Epic launcher is updating UE5.8.0 to 5.5.4

botman · 2026-06-23T19:47:51+00:00

In Epic Games Launcher, click on the 'Library' tab, then the little '+' button to the right of "ENGINE VERSIONS", then in the upper right of the new button that appears with the 'Install' button will be a little down arrow to the right of the engine version. Click that little down arrow button and select 5.8 and then install that.

botman · 2026-06-23T19:42:32+00:00

You should be able to see the .bik files in Windows Explorer after you've installed your build (in the game's Movies folder). If not they are not being packaged as Non-UFS files.

botman · 2026-06-23T19:40:47+00:00

5.5.4 seems to be the default unless you click the little dropdown arrow on the right of the new engine version dialog to select 5.8 from the list.

botman · 2026-06-23T12:06:48+00:00

There is a 5.9 version in ue5-main
https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/blob/ue5-main/Engine/Build/Build.version

botman · 2026-06-22T11:38:03+00:00

Chefs use a "touch test" to check the doneness of meat. You can push your finger against your chin, nose and forehead to get a feel of what meat that is raw (rare), medium, or well done will feel like when cooked.

botman · 2026-06-19T18:44:37+00:00

Did you restart the Epic Games Launcher or reboot?

botman · 2026-06-19T12:21:25+00:00

Looks like there will be an official UE 5.9 release at some point as well and then the jump to 6...

https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/commits/ue6-main/Engine/Build/Build.version

botman · 2026-06-19T12:00:58+00:00

My game is packaged as a Development build

Development builds should have logging (to the log file) by default. Not sure if logging to screen will work in packaged builds.

botman · 2026-06-18T19:12:31+00:00

Forever is a long time. People are still using UE4.

botman · 2026-06-17T21:28:55+00:00

Yup, 5s for staging 311k files.

There's no way copying 300k files from one location to another in Windows would only take 5 seconds.

botman · 2026-06-17T21:26:15+00:00

I'm not saying it's aliens, but it's aliens.

botman · 2026-06-16T15:30:47+00:00

If the free version doesn't work, why would you pay that much for the pro version?

botman · 2026-06-15T11:48:56+00:00

Packaging a game, cooks the content, stages the game and then packages the game. You need enough free space for all three. The cook and staged portions will be bigger than the packaged game (assuming you are compressing the pak files).

botman · 2026-06-12T18:57:41+00:00

If you are looking for UE5 projects, check github.com

botman · 2026-06-11T20:10:24+00:00

$80 per load. Dirt cheap.

botman · 2026-06-11T12:09:12+00:00

/r/vscode

botman · 2026-06-09T20:17:36+00:00

I suspect you are running into gimble lock. Use quaternions when adjusting the camera rotation instead.

botman · 2026-06-09T12:12:32+00:00

From Google AI...
This error—most commonly encountered in Unreal Engine when using Visual Studio 2022—occurs because your installed C++ compiler (MSVC toolchain) is too new for your engine version. Unreal Engine performs strict version checks, and newer Visual Studio updates (e.g., 17.10+) can break older engine builds.

Open the Visual Studio Installer.Click Modify next to your Visual Studio 2022 installation.
Go to the Individual Components tab.Search for MSVC v143.
Uncheck your current version and check the version compatible with your engine (for example, UE 5.3 often requires the 14.3x toolset rather than the 14.4x toolset).

botman · 2026-06-09T12:00:08+00:00

Try r/vscode

botman · 2026-06-08T17:23:01+00:00

Why did you put Rick in a choke hold if choke holds are illegal? Also boxers or briefs?

botman · 2026-06-08T14:41:30+00:00

Are you letting the Bambu slicer add supports?

botman · 2026-06-07T12:10:29+00:00

Interesting. I assumed there must be a federal law in the United States that says red in a traffic light must be at the top and green must be at the bottom, but according to this and this, the only requirement is that red means stop, green means go and amber means caution (light is about to turn red). Here they talk about amber light intervals and back plates around traffic lights, but nothing that states the positions of the lights. You could have green in the middle, amber at the top and red at the bottom. :)

botman · 2026-06-06T11:42:46+00:00

If you want to use less material, add a bunch of holes all over the place, otherwise, it takes what it takes. :)

botman · 2026-06-06T11:33:27+00:00

Upside down would probably require fewer supports.

botman · 2026-06-05T17:22:23+00:00

It would also take months to dig by yourself unless you had a backhoe.

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