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]
SNodeTitle no longer compares cached node titles to the title the node wants to be to determine a reconstruction, it checks if the schema wants to purge all cached node titles.
#jira UE-8371 - Change Editor language while leaving Blueprint Editor node & pin names in English
[CL 2508681 by Michael Schoell in Main branch]
Rob asked me to back out GENERATED_*_BODY -> GENERATED_BODY change for now until the "_Validate and _Implementation auto-generation" discussion is over.
#codereview Robert.Manuszewski
[CL 2481343 by Jaroslaw Palczynski in Main branch]
The display name, filter string, and tooltips for the property editor (and associated detail customizations) are now stored as FText rather than FString. This allows us to remove SLATE_TEXT_ARGUMENT from the detail customization widgets.
[CL 2372595 by Jamie Dale in Main branch]
Find-in-Blueprints now uses the same search data for both Find-in-all-Blueprints and Find-in-Blueprint. That searchdata is no longer stored in the asset registry, it is stored in the DDC and is managed by a new class. Searching is multithreaded to reduce overhead on the main thread during long searches in large projects.
virtual UEdGraphNode::AddSearchMetaDataInfo which sets base find-in-blueprints metadata and can be overriden with more detailed search data.
#change UEdGraphPin::GetDefaultAsString will return the text value as string if set
Added FBlueprintEditorUtils::GetEntryAndResultNode, moving most of the functionality from FBlueprintGraphActionDetails::SetEntryAndResultNodes to the new function
Added FBlueprintEditorUtils::GetGraphDescription to get graph descriptions from their metadata
Added FBlueprintEditorUtils::GetNodeByGUID to find nodes using their Guid
Blueprints now cache their search metadata on compile, this is a CPU intensive process and can no longer occur every time the Asset Registry queries for the Blueprint's tags
#change Fixed an issue with finding a pin type's icon (UK2Node_Variable::GetVarIconFromPinType) where we would search for a class we already had available.
Added an overridable function to UEdGraphNode to collect Blueprint search metadata.
#change FJsonObjectConverter::UPropertyToJsonValue is now available outside of the .cpp
#change Rewrote how Find-in-Blueprints works both for local and global searches, now uses Json to resolve a variety of format issues and also to make it much more extensible.
#ttp 290376 - K2: Ability to search (find in blueprints) important pin values
#ttp 298599 - ROCKET: TASK: K2: Search results should indicate where the instance is located in the results page (construction script, event graph, custom graph)
#ttp 304819 - Blueprints: Editor: L10N: "Find in Blueprint" needs to work with other languages
#ttp 308572 - UE4: ANIM: K2: Searching doesn't work for anim nodes right now
#ttp 316678 - UE4: BLUEPRINTS: SHADOW: Default values are not searchable
#ttp 318180 - UE4: K2: Cannot search for spawnactor using find in blueprints
#ttp 320141 - UE4: K2: Find in blueprints does not find functions declared in another blueprint (if the function isn't called in that BP)
[CL 2110494 by Michael Schoell in Main branch]
Please note that file comments had no purpose in nearly all cases and just added visual clutter. The two files that had meaningful file comments had their comments moved into the corresponding classes. There are still hundreds of file comments left in other files that will be removed over time.
Also cleaned up some random stuff along the way:
- relative paths to public headers within the same module are no longer necessary (automatically discovered by UBT now)
- header guards are deprecated, use #pragma once instead (all compilers support it now)
- space between multiple template brackets is no longer required (all compilers support >> now)
- NULL to nullptr, OVERRIDE to override
- spelling errors, whitespace, line breaks
[CL 2104067 by Max Preussner in Main branch]
#ttp 334601 - Crash: Live: Setting and Unsetting Use Localized Field Name
#branch UE4
#change Model wasn't disassociating itself with the OnSettingsChanged delegate when it was destroyed... which meant next time the settings were changed the delegate was being called with a stale pointer.
reviewed by Thomas.Sarkanen
[CL 2089501 by Andrew Brown in Main branch]
TTP# 333731 - EDITOR: The editor region doesn't always seem to get set correctly on non-English systems
If you'd previously not set a language in the editor, the "Region & Language" settings would always show you the option for "en_US_POSIX" (and claim that you needed to restart the editor) because the saved culture name ("") didn't match the FInternationalization culture name (eg, "en_GB"), causing it to call GetCulture with an empty string (which seems to cause ICU to return "en_US_POSIX"). It now just uses the current FInternationalization culture name if the saved culture is empty.
Additionally, the editor/game now verifies that it has an available translation for the culture that FInternationalization is using (the one set during startup). If it doesn't (eg, your PC is using "fr_BR") then it will fallback to using generic English ("en") to ensure that the editor/game always has a valid translation to use.
ReviewedBy Saul.Abreu
[CL 2068467 by Jamie Dale in Main branch]
Other Updates:
- The WidgetReflector is now in its own module as well. It will be converted to a plug-in later.
- The Public API of both Slate and SlateCore has largely been reorganized for better discoverabilty. More cleanup work is needed.
- Added a lot of missing API documentation and fixed existing ones. More and better documentation is needed.
- Removed dead code, fixed a couple things I stubled upon, and conformed to coding guidelines (NULL vs nullptr, line breaks, etc.)
Upgrade Notes:
- The Slate Remote Server is currently disabled - will be re-enabled shortly!
- If your module previously had a module dependency to 'Slate', it now also needs a PrivateModuleDependency to 'SlateCore' in its Build.cs file.
- If your module exposes in any of its Public header files types that are now declared in SlateCore, it needs a PublicModuleDependency to 'SlateCore'
- The ToolTip property type on SWidget has changed from SToolTip to IToolTip; change local variables to TSharedPtr<IToolTip> instead of TSharedPtr<SToolTip> where needed
- IToolTip is not a widget. If you need access to the actual widget that represents the tool tip, use IToolTip::AsWidget(); If you need access to the tool tip's content, use IToolTip::GetContentWidget()
Troubleshooting:
- After syncing to this changelist you may have to clean your /Engine/Intermediate/Build/ directory and rebuild your entire project
- If in your project you are getting linker errors for unresolved types that are now declared in SlateCore, you may be missing a dependency to 'SlateCore'
- If in the Engine code you are getting linker errors for unresolved types that are now declared in SlateCore, you may need to rebuild the entire Engine
[CL 2057118 by Max Preussner in Main branch]
Change 1996384 by Andrew Brown:
322252 - EDITOR: Asset picker displays incorrect text when there are no filter results.
Change 1996385 by Andrew Brown:
321858 - CRASH: Assertion failed: (Index >= 0) Function: STransformViewportToolBar::GetLocationGridLabel() STextBlock::CacheDesiredSize()
Change 1996977 by Andrew Brown:
309685 - UE4: Adding an event/renaming an event on an event track in Matinee does not update the MatineeActor node in blueprint
Change 2034873 by Jaroslaw Palczynski:
More robust VS installation detection.
Change 2039693 by Jaroslaw Palczynski:
327268 - RocketGDC: POSTLAUNCH: DEV: Make engine more robust against bad Visual Studio environment variables
Change 1978978 by Jaroslaw Surowiec:
- Removed obsolete AllowEliminatingReferences from the FArchive
Change 2020326 by Maciej Mroz:
pretest BP K2Node: RemovePinsFromOldPins function moved from K2Node to RemovePinsFromOldPins
Change 2017608 by Maciej Mroz:
pretest Some changes in SFortMissionEventSelector caused by FPinTypeTreeInfo
Change 2017463 by Maciej Mroz:
PinTypeSelector can lins unloaded UDStructs
Change 2019979 by Maciej Mroz:
pretest BP: Crash when performing Diff against Depot with blueprints containing Format Text nodes
Change 2024469 by Maciej Mroz:
MemberReference variable added to PinType. It's necessary for delegate's signature.
Change 2024049 by Maciej Mroz:
HasExternalBlueprintDependencies added to UK2Node_DynamicCast
Change 2024586 by Maciej Mroz:
FillSimpleMemberReference fix
Change 2024472 by Maciej Mroz:
workaround for delegates signature in pintype removed.
Change 2023997 by Maciej Mroz:
BP, UDStruc: Class UserDefinedStructEditorData added. It fixes many problems with undo/redo.
Change 2021934 by Maciej Mroz:
typo in a comment
Change 2020355 by Maciej Mroz:
Back out changelist 2020342
Change 2022178 by Maciej Mroz:
CRASH: PRETEST: EDITOR: UDS: Crash when undo then redo new variable in struct that is used by blueprint
Change 2021958 by Maciej Mroz:
CRASH: PRETEST: EDITOR: UDS: Crash using variable of a type of copied struct in blueprint
Change 1986247 by Maciej Mroz:
User Defined Structures: circle dependency fixed. Early version.
Change 1985107 by Maciej Mroz:
UserDefinedStruct cannot have a field of a non-native type
Change 1986278 by Maciej Mroz:
pretest ensureMsgf in Struct::link
Change 1986250 by Maciej Mroz:
User Defined Struct: Non native classes are accepted types od values in structures.
Change 1980955 by Maciej Mroz:
Using AssetPtr and LazyPtr as UFunction parameter (intput or return) is explicitly disallowed.
Change 2041215 by Maciej Mroz:
ttp331249 BLOCKER: PRETEST: UI: Survive the Storm is missing the Mission HUD.
Change 1984316 by Maciej Mroz:
New User Defined Structure. WIP - there are still problems with circular dependencies.
Change 2011616 by Maciej Mroz:
UserDefinedStructures - various problems fixed.
Change 2011609 by Maciej Mroz:
more robust HasExternalBlueprintDependencies implementation
Change 2016697 by Maciej Mroz:
pretest BP: UDStruct - default value propagation in cooked build
Change 2016288 by Maciej Mroz:
pretest BP: UDStruct: Renaming variables wont break links from make/break nodes
Change 1987637 by Maciej Mroz:
CustomStruct icons placeholders
Change 1987422 by Maciej Mroz:
Better tooltips for variables in MyBlueprint
Change 1991387 by Maciej Mroz:
UDStructures fixes:
Change 2029165 by Maciej Mroz:
BP: better comment for incomatible pins
Change 2030016 by Maciej Mroz:
8PRETEST: EDITOR: UDS: Defaults values aren't updated in struct type variables in blueprints
Change 2030017 by Maciej Mroz:
Unused UDStructure code removed (PPF_UseDefaultsForUDStructures)
Change 2028856 by Maciej Mroz:
BP: Pins with PC_Struct type are compatible only with exactly the same structure. (No derived structures are not handled as compatible).
Change 2026701 by Maciej Mroz:
k2: odd error on an add item node within a function (see attached image in details)
Change 2028160 by Maciej Mroz:
PRETEST: EDITOR: UDS: When deleting structures just after creating there is always some references in the memory
Change 2028165 by Maciej Mroz:
BP: BreakHitResult function has proper icon.
Change 2033340 by Maciej Mroz:
ttp330786 PRETEST: EDITOR: UDS: Changes of default values aren't apllied to breeak nodes for text type of variables
Change 2034255 by Maciej Mroz:
EDITOR: UDS: Changes of default values aren't apllied to make nodes for text type of variables ttp#330620
Change 2037682 by Maciej Mroz:
ttp331309 BLOCKER: PRETEST: CRASH: EDITOR: Crash occurs when performing Diff Against Depot on any Blueprint
Change 2033142 by Maciej Mroz:
CreateDelegate Node uses internally FMemberReference. Refactor.
Change 2032329 by Maciej Mroz:
ttp330608 CRASH: PRETEST: EDITOR: UDS: Crash when trying to use struct named 'Color' in blueprint
Change 2032420 by Maciej Mroz:
ttp330620 PRETEST: EDITOR: UDS: Changes of default values aren't apllied to make nodes for text type of variables
Change 2033139 by Maciej Mroz:
Functions generated from CustomEvents can be also identified by GUID
Change 2026631 by Maciej Mroz:
BP. UDStruct: Invalid structs are handled better.
Change 2025344 by Maciej Mroz:
UDStruct enabled by default
Change 2026672 by Maciej Mroz:
EDITOR: BP: Can't easily remove 'pass-by-reference' pins on ReturnNodes
Change 2026411 by Maciej Mroz:
ExposeOnSpawn updated, it supports UDStructs, custom native Structs, and it throws compiler error.
Change 2025342 by Maciej Mroz:
GenerateBlueprintSkeleton moved from BLueprint::Serialize to RegenerateBlueprintClass, because SkeletonClass compilation requires all external dependencies to be loaded and linked.
Change 2025570 by Steve Robb:
Moved dependency processing to its own function.
Change 2033235 by Steve Robb:
String improvements
Change 2035830 by Steve Robb:
Workaround for FriendsAndChat crash in Fortnite.
Change 2035115 by Steve Robb:
UBT build time regression fixes.
Change 2034162 by Steve Robb:
312775: UObject improvement: Ensure that *.generated.inl is included somewhere
Change 2034181 by Steve Robb:
Removal of any references to .generated.inl
Change 2020165 by Steve Robb:
BuildPublicAndPrivateUObjectHeaders factored out into its own function.
Change 2020187 by Steve Robb:
CreateModuleCompileEnvironment function factored out.
Change 2020055 by Steve Robb:
Refactoring of Unity.cs to remove complex and duplicate iteration.
Change 2020083 by Steve Robb:
Another use of dictionary utilities.
Change 2031049 by Steve Robb:
312775: UObject improvement: Ensure that *.generated.inl is included somewhere
Change 2025728 by Steve Robb:
Refactored the application of a shared PCH file to multiple file into a single ApplySharedPCH function.
Change 2020068 by Steve Robb:
A couple of helpful utility functions for populating dictionaries.
Change 2032307 by Steve Robb:
312775: UObject improvement: Ensure that *.generated.inl is included somewhere
[CL 2054495 by Robert Manuszewski in Main branch]
