1 00:00:04,070 --> 00:00:08,640 ‫Hello and welcome to the installation lecture for Visual Studio. 2 00:00:08,660 --> 00:00:13,370 ‫This lecture is specifically for folks who are on a PC. 3 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:17,150 ‫So if that is not, you go ahead, hit the skip button. 4 00:00:17,150 --> 00:00:22,400 ‫The next lecture will be for you, Mac, folks who want to install Xcode instead. 5 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:27,050 ‫But if you're on a PC, let's jump in and get downloading this software. 6 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:32,090 ‫So let's have a look at an overview of how to install Visual Studio. 7 00:00:32,110 --> 00:00:38,560 ‫The first thing we need to do is check the supported version of Visual Studio for our current version 8 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:39,880 ‫of Unreal Engine. 9 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:44,890 ‫So not all versions of Visual Studio are supported by every version of Unreal. 10 00:00:44,890 --> 00:00:47,320 ‫So we have to check that compatibility first. 11 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:54,070 ‫Then we need to download the appropriate version of Visual Studio Community Installer and set that off 12 00:00:54,070 --> 00:00:57,100 ‫downloading by selecting the game development. 13 00:00:57,100 --> 00:01:01,300 ‫With C++ workload, there's a bunch of different ways you can use and configure Visual Studio. 14 00:01:01,300 --> 00:01:07,120 ‫It's a very powerful piece of software, so you need to choose the different components that are involved 15 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:08,800 ‫in the C++ workload. 16 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:12,810 ‫And then we select Install, which is obviously the part that takes the most time. 17 00:01:12,820 --> 00:01:16,720 ‫So let's go ahead and first of all, check compatibility. 18 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:22,720 ‫So at the time of writing this documentation page on Unreal Engine is not updated for the Unreal Engine 19 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:29,050 ‫five, but I can give you the information for that, and it's worth going and checking this page before 20 00:01:29,050 --> 00:01:33,670 ‫you install anything, because things may have changed since the recording of this video, so it's worth 21 00:01:33,670 --> 00:01:38,110 ‫going and following the link in the resources to have a look at this table for yourself. 22 00:01:38,320 --> 00:01:43,210 ‫The table we're looking at is this one here, which shows the compatibility between engine versions. 23 00:01:43,210 --> 00:01:47,110 ‫So what you would do is you would look at the version of engine, the engine you have. 24 00:01:47,110 --> 00:01:53,770 ‫So for example, we've got 4.2, five or later and you see the supported Visual Studio version here 25 00:01:53,770 --> 00:01:56,110 ‫is VS 2019. 26 00:01:56,110 --> 00:02:02,230 ‫Now I happen to know that if you're using Unreal five, the supported Visual Studio version is actually 27 00:02:02,230 --> 00:02:05,260 ‫VZ 2022. 28 00:02:05,260 --> 00:02:08,170 ‫So that is the version we are going to be downloading. 29 00:02:08,170 --> 00:02:13,090 ‫And at the time of recording, it's actually the latest version of Visual Studio. 30 00:02:13,420 --> 00:02:14,740 ‫So that's not always the case. 31 00:02:14,740 --> 00:02:18,850 ‫So you do have to come and check then second link in your resources. 32 00:02:18,850 --> 00:02:22,750 ‫Going to be the page here for the downloads for Visual Studio. 33 00:02:22,810 --> 00:02:28,630 ‫And what we we can do is go ahead and click the free download for the community edition of Visual Studio 34 00:02:28,630 --> 00:02:29,920 ‫2022. 35 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:37,180 ‫However, as I've said, if you're coming to this page later and 2023 has been released, then that's 36 00:02:37,180 --> 00:02:38,470 ‫maybe not what you need to get. 37 00:02:38,470 --> 00:02:44,830 ‫So you need to scroll on down the page all the way to the bottom where it says older downloads and select 38 00:02:44,830 --> 00:02:45,880 ‫for older downloads. 39 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:49,810 ‫And if you scroll on down, so have you really tried the latest version, etc.? 40 00:02:49,810 --> 00:02:52,330 ‫Well, if you need an older version, you need an older version. 41 00:02:52,330 --> 00:03:00,610 ‫So you come down, you find 2019 and you can click here to download Visual Studio for 2019. 42 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:02,140 ‫But we're not going to be doing that. 43 00:03:02,140 --> 00:03:06,250 ‫We are going to be downloading the community edition of 2022. 44 00:03:06,250 --> 00:03:12,790 ‫So let's go ahead and select that it pops up, creates this executable here, and we give it the keys 45 00:03:12,790 --> 00:03:14,590 ‫to the kingdom and it goes ahead. 46 00:03:14,590 --> 00:03:19,180 ‫Click, continue to agree to licenses and it downloads the installer and installs it. 47 00:03:19,180 --> 00:03:21,490 ‫And that's the first step of the process. 48 00:03:21,580 --> 00:03:27,280 ‫And once that's done, it's going to pop up with a window that looks like this that allows us to select 49 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:31,330 ‫the workload we're going to be using with Visual Studio. 50 00:03:31,420 --> 00:03:36,490 ‫So what we need to do is scroll on down until we find game development. 51 00:03:36,490 --> 00:03:41,470 ‫With C++, you can see there's desktop development, mobile development, game development, unity development. 52 00:03:41,470 --> 00:03:43,720 ‫We want game development with C++. 53 00:03:43,870 --> 00:03:50,440 ‫And it's also important that we check the Unreal Engine Installer checkbox over in the right hand pane 54 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:58,030 ‫because this will install a few extra requirements required specifically for Unreal Engine and we can 55 00:03:58,030 --> 00:04:00,670 ‫go ahead and click the install button. 56 00:04:00,670 --> 00:04:05,500 ‫You can see that the total space required for this is going to be 7.3 gigabytes. 57 00:04:05,500 --> 00:04:07,600 ‫So let's go ahead and install. 58 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:09,460 ‫So that's it for this lecture. 59 00:04:09,460 --> 00:04:11,500 ‫I'm going to be leaving it downloading. 60 00:04:11,500 --> 00:04:15,040 ‫Now, there's no point in you watching my screen as it downloads. 61 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:19,540 ‫But in the meantime, get on with the rest of the installation lectures. 62 00:04:19,540 --> 00:04:25,030 ‫At the moment, the installer in Visual Studio doesn't actually install all of the requirements that 63 00:04:25,030 --> 00:04:26,200 ‫we need in the future. 64 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:33,940 ‫This will probably be fixed, but for now you need to follow the link to install the DOT net SDK and 65 00:04:33,940 --> 00:04:39,550 ‫when you're here you need to go ahead and download DOT net core 3.2. 66 00:04:39,550 --> 00:04:45,100 ‫Now notice it's pretty old, but this is the version that Unreal needs at the moment. 67 00:04:45,100 --> 00:04:51,040 ‫So go ahead and click this then for your platform, which is going to be within Windows 64, you find 68 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:57,370 ‫the installer linked there and you let that go ahead and download and then run through the installation 69 00:04:57,370 --> 00:05:00,910 ‫process, which is going to be a pretty standard process. 70 00:05:00,910 --> 00:05:07,780 ‫So we're just here, I've got it already installed, but for you it's going to look like this instead. 71 00:05:07,780 --> 00:05:10,510 ‫So if you did already have it installed, it will have shown you the previous screen. 72 00:05:10,510 --> 00:05:12,760 ‫No need to install it again if that's the case. 73 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:18,670 ‫But if you don't have it installed, go ahead and hit the install and just run through the setup process, 74 00:05:18,670 --> 00:05:22,510 ‫which should be pretty automatic and this is what it will look like when it's completed. 75 00:05:22,510 --> 00:05:24,340 ‫So you can go ahead and hit close. 76 00:05:24,340 --> 00:05:27,460 ‫So when eventually the installation process does finish, it will launch. 77 00:05:27,550 --> 00:05:34,930 ‫Up Visual Studio and you will need to sign in with an account here and basically a regular Microsoft 78 00:05:34,930 --> 00:05:36,540 ‫account will do here. 79 00:05:36,550 --> 00:05:38,440 ‫Let's go ahead and sign in. 80 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:44,200 ‫And when that's done, you should end up with this window letting you know that you have fully and successfully 81 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:46,000 ‫installed everything you needed. 82 00:05:46,030 --> 00:05:46,790 ‫Great stuff. 83 00:05:46,810 --> 00:05:49,600 ‫I'm going to see you in the next video.