# ue-world-level-streaming

Teaches the agent how Unreal Engine 5.8 handles level streaming and World Partition: loading and unloading, data layers, map travel.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1100 installs · ★ 405
- Author: quodsoler
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/quodsoler/unreal-engine-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/ue-world-level-streaming/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-28
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/ue-world-level-streaming

## What it does

The skill hands the agent a map of the relevant API for how a `UWorld` is put together and swapped at runtime: World Partition grids, data layers, HLOD, level instances, classic sub-levels and streaming volumes, plus travel between maps. Ask for a fix in that area and the agent goes to the right section instead of guessing. A comparison table covers the choice of streaming model, from one big continuous map to a wholly separate level.

Some setups clash, and the skill says so: World Partition and sub-level streaming cannot both drive the same persistent level, and `UWorld::IsPartitionedWorld()` tells you which one is active. Header locations are given for the checks that matter, such as `UWorldPartitionSubsystem::IsAllStreamingCompleted()` and the `Unloaded`, `Loaded`, `Activated` cell states, so the agent queries readiness rather than polling actors in a loop.

Everything covered lives in the `Engine` module, which means `Core`, `CoreUObject` and `Engine` in `PublicDependencyModuleNames` are enough. The single exception, Level Streaming Persistence, adds the `LevelStreamingPersistence` module. Target is UE 5.8: older call forms sit in a deprecated list, so on earlier engine builds the signatures may not line up with your headers. Neighbouring subjects — replication, game mode callbacks, saving world state — point to other skills in the same set.

## Requirements
- Works with: Unreal Engine

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add quodsoler/unreal-engine-skills --skill ue-world-level-streaming -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/ue-world-level-streaming/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/ue-world-level-streaming/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add quodsoler/unreal-engine-skills --skill ue-world-level-streaming -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/ue-world-level-streaming/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add quodsoler/unreal-engine-skills --skill ue-world-level-streaming -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/ue-world-level-streaming/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install quodsoler/unreal-engine-skills ue-world-level-streaming
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/ue-world-level-streaming/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add quodsoler/unreal-engine-skills --skill ue-world-level-streaming -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/quodsoler/unreal-engine-skills --path skills/ue-world-level-streaming
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/ue-world-level-streaming/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add quodsoler/unreal-engine-skills --skill ue-world-level-streaming -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/quodsoler/unreal-engine-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/ue-world-level-streaming/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- pick between World Partition and sub-levels for a given map
- set up grid streaming and streaming sources in an open world
- toggle optional content with data layers without reloading the map
- load and unload a sub-level or level instance from code
- move players to another map with `OpenLevel` or `ServerTravel`

## Example prompts
- Set up World Partition for an open world map and add a streaming source on the player
- I want to switch a dungeon on and off with a data layer — show me how to change its runtime state
- Load the `Boss_Arena` sub-level and unload it once the fight ends

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: ue-world-level-streaming
description: "Use when streaming levels in and out, setting up World Partition, or moving between maps. Also use when the user mentions 'level streaming', 'World Partition', 'data layer', 'UDataLayerManager', 'SetDataLayerRuntimeState', 'LoadStreamLevel', 'UnloadStreamLevel', 'ULevelStreamingDynamic', 'LoadLevelInstance', 'ALevelInstance', 'streaming source', 'streaming volume', 'HLOD', 'OpenLevel', 'ServerTravel', 'seamless travel', 'sub-level', 'open world', or 'UWorldSubsystem'. For replication and net relevancy, see ue-networking-replication; for GameMode travel callbacks, see ue-gameplay-framework; for saving world state to disk, see ue-serialization-savegames."
metadata:
  version: "2.0.0"
  engine: "5.8"
---

# UE World & Level Streaming

Target engine: **UE 5.8**. APIs below are verified against the 5.8 headers; older forms are listed under "Deprecated — do not use".

This skill covers how a `UWorld` is composed and swapped at runtime: World Partition grids, data layers, HLOD, level instances, classic sub-level streaming, streaming volumes, and map travel. Everything here lives in the `Engine` module (`Engine/Source/Runtime/Engine`), so `Core`, `CoreUObject` and `Engine` in `PublicDependencyModuleNames` is all that is needed. The one exception is the Level Streaming Persistence plugin, which adds the `LevelStreamingPersistence` module.

For end-to-end configurations per game type (open world, hub-and-spoke, procedural, chapter-based, volume-driven, dedicated server), see [streaming patterns](references/streaming-patterns.md).

## Context

Read `.agents/ue-project-context.md` if it exists (module names, conventions, enabled plugins, GAS/networking setup). Do not stop if it is missing.

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