Support for engine files

[NorthBlue333]

Hello! We tried the extension which seems great, but we do a lot of work directly in the engine. Would it be possible to support the engine plugins and source paths? As a note, we use a custom installation for the engine. It could be possible to customize this path in the options maybe?

I can provide more info if needed.

Thank you for your time!

[fdefelici]

Hi @NorthBlue333,

when working on the Engine are you using the standard workflow https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.3/en-US/building-unreal-engine-from-source/ to setup Visual Studio?

[NorthBlue333]

Hi,

I did not setup our engine, but it seems the workflow is (a bit) custom. We do not have a root folder containing the Engine folder and the game projects. Each game project contains a .sln file, and we use these projects to work on the engine.

> Root
>> Engine
>>> Source
>>> Plugins
>> Game1
>>> Source
>>> Plugins
>>> Game1.sln (<-- project opened)

Could it be the reason the extension is not working on the engine's paths? Setting UE5 as the startup project does not change anything.

Thanks for your time!

[fdefelici]

I was trying to understand your project organization and evaluate a possible enanchement, because currently FUnreal is implemented for Game Development project type only, and the Engine project is skipped on purpose.

About your project oraganization, if I understood well, you use standard UE Game Development projects which point the custom Engine. So when you open a game project solution on VisualStudio you always have one Engine project and one Game project something like this:

Did I get it right?

[NorthBlue333]

Yes that seems right! Is there any reason the Engine is skipped? Performance maybe?

Thank you again for your time, it does not seem much but the extension would be a great improvment in our workflow.

[fdefelici]

Well, in first place the idea was just to support Game Development project. Futhermore in the past I saw some engine module not following the standard folder organization. And then, yes some perf hits could happen.

Anyway I could reason about this implementation.

Could you share your solution file (.sln)? And which engine version you are customizing?

[NorthBlue333]

gameproject.txt

Sure, here it is. We use Visual Studio 2022 and Unreal 5.2+ (we are actively updating the engine while we are not in production).

[fdefelici]

Thanks for the info.

Another question: currenlty in case you add a file to the Engine plugin/source, do you run UBT from the .uproject file related to the Game project, in order to make VS refresh? Like this:

[NorthBlue333]

Yes, that's what we do!

[fdefelici]

OK. I'll try to do some in-depth analisys for the feasibilty of this feature.

Eventually, If I'll have other questions I'll back to you.