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Potential task for automation is creation of material instances for a lot of meshes. For example, I use Houdini to generate a lot of assets procedurally – models with baked texture maps. Importing all these meshes, textures and creating material instances (based on common master material) and assigning respective textures for each model is repetitive and boring manual task. Here is a sample python script that is meant to run on selected static meshes – it will automatically create Material Instance asset for each mesh based on its name and assign all textures also based on name. At the end it […]

Unreal Engine gives you several options to create custom tools for automating tasks in Unreal Editor. You can write C++ code, create Editor Utility Blueprints or write Python. While Blueprints are cool, Python is industry standard for writing pipeline tools and in my opinion is much convenient than doing things with Blueprint nodes in many cases – like dealing with filenames and connecting to things outside Unreal Editor. There are a lot of things you could add to Unreal Editor using editor Blueprints or Python – avoiding repeating manual tasks, automating level building, automating asset management and implementing content creation pipeline. […]