GAMEPLAY PROGRAMMING

I cover quite a few topics in this video, such as:

• Potential tool settings to drive parameters and display data according to the user's preferences.

• Pros and Cons of Scriptable Tools & Construction Scripts.

• A technical exposition of my tool and the built-in capabilities of Scriptable Tools, including (but not limited to): 

• Getting information about selected actors.

• Saving & restoring property set settings.

• Displaying and clearing tool messages (for diagnostics & tutorialization).

• Using the HUDAPI to draw custom debug text & shapes with respect to a colour mapping.

• On-Click / Hover events, modifiers, and IDRS tracing.

• Gizmo creation & actions such as destruction, visibility, getting gizmo information, and events on gizmo changes.

• Watching property changes & alternatives when properties cannot be watched. 

Bonuses:

• (C++) Getting the camera location in the viewport & basic culling.

• (C++) Manually re-running an actor's construction script.

• (C++) Drawing custom text at editor-time in the viewport.

• Brief examples of call-in-editor functions, both in the tool property set and a construction script. 

• Widgetable vector-related caveats.

• Miscellaneous text formatting. 

• The binary system, bitwise operations, and basic geometric progression.

• Using Polar & Cartesian Co-Ordinates alongside mathematics for uniform point distribution.