I have been working with ue5 blueprints for several months now and am interested in learning some C++ basics in order to be more familiar with the system in general. I have installed visual studio with the help of this resource (Install Visual Studio Tools for Unreal Engine | Microsoft Learn) but am having a lot of issues getting started.
I have created a new blueprints project using the first-person template (since ideally, I would like to eventually use my current blueprint only project) and created a new C++ character class following along with the instructions in this tutorial (https://youtu.be/6485d5Zoc_k?si=mMwGGHki_9iqDhOt).
Without modifying any code after opening the solution in visual studio, when I click “local windows debugger”, I get the message “there were build errors. Would you like to continue and run the last successful build?”.
If I click no I get another error saying “the SetEnv task failed unexpectedly”, if I click yes, it I get the following popup. I have all of the modules installed that were recommended by the official Microsoft tutorial above and have both the most recent version of unreal (ue 5.8) and most recent version of visual studio (18.7.2) so I am uncertain why this occurs.
Clicking yes to the rebuild prompt them just gives me this error below.
I guess I am just confused as to why there are so many errors in a freshly created project.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.