Working with Unreal Projects and Templates

Overview of projects in Unreal Engine and instructions for working with them.

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An Unreal Engine 4 Project holds all the contents of your game. It contains a number of folders on your disk, such as Blueprints and Materials. You can name and organize folders inside a Project however you wish.

The Content Browser panel inside the Unreal Editor shows the same directory structure found inside the Project folder on your disk.

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The Content Browser pane mirrors the directory structure of the Project folder on your disk. Click the image for full view.

Every project has a .uproject file associated with it. The .uproject file is how you create, open, or save a project. You can create any number of different projects and work on them in parallel.

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Create a New Project

This page describes how to create a new project in Unreal Engine.

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Open an Existing Project

This page describes how to open an existing project in Unreal Engine.

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Unreal Engine Templates Reference

Templates available with Unreal Engine and how to use them

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Updating Projects to Newer Editor Versions

A short guide to using the Unreal Engine editor-based project conversion feature

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Converting a Project to a Template

Steps for converting an existing project to a template

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Project Settings

Dialog for configuring options specific to the current project.

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Packaging Projects

Packaging Unreal game projects for distribution.

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Disaster Recovery

A plugin designed to help with the recovery of an Unreal Engine 4 session when it crashes or ends abnormally.

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