Satisfactory Modding•2mo ago

Linux mod development?

Has anyone successfully set up modding/development environment on linux? I'm asking this because i don't want to spend a long time compiling the custom version of unreal engine just to find out something later on is blocking this from being possible. In particular i don't know if Wwise will work on linux, they have some documentation for linux but there isn't a clear way to get the sdk since there isn't an official installer and i wan't able to find other means of downloading the sdk.

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Robb•2mo ago

I think a few people have tried over the years, but I haven't heard of anyone finishing/it succeeding I know Vilsol and Mircea were interested in making it work, and made it sound like they made some pretty big progress, but got "distracted" by 1.0

Mircea•2mo ago

The "big progress" was installing msvc-wine

davidon.topOP•2mo ago

for building UE or other things?

Mircea•2mo ago

The goal was building UE But never got to actually test it And also msvc-wine says building debug instead of release doesn't really work, and I would assume Development uses debug

davidon.topOP•2mo ago

tried running UE through wine but i dont think i can bypass this

Rex•2mo ago

And the mere thought of running VS through wine made my entire body shudder in pain.

Mircea•2mo ago

That would be the goal of msvc-wine Or, at least the compiler, if not the IDE

Rex•2mo ago

Yeah, I was thinking about VS

Symax•4w ago

I'm attempting this At the moment, I'm going through VirtualBox with a Virtual Machine.

Rex•4w ago

Is that virtual machine running Windows?

Symax•4w ago

Correct. I'm using Windows 10 Pro within the VM. Getting the initial VisualStudio installer was a bit of a chore. After that, everything started flowing. I'm still in the process of setting up the environment.

Rex•4w ago

I feel the virtual GPU might be an issue but it should otherwise work

Symax•4w ago

I haven't gotten to that point yet. If it becomes an issue, I'll proceed with my plan on building a native version of the base Unreal Engine and then start comparing the CSS differences and add them in. Looking at the Unreal Engine documentation in relation to cross compiling gives clues as to what compilers and versions should be installed on Linux Native. I'm currently using Ubuntu 22.04 as recommended in the docs. I may consider upgrading to 24.04 for the proper llvm-clang toolchain that comes with 24.04 if I can't get it compiled on 22.04 I may just create a special repo on Launchpad.net to get llvm-toolchain compiled for 22.04. It will probably generate less headaches.

Rex•4w ago

You might as well just build UE-CSS directly

Symax•4w ago

If I do, I may just make a .deb package of it.

Rex•4w ago

Please ask Mircea before doing that

Symax•4w ago

I have no idea who that is. I tend to create .deb packages of items I choose to install. They typically don't get distributed.

Rex•4w ago

But if you're not distributing the .deb package (you only use it for yourself) I think it's fine It's mainly about respecting Unreal Engine's license

Mircea•4w ago

Distributing that deb outside of github forks or the UE marketplace is against the EULA

Symax•4w ago

If you want the fruits of my .deb creation work, all you would have to do is create a {base_dir}/debian folder and put the packaging stuff in there, then commit that to the repo. Similarily for RedHat, you would have a text file called {base_dir}/unrealengine.srpm that lays out how to create an RPM package. At least that is how I remember it from my RedHat days.

Symax•4w ago

So far, This is as far as I have gotten. I was able to get the Unreal Engine - CSS up and running. I created a blank project, then I got this error:

FICSIT-Fred•4w ago

It looks like you're getting a crash when trying to open the Unreal Editor - are you sure you downloaded our custom engine version as described in the docs? Is the EngineAssociation in the uproject file set to the correct engine version? Make sure to grab the Aspiring Modder role in https://discord.com/channels/555424930502541343/555442202780762143 if you haven't yet. -# Responding to editorenginemodulecompilefailure triggered by @Symax

Symax•4w ago

The release I grabbed was UnrealEngine-5.3.2-css-66 and I made sure to grab the .EXE, as well as the -1 and -2 files. EngineAssociation in the .uproject file is:

{
    "FileVersion": 3,
    "EngineAssociation": "5.3.2-CSS",
    "Category": "",
    "Description": "",
    "Plugins": [
        {
            "Name": "ModelingToolsEditorMode",
            "Enabled": true,
            "TargetAllowList": [
                "Editor"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

{
    "FileVersion": 3,
    "EngineAssociation": "5.3.2-CSS",
    "Category": "",
    "Description": "",
    "Plugins": [
        {
            "Name": "ModelingToolsEditorMode",
            "Enabled": true,
            "TargetAllowList": [
                "Editor"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

I guess I need to stick to the Sample project as a template.

Rex•4w ago

You have to do as per the docs i.e. download the starter project, integrate wwise, etc

davidon.topOP•3w ago

won't work even with native compiled UE for linux it will still complain about missing visual studio 2022 when atempting to open the sf starter project

Rex•3w ago

I know

Symax•3w ago

For Linux, you have to use VS Code for Linux. I'm still trying to figure the rest out.

Rex•3w ago

You need MSVC (compiler), vscode doesn't have that

Symax•3w ago

I know there will have to be some sort of conversion in the long run for Linux dev work

The Urban Goose•3w ago

Gonna assume y'all already know this, but in case you don't: You can also use JetBrains Rider as an IDE for UE5, which is available on Linux. Rider has quite recently been made free for personal use. Maybe that could work in some way?

Rex•3w ago

You still need MSVC to compile for Windows. But it's convenient to have an IDE

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