Unreal Engine 4 Gets Coherent, Mercurial

Unreal Engine 4

Since Unreal Engine 4 was recently announced and made available on subscription, a number of plugins have been released for potential Unreal Developers.

Coherent UI Plug-in for Unreal Engine 4

Coherent Labs has released a beta plug-in for Unreal Engine 4, allowing developers to integrate Coherent UI with UE4.

Great news! We've released our Beta plugin for Unreal Engine 4 Check your e-mails for the DL or sign up here http://t.co/0KZwPKagl1 #gamedev

— Coherent Labs (@CoherentLabs) April 21, 2014

Coherent UI is a comprehensive user interface that can be coded using standard HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Below you can see an example of how a UI created using the Coherent UI plug-in for UE4.

Watch our new video tutorial and learn how to make in-game surface views in @UnrealEngine 4 with Coherent UI http://t.co/GDuXhINezQ #gamedev

— Coherent Labs (@CoherentLabs) April 29, 2014

Mercurial Source Control Plug-in for Unreal Engine 4

User macagonator has released a plugin for for Unreal Engine 4, allowing users to directly access the Mercurial SCM.

What's this, another UE4 plugin? Mercurial source control: https://t.co/Oaw3BqSisR Many thanks to @macagonator!

— Unreal Engine (@UnrealEngine) April 17, 2014

Mercurial is a free, distributed source control management tool. Other SCM, such as Subversion, require a central server to store the revisions of a project. Instead, Mercurial is distributed, giving each developer a local copy of the project. It is free to use, multi-platform, and extensions can be created to provide additional functionality.

Get It

You can download a trial of the Coherent UI for UE4, Unity, or native integration from Coherent Lab’s website. The beta plug-in can also be downloaded from their website.

The Mercurial source control system can be downloaded from its homepage, and the UE4 plug-in can be downloaded from the GitHub repository.