Why is Unity the most popular engine?

anonymous_user_ac72a5bb · May 15, 2018, 3:02am

Tried Unity. Hated it. Hated it so much I quit the contract I had to use it for purely so I could leave it behind - and I was very surprised to find how few of my skills were actually transferable too. Frankly their documentation and example content doesn’t even touch Unreal’s. The key factor for me however, is that the approach to building or designing anything in Unity is entirely different to how you would go about it in Unreal.

IMO the single biggest problem with Unity is the complete lack of any kind of structure, and it’s awful tools. You can of course spend a small fortune on the Asset Store to “improve” the tools, but most of those tools are badly supported imitations of first-class features that exist in Unreal. (I’m looking at you ShaderForge, Amplify etc.) Why anyone would risk the success of their own products on somebody else’s content like that is beyond me. Oh, and C# is overrated.

Been using Unreal for 10+ years. Different strokes for different folks. There’s literally nothing more to say about it - people will prefer one or the other based on their experience and way of thinking. Pick a tool set that works best for you and stick with it.

with 4370 comments… is obvious that you will think like that…