Create Unreal Engine Source Project

Following section serves as guidance on how to create an Unreal Engine project from an Unreal Engine Source build.

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General

Unreal Engine 4

Create Project

  • start UE4Editor.exe (as Administrator)

  • Create Project

  • Disable Hot Reload & Restart Project

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  • Quit Unreal Engine

It's recommended to deactivate Hot Reload otherwise you are going to have build & compile problems.

Build Project

  • GenerateProjectFiles "<UNREAL ENGINE PATH>\Engine\Binaries\DotNET\UnrealBuildTool.exe" -projectfiles -project="<PROJECT>" -game -rocket -progress

  • Open Visual Studio (.sln)

  • Build Project

It depends on the exact version of Unreal Engine you are using, sometimes the project files are generated automatically, sometimes you have to generate them yourself.

Open Project

Unreal Engine Source Projects have to be opened in a more unusal way often, i found this method to be working the best. It's Open With->Search for App->UE4Editor.exe.