Learning Unreal Engine Be Like 

Having worked in Unreal for the past 4 or so years, I can confirm that at least half of the process is either: 1. Waiting for the code to compile 2. Waiting for shaders to compile 3. Waiting for the level building to be finished 4. Smashing your head on your desk trying to find out why it's crashing 5. All of the above

"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder but, when you do, it blows your whole leg off"- creator of C++

Fun fact I'm a full time UE4 developer. And a proper game project takes a lot of time while loading, compiling, bulding, automated testing and existing. I learned Finnish and Spanish also switched to ironman polyphasic sleep. It gives a weird sense of superiority and inferiority complex. You can't get any more unhealty mentally without Unreal Engine.

Every game engine developers: We made the most creator friendly engine ever. You don't even need to program anything. Reality:

Next objective : try godot

very well describes my short experience with Unreal Engine: 1) install 2) launch 3) crash 4) uninstall

Me: Oh, let's make a game! Me, after watching a tutorial on literally every possible game engine: Never mind.

I've recently been learning Unreal Engine after starting out with Unity and even though working with C++ wasn't as scary as some people made it out to be, I was NOT prepared for all the compiling and having to close and restart the engine that often. Blueprints are pretty straightforward and all other aspects of the engine feel really intuitive to me, but the programming in cpp part has been very unwelcoming so far. Also, I can't imagine having to work without JetBrains Rider anymore. Unreal is a beautiful engine with a ton of great features though and I hope it'll get as comfortable as working with Unity someday soon.

I feel like more people recommend Unreal than use it for longer than even 200 hours.

Hello there! I hope you enjoy this video of the "Learning X Be like" Series. Learning Unreal has been really good so far, I hope I'll use this new knowledge one day hahaha. As always the songs I used are in the description and go follow me on Twitter if you want.

I really hate when people say "Oh just use X engine instead!" as if changing to another engine isn't a massive undertaking if you've already spent years learning to use a different one.

I have never learned any programming language and Blueprint is my boat to sail the ocean of game development

I can't even install unreal, it's too powerfull for my pc lol

Haha I went through the same, but its rewarding once you know how it works. I started with unreal and i learned a formidable amount of c++ outside of unreal and in because unreal has its own c++ environment since you use the functions available from the classes they've implemented. Keep it up, Don't get discouraged, and don't count any other things out like engines and other languages. They all help in the grand scheme of things and your just increasing your toolset to get these things done. :)

I remember watching your multiplayer game devlog time ago, youve come a long way since then! Congrats, keep it up!

Not sure if anyone mentioned this, but most added textures and meshes need to be selected one by one and ctrl + s saved because save all and save just doesn't save. If UE crashes, nothing was really saved in the end :)))

Me trying UE : "I think that's my 4th crash and recompiling today..."

Unreal is a weird engine, When you first start its a impossible mess to work with, but after a couple of mouths of usage, i found that it became a bit more user friendly in the long term

These are my current problems with unreal engine, glad someone shares them. I'm not alone.

This Channel is just too awesome and Hilarious, you have like the exact same sense of humor and familiarity of Media as me.

Ye I am procrastinating, hoping to see ppl doing it to not feel bad with myself over the next hour and actually do my homework, also your videos are funny :D

First time I used Unreal, I thought it was being quite sluggish. Not long after, I get a pop-up message; "Unreal has been running

i thought blender was tough this is going to be on a whole new level

How do you only have 13K subs my man this is gold and actually good content

i've just started learning ue5, and man. it really IS easy to make stuff look stunning. not looking forward to tackling it these issues though. thankfully i won't have to anytime soon, because i just want to make scenes to use as static background in a visual novel, so i don't need any blueprints, or programing or anything like that. but i do intent to make games in it eventually.

Time recompile everything hurts my soul. I just spent 7 hours waiting for mine to complete .

I love the detective Conan background music

"Drop my Ball at Location" got me💀

I went from Unity to Unreal as well. The transition is not easy and one of the biggest issues was figuring out how to use pointers. Once you get it though the Engine is amazing and worth the time to learn especially with the new features like luman global illumination and natite vertual geometry. Luman makes lighting amazing and easy to use, and nanite will allow massive worlds with far more things in them then other engines.

The first dive is very imposing and makes you want to go back to your previous engine or just stop coding. But after several hours of coding (maybe 20ish?) you get more familiar. I spent a maybe a few hours every other day learning unreal and after a month I got the basics down. After that, it’s just learning one aspect of the engine at a time

Im sorry to be off-topic but your choice of ending songs is so gooood !!

detective conan as soundtrack fits so hilarious

I feel this deep in my soul but the more i pluck away at it the more I’m capable of in the engine and that’s a rewarding feeling. Besides the only other thing I’d do with my time is get deranked in OW.

This is why i love unity, I took the same course as you by game dev in unity 3d. Same errors, same folders that had to be remade, lots of bs with objects getting forgotten and stuff getting rolled back. Soooo frustrating!!! I have no doubt that the program is amazing once you really know it, and feel familiar with it. But honnestly, I prefer the relatively easy to access and easy to understand UI of Unity Engine, despite its dissadvantages in compile speed and graphical prowess.

Thank you for the splendid outro music

Fam this is too ACCURATE im subscribing

C:/Grabmyballs

Me : Lets learn UE... my GPU : No my lord, no please

This is a very underrated channel

The detective conan theme in the background, i love that

Unreal is definitely the go-to if you have zero knowledge of programming, but having pre-written functions and parts of it and organizing them is... something. Blueprints aren't a bad idea, but if you know how to draw a picture, you can draw a picture. Unreal Blueprint learning process after Unity is like being given Jigsaw puzzles and asking to put them together, except you have no idea where the jigsaw puzzle part you are looking for is, or looks like most of the time. Oh. And Unity has WAY more tutorials than Unreal.

very nice lol, ive been using unreal 5 a lot and i love it

You legit knew I'm gonna ask for the song at the end xD

My favorite part is in UE4, you could "hot reload" the editor to apply C++ changes without reloading it, except this would randomly fail to compile for no apparent reason! If you can still do this in ue5, they hid the button off somewhere because hot reloading was an actual trap option.

This is why I still use unity even after they keep screwing themselves up

Tricks for using Unreal Engine 5: 1st, Learn linear coding first before the visual coding. 2nd, use Nanite to make most accurate artstyle meshes possible without sacrificing the framerate, 3rd, its up to you to use either Lumen or your own visual lighting technology you build in Edit: Unreal Engine (UE) 5 is better than UE4 beacuse even every artstyle also capable of Nanite to reach its maximum potential plus better meshes and graphics without sacrificing framerate. Even some devs move their scratch(es) from UE4 to UE5 for this advantages from Nanite.

I just heard like detective Conan theme I suddenly became a fan of ur channel

Nice video but you know what's nicer? THE CITY POP SONGS YOU USE AS OUTRO, LES GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Unreal was to hard I left for unity

Everyone is different but I learned how to use Unity faster than Unreal. I still don’t know how to code in Unity but I also barely know anything in Unreal. It’s probably because I’m an idiot but idk, pick your poison I guess

I love the detective Conan theme music

Somehow people using Detective Conan music always surprises me, even though I've seen it used multiple times now.

I don't know what kind of monster pc does unreal actually need to run without crashes and explosions, but surely not the one they specify

Unreal 5 feels a lot more stable and has a lot more features right out of the gate than Unity. When Unity has all of those components separately, such as which render pipeline to use, it can become very confusing which component you should use.

taking these course right now, struggling on c++

Meanwhile the Detective Conan Bg music! 🎶

Next objective: make you own game engine

the biggest issue with Unreal and Unity is that both engines have absolutely terrible level editors when compared to Source 2's Hammer, so you have to either model stuff externally, use the crippled built-in tools, waste $100 on a plugin that still isn't as good, or use modular meshes.

I started learning UE on a laptop that had a dual core i5 and a 940MX 4gb gpu. it was perfectly fine for learning but it eventually got WAYYY too stressful for that system... 1000 shaders would take an hour to compile at times (I did have 16gb ram)... But I landed a job from all that I learned on that laptop... Used unreal on that laptop for over 4 years! Now, after getting the job I managed to get myself a new laptop, which is high end but not really top of the line. I knew I needed ATLEAST 6gb VRAM because 4 would never be enough (I know some people suggest 8gb but I just couldnt afford that) and even though I had to push my budget by over 30% I got a shiny new Asus TUF A15 equipped with a Ryzen 9 5900HX and RTX 3060 6gb Laptop GPU. It can handle large scenes with some absolutely intense lighting with ease (6gb VRAM is actually pretty okay tbh!) and it takes barely a couple minutes to 5 minutes to compile over 10K shaders. Fast as fuck id say! Now im finally on my way to use all my 6 years of total experience and my affinity with horror games to make a super scary atmospheric game!

not to mention, even the preset sample scene makes my laptop scream

Unity has C# exist as a scripting language; it is compiled on top of the engine. C++ for Unreal is compiled directly into the engine. You need to understand the differences between the two. Blueprints = C# for Unity. C++ exists as a way for you to write code into the source build of your game. This exists because studios are say building an MMO. They are using Unreal 5 for the client and have a completely custom server backend. Or if you have game logic that is so sensitive you need it to run at a very low level for performance reasons. Something like netcode for a big multiplayer game. So if you used to use C# for a bouncing ball, you should probably just use Blueprints for a bouncing ball. But if you're designing a big multiplayer game with 900 players in a city, the server replication code for that bouncing ball should probably be written in C++. You're having issues building your game because Play In Editor does not reflect real world performance or real world logic. You have issues with how your code is structured. A reference to something that does not exist in memory will crash. You need to use a soft reference, or a if you're going to use a hard reference then you need to make sure that at some point you told the engine to load it. Pay attention to the warnings you are getting in the console or your IDE of choice. Unity does this by loading all objects in a referenceable state. This is really good for 95% of games, just like Blueprints are good for 95% of games. But there are lots of reasons why Unreal is structured the way it is. Its is why so many AAA studios with probably over a billion USD in investment combined in 2021/2022 have all switched to Unreal Engine 5 and have never once considered Unity. Square Enix, Obsidian Entertainment, Disney, Sony, Microsoft, CDPR, Ninja Theory, Focus Entertainment, Codemasters, RARE, 2k Games, GearBox, Tesla, Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Ford, General Motors, BMW, Tencent Games, Mercedes, NASA. Just to name a few. It is because the engine allows people to do whatever they want. Unity is not open source. Unreal is. I can't wait till you release the 30,000th 2d platformer on Steam built in Unity. The mobile game ads appear from China with location tracking data, contact data scrubbers and there is an ad for Weta Digital and an Amazon Prime ad for the new Lord of the Rings. Then you buy art assets off the marketplace and SteamAI blocks it was a another asset flip based on the fact there have been so many shitty Unity games released that they are now protective on who gets promoted. Steam literally has a system where if you can't get 1000 Wishlist adds in a set amount of time they will probably block you from the promotion algorithm. If your game is built in Unity then its 500 adds. Look man, I was a Unity developer for over 10+ years. The CEO of Unity now... sucks ass. I remember when Mike Acton was kicking fucking ass as the Unity boss and adding features to the engine. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rX0ItVEVjHc.html&ab_channel=CppCon He has a grey beard now but what made Unity great is long fucking gone. Its a struggle sometimes because I am trying to get Unity developers jobs and none of them seem to want to change from their workflow. They are for all intensive purposes, Unity Developers. They do NOT want to learn any new languages, they DO NOT want to learn new Shader workflows. It just sucks, because sometimes I feel like there are shifts in our industry and as professionals we need to be willing to learn new workflows. Its like Blender vs Maya. Open source vs closed source. So many people just cannot get away from Maya. Just like Unity developers cannot understand that games are made in different ways. Blender has come a long way in the past 4 years. We should open up applications from Blender artists for diversity reasons. Lets be real. A lot of young kids today on the bottom end of the socio-economic ladder are not going to be able to afford Maya and have been trained on Blender. Its free and open source, from a company perspective we can even save money on SaaS fees. Its just that you need to be realistic.

ue requires a lot of RAM, video cards and knowledge of c ++ Me: I don't agree to this deal.

Most Accurate thing about deleting Binaries and Intermediary folders bro 😅 the pain !

One hundred percent conveys my experience.

As an Unreal Engine user I can confirm it's pretty much like this. Funny enough blueprints are actually more stable and reliable than C++, just be careful when you nativize them because that's where hell breaks lose (spoiler: debugging hell, unexplainable crashes, missing headers).

In my experience, Unreal is very powerful and has plenty of tools to make very advanced things, but that's also part of what makes learning a daunting task. I definitely wouldn't consider it the easiest beginner game engine to learn. I think Unity is more approachable for a beginner. Personally, I prefer, use, and contribute to Godot Engine. It's my go-to engine for pretty much any game project and is amazing for rapid prototyping. It's fast, and lightweight, and GDScript doesn't do compiling so that's not something you'd ever have to worry about. Personally, I think Godot Engine is the best game engine for indie developers at the moment and it's rapidly improving. It's also free, so there are no complex licensing or royalties you have to worry about if you decide to work on a serious project. I'm a little biased, being one of the engine's developers, but it has earned many of its merits. In general, I just like the workflow. It just feels comfy, and cozy, I don't really know how to describe it. The node-based scene tree structure just makes a lot of sense to me intuitively. I personally prefer programming to visual scripting, but Godot offers both for the discerning user. GDScript has practically identical syntax to Python so it's very easy to learn and fast to program in.

That bit at the end felt very personal

I love how many features it has out of the gate vs unity. Also Blueprints became my gateway to programming concepts which I've come to love over the visual design aspect. However, half the time I'll load the engine and it crashes immediately. It's truly a love hate relationship.

Professinal unreal dev here, yep. this is how it felt starting but know I can see where all the crashes would be before it happens

Relatable, but i will still stick to Unreal 🤣

Love the detective conan music in the back

Thanks for featuring ourselves and Sam 😁

Next Objective - Learning FLStudio (or maybe some other DAW) Or if you are really brave, making Minecraft in Unity (No I don't want a tutorial, why do you ask that)

Now use scratch XD

yeah lol we need more videos like this

Didn't run into errors so far as a beginner; but, looking forward to them ahah xD

Unreal is cool if you use blueprints, but if you like coding you are going to have to wait a long time after you made some changes to the code.

I am a 3D artist, blueprints are Life savings for me, dunno why programmers hate it 😂

1:16 was me the few times in my life where I had programming classes, my brain was simultaneously on fire and melting rapidly, but was also completely shut down and flat-lined... It hurts my head

How come is this channel only 13K subs??? Also, great video btw

although I am a programmer, I prefer blueprints as they are just better.... everything is more organised, more clear, and way faster in development

Until Unreal gets proper c# support, I dont think I'll be using it any time soon

this video makes me literally lol in my office🤣

The third UE project assigned to me in my previous job is to optimize the whole damn city with tons of building, trees with tons of duplicated textures, models, un-optimized UVs for rendering high quality video. I had to learn in 1 week how to clean up project file (more like redo cause the original port from blender is very bad), optimize shit with non-existing previous experience and wrote the whole damn manual along with the workflow to get things working properly for future projects and even went on to do the presentation at the meeting. Then a few months later all of it went into oblivion cause they wanna do VR stuff with multiplayer function. And yes i had to learn from Pixel Streaming to manually custom build UE4 from sauce (cause they refused to spend money on an existed multiplayer plugin so i had to myself) only to be stopped forever cause they didn't want to open some port in the network. In the following months the question from them often come up and every time i would bring this up but they always seem to forget this the next time they remember that that project exist

man i just learned blender for an entire year in college and want to make some games now, why must it be so fucking difficult?!

Before the explosion I was actually understanding what the dude was saying

I've been working on rotating things on UE5 and oh boy what fun to see how stupid I am. Anyways I got the rotation system to work in the end and learned quite a bit but not everyone has the patience to fail 2 days straight.

This is a joke guys. Unreal is the easiest and the better software to develop games. No hate❤

Why don't you try Unity?

Bro its gonna be awesome a video about after effects, i like the video.

Life is that what happens between pressing Packgage and watching how those 9500 shaders compile

Unreal Engine is a nightmare to learn and be good at, but after you do so, you will almost never want to change the Engine (Except for 2D and Multiplayer, those are nightmareier than Unreal by Itself)

As someone who programmed c at age 5 and runs his own gaming company I can 100% say unreal engine is unreal. If you have any brain cells left after using it, you should use your remaining cells to quit and leave unreal engine for good it will save you from things like mental health and hair loss 👍stay safe and stress free guys 😅

That ending is so real lmao

That's so relatable! I did the same Udemy course and had the same problems!

With unity and scripting and the API I can more or less understand what any of the stuff does. With unreal is like every plugin and part has its own rules and is less unified. And the API is worse.

Just use roblox studio better than unreal and unity

I have never seen a professional-grade software that crashed that often on me, and my PC is well within the recommended specs.

When he said "Time to delete the Binaries and Intermediate folders". I felt that.

"we store all our memory in memory"