Software Engineer of 5 years - The move into Unreal Engine 5 Journey

Development Getting Started & Setup
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I just wanted to touch base with the community here. Wondering if there are any gurus or mentors that could occasionally see my updates on a thread and give guidance or next steps. I can scale pretty quickly if given enough refined detail.

Sounds crazy. It’s a massive world to get into though, I’m interested in World Creation, Games Development, and architecture.

I could probably buy some assets if needs be, put a little funding behind it. Always invest in yourself, right? :smiley:

Bit of background about me: My name is James, I’m 28 and a senior software engineer for a company in the UK. I’ve got full stack experience. I like to play squad lead in Hell Let Loose :joy:

Hopefully hear from some of you guys soon!
And if not, thanks for reading this post and hope you’re having a great day :slight_smile:

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Welcome @Breadytoast ! I hope your journey is off to a good start. I would highly recommend YT learning content from UNF Games (https://www.youtube.com/@unfgames ) and SmartPoly. Also iBrews (https://www.youtube.com/@ibrews) and (https://www.youtube.com/@DesignGoBrr) if you’re interested in VR dev work.

Cheers and good luck!

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I do actually have a quest 3 to work with, I’ll definitely check those links out, thanks!

So what PC specs do you think is worth while for rendering and games development. I’m currently sporting a 1080ti with Ryzen 3800x.

I haven’t actually started yet, I’ve just seen many videos in the past & I know it’s a skill I would like to have & enjoy doing once I’m there. I’m going to get started learning basic principles & want to kind of work out a roadmap.

Thanks again for the links :slight_smile:

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for unreal 5 that may not be enough, lumen I don’t think it works with that card

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Nice man! You should for sure be able to get started with that. If your card is chugging just reduce your scalability to High or Medium and stay away from vegetation which takes alot of GPU. I have a 3080 / i9 29000k and I’m running Unreal 5.3 no problem.

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The GTX 1080ti ist acctually a really good Card to start with. Lumen works too. Use unreal’s build in upscaler to get good Performance boost and decent AA on top. If you do that you can easily run most of your scenes at 60 FPS+. Most probably 80-100fps @ 1080p If your Game ist Not AAA quality. I worked with a GTX 1070 and With the right upscaler it ist possible to hold 45- 60 FPS at high settings which was really decent (dx12 + Lumen + nanite+ 30-40 enemy ai moving at the Same time on Screen and all Texturen we’re 2k) GTX 1080 ti is idk around 40% faster ? You can do a lot with that For sure…