Hi all,
I am trying to learn the Unreal Engine vie using the tutorials provided. The current tutorial I am learning with is “Getting Started in Unreal Engine”. I am in the Actors lesson within the “Your First hour with Unreal Engine”.
Admittedly I have seen some flaws already with this tutorial being out of date.
Initially the chap says to download the latest version of the engine (mine being 4.25), and his was 4.22 at the time. I followed all the lessons and ran into a little trouble when he said to download the realistic renders project pack from the learn tab of the Epic games engine section. The Realistic Rendering project is gone. After looking around online I saw someone had uploaded the project to a website and so I was saved.
Moving on, after having created a large scene with detail I am at the actors part, editing the actor BP_lamp. The chap says to drag the reference to the Point light into the event viewer and to drag off a string and create a “Set light intensity” node. Initially I couldn’t find this but after unchecking the “Context Sensitive” box I was able to find it. The issue here is now the node won’t connect to the Point light reference. It says “Child Actor Component Object Reference is not copmatible with Light Component Object Reference”.
This issue is very persistent and I can’t seem to get past it, so I am really stuck with my learning journey. Is this part of the learning process - to learn that the engine breaks and/or has faults that contradict even the people teaching it?
This is very frustrating. Please can someone explain to me how to fix the engine so that I can continue learning how to use it as set out by the official tutorial.
