I am having problems with epic games launcher to download unreal. Therefore I’ve decided to download the code and compile it. I’m not a programmer and hence I have to use the blueprints. Will I get blueprints if I compile UE??? And if yes, will I get all the blueprints that come with the binary version…
Also, will unreal work on a laptop with follow specs:
Core i5 7th gen 7200U @2.5ghz
16gb ddr4 ram
nVidia GTX 940MX with 4gb GDDR5 memory
1tb HDD
I’m usually on go hence I can’t use a PC. I just bought this laptop.
Hello Hazard,
You might want to report the launcher not being able to download the binary version, as a bug to Epic so they can look into it, and get it fixed.
As to your questions.
Yes you will get blueprints as that is a native “editor” under the entire editor for UE4. Blueprints consist of the VM (virtual machine, the part that actually runs the blueprint), and “calls” into the C++ portion of the engine, that have been enabled for blueprints. But as you will be compiling the entire engin, you will get it all.
The specs you listed for your machine, are close to identical for my laptop (Mine is just a I7, at a slightly higher speed), and my lap runs UE4 just fine.
Don’t forget that in order to compile UE4, you will need to have Virtual Studio installed as well, use either the 2015, or 2017 version. Currently I am using 2015, so I really don’t know if there are any gotchas if you use the 2017.
Personally if I was you (being a non-programmer), I would get a bug report submitted, and see if you could get some help on the launcher not working, before going the route of installing VS 201x, and starting to do a compile.
Hope this helps.
Do you have GTX 940mx??? And does it handle the engine perfectly. Can it produce some great results with high quality custom assets???
And can it handle large scenes as I wanna make an open world game??
Sorry for the slow response. Yes my laptop has the GTX 940MX.
Does it handle the engine perfectly? No, because the engine is not perfect, there are bugs, etc. Does it handle the engine well? Yes it does.
Great results? Yes, but not as good as a 1080 GTX of course. But having reasonable expectations of this old a chip set, it does quite well.
Depends on what you mean by large. Suffice to say, in my game, which is open world as well, I make sure there are hills etc, to keep the viewing distance down.
Think of it this way. The GTX 940MX is probably the bottom of the ladder for chip sets to run a game on these days. So your in good shape, if you have the game running well on your machine, most other people will be either at that level, or better.