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How to avoid Xcode

Good evening, unfortunately Xcode takes too much space on the hard drive, in my case – up to 25 Gigabytes, which is unacceptable for me, since apart from the game development – I do other photography related work.

Therefore I would like to ask – is there a way to use Game Engines, let’s take Unreal Engine 4 as an example, without Xcode, since the the disc space is crucial for my second job.

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    You could free up space inside the Settings > Mac Storage. You can delete support for devices you don’t use.
    Mac Storage Screenshot

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    An alternative IDE (Integrated Development Environment) you could use is Visual Studio Code. It has support for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

    Visual Studio Code install website

    The disk space required to install is less than 1GB. It is free to download and use.

    To change your default source code editor in Unreal Engine 5, go to Edit->Editor Preferences->General->Source Code->Source Code Editor and select Visual Studio Code.

    Change source editor in UE5

    You will then have to restart the editor in order for the changes to take effect.

    Restart editor

    You may get a popup asking if you want to install the C++ extension pack. I would recommend adding this pack, and it doesn’t take up too much additional space.

    C++ Pack

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