Hello everyone.
I don’t know for you guys but for me, the struggle with assets is real.
Currently i have no problem with programming or logic thinking but, having almost 0 experience with modelling and animating i find myself obligated to pay for assets. Which are not cheap, especially for a student.
How do you guys manage to do the above things? Any good starting point?
Would it be better to start animating pre-existing free models or to start creating them first?
And also, what do you prefer to use between blueprints and C++ code?
I have noticed that with almost each update of the engine, new code or methods are introduced, forcing you to ‘fix’ some problems before being able to build the actual C++ project.
Meanwhile, with blueprints you just run the project conversion wizard and it does the job by itself.
And also, why do you prefer bp’s over C++ or vice versa?
Thank you,
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I personally would recommend you to start with creating your own meshes -> after that do the animation part. Depending on your 3d program I can post you some useful tutorials. 
In my opinion the easiest way to learn a 3d program is to watch basic tutorials + constantly try to create your own meshes (you will see that you get better and better with every mesh)
I personally prefer blueprints, because they are easy to use + you can create something in a pretty short period of time.
Thank you for your quick answer.
Currently i’m trying to use Maya.
Also, do blueprints have a heavy impact on large-scaled games?
Blueprint vs C++ Performance:
https://answers.unrealengine/questions/41895/performance-comparison-between-blueprints-c.html
https://answers.unrealengine/questions/23167/blueprint-overhead.html
“much slower than C++, but unless you’re executing a ton of blueprint code you’ll likely not even notice, because far less blueprint code is run compared to C++. Hope that helps.”
Maya Tutorials:
-basics: ?v=V7p1XROYzY8 ?v=x5Sr8y2EORo
-after that I would start with “special” stuff -> e.g ?v=aBsZY4kaNQY
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