Getting into C++ with Unreal Engine - Part1 - Setting up

NOTE: Anyone who cant find 'Universal Windows Platform Development' in the visual studio installer, looks like MS renamed it and changed the icon. Its now called 'Windows Application Development' A couple of things were pointed out by Ari Arnbjörnsson, they are important considerations: at 14:46 I put a note on screen which basically implies you can use a TSharedPtr instead of UPROPERTY to keep an object from garbage collection, which is not really what I intended to say (although it says exactly that!), and is plainly WRONG ;-) The second point is related to memory management, object lifetimes, and garbage collection, and relates to changes since UE5.0. I have pinned Ari's comment, please check it out if you want to know more. And hopefully I will talk more about these things in a future video. This video is the first part in a short series aimed at giving people who want to use C++ with the Unreal Engine a helping hand. In this part, I go over installing the software you will need, setting up your development machine to allow you to work with C++ in unreal, and then I discuss the most common classes and features you may encounter while working on your projects. I cover some basic things about how C++ projects work, to help people from a Blueprint background. And I talk about some of the pitfalls that people who already have C++ experience might encounter, so that you can avoid them. Links Chat about gamedev on Discord:   / discord   Unreal, hardware and software specs: https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.1/en-... Install Epic Launcher: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/do... Download Visual Studio: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs... Download Rider (30 day trial): https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/downl... Epic – Setting up Visual Studio: https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.1/en-... Unreal Build Configs:https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.1/en-... Unreal Coding Standards: https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.1/en-... Unreal Collection Classes: https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.1/en-... Chapters 00:00 - Start 01:01 - Hardware Specs 01:45 - Epic Launcher 02:55 - IDE 04:35 - Rider 05:14 - Shill for the win! 05:45 - Project Structure 07:17 - If you already know C++ 09:56 - C++ Standard Libraries 12:53 - C++ Macros 15:49 - Assets 17:58 - Split C++/BP Classes 21:01 - Code Modules 22:30 - Plugins 24:24 - Unreal Classes 26:10 - Common Unreal Classes 27:49 - GameMode 29:36 - GameMode Default Classes 34:23 - Summary