Blockout Tools Plugin

A lightweight set of tools to quickly block out levels.

Blockout Tools is a lightweight and extremely easy to use set of tools to quickly block out / greybox your levels in Unreal Engine 4 & 5. It consists of various primitive elements with convenient scale and transform controls and custom triplanar grid material to ease the level design workflow.

How to use:

1. Select new "Blockout Tools" custom category in Place Mode
2. And just drag blockout types onto your level

Important note: this is not a modelling tool, the intended usage is to blocking out levels. Does not currently support boolean operations. Also please be sure to check out an example map at "BlockoutToolsPlugin Content/Maps".

Technical Details

Features:

• Easily scalable elements with either Vector 3D Widget or inside Details panel
• Super quick access to Blockouts from a new custom category in Place Mode
• Self-explanatory settings
• Configurable look and color of Blockouts
• Default Blockout Color, Grid Size and such can be configured in Project Settings
• Local-aligned triplanar grid material which supports object rotation
• World-aligned triplanar grid material
• Support for custom materials
• Lightweight
• 15 Blockouts
• Custom editor icons

Code Modules:

• BlockoutToolsPlugin (Runtime)
• BlockoutToolsEditorPlugin (Editor)

Current Version: 1.52

Number of Blueprints: 17

Number of C++ Classes: 2

Network Replicated: Yes

Supported Development Platforms: Win64, MacOS, Linux

Supported Target Build Platforms: Win64, Win32, MacOS, Linux, Android, IOS, Switch, Xbox One, PS4