cold wing Jun 26, 2025, 10:41 AM

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UPDATE: Plugin is now available (paid) on Fab

Im working on a prefab system plugin, the goal is to mimic Unity's Prefab System and UE's Child Actor Components but without their issues and with more control on them for BP and C++ user.

The plugin will be selled on Fab, once bought people can request a github access to the private repo if you want to more control

More in depth details on the website: https://hzfishy.gitbook.io/unrealprefabs/

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i appreciate any feature question/request as the goal of this plugin is to be as modular as possible to be usable in small or big productions

cold wing Jun 30, 2025, 3:28 PM

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got working live actor preview with any nesting in BP's editor 🥳

brave ledge Jun 30, 2025, 5:39 PM

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cold wing # UPDATE: Plugin is now available (paid) on Fab --- Im working on a prefab syst...

Just a note here, selling a code plugin on Fab you'd be required to ship the Source folder of the plugin anyway, so you wouldn't need the github for that

cold wing Jun 30, 2025, 5:40 PM

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brave ledge Just a note here, selling a code plugin on Fab you'd be required to ship the Sou...

yeah, but epic packages it no ?

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so when you download it you dont have access to the source code ?

brave ledge Jun 30, 2025, 5:40 PM

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You do

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When you download it you get the source folder

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At least I have before 😅

cold wing Jun 30, 2025, 5:41 PM

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okay, ill keep the github repo anyways (because i use it 😆) but also in case some friendly people wants to do PRs or to control better what updates they get through the commits

brave ledge Jun 30, 2025, 5:41 PM

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My main question would be, what is the pricing you have in mind, and what would this offer over a free plugin, such as Prefabricator?

brave ledge Jun 30, 2025, 5:41 PM

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cold wing okay, ill keep the github repo anyways (because i use it 😆) but also in case so...

Yeah still a good idea regardless

cold wing Jun 30, 2025, 5:44 PM

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brave ledge My main question would be, what is the pricing you have in mind, and what would ...

i have 0 clue of the pricing, this plugin is a lot of work but i dont like selling stuff at a high price, i guess something like 50€ for under 100k and maybe 80€ for above ?
as for prefabricator, i answered so much this question that i have to write a Q&A to avoid repeating myself haha.
Basically the pros of my plugins is that we stay in the UE workflow (actors + comps), so no custom assets. This can make refactoring or conversion fast for already running projects.
Also, second MAIN feature of my prefab system is to handle custom spawn params and editor + runtime properties, this empowers designers (BP) and devs (c++)

brave ledge Jun 30, 2025, 5:45 PM

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Interesting. How do you hook into the visualisation of the component for only the bp editor world?

cold wing Jun 30, 2025, 5:45 PM

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and as a said somewhere sometime ago prefabricator is already a great plugin, but IF you dont need the prefabs to run logic depending on variables

cold wing Jun 30, 2025, 5:46 PM

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brave ledge Interesting. How do you hook into the visualisation of the component for only th...

for bounds i use the linebatcher to draw prims (later i will draw other types of comps, this will be customizable in the editor settings)
for the "real actor" preview, i just spawn the actor in the BP preview world

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i dont use comp viz class

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to limiting

brave ledge Jun 30, 2025, 5:49 PM

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Interesting. So can you swap the prefab actor at runtime?

For instance I have a fruit tree, and prefab components for the fruits, can I swap what fruit an already spawned tree has?

cold wing Jun 30, 2025, 5:51 PM

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brave ledge Interesting. So can you swap the prefab actor at runtime? For instance I have a...

well, default behavior of the prefab reference comp is "async spawn the given actor class, destroy myself"
but this can be changed through the default (and your) spawn params (and with the virtuals)

if we disable the auto destroy, i can do a "replace" spawn param thing (thanks for the idea :)

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(the spawn params and props are instanced uobjects/structs that you can set/read in c++/BP + editor details, so kind of fragment system)

brave ledge Jun 30, 2025, 5:52 PM

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Interesting, sounds like a decent upgrade over the alternatives

cold wing Jun 30, 2025, 5:52 PM

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i appreciate your interest

cold wing Jul 13, 2025, 1:15 PM

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little preview, class getter are instanced UObjects that allows C++ and Bp programmers/designers to control WHAT class will be spawned.