Unreal Game Sync support

[SRombauts]

Asked today by @sirjofri on Unreal Slackers (but far from the first user to ask)

It would be great to have some UGS similar tool for Unreal

Unreal Game Sync is a tool above Perforce, https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/ProductionPipelines/DeployingTheEngine/UnrealGameSync/

[SRombauts]

Inspired by UGS, but with PlasticSCM instead of Perforce:

Andreas Thorstensson (@andreas)
Busy week for the @PlayGoals team that keeps on delivering. We have built and open sourced an Unreal Editor build distribution system for Windows, Linux and Mac that we call GAMECURE. https://t.co/V0EEAAM226

[sirjofri]

The mentioned tool sounds also very promising.

One minor suggestion for your Plastic-UGS solution: Many teams (like us) don't maintain their own version of the editor, but only plugins and game modules (using the standard Unreal from the launcher). It would be great if we could also benefit from your solution, i. e. sync game and plugin binaries, but not the editor.

Thank you for working on good Plastic integration :)

[SRombauts]

I saw someone asking for this on Unreal forums (last year already) so I am referencing this here
https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/anyone-tried-integrating-unreal-game-sync-for-plastic-scm/235674

[mikeseese]

I looked into refactoring UGS to create an abstraction layer for the source control provider, and it's non-trivial due to the highly coupled nature. It would be much easier to implement a new application (such as https://github.com/goalsgame/gamecure mentioned in the two comments here).

I personally found Gamecure to be immature, not easily configurable opinionated solution back in June. Perhaps it has matured since then. I'm still tempted to create a NodeJS solution instead of a C# one that is designed with abstraction layers in mind.

If you think about it, UGS is also highly opinionated and not that configurable; a rewrite is due.