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ui Nov 15, 2022

#UnrealEngine 5.1 has a couple of really neat UMG additions 🧵
https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.1/en-US/unreal-engine-5.1-release-notes/#umg/slateimprovements

Unreal Engine 5.1 Release Notes

Overview of new and updated features in Unreal Engine 5.1

UMG Viewmodel is a plugin that aims to separate display (view) and data (model) logic, aka Model-View-Viewmodel (MVVM).

ui Nov 15, 2022

Named Slot Widgets is a funny way of saying that you can now create Blueprint subclasses of Blueprint UserWidgets. Previously if you made a subclass of a #UE5 Blueprint UserWidget, you would get the logic but none of the visuals. Now it shows the parent's layout and lets you customize part of it.

ui Nov 15, 2022

UMG Tool Palette is a new editor UI element that gives you quick access to commonly-used widgets.

Karma Nov 15, 2022

@benui I was very much wondering what joy the subclassed UserWidgets bring, since the customization was nil... Seems like a big improvement

Nick Darnell Nov 15, 2022

@benui That feature had been on my todo list for a long time, so I was happy to finally get around to doing it.

ui Nov 15, 2022

@NickDarnell I can't wait to use it :D

boolbito Nov 15, 2022

@benui @NickDarnell Same here :)

Danny Goodayle Nov 16, 2022

@NickDarnell @benui really look forward to using it! At my last place we rolled our own version of it but it didn't look as complete as this 👍

raz Nov 15, 2022

@benui Woah. This sounds like what I've been trying to implement myself this week, so that I could detach and destroy widgets without losing data.

Will have to check if Viewmodels can live without the associated widgets though. Thanks for the tip!

Markus Ewald Nov 15, 2022

@benui Woah, MVVM in Unreal? That's super cool.

I've been using MVVM for my qt and C# WinForms + WPF apps for a long time.

sandermann™Nov 15, 2022

@benui is this a native plugin that comes with 5.1?

ui Nov 15, 2022

@sandermann Yep!