still output the run duration.
* Reduced the verbosity when UAT.proj is run from dozens of lines per module to a single Module -> Output line. It was looking like there were problems, but it was just msbuild spew.
#codereview:ben.marsh
[CL 2615060 by Wes Hunt in Main branch]
Not compatible with users who have no source, but may have visual studio installed.
#CodeReview Mikolaj.Sieluzycki
[CL 2565055 by Terence Burns in Main branch]
- Rocket doesn't bundle Linux libs, making code-based projects (and projects with third-party plugins) fail during compilation.
- Updated messaging to reflect this.
- Also added a SDK check for Linux and a 'getting' started UDN page.
- Updated Linux README for 4.8.
#codereview Peter.Sauerbrei, Ben.Marsh, Jeff.Wilson
[CL 2543338 by Dmitry Rekman in Main branch]
Newly installed versions of the engine will now attempt to copy the project-agnostic config settings from a previous engine installation. This happens by way of a versioned manifest that copies old versions when the manifest does not exist, or is a different version. This code path is benign for non-installed versions of the engine (or FPaths::ShouldSaveToUserDir() is false).
EditorGameAgnosticSettings and EditorUserSettings ini paths have been renamed to EditorSettings and EditorPerProjectUserSettings respectively to better convey their purpose. In general, most settings should be saved in EditorSettings (project-agnostic) so that they apply regardless of which project is open. We have some way to go migrating existing settings for this to be the case, however.
Some previously per-project configuration files are now project-agnostic (such as Editor.ini, EditorKeyBindings.ini, and EditorLayout.ini)
GEditor->Access...Settings and GEditor->Get...Settings have been removed in favor of direct access of the CDO through GetMutableDefault<> and GetDefault<> respectively. Global config ini filenames that are not set up are now neither loaded nor saved on build machines, to handle the problem of indeterminate state more generically.
This addresses UETOOL-270 (Most editor preferences should be project-agnostic)
[CL 2517558 by Andrew Rodham in Main branch]
