Just some feedback for your consideration:

1. Why should I add it, what functionality does it enable?

2. How does it differ from RiderLink that the IDE installs? And why is this a separate plugin?

3. The description for this project is

    Plugin for UE4 to user Rider for Unreal Engine as code editor
   

   I think the correct title should be

    Plugin for UE4 to use "Rider for Unreal Engine" as code editor
   

   And maybe expand on what you mean with "as code editor" (see point 1).

4. The README.md lists three different ways to install the plugin but does not really explain what the difference is here, what does an "Engine project" refer to? I assume you mean: "Installing the plugin globally in the engine instead of per project". And if that is the case, there is no difference in file structure when compiling the engine from source vs downloading the binaries, both have the Plugins folder under the Engine folder so no need to differentiate between a engine compiled from sources vs the binaries downloaded from the store.

Cheers!

Hey guys, I have problem about integration UE5 to Rider. I can't see that "Rider Source Code Access" plugin in the plugins window. How can I get it for MacOS?

If you have multiple version of Rider install in Toolbox some weird paths are added to InstallInfos causing the editor to crash on launch.

In my case I had Rider and Rider Early Preview installed in Toolbox. On Windows, but only regular Rider on Linux. Which made me think something was funky in my Registry but after an evening debugging the issue I finally tried to only keep regular Rider installed and ditched Early Preview and the crash was gone.

I'm not sure what's going on there to be honest.

UE4.27 doesnt show up Rider in code editor dropdown.

I am using OSX M1.

Came to this repo because I'm having difficulties getting Rider working with Unreal, and I have noticed that there are a few outstanding issues with the same problem: #17 for example.

Rider is not showing up as an option in the source code dropdown. I have attempted a few things so far to no avail. The plugin in engine is installed, and I have found and added the direct path to Rider in the RiderLocations.txt.

Currently running Unreal 5.4.2 and JetBrains Rider 2023.2.2. What might be the next step to get this working?

It looks, like rider path search is not yet perfect. I've modified code a bit to check what is going wrong.
The following code prints

.... ExecutablePath: /home/fexolm/.local/share/JetBrains/Toolbox/apps/Rider/ch-0/221.3427.104/bin/rider.svg

(I don't think, that svg is expected executable path here).

The code:

   27     return HandleOpeningRider([this, &Params, &FilePaths]()->bool
   26     {
   25         UE_LOG(LogRiderAccessor, Warning, TEXT("Opening files (%s) failed. Params: %s, ExecutablePath: %s"), *FilePaths, *Params, *ExecutablePath);
   24 
   23         return false;
   22 
   21         FProcHandle Proc = FPlatformProcess::CreateProc(*ExecutablePath, *Params, true, true, false, nullptr, 0, nullptr, nullptr);
   20         const bool bResult = Proc.IsValid(); 
   19         if (!bResult)
   18         {
   17             UE_LOG(LogRiderAccessor, Warning, TEXT("Opening files (%s) failed."), *FilePaths);
   16             FPlatformProcess::CloseProc(Proc);
   15         }
   14         return bResult;     
   13     });

Finally I'm able to launch Rider from Unreal 5 Editor by editing Rider's path in RiderLocations.txt. However, when rider tries to load the .uproject file and showing "load filed". My question is does Rider even support Unreal engine 5 game dev in linux currently?

I used Rider EAP and installed RiderLink plugin in Engine.But I can't find Rider in Source Code Dropdown.
I changed RiderLocations.txt but it didn't work.

Hello,

Just tried enabling Rider for UE4.26, but it's not listed with the other entries. Only VS and CLion are there.

Tried to install the plugin from Epic's marketplace, but got a 404 instead. It isn't there.

Version: 4.26.2-15973114+++UE4+Release-4.26

Thanks

Hello!
I would like to try Rider out with UE but I didn't manage to get it set up.
I find this piece of doc quite confusing as to what exactly I should copy where:

Copy RiderSourceCodeAccess folder:
    Engine from sources: to {UnrealEngineRoot}/Engine/Plugins/Developer or to {UnrealProjectRoot}/Plugins/Developer;
    Engine from Epic store: to {UnrealProjectRoot}/Plugins/Developer;

I fiddled around with it as I'm familiar with plugin development, and managed to get it "installed" as in it appears in the plugins list as enabled in UE4

Another thing that might be a problem is that I get a message

"The RiderSourceCodeAccess plugin was designed for build 4.20, attempt to load it anyway?"
I said yes, i said no, i tried manually editing the uplugin file but didn't manage to get it functional.
I am using 4.24.3 UE on Windows
Any ideas as to how I could try it out :)?

Thank you!

I have built UE5 Preview 2 from source on linux and the editor crashes on launch. If I remove the RiderSourceCodeAccess plugin, then it will launch successfully. However, this means rider is not an option when selecting the source code editor in unreal editor settings.

Stacktrace:

LoginId:38287d6f76a6da254c13ed915bb8db2c-000003e8

EpicAccountId:

Caught signal 11 Segmentation fault

libUnrealEditor-SourceCodeAccess.so!FSourceCodeAccessModule::HandleModularFeatureRegistered(FName const&, IModularFeature\*) [/mnt/ssd/Development/UnrealEnginePreview2/Engine/Source/./Developer/SourceCodeAccess/Private/SourceCodeAccessModule.cpp:156]

libUnrealEditor-SourceCodeAccess.so!TBaseRawMethodDelegateInstance\<false, FSourceCodeAccessModule, void (FName const&, IModularFeature\*), FDefaultDelegateUserPolicy\>::ExecuteIfSafe(FName const&, IModularFeature\*) const [/mnt/ssd/Development/UnrealEnginePreview2/Engine/Source/Runtime/Core/Public/Delegates/DelegateInstancesImpl.h:467]

libUnrealEditor-Core.so!TMulticastDelegate\<void (FName const&, IModularFeature\*), FDefaultDelegateUserPolicy\>::Broadcast(FName const&, IModularFeature\*) const [/mnt/ssd/Development/UnrealEnginePreview2/Engine/Source/Runtime/Core/Public/Delegates/DelegateSignatureImpl.inl:967]

libUnrealEditor-Core.so!FModularFeatures::RegisterModularFeature(FName, IModularFeature\*) [/mnt/ssd/Development/UnrealEnginePreview2/Engine/Source/./Runtime/Core/Private/Features/ModularFeatures.cpp:44]

libUnrealEditor-RiderSourceCodeAccess.so!FRiderSourceCodeAccessModule::GenerateUprojectAccessors(TArray\<FInstallInfo, TSizedDefaultAllocator\<32\> \> const&) [/mnt/ssd/Development/UnrealEnginePreview2/Engine/Source/./../Plugins/Developer/RiderSourceCodeAccess/Source/RiderSourceCodeAccess/Private/RiderSourceCodeAccessorModule.cpp:77]

libUnrealEditor-RiderSourceCodeAccess.so!FRiderSourceCodeAccessModule::StartupModule() [/mnt/ssd/Development/UnrealEnginePreview2/Engine/Source/./../Plugins/Developer/RiderSourceCodeAccess/Source/RiderSourceCodeAccess/Private/RiderSourceCodeAccessorModule.cpp:19]

libUnrealEditor-Core.so!FModuleManager::LoadModuleWithFailureReason(FName, EModuleLoadResult&, ELoadModuleFlags) [/mnt/ssd/Development/UnrealEnginePreview2/Engine/Source/./Runtime/Core/Private/Modules/ModuleManager.cpp:577]

libUnrealEditor-Projects.so!FModuleDescriptor::LoadModulesForPhase(ELoadingPhase::Type, TArray\<FModuleDescriptor, TSizedDefaultAllocator\<32\> \> const&, TMap\<FName, EModuleLoadResult, FDefaultSetAllocator, TDefaultMapHashableKeyFuncs\<FName, EModuleLoadResult, false\> \>&) [/mnt/ssd/Development/UnrealEnginePreview2/Engine/Source/./Runtime/Projects/Private/ModuleDescriptor.cpp:689]

libUnrealEditor-Projects.so!FPluginManager::TryLoadModulesForPlugin(FPlugin const&, ELoadingPhase::Type) const [/mnt/ssd/Development/UnrealEnginePreview2/Engine/Source/./Runtime/Projects/Private/PluginManager.cpp:1581]

libUnrealEditor-Projects.so!FPluginManager::LoadModulesForEnabledPlugins(ELoadingPhase::Type) [/mnt/ssd/Development/UnrealEnginePreview2/Engine/Source/./Runtime/Projects/Private/PluginManager.cpp:1658]

UnrealEditor!FEngineLoop::LoadStartupModules() [/mnt/ssd/Development/UnrealEnginePreview2/Engine/Source/./Runtime/Launch/Private/LaunchEngineLoop.cpp:4118]

UnrealEditor!FEngineLoop::PreInitPostStartupScreen(char16_t const\*) [/mnt/ssd/Development/UnrealEnginePreview2/Engine/Source/./Runtime/Launch/Private/LaunchEngineLoop.cpp:3469]

UnrealEditor!GuardedMain(char16_t const\*) [/mnt/ssd/Development/UnrealEnginePreview2/Engine/Source/./Runtime/Launch/Private/Launch.cpp:137]

libUnrealEditor-UnixCommonStartup.so!CommonUnixMain(int, char\*\*, int (\*)(char16_t const\*), void (\*)()) [/mnt/ssd/Development/UnrealEnginePreview2/Engine/Source/Runtime/Unix/UnixCommonStartup/Private/UnixCommonStartup.cpp:264]

libc.so.6!UnknownFunction(0x29fcf)

libc.so.6!__libc_start_main(+0x7c)

UnrealEditor!_start()

Currently on Ubuntu with the latest Rider for Unreal preview install and rider.sh in is the PATH variable yet I can't find it in the drop-down for the SourceCodeAccessor settings in the editor settings. On a side not any ETA on when Rider for Unreal will get mainlined?

Running ./GenerateProjectFiles.sh -Rider -ForceUseSystemCompiler causes

WARNING: Exception while generating include data for Target:BenchmarkTool, Platform: Linux, Configuration:
Debug

Breaks towards the bottom of WriteProjectFile in RiderProjectFile.cs.

I've installed the plugin in my project with UE5 early access but the option to select Rider as the default IDE doesn't show up in the editor's settings. Is there any way to make it work? Thankss
Ahh forgot to clarify I'm on linux!

Is this plugin support Unreal Engine 4.25?

When I'm trying to build the C++ code, while Unreal Engine is running it says this.
Of course when I close UE it works perfectly. But is there no option for building while UE is open? Do I have to use the UE interface for building? Will it be planned for the future?

picture for ref.

Thanks for any help.

There is RiderSourceCodeAccess for Unreal Engine 5 but rather only Unreal Engine 4 can you please update this plugin...
It has been a nightmare to intergrate Rider to Unreal 5!!!

Hi, i'm trying to follow this instruction to solve issue with no Rider in the UE4Editor drop down menu. So I clone a master branch of the plugin and use rsync to copy plugin source code into UE4Engine folder.

So I follow the next steps:

1. Clone UE4 source code from 4.27 branch
   
   
2. Clone RiderSourceCodeAccess from a master branch
   
3. Remove plugin source code from engine ../Plugins/Developer/RiderSourceCodeAccess
4. Copy plugin source code to engine from a master branch
   
5. Make UE4 StandardSet

And get the following linker error:

My current system is:

And I use the next Rider version (installed through Toolbox):

Does a master branch still support UE4 (4.27)?, What advice can you give?

in editor source code dropdown
there is "Rider Uproject" and "Rider 255.5787...." no "Rider" in dropdown box
if i select one of them
if i double click C++ class in unreal engine content browser i got a message Rider loaded
but rider did not opened
I already used your RiderSourceCodeAccess in master banch but i can't fix it
i'm using macos