My talk from the Unreal Engine Toronto User Group meetup on May 22, 2018

1. UE4 Tips And Tricks

2. Agenda
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3. About Me
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8. About Me
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9. UE4 Tips And Tricks
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10. Blueprints

12. Blueprints From Hell

15. Stat commands and command line flags

16. Stat commands and command line flags
● stat UObjects - show all running UObjects
● stat none - clear all stat overlays
● -forceenablecrashtracker - capture last 20 seconds of editor activity in video
file. Seems to be disabled in latest version of UE4

17. Session Frontend

18. Session Frontend
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22. Slate and UMG

23. Slate Verbose Stats
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○ #define WITH_VERY_VERBOSE_SLATE_STATS 1
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● stat group enable slateverbose
● stat group enable slateveryverbose
● stat dumpave -root=stat_slate -num=120 -ms=0

26. Profiling
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27. Texture Usage
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29. Memory

30. Memory
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memreport -full

31. Load Times

32. Load time file
● -LoadTimeFile - command line
flag
● stat group enable
LinkerLoad
● stat group enable
AsyncLoad
● stat stopfile

33. Load time report
● LoadTimes.DumpReport
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34. Object References

36. Object References
● obj refs name=<object name> shortest
● obj refs class=<class name> shortest
● Use “shortest” or this could take a long time
● GetAllActorsOfClass example of hard
reference

37. Experimental Features

38. Experimental Features
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39. External Tools

40. Intel Graphics Frame Analyzer
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42. Where to get info?
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43. Thanks!
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