Refactoring in UE4Īccess refactoring tools using the keyboard shortcut Alt + Shift + Q, or by hovering over a symbol and clicking the tomato icon that appears. Base class comments often contain useful documentation. Hover over a virtual method to see comments from base classes. Try cloning your results to save them by clicking the Clone Results button or using the right-click menu. Visual Assist’s find references is fast and accurate inside huge solutions like UE4. Use Alt + M to search for and navigate to methods inside the current file.įind references to a symbol using Alt + Shift + F. Source files in UE4 can be thousands of lines long. The Alt + Shift + G shortcut works on many types of symbols, try using it on a virtual method. Understand and navigate the inheritance hierarchies of UE4 by using Alt + Shift + G on a class name. Precede a search filter with a hyphen to exclude symbols (negative filtering).
Search for and open files using Alt + Shift + O. The version in Visual Assist includes the functionality of the built-in one.Īfter making the changes, Visual Studio is ready to use. Then, open the options dialog to Visual Studio and eliminate the redundant navigation bar. Visual Assist can even modernize your code for you! We will show how later.
Enable Code Inspections to see blue underlines where code might be improved. Visual Assist can analyze your code and suggest improvements. This is very helpful in UE4, as base class comments are the documentation. Visual Assist can add important information to tooltips when hovering over a symbol, such as comments from base classes. If you highlight the current line, choose a thin frame that doesn’t obscure your code. If you like meaningful syntax coloring, open the options dialog for Visual Assist and apply coloring to more of the UI. You will use the menu primarily to open tool windows, review keyboard shortcuts, and access the options dialog.Īppreciate the understated UI to Visual Assist. Visual Assist will come alive after it finishes parsing. Select the IDE(s) you want to install to.Thanks to our resident UE4 wizards for putting this together. Whether you’re new to Visual Assist and UE4 or a seasoned vet, we thought you might appreciate a little more insight into what you can expect and how to get started.
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