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A while back I wrote UnrealSuite - powershell (v. 7) script to help me build all things #ue5 Sharing it here in case someone finds it useful. Can't swear by all of the presets/options, it was intended for personal use, so let me know and I'll help/fix it pwsh 7: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powers...

Also, you can use `ushell` for the most usecases (comes with the Engine source), my script does a few more things, like calling editor commandlets, as well as has a few pressets, as well as does exactly what you tell ask it to and nothing more unlike ushell at times, but ushell is also awesome!

Well, it was far from easy, but now I can connect to #unreal session from a rust application over UDP! Had to make a cmd prompt that lets me e.g. paste a base64 packet from Wireshark to simulate traffic with data hijacked from Unreal <-> SessionFrontend communication to figure out the protocol

#unreal #uetips If you haven't yet heard of the `-Log -NewConsole`, it's one of my favorite UE5 additions. You can filter, exec commands, even had a convenience `Log CHECKPOINT#` button. But the awesome thing is, it doesn't hang with the game/engine, and if you close it, your instance also closes

So if you hang your editor/game instance, you can still check the log in most cases, and if you want to kill it, it's faster to close the NewConsole and kill the process immediately (yep, it's also more responsive, this 'immediately') than to open the Task Manager and wait for it to shut down

If you're using #rider with #unreal, I strongly recommend installing the EzArgs plugin. It will allow you to effortlessly run the editor or game with console arguments. Also keeps a history! I regularly use it to run with the `-Log -NewConsole` which is on its own super useful #uetips

#unreal is sending its logs through UDP and you can connect to it with Session Frontend. I've been highjacking this communication lately for pure fun/learning and to later get those logs with a custom tool. It's hard to describe the satisfaction I felt when the data I decoded today made sense 😅

Fun fact: for UDP Messaging the engine is reversing the bytes of all values larger than a byte (not endianness though). I think this also happens for serialization. Curious why this might be. I'm not much of an expert in serializing/transport. Would be happy to learn if someone knows the reason.

#unreal is sending its logs through UDP and you can connect to it with Session Frontend. I've been highjacking this communication lately for pure fun/learning and to later get those logs with a custom tool. It's hard to describe the satisfaction I felt when the data I decoded today made sense 😅

Fun fact: for UDP Messaging the engine is reversing the bytes of all values larger than a byte (not endianness though). I think this also happens for serialization. Curious why this might be. I'm not much of an expert in serializing/transport. Would be happy to learn if someone knows the reason.

#unreal is sending its logs through UDP and you can connect to it with Session Frontend. I've been highjacking this communication lately for pure fun/learning and to later get those logs with a custom tool. It's hard to describe the satisfaction I felt when the data I decoded today made sense 😅

If you haven't seen this one yet, here's a good one about config files and the hierarchy: dev.epicgames.com/documentatio... Notable mentions: - you can have global configs in youd documents (applied right before the project's configs) - you can use cli args to swap config files or even the folder

A commit a day keeps stagnation away It's been exactly 10 weeks since I started to commit to my private repo daily. Fruitful 10 weeks of learning something new on a daily basis I've never been so consistent in my life