I don’t have much experience with Unreal Engine. I used it two years ago for a work project, but I don’t remember much. That said, I want to learn it, and I’m not a gamer but I like car racing games. So I went on YouTube to find a tutorial and I found this one: https://youtu.be/gfleby2BLGo?si=NYXsOmQm4w_t8IIp
This is just the first video in a full course that the creator has on another site, and it costs $20, so it’s not expensive at all, and he seems to know what he’s talking about.
So last night I started following all the steps one by one, and because of my previous experience with Unreal Engine, I was able to at least have an idea of what he was doing, rather than following steps blindly.
Here’s the problem I’m having. At the point in the tutorial when he does the first game preview and he sees the car, I see this:
And no matter what I do, nothing happens. I can’t move the camera, I don’t even know where the car is (I manually placed it exactly where the “PlayerStart” element is). Usually in the template vehicle project, when I do a preview, I see the cool car that comes with it, and I have to click on the viewport or the standalone window to be able to use the arrow keys to drive it.
But in this case, no matter what I do, nothing happens. All I can do is press escape and go back to edit mode.
Now, not knowing UE much I can’t be sure if this is a problem with this particular tutorial, perhaps because it’s one year old and some versions before the current one. In fact, I saw some things that show one way in his tutorial that I don’t see in mine, but just a couple of things, for the most part, everything in his tutorial is what I see in the current version of UE.
I went back in the tutorial and followed all the steps again to go over my work and make sure I hadn’t missed anything, and I hadn’t. I also went over the project settings, world settings, and I couldn’t find anything strange.
Seeing this screenshot, can anyone tell what could be wrong?
Also, I tried to build the preview of the game, like when you click the Platforms drop down menu and choose your PC, and I checked the output log as it was building. There were no red items, until it got to the end and gave me this:
PackagingResults: Error: Launch failed! Missing UnrealGame binary.
You may have to build the UE project with your IDE. Alternatively, build using UnrealBuildTool with the commandline:
UnrealGame <Platform> <Configuration>
Obviously all of that goes over my head. Any idea what it means? Is it related to the unresponsive preview?
