It’s not very newbie friendly, that, unfortunately, is a given.
You’ll just have to bite the bullet. Sooner or later there’s going to be an update and there you go again.
- Get a Github account
- Install Visual Studio Express
- Download or clone the latest VXGI build
- Run setup.bat
- Run generateprojectfiles.bat
- Double click UE4.sln
- Wait eons for it to do it’s initial stuff
- Right click on UE4 in the sollutions explorer and select build
- Wait eons again
- Launch UE4 VXGI via F5
I probably forgot some stuff but the above is the gist of it.
Again, yes, it’s not as easy as a lazy plugin or anything, but it’s better than not using it because you can’t follow 10 or so relatively easy -albeit slightly single time consuming- steps.
Just do it 