Unreal Engine Plugin: Access Variable by Name

Access Variable by Name is an Unreal Engine plugin which adds Blueprint nodes to get/set the variable by name. These nodes enable you to get/set the variable by the string instead of the get/set node.

Generally, you need to place a get/set node when you try to get/set the variable on the vanilla Unreal Engine.
This workflow works greatly in many cases, but there are problems in some cases.

For example:

• When you access to the deep nested variable, you need to place lots of Get/Set and related nodes.
  • Ex: To access the member variable X of Vector, you need to place Get Vector node and Break Vector node.
• When you set a new value to many variables at once, you need to place the sequence of Set nodes.
  • Ex: To set a new value to the member variable A, B and C, you need to place Set A node, Set B node and Set C node,

By using this plugin, these problems will be solved gracefully.

Features

This plugin adds below Blueprint nodes.

Get/Set Variable by Name

• Get/Set a variable by specifying name and target object.
• These nodes will analyze the name and target (static analysis), and change the node's pin type to the same variable type automatically.
  • This ensures that the variable name and pin type is valid.
• The name pin supports a custom syntax to access a deep nested variable.

Get/Set Variable by Name (Dynamic)

• Get/Set a variable by specifying name and target object.
• These nodes accepts the name which can be changed dynamically at runtime.
  • This feature is useful when you get/set many variables at once.
• The name pin supports a custom syntax to access a deep nested variable.

Supported Environment

This plugin supports on the below environment.

• Unreal Engine Version: 4.26 / 4.27 / 5.0 / 5.1 / 5.2 / 5.3 / 5.4 / 5.5
• Development Platforms: Windows / macOS / Linux
• Target Build Platforms: All platforms

Installation

This plugin is distributed at Fab.
You can buy and install from there.

Free trial version is also available.
See the installation document if you want to install a free trial version.
Free trial version does not support below features.

• A Variable whose type is Struct/Enum/Array/Set/Map.
• A custom syntax to access the nested variable.

To get the benefit fully from this plugin, consider to buy this plugin at Fab.

Tutorial

See the tutorial document.

Change Log

See CHANGELOG.md.

Bug Report / Feature Request / Disscussions

If you want to report problems or request features, please make issues.
You can also discuss about this plugin at Discord (access-variable-by-name channel).

Project Author

Owner

This project is owned by the members of Colory Games.
The maintainer of this project is as follows.

Name	Contact
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