Failed to Generate Project Files

[michaelswallace]

Hello,
After I delete “BuildingEscape.sln” and right click the file “BuildingEscape.uproject” then select “Generate Visual Studio Project files” I receive the error “Failed to generate project files:” (see below). I have tried Unreal versions 4.17.2, 4.19.2, and 4.21.2. Each time I receive the same error message with the exception of the path “Games/UE_4.19” depending on the version I select to preform the task. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you, Mike

Running C:/Program Files/Epic Games/UE_4.19/Engine/Binaries/DotNET/UnrealBuildTool.exe  -projectfiles -project="C:/Users/micha/Documents/BuildingEscapeInstVersion/BuildingEscape/BuildingEscape.uproject" -game -rocket -progress -log="C:\Users\micha\Documents\BuildingEscapeInstVersion\BuildingEscape/Saved/Logs/UnrealVersionSelector-2019.02.10-09.56.01.log"
ERROR: UnrealBuildTool Exception: System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of the path 'c:\users\micha\documents\buildingescapeinstversion\buildingescape\saved\logs\unrealversionselector-2019.02.10-09.56.01.log'.
          at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
          at System.IO.FileStream.Init(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, Int32 rights, Boolean useRights, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options, SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES secAttrs, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy, Boolean useLongPath, Boolean checkHost)
          at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share)
          at UnrealBuildTool.UnrealBuildTool.GuardedMain(String[] Arguments)

[DanM]

It’s an odd bug with the build tool. You need to have a Saved/Logs directory in your project. i.e.

.
├── Binaries
├── Config
├── Content
├── Intermediate
├── Saved
│   ├── Logs
└── Source

[michaelswallace]

Since I wasn’t far into the lessons and wasn’t making any progress with the error I started the project over. I forwarded the logs with the crash report to Unreal.
Thanks for the reply.
Mike