UEFN Verse: Fortnite.digest

In this article, I'll show you how to use the Fortnite.digest file to look up information about the functions and events of the creative devices that are available for use with Verse.

In Visual Studio Code, in your UEFN project Explorer, you'll notice that there are a few ".digest.verse" files. These files are generated during a Fortnite build and should not be modified manually. They serve as a reference to see what is available in the Verse API.

The Fortnite.digest file is the most up-to-date documentation for creative devices in UEFN/Verse. When a new creative device is made available in Verse, it may not yet be in the web documentation, but it will definitely be in Fortnite.digest.

In your UEFN/Verse project, if you Ctrl+click on the name of a creative device class, Visual Studio Code will open Fortnite.digest where the class is defined. In the image below, I clicked on the timer_device class.

Another option is to search directly in the Fortnite.digest file. For example, if you see a creative device that you have in the UEFN editor and want to know what the equivalent Verse class is. In Visual Studio Code, open Fortnite.digest and press F3 to open the search box. The class name follows the pattern name_device.

The image below shows part of the timer_device class. Here we can see the events available to subscribe a function. The events have :listenable and the required parameter is in parentheses. In addition to the events, we have the Enable, Disable and Reset functions that allow the Timer to be controlled using Verse code.

For example, SuccessEvent is an event that receives a ?agent (optional agent) as a parameter. So we need to create a function that receives a ?agent as a parameter to be able to subscribe to the SuccessEvent.

If you don't know how to subscribe a function in an event, see my article UEFN Verse: Functions.

Also, If you don't know how to call the functions of a class, I recommend my other article UEFN Verse: Classes and Instances.

Not all creative device features that appear in the UEFN editor are available for Verse. The Fortnite.digest file is a quick way to look up what's available for Verse within Visual Studio Code.

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