Unreal Engine Requirements

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Hello all, I’m new to this form, and have absolutely zero experience (or knowledge) about video game design or coding. I’ve been watching tutorials on unreal engine, and seen amazing results from what people are doing. My question is, can someone like be - having absolute zero knowledge about coding - pick up something like this as a hobby? I’m sure it’s very difficult and these Youtubers just make it look easy, but I think it would be fun to recreate fun settings and large maps (i.e. a full-scale Hogwarts Castle or Castle Black). And because I know people will say that’s copy infringement, I’ll make it clear that I have no intentions of making this available for people to use. That is, it’s just for my own personal enjoyment. Ultimately, here are my questions:

  1. Can someone with no experience learn how to pick this up (just by going off of YouTube tutorials, forum discussions, etc.)?
  2. What are the computer system requirements? I just have a MacBook Pro, can that handle Unreal Engine?
  3. If the answer to the two above questions are yes, how should I start?

As a last note, sorry if this isn’t in the right section. If not, please move me!

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  1. Yes

  2. If you have a decent modern GPU, it’ll run alright. A laptop and Mac OS isn’t ideal (a bit lower performance).

  3. If you want to create environments, you will need to either create, find, or buy assets. There is a lot of free assets in the market place. If you want to make castles, the free infinity blade collection would be a nice starting point to play around with. Here’s a link to part of it Infinity Blade: Grass Lands in Epic Content - UE Marketplace

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Thanks for the amazing feedback, that link you gave me is amazing! Let me know if there is a particular video or thread providing tutorials for beginners that you think would be useful!