Jun 21 2018 Epic Ray Engine

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I just cre­at­ed a new repos­i­to­ry for Epic Ray on GitHub!

Code ist best kept in some open source git repos­i­to­ry, for oth­er peo­ple to be able to look at …

May 28 2018 UE4 Coding: Speeding up Compilation

There was one thing that al­ways frus­trat­ed me alot in the be­gin­ning of de­vel­op­ment with Un­re­al En­gine 4: It was the com­pile times, es­pe­cial­ly those for it­er­at­ing on your game. But it turns out that, if you stick to a cou­ple of key prin­ci­ples, they are man­age­able af­ter all.

Mar 02 2018 UE4 Code: Fixing Hot Reload of AutomationTests

Is­sue UE-25350 “Hot reload does not com­pile changes to au­to­ma­tion tests”, opened through a ques­tion on the an­swer­hub, has been around for quite a while now and may be one of many block­ers keep­ing you from writ­ing unit tests in Un­re­al En­gine. Which you should.

Jan 29 2018 UE4 Coding: Decoupling for Better Code

In the past year of UE4 de­vel­op­ment, I had prob­lems fig­ur­ing out how to struc­ture my game code: where to put game log­ic code to keep it read­able/main­tain­able, testable and re­us­able. This blog post sum­ma­rizes what I and my fel­low de­vel­op­ers have learnt as I fi­nal­ly feel con­fi­dent with my un­der­stand­ing.

Nov 01 2016 Blendfile: Get String IDProperty

So, this took me while to fig­ure out, so I want to share it. blend­file.py is a one-file mod­ule in blender/2.7x/ad­dons/io_blend_u­tils/blend/ for read­ing and writ­ing blend files. This can be es­pe­cial­ly use­ful if …