im gonna start unreal just because i had this random motivation at 3 AM

Game dev in my head: I'm gonna make a hyper realistic level with amazing movement, combat and an adaptive AI. Game dev in reality: Help I've imported a mesh and crashed my computer

Coming from Unity to Unreal I can certainly see the use of both of them. Unity is a simpler, more logical engine, It certainly lends itself towards mobile production, as Unity Devs push optimisation for CPU only processing. If you're a solo dev wanting to make small mobile/pc/console games, Unity will do it. As others have mentioned physics in Unity is hit and miss and not really reliable without expensive plugins like Rayfire. Which leads to my next gripe with Unity which is Asset Store deprecation. Asset Devs clearly undervalue their releases, sell 10,000 copies then realise another year of upkeep and upgrading, just isn't worth the money. If you're a visual scripter, playmaker will have you banging out games really quickly, and is only limited by available actions, but Jean Fabre will add any missing or useful actions free of charge. Bolt is closer to Unreals Blueprints, but again, is more streamlined and logical. Lastly Multiplayer on Unity is a mess, its the only aspect which is over complicated versus Unreal. Unreal on the other hand is a must for Large scale open world games, even if your a solo dev. Out of the box, I was completely lost when I created a new project, in what Unreal calls an 'Empty' project, only to press play and suddenly a whole bunch of game objects and processes are added to my scene......wait, i haven't added any code yet.....what is spawning all this stuff? I had to follow a fairly lengthy tute just to understand they are all necessary engine components, that magically appear. Though once you understand what is going on, it just means you can hand off a lot of complications to the engine. Nanite has changed the game for open worlds. I was confused to see that Epic had removed tesselation from their shaders, until i realised what nanite was. Theres no need to fake texture depth when you can just make a high poly terrain/static mesh, and wrap a flat texture around it. Seeing worlds come together with 4k Megascans terrains with excellent performance is simply breathtaking. Haven't really played with Lumen yet, though after watching a few tutorials its something i will definitely be incorporating into my finished products. Unreal certainly leverages the power of GPU's and adding raytracing to your game is a check box away. You do see a small amount of deprecation, or just slow releases of new updates on the unreal marketplace, but its far less rampant than the Unity Asset store. When it comes to forums in Unreal, people openly talk about blueprints as almost the dominant programming language in Unreal, where as Unity forums, visual scripting is a dirty word and if you're not a code monkey, GTFO. Lastly, if you're working in a large team, Unreal offers far more solutions for a team to work simultaneously, far better than Unity's cloud based system. Keep in mind, all the things i've mentioned wouldn't be of any use to someone who could get away with Unity. I haven't even touched on workflows like animation i.e Unitys terrible avatar system versus Unreals retargeter, the difference between a prefab and an actor, how global variables are handled, and so many others, needless to say they are chalk and cheese. Only other thing I can say is, pick one and stick with it. Moving from Unity (which i chose a decade ago, due to their more reasonable pricing, since which, Unreal have come to the party on pricing), to Unreal, is massive. Its like speaking english your whole life and suddenly deciding to only speak in chinese. EVERYTHING workflow wise is different, I literally took nothing i learned in Unity through to Unreal. Don't just think of your current project, Think ahead, Will you need the power of unreal in the future? Or will your projects always be smaller/mobile projects? Anything Unity can do, Unreal can do, but not the other way around. Unreal is far harder to learn, but so much more powerful. Pick one, stick with it.

"Tackling the harder part first makes everything after it much easier" next level motivation 🔥🔥

Having never used a game engine (though I’m an experienced programmer) I picked Unity initially simply because of the scripting language. I’d used both C++ and C# for application development, and much more C++ historically, but since about 2015 C# has become my main general purpose language of choice. Took about a year for me to feel I knew Unity well enough, and see a few things I didn’t like so much, so I tried Unreal. I realised that despite the initial similarity, I not only had to start almost from square one, I also had to unlearn a lot of habits. It’s just a hobby for me and I’m in my sixties with no big ambition to create realistic 3D worlds or find a job in game development, so Unity suits me though I’m also going to try Godot. Regardless, these game engine thingies blow my mind, and not least because they are free for someone like me.

I think this is a case of analyzing what your game needs and what you want from an engine and choosing the one that most effectively suits it. I like the comparison videos because it’s interesting to see how two popular engines stack up, but in reality it probably comes down to the game requirements and which engine has the best tools for the job

I'd like to add that whatever the game engine you're picking, your game will be good thanks to your game design knowledge/experience and the amount of polish you'll add to your game. A strong mechanic with a great feeling is above the engine choice. Also, you should aim for learning new things, testing and mastering little concepts at a time before going for a full game. I like to think about a complete game as little bricks you put together, and the amount of time and tries you'll put into those bricks will make the difference on the overall experience

I really appreciate you showing examples of games made in each engine it really helps us know which is better for our goals

This was a really great well rounded video for beginners. Thank you!

Great video! The advantages of each enginge have been nicely highlighted. I would also mention that there are differences in online multiplayer. Unreal has a built-in solution. I would also prefer Unreal for the quality of the asset store. Often the assets are no longer supported in Unity or are not supported by the current render pipelines. In addition, you have to limit yourself to third-party providers for things that are Unreal Built-In. That's not always an advantage. Often these assets are no longer supported by the creator. There are also many assets in Unity, which have great characters or environments, but mostly in limited quantities. So it's harder than not being an artist to find enough assets that go well together. If you want to gain experience in many genres, Unity is the better choice. There isn't a genre that doesn't have a plugin or asset for it. Unreal, on the other hand, has little choice. Especially in the area of ​​RTS, Turnbased, Arcade Racer etc. And the tutorials. Oh well. As a beginner, clearly Unity. There are tons of tutorials for the basics. But when it comes to more specific topics such as AI, it gets pretty thin. There are far fewer Unreal tutorials, but in my opinion they are more in the "Advanced" area. In terms of workflow, I personally find Unity nicer. A lot can be outsourced to a separate script. In this way the creation of a game can become more modular and I can easily integrate many of these scripts into later projects. That saves a lot of time.

Thank you for going over it , I needed answers fast so I clicked here and you explained the most easiest way possible ❤

Great Video I am in software development at the moment, but my goal is to become a game developer. Thank you for the detailed description of both unity and unreal engine.

Learning and mastering Unreal gives not only access to game development but to a large amount of possibilities, like archviz, VR event design, media industry... maybe u can do your stuff into video rendering or 3D Visualization with Unity, but the real thing is that Unreal Engine has become the standar in these fields. Sorry about my english, nice video thumbs up.

click on the magnet, and from there you can adjust how the tracks snap onto the grid. if you want it to be each 1/4 of a bar, click "line"

At this moment. People thinking of using Unity should maybe check the fee per install first before even using it. Unreal though, no worries just go ahead haver fun.

I loved the "if you think taking third party assets is cheating, get a life boomer" because that was the entirety of my first time trying to learn game design. I was too prideful to use any premade assets and always wanted mine to be made from scratch by me. then I realized how difficult and uselessly long it takes, all for you to do the same thing you could've done with premade stuff.

whatever engine you chose it doesnt really matter the only thing that matters is you and your creativity

Thanks a LOT for this. It really helped. I've already kind of worked with both when I did some work as a texture designer. But I'm going to go into both movie design and build a game in my free time. But I already know a bit of C# so I kept leaning that direction. And people kept telling me Unity was quicker to go from concept to complete game. But thanks to this I've decided to learn both. Though I'm going to start with Unreal. And when I've got it pretty well understood, I'll work on learning Unity, which again, shouldn't be as hard as Unreal since I already know a few basics of C#. Again thanks for this!

I know tNice tutorials is an old video but I’m new and thank god I finally found you . Thank you for such an amazing and helpful video ❤️

Thanks! This is probably the most adequate review of game engines.

You don't have to worry about Garbage Collection with UE's C++ - I mean, of course you won't go crazy with loose data and variables, but as long as you mark as UPROPERTY, you are kind of fine. C++ in UE is almost like C#, since UE's Garbage Collector is very smart and optimized. C++ in UE doesn't even feel like C++, forget all the crazy and weird templating, pointers, etc.

A great video, thanks. As a senior web developer who knows C# but isn't great at math, I've chosen to go with Unreal as the visual editor looks great, I'll get to finally learn C++ and Unreal just seems more versatile outside of game development specifically.

Your spiking style just amazing. Easy to understand.

thank u very much for this so I'll try and learn both just to get a feel for which one I like better

In my opinion it's so much easier as a beginner to start of learning visual scripting. You get to learn the basic concepts in a visually friendly environment. Variables functions etc.. without having to worry about proper syntax writing and code structures and once you get the hang of the basics move on to learning a language + syntax

I started with Dream. Which is basically pure visual code with nothing written so it's a nice start and then I'll get into unity visual code and after that, if necessary I will get into written code

Awesome explanation. Probably the best comparison video I've seen. Love the nuggets about C++ vs C# in its core. Means alot!

wow , really thank you , you can't imagine how you made me so comfortable , I was a afraid to start learning unreal and visual code first then jump into c++ , after this video you have made me more confident , thank you so much , but please I have a question , do I need to learn something like blender to be more confident with animation or that also can be made using unreal ?

I have a question for those who have worked with both engines: Unity and Unreal aswell. Based on your experience you‘ve made with both of them, if you had to learn one engine again, which one would it be?

Good video, I was confused with what to learn, but thanks to this video, I'm gonna try to make my first indie title with unity and then later learn unreal.

This has been very helpful, thanks!

Thanks for the motivation 😊 Even though I never thought of creating games of my own😅

Prepare for the "aged like milk" comments

The indy dev support, grants, and cost to use each engine might be worth mentioning. Unreal has better payment structures for developers and a higher sales number before you pay than Unity. Epic also makes a grant available to indy game developers using the Unreal engine, which might help cover dev costs. Unity has their own support structure as well.

Super Helpful!! Thank you so much, God bless you!

Thank you for tNice tutorials. You've done a great job breaking down the features and build. I can now concentrate on my instead of the

Well in the plug-in part if you use blender and have no problems installing plug-ins I don't think you should complain about it in unity.

WOW... EXCELLENT...!!! I thought this was going to be another "Flame war" video about two popular game engines, but you have done a magnificent job of keeping this discussion professional, educational and accurate. The points you bring forth are absolutely spot on. Its my opinion that both engines are phenomenal, but Unreal does some things better than Unity, but on the other hand, Unity is out of this world fantastic. I've tried both and like Unity, simply because I like to code in C# more than I like to code in C++ and I', willing to trade off the visualization performance for ease of use. Listen, if people can't finish a game in Unity, which is easier to use, forget about beginners making games in Unreal... its as simple as that. Great job and I definitely will subscribe and like.

TNice tutorials video really helped! Thank you ❤

I feel ya. I've tried Ableton, Reaper, even shelled out for Cubase and I am no closer to understanding any of tNice tutorials than I was before. I don't

i use both, started with unity, and I love them both, but one thing you missed mentioning in this video, that could be a big factor is physics. Unitys physics system, is pretty low end. where unreal has solid physics, and now has chaos physics. you are quite capable of doing physics stuff in unity, but, its far easier, smoother, and far better quality in unreal. the additional features unreal offers is also a pretty big deal, built in behaviour trees and such. the megascans, the monthly free assets. that stuff adds up quick. BUT in favor of unity, and perhaps not mentioned due to its not completed, is ECS. which is a pain in the ass. but it allows for some pretty amazing code optimization. unreal has lumen and nanite, for the scene performance, but ECS performance, which is designed for code, is nothing to sneeze at. unity is also working on a more in-depth ML agent integration. and a utility AI package.

I love the breakdown here... it seems the general consensus among indie game developers is basically to go with whatever your preference is. What would you suggest though for someone who is not looking to create a game but only looking to create large environments? And is there any real difference when it comes to importing assets from Blender?

Thank you for the wonderful video! It's very interesting! It's a good job!

Great that you mention the fact that graphics comparison does not care if you're a one man dev.. so true.. you'll almost never get to that level of detail unless you have 24hrs a day to spent on game development.

Great comparison and great video as usual! Maybe, as a Mac user yourself (at least in the 7 hour video on the freecodecamp channel) you might consider talking about this: Unity is definitely Mac friendly, while Unreal is not! I'm on M1 mac and I couldn't even start the Unreal editor! So, if you are on a Mac you have no choice...

Good stuff big 🐕, agree with what you said. I'm just starting to learn Unreal myself after doing a mobile game in Unity. I just wasn't super impressed by Unity I guess and was constantly stuck on even the most simple of things. A big part of that was I was simply a noob though. But I figured I'd give Unreal a shot. I much prefer C# over C++ though, considering I'm a .NET developer professionally for 14 years and I only had one C++ class in college 17 years ago lol. Also I dunno if it's just me, but I can often tell if a game is Unreal just by the look and feel of it. Just like the motion of the camera moving around combined with the motion blur, I think I'd guess right a majority of the time. Certainly not 100% but a majority i think.

very useful tutorials thank you!

Thank you for the detailed comparison

I chose Unity when I started and ten years later wished I'd put all that time unto Unreal. You can just do more and faster with Unreal plus the skills gained are more widely applicable across all facets of game development.

I have been working with unity for the past 2 years on and off, and I am still at a very basic level. With the recent news surrounding unity's parent company, I am considering switching to unreal

This helped so much thank you.

I really needed this. Thanks

I'm coming at Unreal Engine from the film side of things, not the video game side of things. And finding information for what I'm trying to do is always like pulling teeth. I have hired tutors to help and they couldn't, because they were experts at Unreal from a gaming perspective. It really makes me scratch my head as to how anyone figures this stuff out for film to begin with.

Well... we got the real answer a year or so later :P

Thank you!!! really good tips

Unreal editor for Fortnite came out for someone who doesn’t know anything about coding it made me understand unreal more bc it gave me the opportunity to mess around most of Fortnite assets and there’s blue print also there’s also verse it’s like c++ but after almost a week of making a game on Fortnite I feel more comfortable using the real unreal engine and I’m glad epic did that it’s great for beginners and I think people will be using unreal way more after messing around in unreal editor for Fortnite it also have animation so it’s good to practice how to animate

One thing about Unity I don't see mentioned a lot: If you're making a game with their free tier; all your users get their hardware and software information sent to Unity anytime they launch your app. Devs can only disable that with a paid plan. :/ Thus, imo Unreal is better than Unity in terms of user privacy, something many might think the reverse to be true.

I’m going to learn Unreal, considering I can’t sell my kidney every year for Unity

I'm glad unity decided to help people make their decision after their recent scandal

I would honestly say learn either if you find out later you want to learn the other one you will already have a good base as most of the skills are transferable

Several points. Unity was built in C++, if one uses Unity pro one can code in C++. C++ is built on C as is C sharp, however, c sharp also lies on the net framework which was created for business software and has an automatic garbage collection which means one has no control over when the garbage collector kicks on, one can reduce the length it runs for by using structs and not classes where possible and by switching on the garbage collector when one can where it will not be noticed, but still the garbage collector will still fire off automatically, even when there is very little garbage to clear, this means in a fighting game similar to mortal combat this garbage clearing can happen at a key moment during gameplay and in theory if on a gamepad button press could lose the game, so c sharp is ruled out as a coding language for real-time, reaction sensitive games. C sharp is only easy if you understand the net framework, otherwise one has to spend a fair amout of time understanding what inherits what from the net framework, whereas c++ is all inclusive, all the functions have had to be written in c++ so when reading the code it is considerably easier if one does not have a clear understanding of the net framework. Garbage collection in c++ is also explicit i.e. the programmer has full control over when it occurs, one simply has to destroy everything that one creates. Unity is not easier because of the coding language used it is easier because of the object component system. To move a camera one can throw a script on that camera object and write code to that script to get the camera to do exactly what one wants, even if that means one line of code at a time. One can experiment very easily with code on such a script and hence one can actually learn programming one painful line at a time, but one doesn't have to read a large amount of code to understand what a camera is doing unlike engine such as Torque 3D where the playewr camera had near 500 lin sof code which made getting a camera to do exactly what one wanted it to was impossible for a beginner. Unreal works like a charm if doing FPS, one will have difficulty if not a programmer and one wants to make drastic changes to the player camera and controller. On the otherhand Unity has the worst licensing system going, for example if one works at a company that uses unity pro and one wants to use unity for hobbyist coding one is obliged to subscribe to Unity pro as is anyone else in one's household so if one wants to teach one's kid there will be a problem even if one opts for the student edition. There are loads of problems with the unity eco-system that Unreal does not have a case in point is that Unity seems to spend way more time changing the code base every two years in order to force continued subscription than they do fixing actual features, to such an extent that if one has spent money at the asset store buying plugins to fill a unity shortcoming then one is likely to have to pay an additional 50% for those assets everytime the codebase changes and the plugin has to be rewritten, or one is locked into an earlier version of Unity. If you are a programmer the game should really rule what engine to use, AAA quality game? Use Unreal, mobile game or total beginner or AA qulity with highly customised player camera and controller, use Unity.

Although I do agree that picking C++ and Unreal would benefit because you would learn the hardest thing first, that's exactly it. You're learning the hardest thing first, you will get burnt out within the first few weeks and most likely never make it past a month. If you do make it to a month, you probably learned absolutely nothing.

The only advantage of unreal engine is The nanite/nanite foliage and Lumen since those improve so much perfect wether you're putting so much detail on your models will never lag and lumen Is just global illumination which makes lighting more realistic

13:25 - just be careful of those positions, sometimes they'll have something written in contract like: while you're working under them, anything you create at a spare time will be theirs or something similar.

Unreal is definitely worth learning. When you really figure out how everything works it's pretty easy and powerful.

I would love to know the Unreal vs. Unity state of VR

On the topic of buying or using other people's assets instead of making your own from scratch: it's not even about finishing a game to turn around and sell (if you're trying to be an indie dev for the fat paychecks, you're going to be sorely disappointed), it's about just finishing the game. If I had a dollar for every project that fell apart because I thought I needed to make the thing from scratch instead of just using what someone else has built and losing all motivation in the project, I could buy a house.

learning both of them at the same time can be really good for the brain. You will develop constant comparisons and it helps the process of learning. Challenge yourself to do the same thing in both engines.

The decision was made far easier a couple days ago

Unreal engine actually has it's own garbage collection system if you mark something as a UPROPERTY or UFUNCTION, so you don't have to worry about deleting the pointers after use as Unreal Engine takes care of that for you :)

One well-paced high quality tutorial is better than a hundred bad or fast-paced tutorials. This led me to choose UE5. It is a GIANT leap over UE4 in terms of use, especially with the official tutorials.

Nice video, I'm a beginner & I want to make a sort of card building game with rpg elements, seeing as I can't code & I can't seem to find a tutorial tht teaches you to make a game let alone a card game from start to finish. I was also watch Godot sigh. I'm thinking of Visual scripting to start what can you recommend please? Thanks.

Nah, choose Scratch🗿

0:25 "I'm just kidding. Or am I?" *vsauce music starts*

Lots of people say "unity is easier to master", bs. Unreal Engine has an immense library of tutorials, guides, scripts and lots of other things from which you can learn the engine easily and, more importantly, properly over Unity Engine, and also offers blueprint coding, for those who cannot along with C++ either because they cannot code in this language or are not advanced enough to do so. Unity offers a mediocre library of the same categories, except the blueprints thing, and most of the assets (from the store) are rather low at their quality and can be easily recreated with Blender and other 3D rendering-manipulation software with even better quality, detail, texture, etc. I am currently working on my own game via Unreal Engine 5.1. Having the possibility to easily program a grapple hook, jetpack, bullet jumping logic, advanced parkour logics, flying a la AION, easily created first- and third-person views with proper body view, proper button triggering for example faster/slower walking while using mouse wheel, but also holding CTRL + mouse wheel to zoom in/out without interrupting the walk speed, or turning on/off a flashlight with a brief press or holding to toggle it on while releasing to turn it off again, same for maps, arm watches, etc. - these are just a few examples where you are actually programming your stuff in a major comfortable flow, without messing around with half-a**ed tutorial guys from the web, which gave up upon Unity Engine after 1-3 months of usage "because of reasons" and leaving you at the same spot where they left. Oh, and most, if not all, of the things are interchangeable between first-person, third-person and VR-mode, which btw are also mergeable with each other, as you can have all modes in a single game instance (switching between FPS and TPS, while VR mode being usable when plugging in your device, without any relaunching nonsense).

This would be arguable learning c++ first doesn't make you better at other language and harder to learn learning c# on other hand might make you better at other language, from my experience after learning c# it make much easier to learn kotlin, java, javascript, typescript, golang, rust, dart because the pattern mostly the same and easier to read you should only tell the pros and cons of both game engine and tell which scenario you choose for those game engine so what's is the most great factor for beginner is to choose? the game they choose to make if they make 2d platformer with unreal engine, it's ok but i will silently judge you

welp since unity will screw you over with pricing and license fees just stick with unreal

welp, don't start with unity lol

I just wanted to say thanks for the informative video! I appreciate it. Does anyone know that beginning video game clip? I've seen it before but have no clue what the game actually is...

Great video. But I was wondering how easy it would be to switch engines. For example if I only knew unity and had been using it for years but I need to make something in unreal would my knowledge and skills (except the scripting language) transfer over to the other engine?

I started out, and have been using Unity for the last 8 years, because I have a lot of C# experience, so coding is pretty easy in Unity. But the strategic direction of Unity is rather confused of late. Upon opening a project we currently have a choice of three different render pipelines. - S, well, I guess choose the best being HDRP, but then most of your assets do not render and it requires too much configuration to correct and get going again. Plus lot of Unity stuff features just remain in Beta. So I have been looking acrosss at Unreal 5.1. for alternative. Unreal seems to look great, straight out of the box, without confusing the user with render pipeline setup etc. I am not sure that I will be as productive in using Blueprints compared to knocking out C# scripts. One residual advantage of Unity, is that it supports Browser WebGL for simple games, and wide deployment. Unreal does not offer native support for WebGL anymore, and seems to assume its games targets are high end PC/ Consoles.

Also your missing how much nanite, the lighting, Meta Human, free scanned 3D helps

Amazing review! thanks

Amazing!! Love it!!

ez choice right now lmao (I will be charged 20 cents for every like after 100 likes)

Whenever videos like this show up I have to think about the comments some guy posted a few years ago. The person made a "remake" of a old turn based 2d board game. Not to sound rude or anything, but the gameplay of the game is very simple and could even be made in a desktop or web UI framework, doesn't even need a game engine for that kind of game. Anyways, in one of the videos he said it takes so long to remake the game because he makes it own engine just for this game. I was just curious and asked why he makes his own engine for this game and doesn't use a game engine like Unity or at least a UI framework, it's totaly fine to make a own engine as a hobby, I just wanted to know his reasons. Then the fun started. He started to insult me and tried to explain how everyone who uses a game engine or a UI framework is not a real programmer and that a game company would never hire a guy who uses a engine. I played along for a bit and showed him that even big AAA studios use Unreal Engine and asked why wouldn't they hire someone who used Unreal Engine before if they use it for their own games. He then admitted that AAA studios use engines, but he continued to say that they will not hire anyone who uses them for their hobby, because they will only hire people who "prove" that they actually know how to code and according to him the only way to prove a AAA studio that you can code is by making your own game in your own game engine without any frameworks. At that point I already knew that there is no hope for the guy anymore but I still continued and started to ask questions about this own engine and ask him which language he used to develop the the engine. But not even a normal programming language was good enough for this guy, he explained that he uses a "custom language based on C, which is compiled with his own compiler". Im not sure if the guy was trolling or serious, but I stopped to comment after that. Thanks for reading.

Thanks, helped me a lot.

C# is easier but if you want performance, either use C++ or write shader code. You are also taling about pointers like they are a drawback, while they are an amazing feature and if you dont need them, you dont have to use it.

One really important thing to understand about engines and their graphics capabilities, is that for Indie gamedev, graphics fidelity is mostly irrelevant. If you try going ultra-realism, you will quickly understand that time you will have to spend on making those hipoly-hires-pbr assets and setting up all those shaders and post processing will make your project nonviable time wise, id it goes beyond small prototype game. Because instead of making your game you will be making assets year after year. And another thing is that graphical realism gets outdated, but style lives forever. Smartly made texture and proper light setup is the way. People love to say that we achieved photorealism in games, but it all falls apart the moment you go outside irl or start interacting with a "photorealistic" game. lol

You completely missed the mobile aspect which Unity dominates. It is much easier to get started and spit out a game for all platforms with Unity than Unreal. At least I think so. Wish there was a vid that compared the two.

What makes you think we want to create a game with Unity and Unreal? You can create shot videos, movies, simulations, pretty much everything. Check out Xanadu Blu and what he did all alone with Unreal. Graphics matters. Maybe not for you as Indie Dev, but for other use cases.

Great information. P.S. The Blue Print editor , in UNREAL still scares the crap out of me. I try to avoid it, like messing with THE WINDOWS registry, and end up "Bricking my computer." UNREAL, for as good, as it is; IS "still a crash magnet," and dies, when it ever feels like it. WHY is the first line of CODE > Crash report. Not , too re-assuring.

not unity thats fs

I like both but I prefer unreal

Guy i have commited to my self to learn unreal and c++ under 2 months. Today is 7-05-2024 i will come back exactly on 7-7-2024.. Wish me luck ;)

more complicated one. your lody needs to soft nice. 808(app) should also fit with the lody and the rythm. snare and percussion

lighting in unity is horrible. the steps you will have to take to get a somewhat ok lighting is mind boggling. whiles unreal off the bat you have a good lighting to start with. Terrain tools in unity are horrible unless you are using a third party plugin, unreal have better and easier terrain editor

I don't understand why people assume that a single developer cannot make a pretty looking game... There is a general assumption that single-developer games are relocated to pixel art 2d. Are you going to make the next GTA? No - but that is less because of how it looks and more because of how much sheer content is there. A single developer COULD make a really stunning looking game - it's not terribly hard, especially if you use megascans and other assets. Will the game be any good? Well, that depends on the game.

I know some C++, which is why I know it's a pretty complex and hard language (very laborious I would say, pointers will be the death of me), so I wanted to try learning C# since it should be easier for me to transition to it as I already have C++ knowledge. So in theory it might've been easier for me to work with Unreal if I already had some knowledge of C++ but I would've liked to try and get a feel for other languages too.

I have nearly learned about the existence of these two engines. I recently enrolled in an art school. I took my first video game class session today. There was mention of game engines. I asked the teacher which engine is used, and he said Unity. Then I did Google the two engines during lunch. I noticed there is a tradeoff. Unity is easy to learn, and Unreal has better graphics. I already prefer Unity. I am a beginner in video game design. I have dabbled with designing tabletop games. If I am going to make a game with computers. I also don't get bothered by mediocre graphics. I watched this video right after school. This video dived deeper into the difference between the engines. This makes my like Unity even more. Having more tutorials is really helpful. I never even touched coding. So I can use all the help I can get. This video is full of amazing video game footage. It is incredible! Even the comparisons have both sides be amazing. Maybe the downside of Unity isn't so bad after all. Maybe my personally standards are low. My low end of acceptable graphics are heavily pixilated retro games. What best comes to my mind is the first and second generations of Pokemon games. Maybe that is considered ancient technology or even dinosaur technology. Things are so different today. Pokemon games today look vastly different now due to improved graphics. The high end of my standards would have World of Warcraft and Breath of the Wild. Both games look gorgeous, especially the natural environments. That is the big part of the appeal to be honest. I am a huge sucker for nature. Breath of the Wild even has the nature of Hyrule emphasized on the cover of the game box. The footage of this video goes way beyond what I am used to. My mind is blown once again. I am baffled when people criticize World of Warcraft for having bad graphics. Now I finally see why. There is a whole new level that I wasn't even aware of. The critics must have been spoiled by it. Since I have low standard, Unity has a small price to pay. It's game footage is already above my highest standards. As long as a game has a good aesthetic, it will shine through in both engines. The video does make a good point that graphics won't matter to an indie developer anyway. They can't polish things as well as a big team. So their graphics will be mediocre regardless of which engine they use. The video mentioned another nice perk with Unity. It is better for making 2D games while still having 3D capabilities. I like that. I want my first game project to be 2D. I have a lot of experience with drawing. It is the medium I am most comfortable with. So 2D games are more similar, and that would be easier. 3D looks better, but I don't think I am ready for that. I am barely starting to learn Blender. It is a good program so far, but it has its own huge learning curve. 2D does seem better for lowering the learning curve. I am starting to get into animation. I chose to go for 2D first. I even want to stay away from the virtual puppetry for now. I want to draw animation frame by frame. I hope I can find a computer program that lets me do that. The puppetry is efficient whether it is the 2D or 3D version. I just want to get into that later when I have more experience. It is easy to get overwhelmed. So I better go easy on myself and take things one baby step at a time. Then I can grow to be an even better artist.