This repository is the UE4 Network Tool initiative. A tool that provides support to launch Unreal Dedicated server from the .uproject and analyze network related data (aka.: sequence of frame snapshots).
Define an environmental variable pointing to the UE4Editor binary executable called UE_EDITOR_PATH. Server launcher only works in Windows. Just drop the executable alongside the .uproject folder and fill the UProject Filename - aka.: MyProjectWithServer.uproject.
This project uses CMake as it's buil system generator and Conan as a dependency package manager. Some dependencies are header-only and thus already included in the repo. Both CMake and Conan are required for the code to build:
- CMake: https://cmake.org/
- Conan: https://conan.io/
After installing both, you can open the CMake GUI and configure the CMake project. The configure step will invoke Conan, so make sure it is mapped in the PATH and is accessible from command line. Conan will then download any existing precompiled binaries or build them from source for the specified compiler-target profile.
This setup works great with Ninja as a Generator for either VSCode or CLion. It will also work if you generate a Visual Studio Solution. Compiling with Clang in Windows is a little trickier, you must force CMake to use Clang compiler through environmental variables (at least for the first configure run). If you don't, the program's code will try to compile with Clang but all dependencies downloaded with Conan will use MSVC, thus break the CMake configure step with errors saying the compilers missmatch.
The project depends on the following libraries so far:
- GLFW - for input and application window management
- Glad - for OpenGL Loading/Calling
- ImGUI - Docking Branch - for the pretty UI and internal Windows
- ImPlot - for pretty plots (not in used ATM)
- Portable File Dialogs - PFD - for file picking and errors
- UEViewer - to query for existing assets of an specific type
- FMT - to have nicely formatted strings (really fast)
- Taskflow - used for easy multithreading and loading frames through parallel pipes
- CppDelegate - to have fast callbacks (not in use ATM)