[Feature Request] Blueprint JS or Lua Scripting Interface

Development Programming & Scripting Blueprint
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Hi,

I really like the new Unreal Engine and learned to love the blueprint engine in particular.

However, I have always been kind of a ‘Code-Guy’ myself, so I tend to find it quite confusing, editing all this graphical boxes and wires for was is basically a scripting interface.

So I was wondering: Are there any plans, to add a Javascript or Lua interface to blueprints?

I know, I can always open up XCode (or Visual Studio for that matter) and start doing C++. But that would negate the ease, that the Blueprint System brings to development.

I would really, really appreciate, being able to edit blueprint scripts in Javascript or Lua, instead of having to deal with the graphical nature of the thing.

As a bonus, that would also make asking questions on the forums much easier, since one could simply post a script, instead of having to upload a screenshot.
Even Diff-Views in any Source-Control system would benefit from this, since you could actually see code changes in code.

I know, that would be a pretty big request to pull of, but I personally would greatly benefit from something like that and I tend to think, that I’m not the only one.

Regards,

The Raven

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Theres some efforts via plug ins

Lua: Scripting Language extensions via plugins - C++ - Epic Developer Community Forums

JS (V8):A new, community-hosted Unreal Engine Wiki - Announcements - Epic Developer Community Forums

There also team working on nice C# implementation


But at least try C++ :wink:

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Hi,

Thanks for that. I took a look at those, especially the V8-Javascript one.

While they look promising, I can’t quite get my head around, where those plugins sit in the whole schema of things. It sound from the author’s description, that they try to implement a replacement for having to code c++ to change engine behaviour, rather than try to implement an alternative for the graphical editing of blueprints. But I might have read that wrong.

Is there any official feature planned on Epic’s side, to be able to really script in a blueprint, or are you leaving that up to the plugin developers?

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UE4 has Blueprint. That is it’s script. You will have to wait for users to implement alternate script plugins if you want something different.