Automating repetitive tasks with custom tools in Unreal Engine 5.

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Shows how to build real editor tools without C++ using Editor Utility Blueprints and the Python unreal API, demonstrates an actor distribution tool that places 100+ chairs in circle or Fibonacci-sphere patterns, with live preview, rotation modes, copy/execute and working undo/redo via transactions. Delivers a material generator that reads texture suffixes, creates material instances, sets translucency for _a and multiplies emissive by 15, and explains slow-scope tasks with progress bars and cancelation for long operations.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:10Who is Krzysztof
3. 1:42What are custom tools
4. 3:11Why custom tools
5. 4:43Misconceptions
6. 8:20How it works
7. 9:41Editor utility blueprints
8. 13:20Editor utility functions
9. 14:38Get levels
10. 19:01Widgets
11. 21:11PropertyView
12. 26:44Transactions
13. 28:30BeginTransaction
14. 31:29Actor Distribution Tool
15. 36:58Editor Mini Extension
16. 42:12Python API

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