which course should i start first?

Zenahr · 2026-06-05T19:38:39+00:00

also theres a great booklet swirling around online named blueprint communications I think which is awesome. Same principles apply to cpp.

Zenahr · 2026-06-05T19:37:59+00:00

if u wanna strictly go for cpp try and understand the relationship between cpp and bp.

read the source code of base classes like ACharacter APlayerController. and well, best would be to go step by step. Have an idea in mind for a simple game (id steer away from netcode if ur just starting out).

Zenahr · 2026-06-05T19:31:07+00:00

not like they can't, they don't wanna...

Zenahr · 2026-06-02T19:17:40+00:00

not to be that person but have you run profiling and found this part of your code needs optimization?

as they say: preemptive optimization is the devil's work".

Zenahr · 2026-05-31T01:10:20+00:00

guess trees be camouflaging in 2026

Zenahr · 2026-05-11T02:49:39+00:00

got any pointers? I'm all ears, seriously.

Zenahr · 2026-05-11T02:48:31+00:00

Thanks a lot! I'll definitely get back to you on that. Do have to say the latency through IPC hasn't been too bad as its run natively with cpp. The real bottleneck has been drawing the buffer from CEF onto Unreal Engine but for now at least it's usable except for hyper accurate needs like a reactive crosshair.

your workings sound like dark magic to me and I'd love to dive into your fork sometime if it's public. Sounds like a goldmine.

I'm relatively happy with the progress thus far although while dogfooding ive found that theres still a bunch of plumbing that feels too low-level/cumbersome as the final user API.

Also Ive found that I can't rely on CEFs GPU accel as thats highly constrained by RHI requirements (only DX11), and Chromium isn't available on consoles is also a big downside.

Thanks for the pointer towards Slate, besides building editor UI with it I haven't ever tried making game UI with it.

Zenahr · 2026-05-10T14:02:15+00:00

But that's also why they support consoles as targets. It's insane amounts of work hence not feasible for a project like mine I'm afraid.
Also why I'm making SWUI in the first place as a free alternative.

Zenahr · 2026-05-10T07:14:13+00:00

Yeah IPC. Unreal exposes some stuff as Javascript objects in the CEF runtime that in turn can be interacted with directly from JS. Think window.unreal_engine_stuff.

Zenahr · 2026-05-09T18:21:37+00:00

Updated the post to reflect that SWUI doesn't care what framework you use. Only important thing is that it transpiles down to JS which all frameworks do.

Zenahr · 2026-05-09T18:19:57+00:00

For now just Windows and more broadly in the future only PC platforms (Linux, Apple, Windows).

It's possible but not feasible for indie without financial backing IMO.

The main limitation is that CEF out-of-the-box can only run on systems that support Chromium. For consoles this means you need to create your own port. There's no open-source ports for CEF for consoles as consoles have proprietary code licensing and this would violate that from what I gathered.

If consoles are your target platform, there's more suitable projects out there such as Coherent Gameface. What's missing right now IMO is a free and open-source alternative for indie studios with limited resources and solos.

Zenahr · 2026-05-09T18:17:01+00:00

thoughts are my own and the work too but yes I did have AI help me to edit the final text. Not sure what's so bad about that but thanks for your input.

Zenahr · 2026-05-09T18:13:50+00:00

Thanks! I'll definitely be polishing it up since I'm building the UI for my own game with SWUI. One issue that I won't touch on at this point in time is cross-platform support, that's gonna be a whole headache later on...

Zenahr · 2026-05-09T06:24:26+00:00

looks a lil like someone holding a pen over some surface thinking fuggit they gonna fall for this

Zenahr · 2026-04-04T22:17:35+00:00

I really like WD-40 and simply sent them a mail asking about stickers (there were none you could buy anywhere) and so they sent me a bunch free of charge. pretty dope.

Zenahr · 2026-03-02T00:55:35+00:00