Blockout Tools is a lightweight and extremely easy to use set of tools to quickly block out / greybox your levels in Unreal Engine 4 & 5. It consists of various primitive elements with convenient scale and transform controls and custom triplanar grid material to ease the level design workflow.
How to use:
Select new “Blockout Tools” custom category in Place Mode
And just drag blockout types onto your level
Important note: this is not a modelling tool, the intended usage is to blocking out levels. Does not currently support boolean operations. Also please be sure to check out an example map at “BlockoutToolsPlugin Content/Maps”.
Technical Details
Features:
Easily scalable elements with either Vector 3D Widget or inside Details panel
Super quick access to Blockouts from a new custom category in Place Mode
Self-explanatory settings
Configurable look and color of Blockouts
Default Blockout Color, Grid Size and such can be configured in Project Settings
Local-aligned triplanar grid material which supports object rotation
World-aligned triplanar grid material
Support for custom materials
Lightweight
15 Blockouts
Custom editor icons
Code Modules:
BlockoutToolsPlugin (Runtime)
BlockoutToolsEditorPlugin (Editor)
Current Version: 1.51
Number of Blueprints: 17
Number of C++ Classes: 2