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Differences between Online Subsystem Steam and Online Subsystem EOS

Sat, 12 Mar 2022 11:34:51 +0200

It is not possible to dynamically switch from OSS Steam to OSS Epic Online Services without additional modifications, even though both share the same interfaces. While some features are missing entirely in one or the other, the problems are mainly caused by differences in the implementations of certain features.

Scope of this post

This post illustrates some differences between the OSS Steam and the OSS EOS. However, it is by no means a complete list of these differences.

Using Epic Online Services with Unreal Engine Blueprints

Sat, 26 Feb 2022 11:34:51 +0200

The non-commercial Advanced Sessions Plugin for Unreal Engine can be used to create Blueprint-only games with Epic Online Services. I have made a YouTube video explaining how to do this. Currently, this requires small patches of the plugin, which will hopefully be merged soon.

Click on the image to watch this video. Note that the link will navigate to YouTube.com.

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Cross-platform build automation for UE4 projects with Jenkins

Fri, 03 Jul 2020 21:45:01 +0200

Building UE4 projects for Apple devices on Windows is only possible if they are “Blueprint only”. As soon as you are using a single C++ source file, or Blueprint nativization, the project has to be built on Mac OS. While there are cross compilers available for Windows, using Apple SDKs on other systems violates Xcode EULA: “You are expressly prohibited from separately using the Apple SDKs or attempting to run any part of the Apple Software on non-Apple-branded hardware.“