Blueprint Command Center

Description

This plugin is a powerful yet easy to use tool for speeding up and improving blueprint development.

Demo Project – The demo is an Unreal Engine project with this plugin and the Arena Shooter Template by Epic Games. It requires Unreal Engine 5.6.

Blueprint Overview

A customizable graph-based window allows you to quickly see and understand how a project is structured.

The Search Synergies With the Overview Allowing You to Visually Identify Search Finds

It enables queries and search visualization that are not possible using the built-in find in blueprints. For searches looking specifically for 1 blueprint node you should use the built-in find in blueprints, for any other kind of search in blueprints consider this tool as it is probably better and faster to use.

Save On Development Time

The combination of full overview, efficient search, and fast navigation allows you to save significant time developing whenever you are working with more than 1 blueprint. Not only will it save you time but it will allow you to keep your project better structured and clean.

Make Your Blueprints More Manageable

Complexity builds up over time and is hidden with current blueprint development practices as it often arises due to interactions between blueprints. This tool uncovers the hidden complexity between blueprints allowing you to develop blueprint code that is more efficient and modular and therefore more manageable.

Understand Game Templates Faster

The tool is also an excellent resource when diving into game templates and other complex blueprint projects for the first time. To understand these projects requires jumping back and forth between dozens or hundreds of blueprints. This tool makes this process much easier by putting much of the information needed to understand the project in one graph. The original idea for this plugin came when trying to understand a well-known game template on FAB that has over 200 blueprints and wanting a much faster way of understanding it.

Screenshots are taken when using the tool in the Lyra Starter Game project by Epic Games.

Demonstration Video

Known Issues and Roadmap

Support Email: [email protected]

Documentation is contained inside the tool in the form of detailed tooltips.

Quick-start Guide

Install plugin to Unreal Engine.
Enable plugin in project and restart editor if necessary.
Open tool from the Tools menu of the Unreal Editor.
Hover over the UI elements in the tool to show detailed tooltips explaining tool features.

Technical Details

Features:

The tool curates many types of information useful when developing with blueprints.

Easy to get started. Suitable for both beginners and advanced users of Unreal Engine.
Highly optimized and able to display a huge graph.
Efficient search functionality. Multiple search results can be displayed simultaneously.
Many customization options for how information is displayed. Each type of information can be toggled visible or hidden.
Numerous preset graph layouts or a custom layout mode allowing nodes to be individually moved.
Search input, display options, and layouts are saved allowing you to continue where you left off when reopening the editor.
Numerous editor preferences for changing tool behavior.
Can load blueprint assets and view loaded status.
Data is cached making subsequent editor sessions require fewer loaded assets and memory.
The tool only reads assets. It does not modify assets or editor behavior. This makes the tool safe to use in any project assuming the project is using Unreal Engine with unmodified engine source code.

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