Yeahhhhh… I’m brand spanking new to all of this. I’ve done a little level design here and there for things like TF2 and Elder Scrolls games, and a few years ago I learned enough Python to build a calculator. And never used it again. That’s the extent of my related experience. I’m a real newbie. And… I have had a really difficult time with this tutorial. I did the “Your First Game in Unreal Engine 5.0” tutorial just fine, with only a couple of points where I got hung up before I figured out my mistake. This one, while it seems more simple, confused the heck out of me. I’m now at the point where you move the bat along the spline, and I can’t get it to move at all. Just can’t do it. Everything I have matches the tutorial exactly, so far as I can determine. It mostly makes sense to me. Something just isn’t connecting. I’ve been over and over it, spent a couple of hours on just this one thing, but I’m giving up. Obviously I’m doing something wrong, but I can’t figure out what, and I just don’t know enough about the system to try to troubleshoot it. I’m moving on to another beginner tutorial and hopefully I’ll have better luck figuring stuff out with that one. Disappointing, because I thought it’d be neat to build it and play around with making it more complex, but I just can’t understand what’s wrong and I don’t know enough about how these components communicate to see where the breakdown is. If I ever figure out how splines work, I may come back to this and try to make it work, but right now it’s just too frustrating.
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