YOU’RE LEARNING UNREAL ENGINE 5 WRONG

Thank you brother this was much needed.

Hello I want to make games and in 2023 new years I started to buckle down and learn unreal when I started I made doors open and all the ways they can open and close and I noticed that if I want to learn I need no know what are the things that go into making games but I don't know what I don't know that's what school dose they teach you what you don't know and I told a YouTube that and he recommended I us Ai I don't like it it's not a good learning assistant so I would look for the befault stuff like material modeling and blueprints for beginners tutorials and from there I would find what I don't know and try and find other tutorials and do them one at a time but for me it was learn the basics of all the programs and or features so I know where there at and how to use them so if I need it to make or change something small at least I know how to use it and for one year I learned the basic of how to use blender unreal 3d paint and design cascader and how to use Ai to make textures and to make fast small stores to make games as well as using website GDD and github desktop for organization and for one year I'm done learning now I'm doing making a small small game to get experience the game Will be bad and last a couple of minutes and when I'm done I'll put it on ich. Io and make another one and so on to get experience on how to make a game on my own and where to put it online. I always come to YouTube to see what people say about unreal and I like this video thank you.

if you are that quick to give up on your plans and dreams then maybe it wasn't meant for you. Most people probably won't have the discipline to follow through for very long if at all. You didn't really say much and the complaints weren't a big deal at all. I've been learning unreal for a few weeks, while it has been frustrating AF (like rip my hair out kind of frustrating, i followed the instructions to a T… no you didnt… no you didnt… lmao everytime theres always some minor detail you overlook keeping everything from working) at times, its just really rewarding to be able to create my own little world and my own experience. I've always been a fan of games and learning to make them puts into perspective how much work and experience it takes 😁

Some good advice for beginner's. Appreciate the video, man.

Hey how did you get your editor to look like that what theme are you using

I like the advice. I'm not learning UE right now but I'll try to apply it to learning Java and Autodesk Maya.

tks bro. i will subcribe and 👍

ok i understand that i should try and learn things buy my self and experment but how do i experment if i dont even know whats posiable like how do i know how to create a hp system by my self if i dont know what nodes to use

nah I'm built different

As I was going through multiple tutorials and youtube courses, I was thinking, I should just have fun with the system one feature at a time. Learning along the way and starting from a simple thing such as movement. This seconds that opinion. Weird how the internet knows what you're thinking.

very good analogy about trying to tackle every aspect/feature/functionality at once right off the bat. That'll never happen. My biggest issue with learning UE on my own (well… by following YT toots n Udemy courses) is that I can follow along a video and do steps 1, 2, and 3, and get the desired result… but I don't know HOW or WHY steps 1, 2, and 3 CREATE the desire result. The first thing that comes to mind is sphere/line trace math… or basically any game dev math lol. Why do I multiply these variables then add them to this variable for the Trace Start or End? I suppose the only way to find out is by creating different equations or messing with the values and watch how the traces are affected. But that's just the first thing that comes to mind. If I could just figure out how to learn why/how things work the way they work, I'd actually learn something rather than just following a tutorial's steps. In any case, NOW is the best time to learn and nobody has ever had it easier or more attainable to learn game dev than we do today

It is as you say, all simple logic, experiences, common sense and basically every first chapter of any gamedev book I’ve tried to read and failed after the first chapter. 😅

But what’s not often said is that you need to have some knowledge already to distinguish what “simple “ is simple enough to start with it.
I am mainly focused on 3D graphics and it took me more than half a year of tedious learning from tutorials I understood just partly, hit and miss try-hards and harsh disappointments to finally find out what really is this simple. (Now these disappointments aren’t as harsh and as frequent, but I repeat this mistake with each and every thing I try for the first time. What should be simple, especially with good sources, ends up disastrously with many hours spent only on learning by my own mistakes but no product to show or feel proud of).

I am notoriously bad at following long tutorials step by step without any possibility to practice myself and let myself be challenged. Even in courses by good teachers, each project I started soon grew exponentially with my own “simple” stuff often to disappointing results. What seemed to be basics was in fact only one part of enormous and complex problematics I wasn’t able to comprehend at my level of skills.

I see the same (and worse since it’s even more complex) in Unreal. Even after finishing one course step by step I’ve been more confused than informed, and it felt physically painful to finish it like this, too much like at elementary school where not writing every word from blackboard or worse, having our own mind and ideas were punished.
I am still too inexperienced in engine to decide what “simple” is simple enough to provide challenging but confident results. Without these mistakes above.
Especially since my time I have for learning is inevitably running out. To keep myself from anxiety, I need to feel that my learning project will be useful in our big project at least somehow (like… when needing rule of three, I don’t wanna repeat simple multiplication again nor try to understand integral.)

Do you have any tips on how to deal with this? How to simply and effectively determine what to focus on?

0:05 takes me back to Die Hard gameplay

The issue I have with learning Unreal (and every other engine) is I just haven't enjoyed the process at all. The steps in between having my idea and interacting with it in playable form are just not enjoyable for their own sake. It's like I just want to be a chef but I have be spend years being a farmer to even get started.

Some people are content to suffer through something to get to where they want to get. That's just not how I do things. I genuinely believe whatever is most enjoyable to me in the moment is the most authentic and beneficial thing for me. Learning the software and visual scripting just doesn't come close to making the cut.

OK i have to ask here because nobody can give me a real answer anywhere else.
More than once I get into discussions about game graphics and physics engines and I keep seeing people repeatedly claim the Unreal engine is no good for filling up a world with tons of interactive objects, such as found in game worlds like The Elder Scrolls and Fallout, which is why they kept using Gamebryo (and Creation Engine) for so long even though they have other limitations.
As a guy who makes Unreal Engine videos do you agree the Unreal Engine is not suited for loads and loads of simple interactive objects?
Why?
I keep asking for explanations and nobody can give me one. Just the blanket claim that This Is The Way It Is.

Got Adderall thursday, Friday and Saturday i started working on ny game, i dont plan on stopping that pattern today

same as with web programming, never ever learn things you will not need. Are you learning UE to get a job or working on your game project? I guess most ppl want own game, learn only stuff you will need for your game logic etc. Learn with a project not before the project, otherwise u waste precious time

Funny you mention the VR plugin being on by default.. I haven't seen anyone else talk about this.. None of my dev friends knew about this, because they don't own a VR.. so if they were to release a game, it would pop up with Steam VR for users on launch, if they have a VR device.. and the devs would never know about it, unless the user complains.. so stupid.. I didn't get much from watching this video, but otherwise great video for new beginners!

Thank you for the help. You put learning the UE5 in perspective for me on how to learn it.l💯🤟

thanks for this video iv`e been learning ue4/5 and inever understood it until you gave me an idea just now on how to do it properly

what tutorials would you recommend for starting off?

so don't use ue5? just kidding.

Dude this is so helpful. Thanks for the video.

how is your UE Ui so different

Thanks for the tips! 😊