I want to have a real blank project, that in my understanding just have a virtzial grif for a ment floor but not solid and nothiung else. When I generate a new blank project in the unreal 5 launcher, demarked starter content, I get always a landscape scenery with löight etc.
How to get a real blank project and why is blank called blank containing a scenery?
the description of “Games->Blank” is
“A clean empty project with no code”
this is meaning that outside of the Engine itself there are no pre-built C++ classes or Blueprint scripts included in the project.
the reason that there is a terrain, a Static_Mesh plane, lights, and Post-Processing Volume is because that is where most games actually start out as (I myself would most have issue with the Terrain being pre-generated to have a valley that mimics the plane)
similar to how blank in the other categories includes a plane, lights, post-processing volume, and a Camera because that is what epic has determined to be the bare minimum for what most people will end up doing
the rendering pipeline requires a light of some kind along with the post processing volume (which love it or hate it that is the system the rendering pipeline uses), the collision system requires objects that have collision.
basically the argument for these things being pre-placed/pre-built is more “you are going to be putting these in anyways, so we are going to be saving you the steps” and so that a tutorial starting from a blank project doesn’t need to begin with “first we need to add a light, and a post process volume so we can see things, and then we will add a plane for somewhere the character can stand…”
this way the first steps in the development process is working on gameplay logic, and system design rather the 3 fiddly steps that feel like busy work
to which if you really wanted to do these steps yourself then: Ctrl+A → Delete but you will in 99% of cases be adding 2 or 3 of the 4 things back anyways.
Thank you for this explanation. I just worked with 3d software before and all you have is this imaginary 0/0 with an invisible endless imaginary floor to have an orientation.
I have to check out every entry so, to see what it is exactly.
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Level with landscape etc. is just the “Open World” level template, which opens by default.
You can do File - New Level and select Empty Level for a real blank experience.
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