Digital-Tutors: Unreal Engine 4 vs. Unity: Which Game Engine Is Best for You?

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And to be able to fully utilize the engines capabilities, according to these use cases, source is a valuable asset.
Everything you say that you can do without source in Unity, could probably be done better with source.
To remake things, in stead of improving on the things that are already there, is counter-productive and in most cases a bad move, performance-wise. This is the daily life of a Unity-developer: To remake things, already in the engine, because what is there is incomplete or lacking. Pathfinding and GUI are good examples of this…

If you could improve directly on the engine source, you would also be able to program in c++ and circumvent the whole mono-package. This could solve many problems for unity devlopers, where mono is seriously outdated.

So do you think you can do a better job than the 120+ staff at Epic or the 500 staff at Unity? You say “improve directly on the engine source” so nonchalant, we were re-making things in Unity and it’s one of THE main reasons we left Unity. Because I have a team of 15 behind me and it costs a fortune whenever they spend time doing things outside the scope of the project. When a publisher is about to kick you across the room because you’re way behind on targets due to problems, then source is …

But I know what’s involved in the rest, trying to balance making a decent game whilst improving an engine is crazy and requires a lot of man power to do so. If it requires that many upgrades in the first place, it’s probably not the ideal engine to be using aye?

I wish it worked like you say it does in the commercial world, anything we needed we could just pop in sort it all via “de sauce codez” save the planet and be home in time for lunch.