Visual Studio Code with UE4

[spockTheGray (adalterated)]

@tanis2000;712735

Yes, exactly. You code with VSCode and compile with Unreal Editor. Actually you could compile from within VSCode but there’s still something buggy in the CMakefiles definitions so it won’t really work. But that’s something that might be solved with some clever work.

The CLionSourceCodeAccess plugin is an UE4 plugin so you add it to your Unreal Editor as usual. But you want to add the YouCompleteMe extension of VSCode as well if you want autocomplete to work. And it’s a bit complicated to get it working as you need to go all the way to compiling and installing a VIM plugin to get everything working, but I’ve already done it a couple of times on different development machines, so that’s definitely doable.

Thanks for the info! It’s good to know that there’s at least a working alternative - I’ll keep this in mind. The only downside then, I think, you can’t use NVIDIA’s Gameworks integrations (they have it integrated in the source on Github)… but at least this could get us working w/ pre-compiled UE4.