Updaing the Source Code Editor in Unreal project settings Generating VS COde project files

Change it to VS Code (make sure you’ve got it installed on your system otherwise this option may not come up). Once you’ve got a project to work with, open the preferences and go to General -> Source Code, You’ll see the Source Code Editor prop, which by default is set to XCode on MacOS. The first step is to make a new project or change an esisting one, since the whole premis of this is setting up our project to work with VSCode you’ll want to choose a C++ project.Ĭreate a project in UE4 Setting the default Source Editor It’s what I use as a web developer so why not repurpose it for C++ too! The end result looks like this, glorious autocomplete, which someone who’s not familiar with the ins and outs of UE4 and C++ autcomplete is a huge helper.Īutocompletion for C++ in an Unreal Project with VSCode A new C++ project AutocompleteĪfter hours of frustration, I decided to setup VScode instead. Without indexing, the project will do syntax highlighting but jump to defintion is doesn’t work, autocomplete is lackluster and in the end you’re better off just using a text editor with syntax highlighting for all the help it gives you. Why does it matter? Indexing allows the editor features you’d expect to have access to like autocompletion, linting etc. XCode will try and index the C++ project which will take forever, I don’t know how long exactly because I gave up after 4 hours.

I tried getting Xcode working with Unreal Engine 4.26 but I kept running into the same issue. Here’s my setup that I’ve found to be pretty good so far. My only regret is that there are far more hoops to jump through for getting Unreal Engine working (especially if you’ve got a shiny new M1). I use a Mac day to day for work and recently got rid of my Windows machine as it just wasn’t getting used. So how do we get a good development experience on Mac in UE4 with C++? Windows is still the the most popular operating system for Unreal Engine 4 development and it shows, most tutorials you’ll see, documentation and resources default to Windows. but it’s not so common for video game development. Mac is a popular patform for developers of web apps, server applications etc.

Ue4 visual studio setup