Comments on: Unreal C++ with Visual Studio Code

By: Colen

Colen — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 00:00:54 +0000

Hi Wojtek. In your list of extensions for VS Code, you include both the MS C/C++ extension as well as the third party “C++ Intellisense” extension. Both of these extensions attempt to register to provide the same language service features. To avoid issues, I’d recommend using either the C/C++ Extension OR the C++ Extension, not both. Also, the C/C++ extension includes Clang-format support. 🙂

By: Wojtek

Wojtek — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 13:46:15 +0000

In reply to Jack.

Hi Jack,

Unfortunately I have not messed around with the project generation batch files too much but it looks like they are available as part of the Engine source code. Specifically the following https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/blob/release/Engine/Build/BatchFiles/GenerateProjectFiles.bat

You could take a look and see if there is enough overrides to manage this. Alternatively you could catch the commands through the “generate project files” / “refresh project” operations in the editor and see where they go. The output engine logs should provide some of that insight.

If you do happen to come across a solution would be curious to know ! Thanks

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 15:12:16 +0000

Hey! Really enjoying being able to work with VSCode using UE4. Really makes my development environment much cleaner.

My only question is, do you know how to generate project files for VSCode from outside the Editor? My team and I spend a lot of time rebuilding the engine and generating project files, but it’s always the default (Windows: VS / Mac: XCode). I can’t find any info on updating the GenerateProjectFiles script to generate a specific solution type.

Any help appreciated, thanks!

Jack