UE5 on macOS and Apple Silicon

UE5 material defaults to Windows. Validation scripts are PowerShell, build commands are Build.bat, and performance advice assumes tooling that does not exist here. On a Mac, following it produces confident, wrong instructions.

The engine's macOS support is real and has improved substantially — but "supported" and "identical to Windows" are different claims, and the gap is where a week disappears.

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