#UE4 PACKAGE FOR MAC HOW TO#
#UE4 PACKAGE FOR MAC UPGRADE#

p4 for source control, depot contains only the game project contents.

Stock UE4.21 - 3-4 major versions behind latest release.

With all these in mind, I started to think of the next steps considering the current state of things:

Just double clicking a couple files should suffice, no one should be doing any ‘advanced user’ configuration.

#UE4 PACKAGE FOR MAC HOW TO#

How to configure the game project so it uses the custom UE4 engine and how to do it seamlessly for the team?.

What would be the process of upgrading an engine version once we start customizing?.

How do we go about the plugins with the custom engine?.

We’re talking of processing a few gigs to tens of gigs of binaries, asset files, source/header files, etc.

Which files to push to the source control and which files to ignore?.

Building UE4 from source is pretty straightforward and well documented, but how to package it for distribution?.

There were many unknowns for us to figure out: Turns out not many build engineers are around, who knew? No one in the team dealt with this kind of problem before, and we couldn’t find anyone around our friend circles to ask. Well, up until this time: Now I had to figure out how to setup a UE4 development and distribution workflow and the small team size was making it an achievable goal. Thankfully, almost all of the game studios I worked with had a dedicated build engineer to handle all this which allowed me to focus on the performance aspect of the titles. We wanted to be able to build UE4 from source and make changes to the engine as necessary.Įven though I have been working with UE4 source for a while and was familiar with the development workflow, I haven’t really dealt with build and distribution aspects of it.

The team was using the stock UE4 engine with a couple plugins for art tools such as Houdini, Substance and some utility plugins like AutoSettings. You can check out the team’s Twitter Page here.

1x sound engineer / producer / designer.

The development team was small, it consisted of: I have recently joined a group of friends to develop a 3D parkour game in Unreal Engine 4.

Customizing UE4 & Engine Upgrades from Epic.

Engine Distribution & Project Association.

UE4 Installed Build: Building the Engine for Distribution & Build Automation.

Configuring Perforce: p4ignore & type mappings.

#UE4 PACKAGE FOR MAC UPGRADE#

First Steps: Fix errors, upgrade stock UE4, figure out folder hierarchy.

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Ue4 package for mac