You should be ready now to start writing C++ in Unreal Engine. I like having a shortcut to rescan the file if it gets stuck with a false positive go to Tools/Options, select Keyboard and configure a hotkey (I use Ctrl+Shift+R): See here for instructions in case it doesn’t work out of the box. While many people enjoy using Visual Assist or Resharper, I have found IntelliSense (which comes with Visual Studio) to be generally serviceable, with the occasional glitch. It’s very important that when you’re coding, you’re getting immediate feedback if there is a bug in your code, even before you compile. This will be useful when we’re debugging (see below): Again in Tools/Customize, select Toolbar and Debug, then add the Disconnect button. Add the Disconnect button to the Debug toolbar.Go to Tools/Customize, select the Commands tab and then select Toolbar and Standard, click on Solution Configuration and press the Modify Selection button, then enter Width 150: Resize the Configurations drop-down menu.

In the Epic Launcher click the arrow and select Options:.

If you have already installed it and you forgot, follow these steps: Being able to step inside Unreal‘s code when debugging is invaluable.

Make sure to install the debug symbols when you install Unreal.

Detailed instructions are here, so I’ll just mention a few points of interest: As of Unreal 4.23 I installed Visual Studio 2019 and it works fine. While you don’t need anything additional if you just use Blueprints, in order to use C++ you’ll need to install Visual Studio. On the other hand, if you want to write code with enough computational cost (in my case AI) then I would expect Blueprints to be as much as 10x slower than C++ (though performance will be much closer with Nativization). At the same time, I’m scared by what the graphs will look like as complexity increases.įinally, if a game is just a light wrapper over the functionality the engine provides, then Blueprints will perform just fine. I’m very impressed with what can be accomplished by using Blueprints alone: you have almost full access to everything in the engine. I feel pretty comfortable in C++ and I want to have great performance in the games I make so, for me, using C++ while developing in Unreal Engine 4 was the way to go.

Ue4 visual studio setup