Some developers might require their game to be different based on specific builds. For example you make a game and you want to release a demo but don’t want to include certain features. This is actually very easy to achieve. Like literally…very easy. 🙂

Open your MyProject.Build.cs file and modify it like this:

/* True if this should compile as a demo build */
const bool bIsDemoBuild = true;

/* Add a new definition called IS_DEMO_BUILD. This will be 1 (true) if bIsDemoBuild is true. Else it will be false (0) */
Definitions.Add(string.Format(“IS_DEMO_BUILD={0}”, (bIsDemoBuild ? “1” : “0”)));

Close your project solution file, right click on your *.uproject file and select Generate Visual Studio project files.

Generate Visual Studio project files.

That’s it! In your header/source files you can now use like this:

#if IS_DEMO_BUILD
UE_LOG(LogTemp, Log, TEXT(“This is a demo build”))
#else
UE_LOG(LogTemp, Log, TEXT(“This is release build”))
#endif

The good thing about this approach is its not just a simple if else condition. The compiler is actually removing the entire code inside that macro based on the condition. 🙂