UE4 Development Tools

In this chapter, we will outline some basic recipes for getting started in Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) game development, and the basic tools that we will use for creating the code that makes our game. This will include the following recipes:

• Installing Visual Studio
• Creating and building your first C++ project in Visual Studio
• Changing the code font and color in Visual Studio
• Extension – changing the color theme in Visual Studio
• Formatting your code (Autocomplete settings) in Visual Studio
• Shortcut keys in Visual Studio
• Extended mouse usage in Visual Studio
• UE4 – installation
• UE4 – first project
• UE4 – creating your first level
• UE4 – hot reloading
• UE4 – logging with UE_LOG
• UE4 – making an FString from FStrings and other variables