Hot-reload doesn’t work and there are a few errors in the empty project.
There is only such a problem in UE5, in UE4 there is no such problem.
Tried to do a hot-reload in Rider IDE the same thing, but if you do a hot-reload in Editor, then everything works fine.
I also tried to build UE5 from the source, it did not fix anything.
P.S. Sorry for my English
I ran into this, too. I had to:
- turn off hot reload in the lower-right popup menu
- open the project in visual studio
- quit the unreal editor
- rebuild the project in visual studio
- open the project in unreal editor again
- turn on hot reload
(Maybe there was another quit-and-restart-the-editor-again, I forget.)
Then it would work.
Maybe you meant live coding? There is no disable/enable hot-reload.
I meant when to compile the project (ctrl + shift + B) and changes are made without closing the editor
Yes – neither worked for me initially. I had to close the editor, re-build the project in visual studio, and then start the editor, before hot reload would work (and then I could turn on live coding.)
Also, I don’t think re-building in Visual Studio makes it re-load anymore, it seems I have to re-build from within the editor for the hot reload to “take,” once I got it working.
But then I went back to live-coding, because it works better for me, now that they improved it.
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Thanks for the answer, but I need hot-reload, not live coding (hot-reload works better for me)
Yes, and as I said, I got that working first, before re-enabling live coding.
If you close the editor, and rebuild the project in visual studio, and then open the editor again, then hot-reloading should work. (At least as long as you compile from the editor, not from visual studio.)
This is understand, just a hot-reload from the editor works worse (in UE4) according to my observations. In addition, hot-reload works for other people without problems:
UE5 C++ Advanced Multiplayer True FPS Tutorial #1: Replication and Weapon Swapping - YouTube (10:05)
UE5 C++ Tutorial | Introduction to Unreal Engine 5 with C++ in less than 90 Minutes - YouTube (1:04:22)
This is still not working, I have added code in second game module (not a plugin), and cannot hot reload when compiling with lower right icon, or VS studio.
The only way i’ve managed is hitting recompile, in the Tools > Debug > Modules window. This will require me to recompile a second time. And also pull out that stupid window every time.