Unreal Engine 4

I have been using Unreal Engine 4 for a few years now, working as a UI programmer and designer. I've summarized what I've learned here for you. 🌱

UI/UX

Introduction Series

1. An Introduction to Making UIs in Unreal
2. Making UIs in Unreal with C++: Basics
   1. Creating C++-based UserWidgets
   2. Creating New UMG Widgets
   3. Creating New Slate Widgets

Programming

• Connecting C++ to UMG Blueprints with BindWidget
• Updating UserWidgets in the Editor with SynchronizeProperties

Text & Localization

• Pluralizing Item Names
• UI and Localization
• Localized Strings Using Stringtable with C++
• Using curly braces in FormatText

Textures & Materials

• Using Materials in UIs
• Using the RetainerBox Widget
• Texture Sizes for UI

Animation

• Animation in UMG
• UMG Tweening library in C++
• Controlling UMG Animations from C++

Misc

• Fix Tick Not Being Called on Widgets

General Topics

• Data-driven design
• Things I wish I knew coming to Unreal from Unity
• FRunnable Threads
• Asynchronous Loading with TAssetPtr<T>
• Lambdas with TFunctionRef<T>
• Return Arrays of the Correct Subclass Type in Blueprints
• UPROPERTY: EditCondition and CanEditChange