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    Reflection System Details: Part 1
    
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    UE4 Reflection Overview
    
    Exposing Wrapper/SumType/Variant Structs to Blueprints
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- Environment setup
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- Gameplay programming
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  - Instantiating destroying objects
  - Commands
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  - Actor tick lifecycle flow
    Actor tick lifecycle flow
    
    Actor Load/Init Function Cheatsheet
    
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    Creating components at runtime or dynamically in c programming
    
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  - Animation subsystem
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    Overview
    
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    Overview
  - Gameplay framework
    Gameplay framework
    
    Gamemode game flow diagram
    
    Gamemode
    
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    Actor spawning flow
    
    Editor Delegates
    
    Input processing architecture diagram flow
    
    Game Flow Diagram
    
    Ticking order execution dependencygraph
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    Async physics traces
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    Udk gameplay debugging
    
    Console Tips & Tricks
- General debugging
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- Graphics development
  Graphics development
  - Coordinate spaces
  - Alter Translucency Lighting
  - Custom passes extensions
    Custom passes extensions
    
    Color gradingpostprocess
    
    Custom primitive
    
    Custom stencil notes
    
    GOAL/Endresult
    
    STATIC PATH FOR STATICMESHCOMPONENT
    
    Custom stencil walkthrough pt3
    
    Stencil Layers
    
    Custom stencil walkthrough pt5
    
    Approach
  - How to
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    Explicit RenderTarget Operations
    
    Render With PipelineStateObject
    
    Rendering Outside Normal Render Path
  - Lightmass lightmapping
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    Debugging lightmass
    
    Indirect lighting cachevolumetric lightmap notes
    
    Lightmass 2d lightmaps
    
    Lightmass misc lightmapping notes
    
    Lightmass volumetric lightmaps
    
    Swarm overview
    
    Using Lightmass
  - Render architecture
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    Common Info:
    
    Detailed render flow
    
    Drawing policies
    
    Game thread update code flow
    
    Misc useful functions
    
    TLDR
    
    Overview
    
    Threading Model
    
    Shader common params
    
    Shader compilation code flow
    
    Shader uniform buffers
  - Shader development
    Shader development
    
    Add Custom Shading Model
    
    Fast Custom Shader Iteration Tips
    
    Brain Dump of Useful Functions
    
    Shader debugging
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    Commands for toggling debug & perf markers
    
    RenderDoc
    
    Debugging Shader Compilation Process
- Misc ue4 editor
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- Networking
  Networking
  - Overview
  - Configuration
  - Connection flow
  - Debug Configuration
  - Dedicated server on aws
  - Networking Subject Matter Experts
  - Misc Brain Dump
  - Network IDs
  - Networking overview
  - Useful Posts
  - Server travel connection flow
  - Useful functions
  - Vr preview with networking
  - Low level networking
    Low level networking
    
    Networking server call from unauthenticated client
    
    High Level Overview
    
    Message buspassingtcpudp
    
    Send udp packets samplecustom socket
    
    Thin client wrappers and custom transport messaging example
  - Network replication
    Network replication
    
    Custom replication
    
    Custom struct serialization for networking
    
    Detailed network serialization
    
    Code Flow
    
    Fast tarray replication
    
    General replication
    
    Physics replication
    
    Replication cheat sheet
    
    UObject:
    
    Sublevels aren't directly associated with ULevels
  - Online subsystem
    Online subsystem
    
    Create dedicated server session and wait
    
    Disconnecting players steam lobbies vs ue4 game session
    
    Online networking delegates events
    
    Online subsystem
    
    Useful posts on playfab
    
    Using multiple custom online subsystems
- Oculus stuff
  Oculus stuff
- Packaging cooking
  Packaging cooking
- Performance optimization
  Performance optimization
  - Asset Size Reduction and Loading Time Optimization
  - Blueprint optimization
  - Memory
  - Reducing Stat System Overhead
  - Performance Profiling & Optimization Guide
  - Oculus Specific
  - Gpu perf optimization
    Gpu perf optimization
    
    Debugging shaders in ue4
    
    GPUView
    
    Overview
    
    Render budget
  - Notes from devs
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    Deprecated performance profiling guide in ue4
    
    Deprecated scaling down
    
    Deprecated useful console commands
    
    Nick whitingdonaldson notes
    
    Paragon optimization notes
    
    Robo recall optimization talk notes
    
    Unreal dev day montreal performance profiling
    
    Vanishing of ethan carter
  - Stats perf counters
    Stats perf counters
    
    Accessing single stat values
    
    Misc functions
    
    Overview
  - Tolva tool
    Tolva tool
    
    Misc wip
    
    Tolva deep shader
    
    Tolva enabling debug tools notes
    
    Quick Profiling Guide
    
    Tolva perf tool helpers
- Python basics
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  - Embeddable python distro
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  - References
  - Useful snippets
  - Oculus stuff
    Oculus stuff
    
    Controlling rift overscan in unreal rendering
    
    How to get hmd camera in worldspace camera issues
    
    Rift gotchas
    
    Tips tricks 1
- Source control
  Source control
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- Stereo capture plugin
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- Ue4 technical crash course
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- Wip
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Houdini
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Blog
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