hannesdelbeke / texture-browser-unreal-plugin

browse the textures in your unreal project & install directory

Engine resource browser

dark style	default style

Browse the Unreal installation folder for default resources (icons, shapes, fonts) to use in your qt-tools.

• Filter by file type
• Search by name
• Copy the path
• Pure Python, no compiling, code also works outside Unreal.

Install

Install using Plugget (recommended)

Plugget automatically installs this tool & it's dependencies in the correct location.

• Install the plugget unreal plugin
• Search texture browser and click install.
• restart Unreal

Install manuallly

• pip install the Python dependencies to ...\MyProject\Content\Python\Lib\site-packages (you can use --target with pip install)
  • PySide2
  • unreal-qt (optional)
• Just copy the folder in your Unreal project's plugin folder ...\MyProject\Plugins\texture-browser
• Restart Unreal

Dark mode

To not worry about QApp managegement, and automatically style in Unreal dark mode, you can use unreal_qt

Similar projects

GitHub repos:

• SlateIconBrowser C++ icon browser, requires compiling
• unreal-engine-editor-icons thumnails & names of all editor icons in your browser
• maya-qt-img-resource-browser Similar, but for Maya

Reference

• Unreal's content browser docs are a good reference

community

• Unreal forum thread

If this tool is helpfull give it a ⭐ on the GitHub page at the top right🙏