I wasn’t going to say anything. But this (was) my spring break and I decided to download your engine. I spent three days installing and attempting to get VS 2017 and Unreal working together. I reinstalled windows and everything I had installed on this machine just to get it working. Now before doing that I did my research googling the error codes VS 2017 gave me. One of the results suggested that I download some project called “Total Uninstaller” for VS 2017. After trying that and reinstalling VS 2017 I could not even uninstall VS 2017 after further screw ups. Things were very broken. VS 2017 wouldn’t show up in programs and features but it would still be searchable and I could still run the software. I just couldn’t change anything about it. The problem was there was no problem with the compiler/code (I copy & pasted it from the learning materials). VS 2017 complained about some stuff (errors) and so I thought there was something screwed up.
This was all due to some compiler warnings about having insufficient rights and therefore not being able “to build for this target”. I only found this page yesterday and it helped immensely: Setting Up Visual Studio Development Environment for C++ Projects in Unreal Engine | Unreal Engine 5.2 Documentation
CAn you guys do something to make this page more visible when starting out with UE4 and VS 2017/2015/2013???
I have been super upset by all of this.
Will do. 