❛ I trust myself. I trust my instincts. I know what I’m gonna do, what I can do, what I can’t do. I’ve been through a lot, and I could go through more, but I hope I don’t have to. But if I did, I’d be able to do it. I’m not going to enjoy dying, but there’s not much prep for that. ❜
carrie fisher
october 21, 1956 – december 27, 2016
Compiling Unreal Engine 4.18 with Nvidia’s Waveworks
I figured I’d try my hand at making a fairly simple exploration game. [There’s no such thing.]
I decided on Unreal Engine for my platform. The concept is an island in the middle of an ocean. So I made an island.
That left me short an ocean. I did some research and found the best option for my tastes is Nvidia’s Waveworks. It’s GPU-agnostic, so it can run on an AMD video card, which is really cool. There are other options you may be happy with, including OceanProject, which is a free community project. There are also some options you can buy in the Unreal Engine Marketplace.
I’m a complete and total noob when it comes to programming. I have absolutely no experience. I’m writing this for other complete and total noobs who are starting this process like I did.
When I heard today that the Waveworks-integrated branch of Unreal Engine had recently been updated, I went about trying to get it to work.
To start with, you need to have an account on the Unreal Engine website. Then you need to follow the instructions here to create a GitHub account and connect it to your Unreal Engine account. Until you connect your GitHub and Unreal Engine accounts, all you’ll get on GitHub are fake 404 errors.
Nvidia maintains branches of Unreal Engine on GitHub for their various Gameworks projects. In this forum thread, there’s some people combining different branches into a single build, because each of their official branches only contains a single Gameworks product.
Some of the official branches haven’t been updated in years, so you have to depend on the generosity of their employees creating less-official branches with updated builds of both the Gameworks products you want and the latest Unreal Engine.
If all you want to use is a vanilla Unreal Engine build, you can get the launcher from the Unreal Engine website and start playing with that and you may not even need any of what I’m about to go through.
Everything that follows assumes you’re on Windows 8.1 because that’s what I’m on.
First of all, you need
Visual Studio 2017 Community
. There are lots of mentions of Visual Studio 2015 related to Unreal Engine online, but that’s old information. For versions of Unreal Engine more recent than, I think, 4.15 you need Visual Studio 2017. Community is the free version. You do not need a paid version.
When you install it just use whatever default options until you have the option to choose Workloads. Here’s where most of my problems today came in. In the Workloads panel, you have to select two packages. Under Windows, select Desktop Development with C++ on the left, and these options on the right:
The options on the right that I’ve selected are:
VC++ 2017 v141 toolset (x86,x64)
C++ profiling tools
Windows 10 SDK (10.0.16299.0) for Desktop C++...
Visual C++ tools for CMake
Visual C++ ATL support
Windows 8.1 SDK anbd UCRT SDK
VC++ 2015.3 v140 toolset for desktop (x86,x64)
Next, scroll down on the left, and under Mobile & Gaming also select Game development with C++, and the following options on the right:
The options I’ve selected on the right are:
C++ profiling tools
Windows 10 SDK (10.0.16299.0) for Desktop C++...
Windows 8.1 SDK and UCRT SDK
Unreal Engine Installer
If anything from either of these is missing, you’ll have endless problems later. Don’t be like me.
Don’t worry about reinstalling the Unreal Engine Installer there. It’s somehow not the same as the one you get from the Unreal Engine website. It includes some kind of dependencies you’ll need later.
The next thing you’ll need is the GitHub Desktop app.
The following steps require that you have file extensions visible. If you don’t, enable them by opening the Folder Options menu by clicking here in a folder window:
Then go to the View tab and uncheck “Hide extensions for known file types” and click OK:
On the Unreal Engine Waveworks branch page, there are some special instructions for getting it built and running. The instructions behave like you’re a expert using a command-line app for this, which I wasn’t and I guess you won’t be either, so I’ll rewrite them for the noobs like me using the GitHub Desktop app.
Run GitHub Desktop.
Set it up with your GitHub account information created earlier.
In the File menu, click on Clone repository...
In the “Clone a repository” panel that pops up, click on the “URL” tab.
Choose a Local path to deposit the repository.
Enter this URL for the base repository: https://github.com/NvPhysX/UnrealEngine.git
Click Clone. It will download the repository to the Local path you selected. This may take some time.
Once it’s done, click the Current branch drop-menu next to Current repository.
Click on origin/UE4_WaveWorks_4.18 [it’s already been selected in my screenshot].
That will download more files. It may take some time again.
Once it’s done, click the blue “open this repository” link that I’ve highlighted below:
This should open the folder where you put the repository. In there, run the Setup.bat file by double-clicking on it [the contents of your folder will look differently as I’ve already run through the following steps, which created files and folders you don’t yet have; ignore them for now]:
This will download various other dependencies that the project requires. This will probably take a while again, assuming it works. If it doesn’t, you may have to Google for a solution to your specific problem.
Once the dependencies are all downloaded and installed, double-click the GenerateProjectFiles.bat file to run it too.
Assuming it works, you should now have a UE4.sln file, which you can see in the screenshot above. It may not have the icon mine has if the file type hasn’t yet been associated with Visual Studio. Double-click it and it should prompt you to associate the file type with Visual Studio. Do so.
In Visual Studio, you should now have the project open. Right-click on UE4 and click Build in the menu that pops up. Mine has already finished building in the screenshot:
In order to run this fresh-built engine, you’ll need to make yourself a shortcut to the Engine > Binaries > Win64 > UE4Editor.exe file:
By the time you read this, it’s very likely that the Unreal Engine is well beyond the 4.18 version. It’s actually at 4.18.1 as of this writing, but the Waveworks integration described here is with 4.18 because it was released right before UE main branch 4.18.1 was released.
This build, for me, ended up being 49.5 GBs big. And that’s not counting all the gigs for whatever Visual Studio installed. You better have some space available.
Actually using the engine is an entirely different story for another day.
Think being gay is unnatural? Then look no further than the animal kingdom, where homosexuality is very common. Studies suggest that around 1,500 animal species practice same-sex coupling, from fish to birds and mammals.
“It’s no secret that some humans are homosexual, but did you know that the behavior is also very common in the animal kingdom? In fact, studies suggest that around 1,500 animal species are known to practice regular same-sex coupling - from insects and fish to birds and mammals - with the actual number likely being even higher.
“Being homosexual is very common and no problem in the natural world at all. In fact, we see more heterophobia than homophobia in the animal kingdom,” Jasper Buikx, biologist at Amsterdam’s ARTIS Zoo, told DW in an interview.
There are many reasons why these animals engage in homosexual activity. Sometimes, it’s due to a lack of heterosexual partners, other times it’s just for pleasure and in still other cases it’s about forming social bonds or settling fights.
Most of these animals aren’t purely homosexual - they also mate with the opposite gender, at least for procreation purposes. But there are a few examples of long-term exclusively gay relationships in the animal kingdom, with some of them even ending up forming a family.
You may have seen these fliers going around on social media and just to be safe I’m warning you all that this is false. It was posted maliciously on reddit and spread around to get undocumented immigrants to disclose their documentation status. Likely thinking that some would get reported on or whatever intentions that were had here.
It’s spread so much that Starbucks even sent out memos to all their stores about this rumor. Spread the information that it is FALSE.
Just an update but they people who started this went to Twitter to impersonate Latinx people to spread the information, posted it in Spanish as well, and some pretended to be managers at certain Starbucks locations stating that they will still be honoring the “promotion.” So if you see a “ Starbucks manager” saying something like this over Twitter then they are most definitely fake and trying to lure people to that particular location.
The intention (which originated on 4chan, not Reddit like I initially said) was to hurt a liberal business.
“How about we meme “Undocumented Immigrant Day” at Starbucks into existence? Announce free coffee for all illegals on a certain date. August 11? 11 looks like II (for Illegal Immigrant). I’m open to suggestions there. Name a liberal place for all illegals to go at once and demand free stuff.”
Quickly other people on the /pol/ board saw this as an opportunity to call I.C.E. and they are clearly still trying to get people to go to certain locations with that intention. There’s a reason why certain people on 4chan are trying to lure undocumented immigrants to particular locations so be wary & spread this info!
That’s Faye Schulman! She’s known for her work photographing the Jewish resistance movement in eastern Europe - and, of course, her fabulous coat. As of July ‘17, she’s still alive! Check these out:
fun thing about king James, this guy was fairly public about his bf (more public than what was acceptable). He threw lots of extravagant parties with his man on his arm. It pissed off the church obviously so to get them off his back, he’s the one that ordered the third translation of the Bible from Hebrew to English (the King James Version aka the Authorized Version) so the Bible every hot blooded all American Christian reads today was literally just written so a very gay king could fuck his boyfriend in peace.
“guys, guys. I know this looks kinda gay, and i promise i have a good explanation for all this, but have you considered… that jesus… is also gay? checkmate, heteros.”
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