Unreal Engine 4 is available for Win10 UWP app dev now

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To run from VS you need to get content files into a location where the temporary deployment can read them. This can’t be the standard UE directories since the UWP sandbox prevents access. Typically this means running an editor build to do cook-on-the-fly, and then pointing the UWP app at it to stream the content. To do so, you need to set some ‘command line’ parameters, which for UWP means dropping a UE4CommandLine.txt in your Binaries/UWPxx folder (this should automatically get copied into Binaries/UWPxx/AppX during deployment).

Thanks for this, it was very helpful.

You can also borrow the instance of the cook server that the editor spins up in order to provide the content.

I can’t find any option in the editor to keep the cook server running all the time - the only reference I can find in the UI is that it starts up the cook-on-the-fly server when launching on device. Do you know a better way to get the cook server running?

Alternatively you can pre-cook everything offline and then manually copy your cooked content into the Binaries/UWPxx/AppX location.

Is it practical to get this content deployed automatically, or perhaps hard-link it in, as part of the regular build process?

All this is a good reminder that we still need a FAQ posted to GitHub.

Indeed! It’s tempting to start something, at least with key information from this thread, for later refinement.