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Today is your first day

Welcome to Team Rephrased. Shared day-one steps are below. Then open your tab. Setup and weekly workflow are the same on every first-day page.

Not sure which tab? Ask your lead.

Quick start (everyone)

  1. Daily work is on the USC Perforce depot (client GL_Main_PC). Git/GitHub is legacy reference only. See Current repo workflow.
  2. Log in to Perforce (P4V or p4 login), p4 sync the project, and confirm Rephrased.uproject is at the project root.
  3. Install UE 5.8 and Visual Studio 2026 (.vsconfig at repo root). See Developer setup.
  4. Run [OpenAfterPull]Build_Project.bat -check for diagnostics.
  5. Run [OpenAfterPull]Build_Project.bat — it opens the editor, or compiles first if C++ changed. You do not need to open Visual Studio manually. See Building Rephrased.
  6. Open LV_2ndPlayable in Content/2ndPlayable/, press Play, confirm movement works. Engineers then duplicate it into Content/Developers/<Discipline>/<Name>/LV_<Name>_Playground for personal experiments.
  7. If anything fails, check Saved/Logs/ and ask your lead before changing project files.

Pick your tab

You are… Continue on…
Programming engineer Engineering → First day (engineering)
Designer Design → First day (design)
Artist Art → First day (art)

Optional for all disciplines: Setup tab for coding agents (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity) and ChatGPT project files.

If you have any other questions, ask your lead.

Change history

  • 2026-09-05 — Gabriel Li — Day-one source control is Perforce (p4 login + p4 sync, client GL_Main_PC); git is legacy reference.

  • 2026-09-05 — Gabriel Li — Updated to the shipped hybrid Content structure (PR #19): PreProShowcase sandbox under Content/Rephrased/Levels/Prepro/, Art/Gameplay/Levels layout, Imports isolation, Content/Developers/<Discipline>/<Name>/ scratch space.

  • 2026-08-27 - Gabriel Li - Updated first-day sandbox wording to PreProRuneShowcase and added the personal playground expectation where relevant.

  • 2026-08-26 — Gabriel Li — Updated for org repo source of truth, VS-once team setup, -check, and old-demo historical status.

  • 2026-08-14 — Gabriel Li — Three tabs stay; role tracks dropped. Each first-day page is setup + weekly workflow, then optional reading.
  • 2026-08-12 — Gabriel Li — Install pin is UE 5.8 and VS 2026.
  • 2026-05-23 — Gabriel Li — Shared first-day hub; discipline routes on Engineering/Design/Art tabs; open questions replaced with ask-your-lead line.