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MAJOR FEATURES + CHANGES
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Change 2756103 on 2015/11/05 by Jamie.Dale
Implemented UFont::GetResourceSize to work correctly with the Size Map tool
Change 2756104 on 2015/11/05 by Jamie.Dale
Changed the font used when a font is missing or invalid to be the last resort font, rather than the localized fallback font
The localized fallback font could cause different results based on your culture, and the last resort font makes it clearer that something is set-up incorrectly as it just draws invalid glyph markers for all of the text.
Change 2756105 on 2015/11/05 by Jamie.Dale
Fixed a crash when using an empty FKey property with a Data Table
FKeyStructCustomization was asserting because there were no objects being edited, due to a newly added Data Table containing zero rows.
I've removed this assert, and also updated SKeySelector to no longer require a separate argument to say whether multiple keys with different values are selected (this is now calculated from the call to get the current key, which will return an empty TOptional for multiple values).
#jira UE-22897
Change 2757015 on 2015/11/06 by Joe.Tidmarsh
SSProgressBar marquee tint. Accounts for widget color and opacity.
PR #1698
Change 2757156 on 2015/11/06 by Joe.Tidmarsh
Implemented "Go to Variable" functionality for widgets in Widget Blueprint Editor.
When we switch modes in UMG from Designer to Graph. We select the variable (In "My Blueprint"), if one exists, for the currently selected widget. Additionally we update the details panel.
* Added SelectGraphActionItemByName to FBlueprintEditor. This selects an item in My Blueprint and also displays it in the details panel of graph mode. SMyBlueprint is not available to FWidgetBlueprintEditor in UMGEditor module as it's privately implemented within Kismet.
#rb Ben.Cosh
#jira UE-20170
Change 2757181 on 2015/11/06 by Jamie.Dale
Cleaned up some duplication in UMG text widgets, and exposed the text shaping options
The common properties used by all text widgets that are text layout based have been moved into a UTextLayoutWidget base class, and all text layout based widgets now derive from this.
The options needed to control the text shaping method used by a text based widget have been exposed via the FShapedTextOptions struct. This contains a way to manage these optional (and advanced) overrides. You typically wouldn't change these from the default unless you knew exactly what you were doing (eg, you have a text block containing only numbers).
This change also updates SRichTextBlock to work with an invalidation panel in the same way that STextBlock does
Change 2757734 on 2015/11/06 by David.Nikdel
#UE4 #Editor
- Added support for meta=(TitleProperty="StructPropertyNameHere") on properties of type TArray<FSomeStruct>.
- This changes the editor rolled-up display of these values from "{0} members" to a stringified version of the specified property (if found).
#CodeReview: Matt.Kuhlenschmidt
Change 2758786 on 2015/11/09 by Joe.Tidmarsh
Border widget now correctly synchronizes padding property
#jira UE-23070
Change 2758791 on 2015/11/09 by Joe.Tidmarsh
Shadow of FCanvasTextItem should be drawn before the outline color. Consulted with Bruce.N who believes this is not the intended behavior and was an oversight when refactoring FCanvas (CL 1695138)
#jira UE-21623
#1608
#rb Simon.Tovey, Bruce.Nesbit
Change 2758813 on 2015/11/09 by Joe.Tidmarsh
UMG: Attempting to parent multiple widgets (in Hierarchy tree) to a widget that can't have multiple children will notify the user and ignore the operation.
[UE-22921] [CrashReport] Parenting multiple actors under border crashes editor
#jira UE-22921
Change 2759234 on 2015/11/09 by Nick.Darnell
Slate - Improving the way we track references to materials in slate to better keep things alive until they're no longer needed for rendering. Additionally, making it so the we use the material and texture free list when possible when cleaning up things as to not allocate new memory if not required. Concidentually this can help with problems with corrupted memory on destruct as well, because it means the memory isn't really going to become garbage any more.
#codereview Matt.Kuhlenschmidt, Bob.Tellez
Change 2760954 on 2015/11/10 by Nick.Darnell
Slate - A bug in the introduction of custom rendered elements accidentally broke filling out the texture coordinates for standard material usage. Materials should once again tile correctly just like images do.
#jira UE-23118
Change 2761129 on 2015/11/10 by Nick.Darnell
Slate - Removing the Pre-Multiply alpha path the way it was added, introducing it in a way that doesn't require changes inside the shader. Continuing to improve the SRetainerWidget to no longer have a frame delay between resizes and painting, also working on getting it handle clipping correctly but still not there yet.
Change 2761391 on 2015/11/10 by Alexis.Matte
jira UE-20281 and UE-22259
Fbx scene Re-import workflow
- First draft of the reimport workflow using a reimport asset in the content browser
#codereview nick.darnell
Change 2762323 on 2015/11/11 by Alexis.Matte
fix build compilation
Change 2762407 on 2015/11/11 by Jamie.Dale
UDataTable::SaveStructData now writes out dummy data when RowStruct is null
This didn't used to happen, which would cause a miss-match between what UDataTable::LoadStructData was expecting, and would result in a Data Table that could never be loaded again.
This change also improves the error message when editing a Data Table with a null row struct, and adds the editor-only RowStructName property to cache the name of the last used struct (for error reporting).
#jira UE-22789
Change 2762508 on 2015/11/11 by Nick.Darnell
UMG - Making it more obvious what keys do special stuff with anchors in UMG. Fixing the way snapping to anchors works with Control, it now only zeros out the side you're dragging instead of the entire widget, which was silly. Enhancing the designer message system to no longer be based on an enum and instead let arbitrary systems push and pop FText messages. Fixing animations in the anchor drop down to properly animate, broke when we introduced active timers.
Change 2763241 on 2015/11/11 by Nick.Darnell
Slate - We no longer allow popup windows to be larger than the primary display window for windows where max width/height is unspecified. This is to prevent accidential creation of tooltip windows that are larger than the driver allows causing crashes.
#jira UE-20336
UE-13653 - Able to rename redirectors by clicking on their name in the content browser twice
UE-18082 - Hide the delete button when selecting a code class in the content browser
You can no longer rename classes, redirectors, or collections by clicking on their name in the Content Browser. The delegate handling whether the asset name was read-only hadn't been hooked into the "can rename" logic used by the context menu.
Additionally, you can no longer delete a collection via the asset view, and you no longer see some asset specific context menu options when you only have classes selected.
[CL 2609362 by Jamie Dale in Main branch]
UETOOL-332 - Collections 2.0
UETOOL-369 - Want nested collections with collapsing
We now have version 2 collections which maintain a persistent GUID for each collection. Existing collections will be lazily updated to this version when they need to be re-saved.
This GUID is used by child collections to keep track their parents, and the collections view (as well as the quick asset management) now show a tree of collections. Collections in the main collection view tree can be re-parented via drag and drop.
Performing Content Browser searches against a given collection will also test to see if an object exists in child collections, and the asset view will now show you folder entries for child collections when viewing a parent (if folders are enabled in your Content Browser view settings).
[CL 2593321 by Jamie Dale in Main branch]
UE-14641 - Fix PushMenu() to use QueryPopupMethod()
Pretty big refactor
Adds IMenu as way to identify menus. Replaces referring to menus as SWindows.
Lots of uses of PushMenu() fixed up to match new API
#codereview Nick.Atamas
[CL 2579277 by Chris Wood in Main branch]
support to override max asset length with cvar MaxAssetFullPath
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Integrated using branch UE4-To-UE4-Orion (reversed) of change#2557531 by David.Ratti on 2015/05/19 15:24:29.
[CL 2557534 by David Ratti in Main branch]
#jira UE-15383 - The 'No' action when using the 'Move to Here' Content Browser Folder Option Still Loads Assets
[CL 2549416 by Richard TalbotWatkin 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]
Some dialogs, e.g. from save menu actions, don't need the two options.
#jira UE-10400 - Clicking on Save All brings up same window as when closing the editor
[CL 2463740 by Richard TalbotWatkin in Main branch]
UE-8574 - Sync to content browser does not work for C++ classes
Two issues:
1) The Content Browser wasn't enabling the Engine or Plugin view filters if you synced to a class in those categories - this meant that you couldn't see the synced class as its parent folder was still hidden.
2) FNativeClassHierarchy::GetClassPath was returning a path with a trailing / if the class was in the module root folder - this never matched anything so nothing was synced.
[CL 2423895 by Jamie Dale in Main branch]
Sorted content before classes, and modules in the order game -> engine -> plugins
UE-7184 - Show game c++ classes and engine c++ classes in the content browser
Also renamed "Game C++ Classes" to just "C++ Classes", and "Game Content" to just "Content" based on previous feedback.
[CL 2419539 by Ben Marsh in Main branch]
UE-7184 - Show game c++ classes and engine c++ classes in the content browser
The Content Browser now has extra entries for "Game C++ Classes" and "Engine C++ Classes" (with "Game" and "Engine" being renamed to "Game Content" and "Engine Content" respectively). These new folders serve as hosts for the list of available C++ modules, with each module internally mirroring the folder structure on disk.
For example:
- Game C++ Classes
- ShooterGame
- Classes
- Bots
- ShooterBot
- ShooterAIController
- [...]
- [...]
The Content Browser allows you to navigate and search these classes like you can with assets, and provides convenient access to either edit an existing class, or create a new class (either within a selected folder, or derived from a selected class).
As the Content Browser only shows you known UClass types, any new classes need to be compiled into a loaded module before they will appear. This means that adding a new class will now automatically hot-reload your target module. Should you prefer to handle building and loading your modules manually, you can disable the automatic hot-reload via "Editor Settings" -> "Miscellaneous" -> "Hot Reload" -> "Automatically Hot Reload New Classes" (see UEditorUserSettings::bAutomaticallyHotReloadNewClasses).
[CL 2409386 by Jamie Dale in Main branch]
* Moved Slate.h into SlateBasics.h and began shifting less commonly used headers into SlateExtras.h.
* Slate.h now simply includes SlateBasics.h and SlateExtras.h.
* Slate.h includes a deprecated warning now to indicate that SlateBasics.h + specific includes should be used instead.
* Moved dozens of inlined functions using Slate widgets into .cpp files to avoid header dependencies.
* All code samples now include SlateBasics.h and SlateExtras.h so future shifts will not break most those projects, but not trigger the deprecation warning of including Slate.h.
#BUN
[CL 2329610 by Wes Hunt in Main branch]
#ttp 348063 - Crash moving files in Content Browser
#branch UE4
#proj Developer.AssetTools, Editor.ContentBrowser, Editor.PackagesDialog, Editor.UnrealEd
[CL 2328547 by Richard TalbotWatkin in Main branch]