Plugin for Unreal Engine 4 that adds auto resizing comment boxes
Settings for the plugin are under Edit > Editor Preferences > Plugins > Auto Size Comments
Hold alt to quickly add / remove nodes from the comment boxes
UE4 forum page: https://forums.unrealengine.com/community/released-projects/1540542
Marketplace link: https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/auto-size-comments
This was originally a feature from the Blueprint Assist Plugin, a plugin that provides automatic formatting and mouse-free node editing when working with blueprints.
- Download the plugin
- Open
AutoSizeComments.uplugin
in a text editor and setEngineVersion
to your desired version, by default it is set to (4.27.0). For example if you wanted to build for 5.0.0 it would be"EngineVersion": "5.0.0",
- Open the command prompt and run the UnrealEngine batch file to build the plugin, with your download location and out location.
"
%UNREAL_DESIRED%
/Engine/Build/BatchFiles/RunUAT.bat" BuildPlugin -Plugin="%DOWNLOAD_LOCATION%
/AutoSizeComments/AutoSizeComments.uplugin" -Package="%OUT_LOCATION%
" -CreateSubFolder
Example: Building for desired version UE_5.0
:
%UNREAL_DESIRED%
: C:/Program Files/Epic Games/UE_5.0%DOWNLOAD_LOCATION%
: C:/Temp%OUT_LOCATION%
: C:Temp/AutoSizeComments
"C:/Program Files/Epic Games/UE_5.0/Engine/Build/BatchFiles/RunUAT.bat" BuildPlugin -Plugin="C:Temp/AutoSizeComments/AutoSizeComments.uplugin" -Package="C:/TempAutoSizeComments" -CreateSubFolder
- Copy the built plugin folder from your package location (
C:/TempAutoSizeComments/AutoSizeComments
) into either your:- Project plugin location
%PROJECT_DIR%/Plugins
- Engine plugin marketplace folder
C:/Epic Games/UE_5.0/Engine/Plugins/Marketplace
- Project plugin location