Beginning Unreal Engine 4 Blueprints Visual Scripting: Using C++: From Beginner to Pro

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S. PvBeginning Unreal Engine 4 Blueprints Visual Scriptinghttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6396-9_3

3. C++ and Unreal Engine 4

Satheesh Pv¹  

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Mumbai, India

 

C++ is used in Unreal Engine 4 to create gameplay elements or modify the engine. In this chapter, you learn how to install Visual Studio for Unreal Engine. You also learn how to create C++ classes and see how they are structured.

Installing Visual Studio

Before you can write and compile C++ code, you need to have Microsoft Visual Studio (Community Edition or higher) installed on your machine (on macOS, you need Xcode). If you are installing Visual Studio for the first time, make sure to include C++ in your installation (see Figure 3-1).

Figure 3-1

Install Visual Studio with ...