Every time I try to open it, it will go through the motions of updating and recompiling to fit the new version of VS and Unreal but it always fails to compile.
I’ve installed multiple versions of VS and Unreal, redownloaded and unzipped the original files from the course , what am I doing wrong?
I can’t proceed in my courses at all…
by the way I work out of my one drive cloud but that shouldn’t effect it would it?
Thank you all for the help!
You need to provide more info. What VS are you using? VS Code? VS Community? 2019? 2022?
What error are you getting when you say “always fails to compile”? And how are you trying to compile it?
Here’s everything I’m seeing
I unzip the file
Go into the program files, right click the unity project and open with UE4 Editor
(I’ve tried opening with UE4 but it doesn’t work either)
It asks me if I would like to rebuild
Tells me I;m missing some game files
then flashes some stuff real quick like it’s thinking,
then tells me It won’t compile and I should rebuild from source which I have no idea how to do.
other stats:
I’m running
VS studio 2022
Windows 11
and Unreal engine 4.27.2
Thank you for looking into this, helps a lot
First thing I would try is to move the project folder to another folder like C:\UE4\BullCowGame-starter-kit sometimes UE4 doesn’t like long and deep folders. I would even change the folder name to just BullCowGame instead BullCowGame-starter-kit
Second, delete the folders “Intermediate” and “Saved”.
Third, right click on BullCowGame.uproject and click on Generate Visual Studio project files.
Fourth, it will create a BullCowGame.sln file, so double click on it to open it in Visual Studio.
Fifth, at one side of VS, you will have a tree at Solution Explorer, right click on BullCowGame (usually inside a “Games” folder) and select Build.
Finally, if you don’t get errors, try to open BullCowGame.uproject with Unreal Engine.
If you get errors, post em here, so we can know if you are missing some VS files installed or there are another problems.
I don’t use windows 11, so what does happen if you press on Show more options in that menu? maybe the generate vs project files is hidden?
if not, it is like doesn’t recognize there is a visual studio installed. BTW, wasn’t clear if you use Visual Studio Code 2022 or Visual Studio Community 2022.
Visual studio code
also the second image shows what I can see if I press more options
so i still cant find it
is there a manual way to get it to generate?
I had to make some test and I think managed to replicate your problem and how to fix it. I am not sure how it is in windows 11, so I will tell you what I did in Windows 10, the steps shouldn’t be very differents, but may be a bit differents.
Right click on BullCowGame.uproject > Open With > Choose Another App > mark Always use this App to open uproject, click on More Apps, click on Look for Another App on this PC > navigate to C:\Program Files (x86)\Epic Games\Launcher\Engine\Binaries\Win64\ (assuming you installed the launcher in the default directory, if not, you will have to search for it and reach that subfolder) and select UnrealVersionSelector.exe
After that, just ignore UE4 trying to launch your project and the errors, but you should be able to right click and Generate VS project files
I tried but I can’t seem to find that specific .exe file
I found a method on getting the right click method to work but it’ll take a while to try, do you think I should try it out?
Yes, try, but is weird you don’t have the launcher. Didn’t you install UE4 from Epic Games launcher (Epic Games Store)?
Could you provide the contents of the log that’s in the Saved folder?
Yes sir, Here you go
Log file open, 02/21/22 23:55:20
LogWindows: Failed to load ‘aqProf.dll’ (GetLastError=126)
LogWindows: File ‘aqProf.dll’ does not exist
LogWindows: Failed to load ‘VtuneApi.dll’ (GetLastError=126)
LogWindows: File ‘VtuneApi.dll’ does not exist
LogWindows: Failed to load ‘VtuneApi32e.dll’ (GetLastError=126)
LogWindows: File ‘VtuneApi32e.dll’ does not exist
LogConsoleResponse: Display: Failed to find resolution value strings in scalability ini. Falling back to default.
LogConsoleResponse: Display: Failed to find resolution value strings in scalability ini. Falling back to default.
LogInit: Display: Running engine for game: BullCowGame
LogPlatformFile: Not using cached read wrapper
LogTaskGraph: Started task graph with 5 named threads and 47 total threads with 3 sets of task threads.
LogStats: Stats thread started at 4.407256
LogICUInternationalization: ICU TimeZone Detection - Raw Offset: -6:00, Platform Override: ‘’
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Launching UnrealBuildTool… [D:/program files/UE_4.27/Engine/Binaries/DotNET/UnrealBuildTool.exe -Mode=QueryTargets -Project=“C:/Users/Yomas/OneDrive/Documents/Unreal Projects/BullCowGame/BullCowGame.uproject” -Output=“C:/Users/Yomas/OneDrive/Documents/Unreal Projects/BullCowGame/Intermediate/TargetInfo.json”]
LogInit: Warning: Incompatible or missing module: BullCowGame
Running D:/program files/UE_4.27/Engine/Binaries/DotNET/UnrealBuildTool.exe Development Win64 -Project=“C:/Users/Yomas/OneDrive/Documents/Unreal Projects/BullCowGame/BullCowGame.uproject” -TargetType=Editor -Progress -NoEngineChanges -NoHotReloadFromIDE
ERROR: Unhandled exception: Tools.DotNETCommon.JsonParseException: Unable to parse C:\Users\Yomas\OneDrive\Documents\Unreal Projects\BullCowGame\BullCowGame.uproject: Could not find token at index 67
at Tools.DotNETCommon.JsonObject.Read(FileReference File) in D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Saved\CsTools\Engine\Source\Programs\DotNETCommon\DotNETUtilities\JsonObject.cs:line 57
at UnrealBuildTool.ProjectDescriptor.FromFile(FileReference FileName) in D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Programs\UnrealBuildTool\System\ProjectDescriptor.cs:line 208
at UnrealBuildTool.RulesCompiler.CreateProjectRulesAssembly(FileReference ProjectFileName, Boolean bUsePrecompiled, Boolean bSkipCompile) in D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Programs\UnrealBuildTool\System\RulesCompiler.cs:line 503
at UnrealBuildTool.TargetDescriptor.ParseSingleCommandLine(CommandLineArguments Arguments, Boolean bUsePrecompiled, Boolean bSkipRulesCompile, List1 TargetDescriptors) in D:\Build\++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Programs\UnrealBuildTool\Configuration\TargetDescriptor.cs:line 343 at UnrealBuildTool.TargetDescriptor.ParseCommandLine(CommandLineArguments Arguments, Boolean bUsePrecompiled, Boolean bSkipRulesCompile, List1 TargetDescriptors) in D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Programs\UnrealBuildTool\Configuration\TargetDescriptor.cs:line 197
at UnrealBuildTool.BuildMode.Execute(CommandLineArguments Arguments) in D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Programs\UnrealBuildTool\Modes\BuildMode.cs:line 165
at UnrealBuildTool.UnrealBuildTool.Main(String ArgumentsArray) in D:\Build++UE4\Sync\Engine\Source\Programs\UnrealBuildTool\UnrealBuildTool.cs:line 557
LogInit: Warning: Still incompatible or missing module: BullCowGame
LogCore: Engine exit requested (reason: EngineExit() was called)
LogExit: Preparing to exit.
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LogXGEController: Cannot use XGE Controller as Incredibuild is not installed on this machine.
LogXGEController: Cleaning working directory: C:/Users/Yomas/AppData/Local/Temp/UnrealXGEWorkingDir/
LogModuleManager: Shutting down and abandoning module AnimationModifiers (34)
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LogExit: Exiting.
Log file closed, 02/21/22 23:55:37
I tried reinstalation, it didn’t seem to work…
Could you open BullCowGame.uproject in a text editor and post the contents?
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