For how long have you used Unreal Engine, and why?

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Hi,

For how long have you used unreal engine (not referring to UE4 only), and why did you decided in the first place to use it?

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I started like… eleven years ago or so. First map I made was for Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 and I even won a mapping competition with it, this was with UE 2.5. I never went pro though, did a map for a mod team and then worked on a Betio map Rising Storm (http://www.godisageek.com/wp-content/gallery/redorchestra2risingstormgallery/betio2_1024.jpg art made by the rising storm team, I can’t model for ****) for a bit but couldn’t really commit in the end due to university studies. I resigned and I think someone took over the map, don’t know really. That was in UE 3.

Nowadays I concentrate mainly on programming since I study computer science in school.

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I messed around with udk couple of times, my current pc isn’t quite powerful enough for ue4 tho. I’m using unity 5 and having a blast.

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i began using epic engines back in 2009, i started with the UDK, then i moved to UE4, right now i’m using UE4 and Unity 5, both engines has pros and cons but i like UE4 over unity! The UE4 is the best engine to make a game.

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Salutations Tendogames,

I began learning Unreal 10 months ago after having switched from Unity.
Dedicated learning of Unreal began 4-5 months ago.

Why I started using it:

  • A friend trying to convince me to drop Unity and go with Unreal
  • Free to get everything was a big push, while there was a monthly subscription it wasn’t even really on my radar.
  • Square Enix announcing 2 big name games using Unreal made me look at what big games were being made in Unity and do comparisons
  • Performance issues in Unity around games that have to do constant fast paced horizontal scrolling
  • Unity having no real game framework compared to what Unreal has.
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12 years.

FML.

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Since 1999 and UT. Because unreal had out of the box map editor and quake did not.

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12 years, why - matinee, why am i still here - you won’t find a better Committy any where else

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4 months. I’m in school for software development. Want to work for Google or Unreal also want to make super beautiful and fun games that people enjoy regardless of cost. First demo near completion.

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I started using it in 2000 for making maps and starting scripting gameplay in 2007. First used UE3 with C++ in 2012 and I’ve used UE4 since it was in Beta. Love it.

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Thank you for all the responses guys. Is quite interesting to see every ones story, and how they started using the Editor.

For me one Unreal Engine, I guess it changed my life from the moment I click the UnrealEd icon instead the Unreal.exe back in 1998, although I remember the editor didn’t worked and asked for a UED patch.

I don’t know if back that time there wear other companies allowing you to use there engine for learning? Quake II was a fantastic game, but don’t remember if had any editor.

With Unreal Tournament editor I had a lot of fun after. Same for UT2004.

Before to even use the unreal engine all I knew what to do is draw in Windows 95, Ms. Paint. I used the 2d shape editor for 7 years, until different companies told me I need to learn 3D.
I am thinking that the 2D Shape editor helped me a bit learning about 3D shape objects since was similar to splines drawing. It was a great tool of its time.

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What was UE like back then? Have you worked on any games I can check out?*

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Sadly don have the maps I made back in 1998 but still have some from 1999, can be seen here.

https://www.artstation.com/p/1lLBe

But the editor interface and mostly it was all the same. Only UE4 is different.

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I started back in 2013 with UDK for a school project. It was waaaaay overambitioned but taught me dozens of things that I still use today. So compared to the real pros Im just a small noob fish xD
Sometimes I wish I had played UT way earlier in my life. Back in the UT3 days I hated UE actually because of this ugly texture loading after the actual level loading ended. So I went to CryEngine instead(being blended by its awesome graphics) and tested it out, CE2 Editor was shipped with Crysis but it was horrible to use…

Over the time however, I started to like UE more and more and when I began to use Unity in 2012, I realized how meh Unity was. So the only engine left was the UDK/UE3. When we started our next try for a game, we decided to take the risks despite the disliking and downloaded UDK. After a few tutorials by Bucky/TheNewBoston, I started to love UE and now, after 3 years, here I am

In a sense UE was always that ugly duck in the pool that is actually awesome but just looks ugly. Once you get to know the duck a little bit, you realize how cool it really is…

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Whoops, double post?

@Mods, please delete :slight_smile:

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I started with UDK, whenever that became free to use.