Shortcuts & tricks

Shortcuts

All the keys can be changed in the editor settings

Blueprint Editor Cheat Sheet

Global

• Find & open any asset in a project (Ctrl + P)

Viewport

Camera movements

• Go up (E)
• Go down (Q)
• Change camera speed (Scroll Wheel)
• Move around focused object (Alt + mouse)

Edit selected object

• Move (W)
• Rotate (E)
• Scale (R)
• Pilot (Ctrl + Shift + P)

Faster Level Design

• Open level (Ctrl + O)
• Toggle Translucent selection (T)
• Group & Ungroup (Ctrl +G/Shift + G) More details
• Focus Move the editor camera pivot on the selected object (F)
• Move selected object(s) without the 3 arrows: (X: Ctrl + Drag LMB), (Y: Ctrl + Drag RMB), (Z: Ctrl + Drag LMB+RMB)
• Select all similar (Shift + E) More details
• Current folder feature, any asset dropped in the level from the CB will be placed in this folder (Select folder in Outliner → Make current folder) More details

Other

• Content Browser Open the asset of the selected object (if any) in the latest actif content browser tab (Ctrl + B)
• Edit Asset Open the selected asset (Ctrl + E)
• Tab Navigation (Ctrl + Tab)
• Show navigation surface (P)
• Screen capture (F9)

Blueprint

• Search Nodes, keywords, variables, ... (Ctrl + F)
• Rename (F2)
• Toggle breakpoint (F9)
• Variable (Get) Place a GETTER of the dragged variable (Hold Ctrl while dragging)
• Variable (Set) Place a SETTER of the dragged variable (Hold Alt while dragging)
• Branch Place a Branch node (B)
• Do Once Place a Do Once node (O)
• Gate Place a Gate node (G)
• Group Place a Group encapsulating the selected nodes (if none selected it will have a default size) (C)
• Sequence Place a Sequence node (S)
• For Each Loop Place a For Each Loop node (F)
• Delay Place a Delay node (D)

Tricks

Console commands

At the top of this page there are interesting console commands Console commands & variables

Miscs

Show 3D Widget on Vector variable

meta=(MakeEditWidget) in C++

Keep Simulation Changes

Keep Simulation Changes

Reset editor camera to before-PIE location & rotation

Disable bEnableViewportCameraToUpdateFromPIV in Editor settings

Control Asset Open Location

Edit AssetEditorOpenLocation in Editor Settings