Unreal Engine 5 Python Automation

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Overview

Lecture 1: What Can You Automate In Unreal Engine?

Chapter 2: Setup – Prerequisites

Lecture 1: Initial Unreal Engine Setup

Lecture 2: Setting Autocompletion in VS Code (Stub file)

Lecture 3: Setting Autocompletion in PyCharm (Stub file)

Lecture 4: Typing in Python

Chapter 3: Running Scripts

Lecture 1: Make your scripts discoverable by Unreal

Lecture 2: Running Scripts From Editor

Lecture 3: Running Scripts With Commandline

Lecture 4: Startup Scripts and init_unreal.py

Chapter 4: Automation Scripting

Lecture 1: Getting User Selection And Listing Assets

Lecture 2: Texture Compression Settings Validator – Accessing Editor Properties

Lecture 3: Importance of PropertyAccessChangeNotifyMode in setting editor properties

Lecture 4: Editing Material Instance Parameters – Material Editing Library

Lecture 5: Find Duplicated Actors On The Level

Lecture 6: ImportRules Plugin – Run Custom Post Import Action

Lecture 7: Post Import Actions Using ImportSubsystem

Lecture 8: Remove Unused Assets

Lecture 9: Batch Import FBX Meshes (Asset Import Task)

Lecture 10: Batch Import Textures (Automated Asset Import)

Chapter 5: Asset Validation

Lecture 1: Why you need asset validation – Intro to asset validation in Unreal Engine

Lecture 2: Naming convention validator

Lecture 3: Square texture validator

Lecture 4: Power of two texture size validator

Chapter 6: Developing Code More Efficiently

Lecture 1: Working with dir() and help()

Lecture 2: Remote debugging with VS Code and debugpy

Lecture 3: Remote debugging with PyCharm and pydevd

Chapter 7: Creating Better Python Tools

Lecture 1: Adding custom menu actions

Lecture 2: Menu Entry Icon

Lecture 3: Followup to Menu Entries

Lecture 4: Menu Entries – Additional Notes

Lecture 5: Progress bars for slow tasks

Lecture 6: Undo and Redo operations

Lecture 7: Introduction to automation testing in Unreal Engine

Lecture 8: Writing your first Python test for Unreal

Lecture 9: Appendix: New to automated tests?

Lecture 10: Supressing warnings in Python tests.

Chapter 8: Releasing Tools

Lecture 1: Packing Python Tool As Unreal Plugin

Chapter 9: Python And Blueprints

Lecture 1: Python Scripts in Asset Scripted Action Blueprints

Chapter 10: Remote Control API

Lecture 1: Remote Control In Unreal – Overview and Quick Setup

Lecture 2: Remote Control Preset and WebApp

Lecture 3: Remote Control Preset Controllers

Lecture 4: Python and Remote Control API + Testing API with Insomnia

Lecture 5: Remote Control Python Progress Bar

Lecture 6: Direct FBX Mesh Export From Blender To Unreal [Real Life Tool Demo]

Chapter 11: Common Issues

Lecture 1: Fixing ImportError in Python and adding Python Modules as Plugins

Lecture 2: Code deprecations in UE5

Chapter 12: Source FIles

Lecture 1: Source FIles