What are the limits of blueprints?

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  • entt

    Gaming meets modern C++ - a fast and reliable entity component system (ECS) and much more

  • There's also a performance question. While we can now use Blueprint nativization to convert Blueprints to C++ the result will be a fairly naive version, fast enough for most purposes but not if you're trying to push every bit of performance. This is where you're looking at making sure you're hitting things such as using the CPU cache as well as possible for an ECS system (Look at ENTT or Flecs if you want to see what they're about and why you'd want one), or a system needing to process massive amounts of data quickly such as the Voxel Plugin.

  • VoxelPlugin

    Voxel Plugin for Unreal Engine

  • There's also a performance question. While we can now use Blueprint nativization to convert Blueprints to C++ the result will be a fairly naive version, fast enough for most purposes but not if you're trying to push every bit of performance. This is where you're looking at making sure you're hitting things such as using the CPU cache as well as possible for an ECS system (Look at ENTT or Flecs if you want to see what they're about and why you'd want one), or a system needing to process massive amounts of data quickly such as the Voxel Plugin.

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  • flecs

    A fast entity component system (ECS) for C & C++

  • There's also a performance question. While we can now use Blueprint nativization to convert Blueprints to C++ the result will be a fairly naive version, fast enough for most purposes but not if you're trying to push every bit of performance. This is where you're looking at making sure you're hitting things such as using the CPU cache as well as possible for an ECS system (Look at ENTT or Flecs if you want to see what they're about and why you'd want one), or a system needing to process massive amounts of data quickly such as the Voxel Plugin.

  • OpenCV

    Open Source Computer Vision Library

  • You also need C++ if you're going to do things which aren't built in as part of the engine. As an example if you're looking at using compute shaders, inbuilt native APIs such as a mobile phone's location services, or a third-party library such as OpenCV, then you're going to need C++.

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