Installing Citysample

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I am just a person that would like to test citysample demo on my system.

I cannot find a clear tutorial for doing so.

I am not a developer so I don’t have any tools. The tools that came with the cictysample project are not for a Microsoft system.

I need a very clear step by step guide on how to get it working on Windows 10 that does not have any tools on it at all.

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Well, from scratch (with a vanilla Windows 10):

  1. Install “Visual Studio Community Edition”. This is a mandatory requirement as the city sample uses C++.

Be sure to select the workloads: “.NET desktop development”, “Desktop development with C++”, “Universal Windows Platform development”, and “Game development with C++”.

=> This is the most difficult part for a non-developer. All infos are here: Setting Up Visual Studio Development Environment for C++ Projects in Unreal Engine | Unreal Engine 5.2 Documentation

  1. Install Epic Game Launcher
    => https://store.epicgames.com/fr/download

  2. From the launcher, install Unreal Engine 5.2, and then also from the launcher in the “Unreal Engine” category, install the “City Sample”. It can be found easily.

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  1. From the launcher, create the City Sample project, and open it once it have been created.

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  1. In Unreal Editor, select the “Platform” icon, go to “Windows” and choose “Package Project”

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  1. Select a destination directory, and wait… for a couple of hours :wink:

In the end, you’ll have a nice CitySample.exe for you to run

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Thank you for the guide.

I am not getting an option to choose a platform like I can see in the steps that you created. I already created it once (yesterday) and I think I got tools for Linux because there are no exe file in it.

I just get the same as in the image.

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If I try to launch the unreal engine which I think you call it Unreal editor. I get the below message.

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The last error message means that either you have a very old graphic card, or you your graphic drivers are not up to date. Be sure to install the latest versions, otherwise UE will not work at all

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I installed it on another computer that does not support DirectX12. But I managed to change setting for it to work the DirectX11 old laptop.

However, I am not able to get it to run because the system does not meet the Hardware requirements. Keeps on crashing!

Can some tell me how I can reduce as much as possible from the graphics so that it works.

Is there a list that I can remove things like shadows from all objects and reflection and to reduce resolution and number of total objects and to remove all trees.

I want to see if it will work if I do so.

I just want to talk to the NPC AI characters. Is it possible to talk to the character via keyboard instead of Microphone.

Is there a way to change the Avatar to a male because I hate being a female Avatar.

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I have found a way around this.

I found a download called CitrySample Crowd.

It is possible to load it but not able to talk to NPC yet.

Is it possible. So my request if someone could download it and get it all the way up to talking to them via Microphone and Keyboard.

I saw both options in videos. Not sure if I need them to connect to a particular server for the next step.

Please include as much details as possible as I am clueless about Real engine.