1 Download and Install Perforce

• Go to the Perforce’s official website
• Click Try Free button to its product website
• Choose Helix Core and Helix Swarm

• Fill the information to go to the download page
  • choose On-Premise

• Install it
• Now Helix Core Server is running, and you can see it in the local services

Two ways of running the Perforce server:

• P4D
• P4S: our method

Once the service is running, you can connect to your server using P4Admin.

2 Download and Install P4V

On the Helix Visual Client download page, we download the P4V.

Install it, nothing special. P4V will be running then.

• Create User, then log in

3 Use Case

p4Ignore

p4 set P4IGNORE=.p4ignore  # set configuration
touch .p4ignore  # create this file
# write some rules in .p4ignore, and then
p4 ignores

References

• Using Perforce as Source Control
• How to make a Server with Perforce for Unreal Engine
• Perforce for UE4 / Unreal Engine 4
• How to Use Unreal Engine 5 with Perforce Helix Core
• Install P4V
• How to Configure Helix Core + Game Engine
• 【游戏开发】UE4使用版本控制软件Perforce介绍