Unreal.js

Unreal.js is a plug-in which brings V8-powered Javascript into UnrealEngine4.

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Features

• Powered by latest V8 (ES6)

• CommonJS modules

• Full access to the whole UnrealEngine API

• Free to subclass existing classes including blueprint

• Web-dev like UMG (Jade, pseudo-css, pseudo-angular.js)

• Live reload

• Communicate with outer world: REST, process(pipe), arraybuffer, ...

• Bridge API for editor extension

• Auto-completion for Visual Studio Code (auto-generated *.d.ts)

• Debugging within Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, WebStorm and all IDE which supports V8 protocol

• Profiling supported by V8

• Dedicated Javascript console on UnrealEditor

  

• (Full) access to existing javascript libraries via npm, bower, ...

Wiki

• https://github.com/ncsoft/Unreal.js/wiki

Install and play

• Make sure you have UnrealEngine 4.10.4 canonical build.
• Install git-lfs first to download *.umap, *.uasset properly. (https://git-lfs.github.com/)
• After installing git-lfs, git clone https://github.com/ncsoft/Unreal.js
• Download prebuilt UnrealJS plugin and unzip into Examples/Plugins/UnrealJS.
• cd Examples/Content/Scripts && npm i to install node.js packages which are required to run examples.
• Open Examples/JavascriptPlayground.uproject
• Activate JavascriptConsole by clicking Windows - Developer Tools - JavascriptConsole.

Build

• Download prebuilt V8 and unzip into .../Plugins/UnrealJS. (files are located in releases)
• mklink /d /j Build/Plugins Plugins
• mklink /d /j Examples/Plugins Plugins

License

Apache2

Examples

2048

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Springy

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Editor extension

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Create a new actor

let myActor = new Actor(GWorld,{X:10,Y:20,Z:30});
myActor.SetActorLocation({X:40,Y:80,Z:120});

Subclass an existing class

class MyActor extends Actor {
  properties() {
    this.MyProp/*EditAnywhere+Replicated+int*/;
  }
  RPC(x/*int*/) /*Server+Reliable*/ {
    console.log('This function is replicated',this.MyProp++);
  }
}
let MyActor_C = require('uclass')()(global,MyActor);
if (GWorld.IsServer()) { 
  new MyActor_C(GWorld);
}

Node.js like

let _ = require('lodash');
let kick = () => {
  console.log("Hello timer!",_.keys(this));
  setTimeout(kick,1000);
};
kick();

Web-dev like

div
	span.full
		Button.full
			text {{text}}
		div.full
			Button.full(fn.on-clicked="inc()")
				text {{count}}
			Button.full(fn.on-clicked="add()")
				text Click button above!
	span
		text.yellow >
		EditableText(Binding.Text='text',
			fn.on-text-changed='text = ^arguments[0]',
			HintText="Your secret goes here")
		
	list.full(repeat='item in items',on-click="discard(item)") 
		HorizontalBox.small
			text.full {{item.key}}
			text.full {{item.value}}