ShpGeometry - Unreal Engine Plugin

This plugins is intended to import geometry from ESRI shape files. This is a very early version that imports only polygon shapes into a ShpFileAsset, that can be used to generate ProceduralMeshComponents.

Compatibility

• Unreal Engine 4 is supported at least with 4.27 (branch ue4, tag ue4.27)
• Unreal Engine 5 is supported up to 5.1 (on master branch)

Building

This plugin uses GeoReference, SpatialGeometryTools, UnrealGDAL, ue4cli and conan-ue4cli to build and manage the required GDAL libraries.

• Download a Release of UnrealGDAL and place it in the Plugins directory or clone and follow instructions to build UnrealGDAL from source.

Usage

Add ShpGeometry to .uproject or .uplugin

"Plugins": [
  {
    "Name": "ShpGeometry",
    "Enabled": true
  }
]

Add build dependencies to your modules

PublicDependencyModuleNames.AddRange(
  new string[]
  {
    "ShpGeometry",
    "ShpGeometryEditor"
  }
);

Funding

Development of this code was partially funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under funding reference number 13FH1I01IA.