The remaster of the Unreal course is underway - yippie!
Ask general questions here, plus I’ll be updating this topic with the latest.
The first step is to re-work section 1, focusing on cross platform install of Unreal and VS Code. I’ll also be working to help you understand the ecosystem better than before.
Got VS Code working beautifully with Unreal engine. Nice and fast and cross-platform. I’m going to update the promotional video explaining the remaster as a first job, then I’ll start the install videos.
Could you give us a small run-down of what you did to make VS Code run like that? I’m an experienced programmer and starting on the Unreal course right now, but I rather use VS Code right out of the gate instead of using Xcode (I’m currently on a Mac). I’ve never in the past had a good experience using VS Code with Unreal before, so some small pre-release indication of what are the steps you took would be very helpful.
I think it might be cool to start each project off, maybe right before the GDD, by showing a working version of roughly what the final project will look like. Visually seeing what we’re building ahead of time, could help with starting to plan out where and how to make a few changes along the way to make the project “ours”, if that makes sense. And it might provide some encouragement to work through it.
On the other hand, it isn’t very realistic to know ahead of time what you’ll end up with, so…
@coltonium
As far as I understood it and as far section 1 of the remaster tells the remastered course will just use VS Code (Visual Studio Code) to write C++.
The reason for this is cross platform I think.
If I should be wrong with what I said here, feel free to correct me.
As a PC user you’ll be able to follow in VS Code or VS Community 2019 (when we update section 1). Other platform users will be encouraged to use VS Code.
I am sure Ben and Gavin could create a video but during production the finished product doesn’t really exist yet. It is built and prototypes along the way. So at some later point a overview video would have to be created towards the end of the section
VS Code does not have a year version designation, it’s just “VS Code”, Visual Studio has a year version designation that aligns with the toolset version - VS 2015 = 140, VS 2017 = 141, VS 2019 = 142. My personal recommendation is to use Visual Studio 2019 (VS 2019) for all of the above, but you can absolutely do it with VS Code as well. The main difference is that VS Code is essentially a fancy text editor, Visual Studio (versions) is a fully featured Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Use whatever is most comfortable for you, but if you’re new and on Windows, you’ll get the best tools using the full VS IDE.