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Updating the kit

Your maps and avatars live under Content/VRRealms/Community/. That folder is yours, and kit updates never need to touch it.

Most releases install with VRR Updater. The exception is a release that adds a new engine plugin: the small update cannot carry one, and the release notes say so when it happens. For those, download the full kit and copy your Community folder across, as under Engine update below.

Small update (most releases)

Use VRR Updater. It lists the releases, downloads and verifies the one you pick, backs up the kit’s own files first, and never touches Community. If you would rather do it by hand, close the editor and extract the update-only zip over the kit; it holds the plugin binaries and, now and then, a Config file.

Close Unreal Editor. The kit’s plugin file is locked while it is open, and the updater will tell you so.
Double-click VRRUpdater.cmd in the kit folder. A console window opens first, then the updater.
The top card shows what you have installed and whether an update exists. Select the release in the list and press Install selected.
When it says you are up to date, open the editor again. Your maps and avatars are exactly where you left them.

The kit folder in File Explorer with VRRUpdater.cmd selected — VRRUpdater.cmd sits next to README.md in the kit folder. Double-click it.

A console window behind the VRR Updater window on first launch — A console opens first and stays in the background; the updater window comes up over it.

VRR Updater showing an installed version, an UPDATE badge, and two releases listed as available — Installed version on the card, the newer release marked UPDATE, and the list below. Select the release and press Install selected.

VRR Updater refusing to install with the message Close Unreal Editor first — Editor still open: the install stops with a message, because the plugin file is locked. Close the editor and press Install again.

VRR Updater showing the installed release marked INSTALLED and the previous one marked OLDER — After the install: the card says UP TO DATE, the release you picked reads INSTALLED, older ones read OLDER.

Verify and repair

Verify files compares every file the kit ships against the installed release. All green means nothing changed. If some read MODIFIED or MISSING, Repair restores those files from the release; your copies are backed up first, and Community is never part of the check.

VRR Updater after Verify files with every shipped file marked OK — Verify files: every shipped file reads OK and the line at the bottom counts them.

VRR Updater after Verify files with files marked MODIFIED and MISSING and a Repair button — Some files modified, some missing: the Repair button appears. Press it to restore them from the release; your versions are backed up first.

If the install says a file is denied

If Install or Repair stops with “Access to the path is denied”, or says Windows will not let VRR Updater replace a file, and Unreal Editor is closed, your security software is almost always the cause. The ransomware protection in several antivirus products stops unknown programs from changing documents and pictures in folders like Desktop and Documents, and the kit carries a few .txt and .png files.

Allow the kit folder, or PowerShell (VRR Updater runs on it), in that protection, then press Install again.
Or move the whole kit folder somewhere plain such as C:\VRRealmsCreatorKit and run VRR Updater from there. Your Community folder moves with it.

Nothing of yours is lost when this happens. The updater checks first and changes nothing when a file is refused, and it leaves alone any file that is already up to date. If an older updater replaced some files before it stopped, allow it as above and press Install once more to finish.

Engine update (rare)

Download the fresh kit, copy old Content/VRRealms/Community/ in, re-select your items and re-publish. Workshop IDs travel with each item.

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