Hello. I’ve been looking for a resource to help me do this, but so far, All i’ve known is that there’s not really anything that tell you HOW a blueprint works, and what each individual thing does in general, or the common function types of a blueprint.
As such, though I’ve copied several blueprints via videos (like a few in the one RTS blueprint tutorial vid that’s like… 2 hours long), I have no more of an idea of what Blueprints actually do.
What’ I’m looking for… is a Picture of the puzzle itself. I slightly understand that Blueprints, like a puzzle, have different shapes of piece that fit together only in certain ways with other pieces.
But I have no real way to know the shape of said piece without being told the shape. I have no way to even see the picture of said puzzle piece, so I can figure out what is needed where.
I can follow video after video, and tutorial after tutorial and read ALL the documentations on blueprints… but the sad thing is…
I won’t UNDERSTAND it.
I want to understand it like I understand English, so i can make my own iterations, with at least SOME measure of how pieces work in tandem with one another, or if they can even fit together.
As far as I know, there’s just about nothing on Understanding a blueprint construction. There’s only videos on “how to make this thing” pretty much. It’s frustrating.
Me? I’m a complete freaking idiot when it comes to learning other languages, and this is essentially only easier in that it has a more visual approach.
I don’t know which functions work together, I don’t know which ones don’t, I don’t even know what each thing individually does, or even the lingo I’d need to begin to understand.
With me, I need to learn the shapes of the pieces, and the tiny part of the picture that they contain so I can really make anything or BEGIN to experiment, or fix a blueprint that I made by following a tutorial which successfully did make it, which for me, i couldn’t progress since a certain function didn’t appear to exist for a LONG time.
Experimentation and trying it out for myself is fine… but how can you experiment with chemicals if you don’t know the chemicals, or even the procedure of experimenting to begin with? What if you don’t even have arms, and are just a floating torso?
That’s me. I ask of you guys and gals… Help me grow limbs. Are there any resources on Blueprints that breaks EVERYTHING down, or atleast tells me the basic rules of blueprint construction, rather than just guiding you to make a thing?
I’m tired of being TOLD how to do a thing. I want to be TAUGHT how to do a thing on my own.
Note: I’m honestly a bit frustrated, since I’ve kinda given up on a second tutorial due to blueprints not being completeable in the way that is presented in the tutorial. Ofcourse, I couldn’t find a way to make it work, since… well… an engineer knows how to make a design work, because they know the rules of how the design’s parts work to begin with. I have literally 0 useful info on how Blueprints work. I don’t know the tools, the rules, or the parts. I am effectively a Level 0 noob at them. I couldn’t make said blueprints work because I don’t know how to do so. There’s no real rhyme or reason in the editor, as to which functions will only work with a dragged pin, as I’ve tried to do that, and sometimes, the pin I drag, will bring up functions that just don’t work with it at all.
Another Note: Please don’t bother saying something like “blueprints are easy tho” because they’re not. Imagining learning french when you know only Russian, without a guidebook, translator, or even a friend who knows French. You’re just by yourself, reading french on a page, with no context as to which words mean what. Identically as difficult for me to learn Blueprints.
So please help me guys. I don’t mean to sound impatient, or rude. I just need help with this. Is there Anything that can help me?