Seems like learning unreal engine 5 is road block after roadblock and this dev community doesn’t seem to have any actual devs answering important questions. Every time I find myself on this website its a question I have, 5 people responding to the question saying theyre stuck in the same place, and it had been up for 5 months with nobody looking through it or giving any sense that there’s answers to be found. The educational dev videos that Epic puts out lacks any educational format and reads like a very long boring corporate zoom call. They need to start investing in this community or else they’re not gonna have one.
I will presume that when you say “devs” you are referring to Unreal Engine Engineers, to which. this is a community focused discussion and help forum, that has been available in this form since 2014, with the thought being that community member “devs” might have experience with the same, or similar situation. it might also depend on the title/details given, and when you post your question.
for the Epic devs specifically they are under no obligation to answer questions, though some of them do from time to time (they will have a blue “Staff” under their profile picture). though there are also Engine Contributors which are actively helping with the Engine through the Open Source code (appearing after their name)
technically anyone who has turned on the Editor is an Unreal Developer (in the same way anyone who has picked up a Guitar is a musician), with varying levels ability. in some regard given the scale of the Engine it is very unlikely that any one person at Epic even knows everything about the Engine where it is basically at “Enterprise Scale”
some people will only ever look at the New section (or that section that appears at the bottom of any post), so if you post a question/topic that those people don’t think they can help with or they don’t understand they might just jump past it.
some people might see that the post has replies going on, and assume that some one is already helping, so they might not need to check it (so those “Me too” posts could technically be hurting the chance or getting an answer)
the Unreal Learning series has shifted greatly both with “the sickness” and with the change in Host. the “corporate Zoom call” feeling is not unique, because “something, something, distributed”, “work from home”, and “developers from anywhere in the world” it might not be avoidable. they also don’t differentiate the presentations from Epic Engine Developers and those from community Developers demonstrating a feature.
Unreal is a Business to Business product, and the community around Unreal will exist as long as people are passionate (or motivated) to make products/applications with the engine. And as long as the Mighty Sweeney doesn’t say/do something that will motivate people to go to a different product.
when you have built your dream, and business on a product it sometimes becomes difficult to leave, but as we saw recently with Unity it wasn’t the lack of Unity supporting the community that lead to people/companies leaving it was a Business decision that cause the exodus (the true size impact of such is still yet to be seen)
Use two tools:
Chat gpt and google.
Ask chat gpt your questions, it will give you either solution, or you get keywords that you can feed to google and get answers.
That helps with most of problems. and for rest you have some point to start from.
And you can always try “Job offers” subforum here, i am sure if you offer decent payment for help you will get plenty of help. Expecting dev/engineer level of support/help for free is silly.
I can see that you have only asked 1 question, “Checking your Profile” I was going to ask if you are answering questions as well.
Thank you for sharing.