ProductivityPlugin

Some tools and scripts that extend the functionality of UE4

This repo is so unstable and nothing here is guaranteed to work, or to be documented.

What's Included?

UE4 Plugin

1. Static Mesh Actor to Instanced Mesh Collection and vice versa
2. Ability to recieve batch placements of static meshes from any networked app (i.e. Maya)

Plugin Installation

To build this plugin with your copy of UE4, place the repo so that all files are in Engine/Plugins/ProductivityPlugin. You should be able to regenerate your project files and build successfully.

If you aren't going to be building this plugin from source code, download a binary version from the releases page and extract the ProductivityPlugin folder into Engine/Plugins/

After either option above, it is very important that you run the "Setup 3D Package Scripts.bat" file in Engine/Plugins/ProductivityPlugin in either case.

3D Package Scripts

To use Productivity Plugin to its max potential, you will need to install these scripts:

Maya

1. Make sure you ran the "Setup 3D Package Scripts.bat" file as mentioned above.
2. Shove this code into a Maya shelf button. This button, when clicked, will batch place selected objects into UE4.

Max (Must be able to run Python, so 2014+)

1. Make sure you ran the "Setup 3D Package Scripts.bat" file as mentioned above.
2. Copy LoadBatchPlacer.ms to your 3DS Max "Additional Startup Scripts" directory. This can be found by going to Customize->Configure System Paths
3. Use Customize->Customize Interface to assign the "Batch place selected objects in UE4" command under the "Productivity" category to anywhere on your interface or keyboard shortcuts.

Configuration

To configure the Productivity Plugin, in UE4 go to Edit->Project Settings, then scroll down the left and click on Productivity Plugin. Here you can set settings as to enable the background Productivity Plugin server as well as set up Batch Placer settings.