README.txt

                              UE4 Texture Merge Plugin
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                                      v0.2.0
                           
                            Created by Heiko Fink aka Cyx
                                           

                           
Contents:
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        I.    Description
        II.   Requirements
        III.  Installation
        IV.   Greetings        
        V.    LICENSE
        VI.   Third party copyrights and trademarks


I. Description
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This is the Unreal (R) Engine 4 plugin for texture merging based on UCanvasRenderTarget2D.

The plugin uses as a base the code published by DarthCoder here:
https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Texture_Merging_With_UCanvasRenderTarget2D

If you want to discuss the technical details you can use this forum thread:
https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?78902-Wiki-Texture-merging-with-UCanvasRenderTarget2D


II. Requirements
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* Make sure that you have Unreal Engine 4.9.2 or newer installed.


III. Installation
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* Download the plugin under: https://github.com/Cyx69/TextureMergePlugin/releases
* Copy the ZIP File to your closed Unreal project and unpack it directly in the main folder
* You should see now a new directory "Plugins\TextureMerge"
* Launch Unreal Editor
* Under "Edit/Plugins/Project" you should see now a new plugin


IV. Greetings
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Special thanks to:
- DarthCoder for publishing the code on the wiki and 
  for giving me the permission to release his code part for free under the MIT license
- Benedikt Engelhard for sponsoring the plugin part


V. LICENSE
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The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Heiko Fink

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
THE SOFTWARE


VI. Third party copyrights and trademarks
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Unreal (R) Engine is under the copyright of Epic Games, Inc.