Support for UE5

[DervexDev]

I think it would be nice to have this plugin on Unreal Engine 5. Current version of Chroma SDK won't compile on latest version of engine obviously.

[tgraupmann]

I'll look into that. When I tried the UE5 pre-releases the demos were enormous and the editor was laggy. I'll look into making the new version compatible.

[tgraupmann]

To get the VS 2022 solution to generate make the following changes:

• UE4ChromaSDKRT\UE4ChromaSDKRT.uproject - Modules no longer supports "Type": "Developer"

{
    "FileVersion": 3,
    "EngineAssociation": "5.0",
    "Category": "",
    "Description": "",
    "Modules": [
        {
            "Name": "UE4ChromaSDKRT",
            "Type": "Runtime"
        }
    ]
}

• UE4ChromaSDKRT\Plugins\ChromaSDKPlugin\Source\ChromaSDKPlugin\ChromaSDKPlugin.Build.cs - Definitions changed to PrivateDefinitions and PublicDefinitions

  PrivateDefinitions.Add("CHECK_CHROMA_LIBRARY_SIGNATURE=1");
  PublicDefinitions.Add("CHECK_CHROMA_LIBRARY_SIGNATURE=1");

  ---

• Fix error - 'byte': ambiguous symbol - https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/error-c2872-byte-ambiguous-symbol/93889

For this one, I need to enable showIncludes - https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/build-configuration-for-unreal-engine/

• Edit: %appdata%\Unreal Engine\UnrealBuildTool\BuildConfiguration.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Configuration xmlns="https://www.unrealengine.com/BuildConfiguration">
  <WindowsPlatform>
    <bShowIncludes>true</bShowIncludes>
  </WindowsPlatform>
</Configuration>

And then you can see in the output that rpcndr.h is included by including AllowWindowsPlatformTypes.h.

Although this looks more like a Windows SDK bug.

1>C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.18362.0\shared\rpcndr.h(192): error C2872: 'byte': ambiguous symbol
1>C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.18362.0\shared\rpcndr.h(191): note: could be 'unsigned char byte'
1>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.29.30133\INCLUDE\cstddef(29): note: or       'std::byte'

[Thomas-is-dev]

When UE5 support ?

[MinoDab492]

@tgraupmann You should submit that as a pull request, it would be great to have functional UE5 support without having to do so much work.

[tgraupmann]

I need to port one piece at a time until it all works. I haven't needed to support a shipping title in UE5 yet so I haven't prioritized this over my other tasks yet.

[tgraupmann]

I added extended keyboard and Unicode path support for UE4. The next step is to attempt the UE5 upgrade again. https://github.com/razerofficial/UE4_XDK_SampleApp/tree/SUPPORT_UNICODE

[tgraupmann]

I'll copy the repository to my username until the update works and then I'll post on razerofficial. https://github.com/tgraupmann/UE5_XDK_SampleApp

[tgraupmann]

Okay I have it working. https://github.com/razerofficial/UE5_XDK_SampleApp

The last struggle was std::byte collisions. I ended up just removing using namespace std; and just used std::wstring etc where I needed it. That was a fast fix and now the samples are up and running in UE5.

[DervexDev]

@tgraupmann added support for UE5 in this separate repo. Thanks!