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- kingsteven3
2 weeks in to Unreal Engine and I'm switching back to Unity. The Blueprints system in Unreal is crazy good (entire games constructed visually, no code) but if you are a coder it adds another layer to the learning curve (almost all tutorials on UE 4 use blueprints).
Other gripes included: bad experience with a few Unreal APIs (incl. metahuman) and 3rd party plugins. Accessing UE and Marketplace through the slow/buggy Epic Game Store is maddening... And well, the Unreal Engine IDE is just ugly.
When I got a bit further in to researching the things I want to build I found there wasn't much between Unity and Unreal in terms of assets with better paid plugins on the Unreal side but more advanced tutorials and more open source code on the Unity side.
In hindsight I probably would have been better just learning how to better import and export assets between blender and Unity (rigging and lodding and the like) which is what I'm doing now and not as much of a melt (to get the basics down) as I thought.
- Oddly enough, I was just yesterday wondering why you'd gone a bit quiet recently - now i know! :)Nairn
- Hah, lost in a sea of browser tabskingsteven
- I know Tom Francis (game dev) has some tutorials about unity:
https://youtube.com/…Nutter - I don't know if I'm tripping... but Unreal engine games have a certain 'look' to them.inteliboy
- I see that glowy HDRI effect in a lot of their demos. I don't know if that's an option you can disable though. Maybe it's just on by default.monNom
- heh, all engines have a look for sure. from what i've read the Unreal look is as much down to why the studio picked Unreal (big games, big teams) and that theykingsteven
- are trying to use every new available feature of the current gen graphics cards. oh and probably a FPS :)kingsteven
- like I've been trying to balance out using low poly models with high quality weather and FX and most games I know with that aesthetic are Unity.kingsteven