Targets of this tutorial

Installation of

Outcome

Ability to compile and start Lyra

As promised, we will not use any C++ coding in our approach. Still, we need to have a working coding environment in place for several reasons

Lyra needs to recompile quite often and stumbles if there is not environment available
we want to debug workflows to understand how different parts of Lyra are connected
we will come to a point where defining a new functionality is easier in coding than Blueprints - but at that point we will have learned enough to know what we are doing (fingers crossed…)

Download & install Visual Studio Community
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- Download link en
Install Unreal Engine & Lyra
Set up VS to be usable as debugger
- Search the plugin “Visual Studio Integration Tool” from the marketplace. Install into your engine and enable this plugin in your project
- Go to your engine installation folder. Go to “/engine/extras/UnrealVS/”. Select your VS version and install the Visual Studio extension from there
Generate Visual Studion solution file from the Unreal project: “Menu/Tools/Create (later: Refresh) Visual Studio Project”
Open your project in VS, right click on “LyraStarterGame” in your project explorer. First choose “Clean”, afterwards choose “Build”