Using Unreal Engine 5.1.1

Development Programming & Scripting
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Hello everyone,

I have a question regarding the use of Unreal Engine 5.1.1.

I would like to know if it’s possible to download an offline installer, without needing to log into the launcher to download the software. There is someone who needs to use the software and I don´t wanna share my credentials.

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just tell them to make an account.

not sure what os you use, for linux you can download from the web the binary version, for windows i don’t think you can.

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there is some good news, bad news depending on situations:

for the version that would be installed as binaries though the Epic Games launcher:

  • if you have the binaries installed on your system, your Epic Games Launcher credentials are not attached to them, just take the entire directory and give it to them, they might need to run it once through the executable found int [Engine Version]/Engine/Binaries/[Operating System] (for windows it would be UnrealEditor) to get registry hooks

please note that this version is outside of support, and not possible to download directly, and even had a bugfix patch after that version (I think that it would be 5.1.4 was the last), and getting the Debug Symbols is often sub-version specific

for the manually compiled version there is 2 answers based on license agreements, and affiliation between the 2 of you:

  • if they are on your team, and have a github account in a status where they would be able to get the engine otherwise, then you can just given them the source code to work from (your credentials are not baked into it. the github account would be if Epic decides to do accounting on your project which is “rare”
  • if they are not on your team then technically they are wholly supposed to obtain the files themselves from the github.

as with all instances of the Manually compiled engine, Epic is not responsible for the modifications done outside of the initial download.