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Setting Up Your Production Pipeline

Things you should understand and set up in order to get a team of people working efficiently with Unreal.

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Setting up a production pipeline enables developers to bring professionals with diverse skill sets into a team's production process — and Unreal Engine provides tools and features for a variety of workflows, ensuring a steady stream of content and feature development. To learn more, read about the following topics.

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Asset Management

Asset Loading and Unloading

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Recommended Asset Naming Conventions

A recommended naming convention to help organize your Assets.

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Unreal Engine Cloud Deployments

Deploy Unreal Engine on cloud hosting solutions.

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Build Tools

Tools to compile Unreal Engine and game projects.

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Command-Line Arguments

Collection of arguments that can be passed to the engine's executable to configure options controlling how it runs.

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Configuration Files

Text files containing property settings for configuring gameplay or engine behavior.

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Deploying the Engine

Learn what it takes to to deploy UE4 to a team.

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Derived Data Cache

Overview of the Derived Data Cache and the storage of assets in formats used by UE4 and its target platforms

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Development Setup

Setting up your code environment, creating code projects, and working with Unreal Engine source.

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Localization

Information about how to localize your project.

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Multi-User Editing

Get multiple users on different computers into a shared Unreal Editor session, collaborating live to build content together.

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Plugins

How to create Unreal Engine plugins.

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Redirectors

Objects that are placed in packages to redirect references to moved assets to their current locations.

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Scripting and Automating the Editor

Introduction to using Blueprints and Python to control the Unreal Editor programmatically.

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Collaboration in Unreal Engine

How to setup Perforce or SVN so that you can share assets with other on your team.

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Unreal Build System

Unreal Engine's custom build system for compiling the engine and game projects.

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Using Unreal Engine with Autodesk ShotGrid

Describes how to use Unreal with the Autodesk ShotGrid integration.

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