Plugget Unreal plugin

Unreal plugin to search & install plugget packages

Usage instructions

• Open the Plugget Package Manager from Unreal menu Edit > Plugget Packages

How to use:

• Search for plugget packages, click install to install the selected version
• List installed packages with the list button

Install instructions

1. Copy the plugin to unreal's plugin folder

• Download and Unzip
• Copy the extracted plugget folder to Unreal's plugins folder

2. Enable the plugin

• Open the Unreal plugin editor from the menu edit/Plugins
• Enable the plugget plugin
• Restart Unreal

Dependencies are auto installed on startup, if that fails try manually:

(optional) Manually install Python dependencies

Install the dependencies to Unreal's engine folder:

⚠️ PySide 6.7 has a breaking bug. Install older version for now
py3.11 has no available older versions for PySide6

set UE_FOLDER="D:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_5.4"
set PYTHON_FOLDER=%UE_FOLDER%\Engine\Binaries\ThirdParty\Python3\Win64
cd /d %PYTHON_FOLDER%
python -m pip install PySide6 --version 6.6.3.1 --target %PYTHON_FOLDER%\Lib\site-packages
python -m pip install plugget-qt --target %PYTHON_FOLDER%\Lib\site-packages

(optional) Install git to support git clone package installs

(plugget uses this to install packages)
open the command prompt on Windows and run the below command:

winget install git.git

dependencies

• plugget-qt
• pip (have python installed and pip in the path)
• git (have git installed and in the path

Environment variables

you can control how plugget loads on startup with these env vars

• PLUGGET_UE_TOOL_BAR_BUTTON: default to 0, if set to 1, adds a button to the tool bar to launch the UI
• PLUGGET_UE_MENU: default to 0, if set to 1, adds a menu entry under Tools/Plugget TODO ⚠️not yetimplemented, verify path

devs

• This repo contains the unreal plugin Plugget, and no Python modules.
• The Python dependencies it installs are plugget & plugget_qt

Support

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