on Youtube and when their setups dont even work and you ask them about it in their comment section they just ignore it?
… pretending that they know something.
I have followed several tutorials on the last 4 years and some of them were hopelessly wrong about node usage as the engine changed and they dont bother
to update their tutorials.
We follow those tutorials and then we end up in dead ends in the forest wasting a ton of time because there is no warning that the tutorial is outdated.
They want their subs and their clicks and then they dont care if the information is correct or not.
They just leave it up there.
Someone back me up here please thank you.
I had one case where I corrected someone about a depreciated node and went through the trouble posting in his comment section how it should work with a newer version of the engine.
He didn’t even thank me just deleted the comment and left the tutorial up there.
That was amazing.
It would be nice to have certified UE4 tutorials so not just any idiot can throw something up there just to get the clicks and subs.
At least checked by someone.
I remember in earlier days people were more ethical and actually stated their engine version and warned that it might change in newer versions. They dont bother with that anymore.
Part of the problem of course is that Youtube doesn’t allow you to REupload a video. You have to delete it and upload a whole new one.
Thanks for backing me up on this.
You know Twitter has “verified” marks on profiles.
So we know its not bogus.
It would be great if we could submit tutorials to Epic and they put a nice watermark on the videos so we know it has been checked at least.
I still don’t understand why is this a problem. It doesn’t take an expert to realize that a tutorial from 2015 is most likely outdated.
Also, how long does it take to solve an “outdated” issue? How long does it take to find a solution or an alternative? That’s called learning.
Aren’t many tutorials made by Epic itself outdated too?
Do you really want to go down that path?
Also, how is that going to solve anything? Is Epic going to check all the videos they “certified” every single time they update their engine?
Should we start deleting old post containing “outdated” information?
I think you should really step back and think a little more about all this, because to be honest and blunt, your line of thought is taking you to a dark path.
It was just a suggestion.
There are many very old tutorials that are not outdated and still works in fact newer ones on the same subject are often worse.
So its impossible to tell which ones are the best to follow especially if you are doing something for the first time and have no experience to judge from.
But that happens with everything, whether is a javascript tutorial or 3d modelling course.
I’m only willing to go as far as the creation of a sticky topic in the Community Content, Tools and Tutorials, where a list of courses and materials could be posted, with an indication of whether or not they are up to date and if not, solutions to the issues found.
But even something as simple as this, would be extremelly hard to maintain in the long run. And I bet it would be outdated after a couple of new releases.
The tutorials have a date, right? Presumably you can just compare the date of the tutorial with the date of your engine, and if they’re too far apart, assume that things changed.
Somebody who takes time out of their life to present what they know to others, at that time, is a BOON to the world. You have no right to assume that they will forever update that content, any more than you have the right to see Star Wars Episode X for free just because you paid the admission for Star Wars Episode IX.
Learning is hard. It requires real work on the part of the learner. This is true in school, and it’s true in life. The world is FULL of references of various quality that various people have produced at various times. It’s up to you to figure out what you need to learn, and how to learn it, using whatever resources are at your disposal. Don’t blame content creators for whatever choices you make. There’s no free lunch!
(If you PAY for teaching material, that’s a different matter – paid classes that are out of date would be a problem. But it doesn’t sound like that’s what’s going on here.)
Like I pointed out. Date doesn’t matter. Its more complicated than that. Good tutorials can be very old.
A good example is a very old Blender to Unreal tutorial I still have.
I downloaded it.
Why?
Because a few far more “advanced” tutorials that came out AFTER that are wrong about a whole bunch of things.
It doesn’t matter now with the new Blender tool that was just released of course but just to use an example where date is not an indication of a good tutorial or not.
Absolutely, it takes a lot of time and effort to produce high quality tutorials. We should appreciate they even exist for free in the first place.
Expecting content creators to update their free tutorials for every single Engine change is just wrong.
As a tutorial creator, adding in an engine version within the description is not that hard.
Sure, you easily forget. However it is kind of a requirement.
What’s your actual proposal here? Do you think that people you don’t know, who do work for free, should do more work for free, for your own enjoyment?
People have their own lives. If you don’t like their videos, don’t watch them. If you think it can be done better, do better yourself, and give it away for free!