New in 2020.2.66

Fixed

• Fix https://github.com/JetBrains/UnrealLink/issues/40
• Fix https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/RIDER-47839

See the CHANGELOG for more details and history.

New in 2020.2.62

Fixed

• Fixed: https://github.com/JetBrains/UnrealLink/issues/19

See the CHANGELOG for more details and history.

New in 2020.2.61

Added

• Unreal log filters
  • Verbosity
  • Category
  • Show/hide timestamps

Changed

• Generated files for RD protocol will have ".Generated.h" suffix

Removed

• Packing plugin for ReSharper
  • Not supported yet

Fixed

• Fixed: building RiderLink with Unity build disabled
• Fixed: Wording in "Install RiderLink" popup
• Fixed: Wording in UnrealEngine settings
  • No more auto-install plugin, only auto-update plugin

See the CHANGELOG for more details and history.

Changelist:

• rd-cpp updated to 201.1.85
• fixed stackoverflow crash on exit

Test release to check how GitHub Actions work
Changelist:

• fix loading RiderLink plugin on cooking
• fix crash on closing UnrealEditor in RiderLoggingExtension
• move plugin installation in backend thread - no more freeze of UI when installing RiderLink
• fixed number of problems discovering Unreal Editor installation, should fix a lot of false failing installations of RiderLink
• fix wording in RiderLink settings panel ( auto update and install -> auto update)
• fix UnrealBuildTool removing EnableByDefault: true from RiderLink.uplugin
  • No more modification of {GameName}.uproject file to enable RiderLink

• Add option to install plugin to either Engine or Game
  • Installing to Engine from EGS requires building plugin
  • Old versions of plugins will be backed up
  • New version will be copied to %USER% folder and built
  • Result binaries copyied to Engine or Game
  • Sln will be refreshed
  • In case of errors, all the results will be reverted
• Fix https://github.com/JetBrains/UnrealLink/issues/17 in hacky way
  • Fix will be purged on refactoring of UnrealLog
• Fix looking for Unreal Engine root when Game is placed in the same folder as Engine
• Moved thirdparty dependencies of RD to submodules, fixed build.kts for it
• Fix RiderLink for non-Unity builds

Changelog:

• Installation to Engine instead of game Project
  • https://github.com/JetBrains/UnrealLink/issues/7
  • During installation process, RiderLink will be built and put into correct folder
  • No more gimmicks with "build plugin in Game project, then copy-paste it in Engine project"
• Refactored "RiderLink"
  • Separated "RiderLink" into separate module with different loading steps
  • e.g. For "RiderLink', start as soon as possible, for "RiderLinkGameControlExtension" start after Unreal Editor is fully loaded, etc
  • Fixed all warnings (TEXT macro redefined, obsolete API, etc)
• Add progress bar when installing "RiderLink" plugin
• Hide notification after selecting "Install plugin"
• Lower verbosity of RD protocol logger
  • Less noise in debug console
• Add option to Compile Game Project before starting PIE
  • https://github.com/JetBrains/UnrealLink/issues/9

Bugfixes:

• Fix build on non-unity projects (https://github.com/JetBrains/UnrealLink/issues/10)
• Fix exception during installation of RiderLink https://github.com/JetBrains/UnrealLink/issues/5
• https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/RIDER-44056
• https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/RIDER-44027
• https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/RIDER-43929
• https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/RIDER-43928

• Fixed: https://github.com/JetBrains/UnrealLink/issues/8
• Fixed: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/RIDER-43353
• Fixed: spawn of multiple tabs when sending huge log message from Unreal Editor to Rider

Changelog:

• FilaWatcher initialization moved to separate thread, speed up startup time for plugin on RIder side;
• New icons
• Cleaned up severity of internal logs
  • Were polluting package logs
• Fix: connecting to Unreal Editor when plugin is installed in Engine

Changelog:

• Fix https://github.com/JetBrains/UnrealLink/issues/2
  • Disabled spawning multiple tabs for logs. Only one log tab for Unreal Editor log will be available at all times
• Fix https://github.com/JetBrains/UnrealLink/issues/6
• Fix https://github.com/JetBrains/UnrealLink/issues/5
• Fix https://github.com/JetBrains/UnrealLink/issues/4

• fixed: not finding uproject files on loading solution
• add: action to enable auto-update plugin
• add: bunch of internal logs
• add: notification after plugin installation
• fixed: https://github.com/JetBrains/UnrealLink/issues/1

• Fixed: when adding RiderLink plugin to project, Rider would regenerate sln and It would add Programs folder to solution tree for Rocket builds (UE from EGS)
• Fixed: building plugin on v4.20+
• Use user temp folder instead of the project folder for intermediate file operations

Plugin v 2020.1.1

Description

This plugin enables advanced Unreal Editor integration features for Rider IDE.
Minimum required version of Unreal Engine is 4.20.0.
For older versions, you can download RiderLink.zip version of plugin for Unreal Editor and install it manually to your project.

How to install

• Download UnrealLink-2020.1.1.zip
• Open Rider
• Go to Settings > Plugins > (Cog icon) > Install Plugin from Disk...

Functionality

• Open Blueprints from Rider;
• Show logs of Unreal Editor inside Rider with hyperlinks to Blueprints inside Rider;
• Toolbar buttons to control playback of the game inside Unreal Editor;
  • Play, Pause, Stop, Skip frame;
  • Setup multiplayer: number of players, dedicated server, etc.
• Notification if connection to Unreal Editor is established or not (bottom right corner of status bar);
• Auto-install plugins in project;
  • Setting to enable auto-install (true by default).
  • If auto-install is disabled - notification will show up with quick-fix action.

Knows issues

• Service for opening assets in Unreal Editor has changed starting with UE 4.24 - opening same BP multiple times will open multiple tabs instead of re-using already opened one;
• Icon for connection status looks weird, waiting for new icons from designers
• Connecting to multiple instances of Unreal Editor is not working correctly
  • Toolbar controls will be affecting only the last connected editor