Finally, Epic recommends 32GB of RAM, but if that is not possible try to at least have 16GB.įor the purposes of this tutorial, I'm running VMWare Workstation 12 Windows 7 VM with 2 vCPU's and 16GB of RAM. Additionally, you will need about 45GB of disk space for the Unreal Engine 4 source so keep that in mind for source directory destination. Visual Studio will use all of the cores that it finds (at least for Intel) but does not seem to take advantage of hyper-threading. You should have fast multi-core PC as compiling can take a long time. We'll go over where the final executable will be so you can create a shortcut to your desktop. A negative is that your completed build can not be added to the launcher at this time, only the binaries. If you ever want to purchase from the Marketplace it needs a place to be stored (your vault). While the Unreal Launcher is not necessary, I would highly recommend downloading and installing. Github Desktop Windows Client : Github will be our access to the Unreal Engine 4 source code. For our purposes, we only need C++ which is not installed by default. Visual Studio 2015 Community : Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition is a development environment for the creation of all sorts of applications, from C#, C++ to web applications. This is where you projects and purchased (Vault) items are stored. Marketplace is great for art assets and blueprint programming projects, and finally, the Library. Learn is a great place to find tutorials.

Finally, there are four sub-sections in the left hand column: Community keeps you updated on important UE4 news. Unreal Launcher : The launcher has a top row of items for Epic Games major initiatives, but we'll be hanging out in the Unreal Engine tab. Github account creation will be covered, but Microsoft will not be because it is not necessary, but recommended. Also needed will be Github and Microsoft account for Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition. You must have an Epic Games account, if you don't head over here. A support / comments / suggestion forum thread is here. This tutorial is aimed at beginners so I will go through the entire process.

This means when new projects are created, the plugins are already there.Įven if you decide not to add plugins to your project, you can use the steps here to create a source build of the engine. Tired of having to put Rama's excellent VictoryBPLibraries into all of your projects manually? How about building a Git source that includes your favorite plugins. 4.3 Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition.Git Build with plugins - Epic Wiki # Git Build with plugins

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