Setting up development environment (Part 1/3)

Visual Studio 2019 for C++

In this module, we will be setting up the development environment for Unreal Engine 4. Thjat means everything except the engine and editor itself. If you have a fast running PC with lightning fast compile times, then that is great. But a large segment of users use slower PCs/laptops and thus the engine gets a bad name for heavily resource demaning.

If you have difficulty setting up UE4 with VS2019, make sure you have followed these steps.

• You have downloaded the engine from Epic launcher.
• You have downloaded Visual studio Installer and Community edition.

Requirements

If you are running low on storage/want to do a minimal installation, here is all you need to run UE4. Game Dev module is not needed. .NET desktop development is ticked for me because I use it. You won't need it.

While Desktop development with C++ is ticked, you would need the

• MSVC v142
• Win10 SDK
• JIT Debugger
• You'll need Profiling/CMake/ATL at some point, not for UE4 but for writing third party plugin codes.
• You won't need Test adapters.

That should throw a chunk of undesired files off your system. Now, additionally we would need _.NET framework__ and directx. If you game a lot, you should have these by default. If you don't,

1. you can download them here and here.
2. Use chocolatey package manager and
3. Install dev tools(some extra stuff) as shown below.

Requirements

Known errors:

• Cannot open include file: 'crtdbg.h': No such file or directory
• You are lacking the

Throughout this series, I want to point out a few good practices and softwares through which your speed of development can improve.

We will only be covering Windows because I don't own a mac. Keybindings for vscode for example may be different.