Engine organization tips for starters

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Hey all, I just recently joined the forums. Really excited to be learning and working with unreal engine.

I know there is a lot of documentation and I will be reading those. My question to the community is…

How should a complete beginner approach unreal engine set-up and organizing all his files etc for a smooth development experience?(as smooth as can be)

And of course any other tips the veterans can share for complete beginners just starting out.(Even if its just important/helpful links or even navigating the forums/ documentations better or absolute must - knows and must haves) Would highly appreciate all help and guidance!

Thanks in advance!

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Check out these tuto, they are short and are pretty well explained by epic staff: BeginPlay | Learning path

In terms of organisation:

  • do often backup your project because you will encounter crash or corrupt files.
  • never moved folders but better move files asset (inside your content browser)
  • use to inbuilt tool to migrate files from one project to another project and don’t use file explorer.
  • once you rename/move a file, do Fix Redirectors immediately.
  • naming convention, i used this one but you can adapt it to your preference: Unreal Engine: Naming Convention Guide - Tom Looman

Lastly, take your time learning by your own being your own teacher, instead of just copy paste exactly from a yt video :innocent:

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Wow! Amazing!

Thank you so much my friend, appreciate your help :smiley:

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