linecode/trickyautomation

A tiny plugin for automation of some routine tasks in UE4 such as renaming and deleting unused assets, renaming and selecting specific actors in a level

TrickyAutomation

A tiny plugin for automation of some routine tasks in UE4.

Installation

1. Create Plugins folder in your project directory;

2. Download and unzip archive in this folder. You should get such a path to a plugin Plugins/TrickyAutomation;

3. Alternatively you can clone this repository into the pluging directory;

How to open editor widgets

1. Find EUW_AssetOrganizer and EUW_WorldOrganizer in the plugin directory in the content browser;

2. Press Right Mouse Button on them;

3. Choose Run Utility Widget option;

How to use

EUW_AssetOrganizer is for working with assets in content browser.

EUW_WorldOrganizer is for working with actors placed in the opened level.

Asset Organizer

With this widget you can:

1. Rename chosen assets. This action also adds Prefixes to the name automatically;

2. Add prefix to chosen assets;

3. Add suffix to chosen assets;

4. Find and replace given string in the names of chosen assets;

5. Delete or move to a bin folder unused assets;

You can change prefixes and suffixes inside the widget EUW_AO_Rename which you can find in the folder TrickyAutomation/BaseWidgets/AssetOrginizer.

World Organizer

With this widget you can:

1. Rename chose actors;

2. Find and replace given string in the names of chosen or all actors;

3. Move selected assets to a specific folder;

4. Select actors by given string;

5. Select actors by class;