Blueprint Tips & Tricks
I put together this mix of tips and tricks for building blueprints in Unreal over the years, for previous game teams, and thought it might be handy to share.
If you have extra tips or anything to add to these, please do in the post or video comments!
The full guide with chapter markers
A brief summary of most things mentioned in the video
A couple options for taming Ticks hit on your performance
Make a habit of checking if your variable is valid, or even better, convert to a Validated Get
Use function inputs like local variables to reduce all the wire to pin spam.
Dynamic materials vs custom data
Part of the hard vs soft reference section and keeping on eye on your assets size
A couple options for quickly formatting text and strings