Wire Manipulation Shortcuts
Learn shortcuts to enhance and simplify your Unreal Engine wire manipulation workflows.
Shortcuts
Blueprints
Tezenari@Tezenari
•Updated 2 years ago
Learn shortcuts to enhance and simplify your Unreal Engine wire manipulation workflows.
Enhance your Unreal Engine wire manipulation workflow by utilizing the SHIFT, CTRL, and ALT modifiers when clicking on a wire or pin.
| Shortcut | Description |
|---|---|
| SHIFT + LMB [Wire] | Highlights the wire and the closest pin. |
| SHIFT + LMB [Pin] | Highlights the pin and the connected wire. |
| SHIFT + LMB [Output + Input Pins] | Connect two pins without dragging. |
| CTRL + LMB [Wire] | Opens the context menu to inject a node onto the wire. This will connect to the furthest pin. |
| CTRL + DRAG LMB [Wire/Pin] | Drags the wire. Useful for dragging the wire to an alternative pin. |
| ALT + LMB [Wire/Pin] | Disconnects the wire(s). |
| Double LMB/MMB [Wire] | Add reroute node. |
| SHIFT + Double MMB [Wire] | Add reroute node and highlight from reroute node to next pin. |
These shortcuts work in the following graph
Wire manipulation within Unreal Engine can be quite tricky! Regardless if you have worked within Blueprints, Materials, MetaSounds, Niagara, or ControlRig, it can be troublesome to deal with. Thankfully, there are a few useful shortcuts that can help alleviate this. Let me show you!
This first shortcut makes it easier to identify the wire you are working with by highlighting it and its nearest connected pin. Hold down the SHIFT key and left-click on the wire or pin you wish to highlight. Note that you can only highlight one wire at a given time. To un-highlight, hold down the SHIFT key and left-click on any wire or pin.
The following shortcut is quite the hidden gem! Instead of dragging from one pin to another to connect them with a wire, you can simply hold down the SHIFT key and left-click on an output pin and then another node's input pin (or vice versa). No dragging involved. Extremely useful for connecting those pesky, far-away nodes!
This next shortcut is very useful for when you need to inject nodes in-between two connected nodes. By holding down the CTRL key and left-clicking on the wire, the context menu will appear to allow you to inject a node between them. However, the catch is that this injected node will only connect to the node furthest from where you clicked on the wire.
Now this next shortcut is very common and extremely useful. While holding down the CTRL key, left-click on a pin that has connected wires and then drag. This will allow you to move those connected wires to another pin, or if you let go of the wires on the graph, you can summon the context menu to summon another node to connect with. Alternatively, you can use the same shortcut on a wire itself.
Next is an organizational shortcut! Double click on any wire to spawn an attached reroute node. This node will help you to organize and clean up your wires. Make sure to use this shortcut often, as it's easier to develop when your graphs are clean~
And lastly, a classic. You can easily disconnect wires from pins by holding down the ALT key and left-clicking on either the wire or a pin.
Make sure you memorize these shortcuts as they will prove their weight in gold on your Unreal Engine development journey!