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Moral of the story: It's always going to be harder than you expect. I got lucky and found out that I didn't delete a sample UBT project file when I set up UE3 five years ago, and I was able to copy that file and change a couple of entries in it to make UBT compile my game for Mac. I didn't have the settings for making UBT start a Mac build, and I've been working on Himeko Sutori for so long now that I no longer have access to the UDN and the documentation in it, and no one at Epic remembers anything about UE3, and they're not answering my emails.
Epic has this thing called the Unreal Build Tool that you have to build first, and it sets up everything else for compiling the C++ for the desired platform.
It's not like you can just click the "Build" button and it works.
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So now I actually have to learn something about C++ so I can fix the code and make it compile.Įdit: Oh yeah, and I forgot.
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And networking between Windows and macOS is a pain even without the extra complexity of running a virtual Mac.Įventually I got it all set up, tried building the code, and now I find out that I have to rewrite sections of it because clang and XCode (oh-and I had to find an XCode build with the right OSX SDK for building Unreal Engine 3 and that would run on a slightly outdated OS that I don't want to upgrade because I don't know if it will break VirtualBox)-clang and XCode won't compile stuff that Visual Studio is fine with. Now I've got macOS Catalina in VirtualBox using half my RAM and CPU cores. So I said, "Screw it," and got my Hackintosh game on. I'm not about to pay $1000 for a 6-year-old MacBook. And because of that, Egyptians have unrealistic expectations for how much they should be able to sell their used Macs for. I looked into buying a Mac, but imports in Egypt being as they are, Macs of any kind cost 30-50% more than they do in the US. So without a connection to the outside world, I have to run the build on actual local hardware. Easy, right? Set up a VPN, share my files with the Mac, run Unreal Build Tool, and I've got myself a Mac build. It was such a freaking pain.ĪWS recently made Macs instances available and I thought I would just set up a Mac instance on AWS. Which means having conforming 3D objects is really important.
One space there can only be stacked with one type of tile so you can't have ground+ground+ground+castle wall -> you need to switch to castle wall object to put over the top. The editor is good but also again limited.You can use sprites over the top of the 3D (I think that was what you were thinking of) and that can be done to good effect however It works better if you are going to use it from the third person perspective. For something so pre-setup, if you go into first person mode you get a lot of clipping which is a bit annoying.Did I mention that documentation is VERY minimal? I know they made a big huw and cry about the exporter (I suspect because it made it attractive for those that would want to do lots of customization), but I doubt you would find much information on it.Customization (bringing in new 2D tile covers for example, particularly for steps/slopes, or bringing in new 3D objects or sounds etc.) is a bit of a pain, limited in some areas (I think changing the fonts can be done theoretically but I could never get it to work) and very undocumented.Like RPGMaker it can be fun for doing simple stuff, but: Click to expand.I have tried it, though I have never tried the FBX export.