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You will then be greeted with superuser confirmation, so click yes.īy default, user accounts do not need passwords and anyone can create an account.

If you do not get the window in the following image, review the steps above again. If you are prompted with a Wizard of any kind, simply close the wizard by hitting buttons such as Do Not Use Wizard or Close Wizard. If everything was done right, you will then be greeted with this window. Be sure to choose a strong password that has at least 8 characters, one uppercase character, a number, and one symbol character to prevent errors at a later step.

Your new username should be shown in the User field.

Fill out your new user details and hit Save.

To create your user account, click the New. You are going to need to supply either an IP address or hostname of the Perforce server, and the Perforce server must be reachable from your client machine.Įnter your server's hostname or IP address in the Server field and make sure to include the :1666 port otherwise the client will fail to connect.īecause this is a brand new server installation, no users will exist.

Open a connection to the Perforce server.

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Install Perforce Client (P4V) on a client machine with all default options.If you are accessing this server from a different machine, make sure Windows Firewall allows Inbound Connections via TCP on port 1666.Install Perforce Server with all default options.Download the Perforce Server (Helix Versioning Engine) installer.

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Otherwise, follow my old tutorial on how to get a server up and running, and come back to this tutorial when you have to create a user account. I have an automated script that will install a Perforce Server on an Ubuntu machine you can use here. This is because all binaries can be easily rebuilt from the stored source code.

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exe files will be limited to only storing their latest revision. To save on Engine space, binary files such as. At an absolute minimum, you will need 50GB but you will quickly run out of space afterward. I recommend having at least 150GB, preferably 300GB or more for your Perforce server if you are going to be storing engine builds. Storing the Unreal Engine on Perforce takes a lot of storage space. For Linux clients, the steps will still work but you need to know the Linux command line equivalents. This tutorial assumes all clients are on Windows machines. I will continue to refer to their software as Perforce and not as Helix because its Perforce damn it. has recently changed their Perforce product name to Helix Versioning Engine. If you're looking to just host your project files, I suggest reading my older tutorials about this subject. Please note that you should only do this if you specifically want to host your Engine source on your Perforce server. This is the most basic setup for 'beginner' Perforce pipelines and does not cover things like streams. This document covers how to set up a new Perforce server and populate it with an Unreal Engine source build alongside your projects.