How to use Perforce Helix Core + Unreal Engine 5

Learn how to use Perforce Helix Core source control in Unreal Engine 5 with this step-by-step tutorial from Jase Lindgren, Sales Engineer at Perforce. Source control is essential for teams using game engines, and Helix Core is designed to handle the many, large binary files that are involved in using a game engine.

This video covers:
00:00 - Intro
00:51 - How to Set Up Source Control in Unreal Engine 5
04:33 - Managing Multiple Changelists in UE5
05:34 - Validating Changelists in UE5
07:30 - Reverting Changes in UE5
10:06 - Syncing Other Users’ Revisions in UE5
12:13 - Automatic File Locking with Perforce Helix Core in UE5
14:20 - Automatic File Checkout with Perforce Helix Core in UE5
15:59 - One File Per Actor in UE5

[yuribiasi]

For anyone that can't find the "automatically checkout on asset modification" in project settings... It's on EDITOR PREFERENCES! (I spend an hour for realize it)

[paulus]

Cool tutorial, but when I move something in my scene, I do not get a notification and my default changelist is empty...What can I do to fix this?

[duyhieunguyen]

How can we revert the change of the files to the specific version of them inside Unreal Engine using p4 source control?

[Joel-bgcf]

It won't connect to the workspace. I've tried marking to add, adding a file, and submitting, but it won't connect to the Unreal document. I'm definitely using the correct file and it's behaving as if it has source control, but it won't connect when I initially try to set it up in the game engine.

[JustinKonen]

Hello, I followed all the setup steps, and everything seems to be working, except that there is no "Source Control" option under either tools or in the lower-right corner: Instead it just says "Revision Control" and seems to behave differently. . . If i go to Editor Preferences -> Loading & Saving -> Source Control it simply launches the same "Revision Control" login box instead of Source Control. Any Guidance?

It somewhat works but doesn't have sync and some other stuff. . .

[clipchamprazor]

Do you have recommended specs for the server we use to host a UE5 project @PerforceSoftware ? Other than space, of course.

[jephthahsigg]

When I make some changes on an existing ue file i get a warning:"assets you have editet are locked by another user". and if i want to save them, i get a warning: "assets have conflict in revision control or cannot be written to disk"
Is there a solution for that?
Thank you!

[wstolk]

My files are not read only in my windows folder. I created the local source control folder and then moved my UE project towards it.

[MrBinyata]

Has anyone using unreal 5.2 got perforce with One File Per Actor to work? I notice that the third person template has external actors and objects enabled by default, but I can't seem to pull the changes into my project successfully. The perforce end complains about overwriting the file when I run get latest revision to my workspace whereas other blueprint files that use the same filetype appear to work fine.

Does One File Per Actor need a different type of perforce typemapping set up? I am using binary +l type mapping for all uasset file types (which these One file Per actor files uses uasset file types as well).

Please help.

[SuperLordee]

Hey, great video thanks for all the insight. May I ask If you know how to fix the error "This operation could not complete on the following map or external packages, please unload them before retrying : ..." When trying to revert the changes made to a map.

[Whetzell]

I'm having an issue where when I push my project from my laptop using 5.2.1 to my pc also using 5.2.1 I get an error on my umap saying it likely was made with a newer version of Unreal. (I have no issue opening a project on my laptop pushed from my pc but once I save on my laptop it no longer works on my pc) Could this happen from an inconsistent ini file? Or maybe I need to check the Use p4 config box in Unreal when setting up Revision Control?

[joshbowdoin]

well I got set up, just one question. does UR5 have bult in tools to manage branches?

[Grand_Alchemist]

One file per actor looks pretty awesome. Would you hypothetically set all actors / assets in a level as "One File Per Actor"? Any downside of enabling this for pretty much everything?

[teaisagoodidea]

hi! Thanks for the explanations that helped a lot! But me and my friend encountered with the same exact problem that you discussed about at "14.20" he made changes and submitted it and then i found that i couldn't check out my changes at the depot instead i could work them on my disk as writable files we've been working like everytime as we did but sometimes we encounter this problem now and we don't have any idea what do we do wrong and how we unlock binary files which is locked after checking out. Can you help me?

[UnbeatenSpartan]

I hate source control with UE.... I did all of the steps and it is trying to commit the entire project every save. I think it could be my .ignore is wrong but there are little to no actual walkthroughs on this. NOTHING is use friendly and has about 22 points of failure as a software that is insane.

I have a 8000 file project, made a skeletal socket change and migrated a few animation's into the project and now have a 12, 000 file commit that is to large unless I commit a file at a time which takes an hour to do.

[LousyNine]

Starts off with skipping the actual difficult part, nice.

[windwalkerunreal]

dude, you forgot the download link for perforce lmao

[joshbowdoin]

"im going to assume you know how to set up a perforce work space on your computer"

no, don't assume give a link on how to do that for us noobs