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]
Adding Texture LOD settings to Device Profiles
- this will improve how we currently edit and override lod settings on a per device type bases.
- LOD Settings can now be set in the Device Profile Editor
- Any device profiles with no values set for LOD Settings, will use the default objects.
- These can be found in BaseDeviceProfiles.ini in the /Script/Engine.TextureLODSettings section
- Appropriate defaults set for those groups not listed.
-Other fixes
- - Incorrect with_editor check in HTML5 target platform, changed to with_engine
[CL 2481510 by Terence Burns in Main branch]
- removed dummy UClasses (no longer needed)
- removed file header comments (not used)
- removed duplicated function documentation in cpp files
- documentation cleanup, punctuation, spelling etc.
- pragma once include guards (now work on all platforms)
- relative public includes (are auto-discovered by UBT)
- fixed too many/too few line breaks
- deleted empty files
- missing override
- NULL to nullptr
[CL 2305058 by Max Preussner in Main branch]
TTP# 337136 - SETTINGS: Target Platform settings polish
TTP# 337652 - EDITOR: Limit Project supported Android icons down to 1
TTP# 337650 - EDITOR: There is only 1 icon for Apple for Project Supported Platforms
DesktopPlatform now contains a static array of FPlatformInfo. This can be used to query UE4 about its available platforms, even when they're not available as a target platform.
FPlatformInfo contains the information required by the editor (such as a localized display name and icon), as well as whether a platform is a variation ("flavor") of another, and if so, whether the flavor affects the build output (eg, Win32 or Win64), or the cook output (eg, Android_XYZ). This lets the editor build up nested menus for the "Package Project" and "Cook Project" options, rather than just showing everything as a flat list.
ReviewedBy Thomas.Sarkanen, Max.Preussner
[CL 2095796 by Jamie Dale in Main branch]
Add Runtime/Engine/Private as and Engine private include path
Rename Engine/Private/Materials/MaterialInstance.h to MaterialInstanceSupport.h because it was causing ambiguities
Move cpp files from Classes and Public into Private
#codereview steve.robb, Robert.Manuszewski, nick.penwarden
[CL 2078806 by James Golding in Main branch]
