GDK for Unreal Alpha Release 0.4.0

Unreal GDK version 0.4.0 is go!
The corresponding Engine version is: 4.20-SpatialOSUnrealGDK-0.4.0

Make sure to upgrade your GDK and Engine fork to the latest release. Either use the 0.4.0 tagged commits or switch your projects to the release branches and git pull.

Make sure to run Setup.bat and regenerate your project files after upgrading!

Happy developing!

GDK team

Release Notes 0.4.0

Features:

• The GDK now uses SpatialOS 13.6.2.
• Added CHANGELOG.md.
• Added an error when unsupported replicated gameplay abilities are found in schema generation.
• Demoted various logs to Verbose in SpatialSender and SpatialReceiver.
• You can now use the Project Settings window to pass command line flags to local deployments launched from the GDK toolbar.
• You can now adjust the SpatialOS update frequency and the distance an actor must move before we update its SpatialOS position.

Documentation:

• New Technical Overview section describing how the GDK works.
• New Unreal features support page showing the state of support of different Unreal features with the GDK.
• New Known Issues and Public Roadmap boards (moved to Github).
• New Workflow reference pages - local development, cloud development.

Bug fixes:

• The worker disconnection flow is now handled by UEngine::OnNetworkFailure rather than the existing OnDisconnection callback, which has been removed.
• Fix duplicated log messages in spatial CLI output when running in PIE.
• Fixed deserialization of strings from schema.
• Ensure that components added in blueprints are replicated.
• Fixed potential loading issue when attempting to load the SchemaDatabase asset.
• Add pragma once directive to header file.
• Schema files are now generated correctly for subobjects of the Blueprint classes.
• Fixed being unable to launch SpatialOS if project path had spaces in it.
• Editor no longer crashes when setting LogSpatialSender to Verbose.
• Server-workers quickly restarted in the editor will connect to runtime correctly.
• Game no longer crashes when connecting to Spatial with async loading thread suspended.