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April 28, 2024, 6:10pm
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Mewbits:
I can’t generate VS files on a 5.3 project that was upgraded to 5.4 or a fresh 5.4 Lyra sample project.
I get this error message:
Generating VisualStudio project files:
I’ve tried installing every SDK for VS, verifying unreal, reinstalling unreal, setting the entire engine folder to writable, adding the missing folder it says is denied and I then get a new access denied error about another folder, turning off my firewall, installing dotnet core 3.1 x64 direct from Microsoft… I’m at a loss here.
The project opens fine with Lyra, but my project won’t because it has some broken code after the upgrade. And I can’t modify the Lyra game code since the VS files won’t generate.
The old VS file from 5.3 doesn’t work and won’t build once I upgrade.
I’ll try every module in the “Compilers, build tools, and runtimes” section next.
However if anyone else knows what the issue is, advice would be greatly appreciated!
The error message suggests that the project is unable to generate VS files due to a lack of permissions to access the project files directory. The directory in question is “C:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_5.4\Engine\Intermediate\ProjectFiles”.
To resolve this issue, you can try the following steps:
Open an elevated command prompt (right-click on the command prompt and select “Run as administrator”).
Navigate to the project directory using the “cd” command.
Run the “icacls” command to check the permissions on the project directory.
If the permissions are not set correctly, run the “icacls” command with the appropriate permissions. For example, you can run the following command to give read and write permissions to the current user:
icacls "C:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_5.4\Engine\Intermediate\ProjectFiles" /grant:F <username>:F
Replace <username> with the username of the current user.
After changing the permissions, try generating the VS files again.
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