Hello! I don’t know much about the Unreal Engine community, but if I shall judge it by the other gamemaking communitys I think you guys are a bunch of friendly friends who wants to help a really big noob.
So, lets see if I can explain this without having to write a harry potter sized book.
Like most of you in here I want to make a game, simple as that. Now, as you saw, I am a big noob when it comes to the Unreal Enigne, (and others but mostly this one) and I need help and motivation. Most of this is very advanced to me right now.
I have searched far and wide over the internet for tutorials and such, sure I know the basics of the Engine. But when it comes to more advanced stuff I am so lost. Like Animations, I downloaded the free packs from the marketplace, but how do I put an animation on a character? AI character and player character?
I can nag on and on about all the problems I have and all the things I need to learn to even be able to make a selfmade playable game.
I would be so thankful if you, people of the Unreal Engine Community could provide tips, links everything you can come up with to help me, I am sure atleast most of you once was in my position.
unreal has a Playlist on youtube that walks you through setting up a player controller and adding animations to state machines.
for a great jumpstart into bluepringing you can’t miss Kleiner Baer’s complex day/night cycle. I went from asking how do i do this? to being able to make a fully dynamic weather addon to his system, just from what i learned from him. Tesla has awesome short tutorials for unreal. James taylor is an awesome instructor for stuff outside the engine. (models, textures, rendering).
I highly recommend reading Shooter tutorial even if you aren’t making an FPS. it will guide you through everything you need to know.
As ixicalibur touched on, don’t expect to always find the exact tutorial for what you want to do. Even if you want to make a side-scroller, the fps tutorial will teach you a lot about character movement, user input and so on.
Thank you! I quickly scanned through them and will definitely check all of them!
And the small amount that I saw by the shooter tutorial (Just scanning through the categories) it look amazing and very helpful! Will definitely check it out fully, very soon!