hi
i am about to start working on a game, and i firstly am not sure whether to do it in unreal or unity, i do have both of the programs and subscriptions
now a few things i would like to clear up if you guys can help me out
the game i am making is going to incorporate various views for different aspect of the game/levels with both top down view in a 2d style
as well as third person view looking down at the level for certain aspect of the game
firstly i would like to know if this is possible because i can see that when choosing to create levels you get given a choice of the various views, and if you do go ahead with them does that make it written in stone as to the game view
so that if i design a level i am not able to view t in any other view except the view in which i started in
second question i have
i am coming from a programming background and i will be working with an artist for my character designs, terrain, architecture, etc
so i would like to know which of the two engines is more programmer orientated with more freedom given to the programmer
for example i can see that in unity when creating classes they start not from a constructor but rather from a Start() method and there is an update() method and other such methods, which to me feels as if it is very constricted
however UNREAL seems to have a different and much more programmer orientated approach(it seems so far unless i stand to be corrected and perhaps it also is similar to unity) i can see also in unity that you have to attach a rigid body class/ in order so that the physics engine can access it and manipulate it
i imagine similar case will be with unreal, but i have not looked into the details of it except they have an actor class which again feels as if it has more freedom to it
so anyhow if you guys can help me out here and inform me about the differences and which one favors the programmer
the more attention to detail and the more control the programmer has in the script/programming i feel is the more open engine
so please if you can kindly give me your experience and understanding of the subjects in question
cheers