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   Jacek Wesołowski (jzillw@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 17:00:34 JST Jacek Wesołowski

   I'm building a custom editor in Unreal, and the barrier to entry is quite high. I've already added ten new C++ classes, only to make a rectangle with a name on it appear in a generic graph editor. I can move the rectangle around, but that broke my serialization until I realized I needed not one but two different classes to represent just one (type of) node.

   Once I get past the learning curve, it's going to be a fairly powerful tool, but there's a long way to go before it works at all.

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     Jacek Wesołowski (jzillw@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 17:04:51 JST Jacek Wesołowski

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     This is an interesting contrast to Unity, which only has a very basic editor, but at the same time when I built a custom one, I only needed two classes for the whole thing. It was a lot of manual work (literally drawing stuff on a canvas), but it was conceptually simple.

     Unreal is not conceptually simple, and I still need to manually piece together a custom node.

     In practice, my past Unity projects usually had some kind of custom editor in them, while Unreal projects usually didn't.