Unreal Engine 5 Introduction

Getting started with Unreal Engine 5 early access.

Unreal Engine 5 MSVC Build Tools

Episodes

[1] Running Unreal Engine 5 Early Access 2:29
[2] Unreal Engine 5 Live Reload 1:44
[3] Unreal Engine 5 & JetBrains Rider 1:01
[4] Unreal Engine 5 MSVC Build Tools 1:19
[5] C++ Classes Private vs Public 2:05
[6] Migrating UE4 to UE5 | TObjectPtr 2:47

Details

With the recent release of Unreal Engine 5 Preview we'll need to make sure our Visual Studio compiler (MSVC) is up to date. If you get the error to verify the Visual Studio toolchain of `MSVC v142 - VS 2019 C++` is the latest and `UnrealBuildTool requires at minimum the MSVC 14.29.30133 toolchain` we have two ways of fixing this. If you're development environment and team is still using Visual Studio 2019 we can ensure we update to the latest version within the Visual Studio Installer. Otherwise we can install the latest Visual Studio 2022 version to get the latest MSVC build tools. For those stuck on Visual Studio 2019 go to Visual Studio Installer and update. Once updated we'll need to reboot. Verify Unreal Engine 5 is able to build a C++ project by creating a blank C++ project from the launcher. Otherwise we can download Visual Studio 2022 Community edition to get the latest build tools. We can get the latest from https://visualstudio.microsoft.com Once Visual Studio 2022 is installed reboot and again create a blank C++ project to ensure everything is able to build properly.