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.
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.
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.
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 …