unreal-script-editor 0.0.1

A Qt Python script editor, styled in Unreal stylesheet

Unreal Python Editor

Unreal Engine Python Script Editor is an Unreal equivalent of the "Maya Script Editor"

About The Project

With the rapid advancement of Unreal Engine and the Python support in Unreal Engine, more and more people are jumping into Unreal Python scripting. Hence the creation of this tool!

Getting Started

Prerequisites

The tool needs the following library to be installed:

• Qt for Python: PySide2 or PyQt5
• Python shim for all Qt bindings: Qt.py

Add as Menu Button

The tool is meant to be launched from a menu bar button like such:

You can set up this very easily by adding startup.py as a startup script, under Project Settings - Plugins - Python

• download & extract the project zip file
• find the startup.py location, and add it to the startup scripts: e.g. C:\Downloads\unrealScriptEditor\startup.py

Simple Launch Script

If you just want to launch the tool in Unreal's python console without adding it to menu, or if you want to customize the location where the tool is being launched; refer to the following command:

• the tool has to be in a path that Unreal will search for!

from unrealScriptEditor import main
global editor
editor = main.show()

Install as module

Install the module from the repo

python -m pip install git+https://github.com/hannesdelbeke/unreal-script-editor

Features

• Unreal "native" stylesheet
• Save and load python files and temporary scripts
• Code editor short-cut support and Highlighter
• Auto-completion

Support

This tool is still in development, if there's any issue please submit your bug here or contact [e-mail]