Hello all !
I was just going through this and I tought that maybe giving feedbacks to Epic on their tut can be nice for future ones. So here goes:
I was expecting to find a nice short series about only C++ programming while starting to this since I am especially trying to stay away from Blueprints ( Because I already know quite a bit of visual scripting and want to focus on coding.) Also blueprints have their own tutorial so I didn’t think that they would show up here.
Then the series turned into a whole mess of C++, Blueprint, Materials… I guess there was even a curve-something somewhere.
Then I stopped coding at that point because my attention got scattered all around and the example in the tutorial wouldn’t be completed without all these extra things.
So:
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Please put a warning in each main tutorial’s explanation about requirements: Requires: Blueprints, Materials… So that we would invest our time accordingly.
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Don’t make examples more complicated just to show more ways to do things in a beginner tutorial. People are usually NOT interested in a tutorial that goes over all around trying to teach many things in a single GO. Just make another short tutorial somewhere else and say " Hey there is also this another way. " It would probably take same amount of time for you to do it.
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If you are planning on changing code related structure ( like 4.6) please also update your tutorials, and if you can not do it ( lack of available hands at the time) just don’t change anything on the code side. It took 2 days for me to get some help from other knowledgeble people in the forum to figure out the first episode of the tutorial. This was exactly the reason that I was trying to switch from another engine, thinking " Things are actually working over there" . Right now there simply isn’t a difference ( ın terms of technical side of things and figuring out workflows)
Thanks for caring about us.