PSUnreal Programming

The overall process begins by installing Unreal Engine and building from source, then follows through the PSUnreal setup page.

Install Unreal Engine from sources on windows

A reasonably simple guide: http://www.hybridsyntax.com/en/blog/building-unreal-engine-4-on-windows.html

High level steps:

• Step 1: Register an account at UnrealEngine and GitHub
• Step 2: Add your GitHub username to in your UnrealEngine profile under your dashboard
• Step 3: Download the source code from UE4 Repo
  • list remote branches with: git ls-remote https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine.git
  • get source code with: git clone -b 4.24.1-release https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine.git
  • this will create a "Unreal Engine" directory as child of the dir where you run the command
• Step 4: Install Visual Studio 2017, follow these instructions to get the right components in your Visual Studio
• Step 5: Run Setup.bat to download and install the prerequisites
• Step 6: Run GenerateProjectFiles.bat to make project files
  • if it complains about windows 8.1 sdk, just install it from here
  • If you get the error "The reference assemblies for framework ".NETFramework,Version=v4.6.2" were not found." just install it from here
• Step 7: If you dont have it yet, you need to make an account to login to Visual Studio.
• Step 8: Launch Visual Studio, open UE4.sln and Build Unreal Engine 4 with Development Editor configuration and Win64 Platform
• Step 9: Copy F:\UnrealEngine\Engine\Source\ThirdParty\zlib\v1.2.8\lib\Win64\VS2015\zlib.dll to F:\Unreal Projects\MyProject2\PSUnreal\Binaries\Win64
• Step 10: Run the UE4Editor.exe from Engine\Binaries\Win64\ subdirectory

Building UEEditor on Linux

Next go here if you want to build UE for PlaneShift:

Building PSUnreal on Windows

Errors Unreal Compile

Errors in Running the client

Engine

Best tutorials to start with UE

Packing and shipping a project

CS Code convertion

Engine inner working

Check this article if you are suffering from slow Intellisense parsing: https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/c-gameplay-programming/65252-for-those-who-suffer-from-visual-studio-intellisense-slowness

PS Unreal Engine

Put here the notes of our architecture for Unreal.

PSUECharacter setup

Update Unreal Engine and Git commands

If you messed up your repository, try: git reset --hard

If you miss files try : git checkout .

To update to a newer UE version:

• git fetch
• git reset --hard (to discard local changes in case you have)
• git tag --list (to list all available new tags)
• git log --tags --simplify-by-decoration --pretty="format:%ai %d" (to see all tags with dates)
• git checkout 4.24.1-release --force
• launch Setup.bat to update dependencies
• launch GenerateProjectFiles.bat
• Delete all files contained in PSUnreal\Intermediate
• Clean the UE4 project from VS
• Rebuild

Alternative Update Unreal Engine using Tortoise Git GUI

Get TortoiseGit here.

To update to a newer UE version, In windows explorer right click on folder containing Unreal engine then:

• select > TortoiseGit > fetch. (make sure in window that opens "tags" is selected under options
• TortoiseGit > revert (to discard local changes in case you have)
• TortoiseGit > switch/checkout
  • Then select tag and choose 4.24.1-release from dropdown
  • Under options only have "overwrite working tree changes (force)" selected
  • Press "ok" and allow it to update.
• launch Setup.bat to update dependencies
• launch GenerateProjectFiles.bat
• Delete all files contained in PSUnreal\Intermediate
• Clean the UE4 project from VS
• Rebuild