Running the editor without UI

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Given my propensity for crazy questions:

  • Can I run the editor with no UI? I’d be happy with a console output type window.
  • Alternatively can I convert a wav file to a uasset from the commandline?

Reason for asking crazy question: User content generation, baked to engine assets in a virtual server that I want to minimize the specification of.

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Interesting idea… Like Windows server 2012R2 Core…Hmmm… Don’t know how, just commenting that its pretty neat idea!

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Exactly. I’m using AWS services and they have a super cheap non GPU instance but running a WM that can run the editor is expensive.

With the content I support so far it’s only really needed for wav files, as these can’t be loaded by the engine directly [in standalone builds]. The cheap VM I’ve tested can process images and custom data and even run UnrealPak to package them in a way the engine supports natively. It can’t launch the editor…

What I really want I guess is my plugin running, with no UI but the capability to run FAssetToolsModule::GetModule().Get().ImportAssets

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So does unreal not support some sort of build machine that doesn’t need to run a UI? This has been a fairly standard approach on the different teams I’ve worked with.