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Re: So You've Decided to Move from Unity to Unreal Engine

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Post by spywaregorilla »

exogen wrote: post #125
spywaregorilla wrote: post #58

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Not sure why this is downvoted. > - Find and replace a variable > - Finding all references I think the basic search tools are pretty good. I can't say I expect find and replace to be super common. I would prefer to do such things one at a time. > - Change a variables type I would say you really shouldn't be doing this too often. It's compiling to statically typed code under the hood so this will frequently cause a lo…

Would you be down to chat a little about your Blueprint experience and take a look at a tool I've been working on? Check my homepage (on my profile) for contact info if so, I'd be very thankful :)

I'd prefer to just reply to comments but I'd take a look. You might find better perspectives asking the folks who sound like they've finished shipping a complete game though.

Re: So You've Decided to Move from Unity to Unreal Engine

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Post by saurik »

skeaker wrote: post #103
mrtksn wrote: post #89

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What up with the gaming community? I get the the players being carried away or be from a special demographics but aren't the game professionals aware that they are doing business? Underpaid developers, death treats after some pricing changes. Wow.

"The gaming community" consists of an insanely large number of people. Some percentage of people on Earth are willing/crazy enough to use death threats to get their way. The gaming community is large enough that that percentage manifests itself in the form of death threats being used. The question isn't so much "what's up with the gaming community" as it is "what's up with this small percentage of humanity."

There is something interesting though that while the audience of superhero movies is super large and while there are a lot of overly toxic complaints and clearly a number of people who are super angry about various things, I haven't seen news reports of any offices at Warner Brothers or Disney being closed due to credible threats of violence.

Re: So You've Decided to Move from Unity to Unreal Engine

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Post by sovietmudkipz »

Nexxxeh wrote: post #27

Did Unity have the same reputation for shader cache compilation stutter on PC as UE4 games do?

Tell me more. I’ve recently (past two weeks) gotten more into shaders and I’d like to hear more about this story. What was the shader cache compilation stutter?

Re: So You've Decided to Move from Unity to Unreal Engine

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Post by Pxtl »

russdpale wrote: post #49
aschearer wrote: post #42

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How do people using Blueprints deal with: - Find and replace a variable - Change a variables type - Merging changes from multiple commits - Refactoring - Finding all references I'm a fan of visual coding and use it extensively in YWDHT but have found the above challenging. I'm curious how Blueprints solves these issues, especially for larger teams.

A colleague and myself were just discussing similar issues with SSIS packages compared to just running the queries in a stored procedure on the server.

Yes but the difference is that Blueprint is actually a good language while SSIS is a dumpster-fire.

Re: So You've Decided to Move from Unity to Unreal Engine

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Post by johnnyanmac »

koromak wrote: post #116

for really small teams, does godot make more sense? I've always heard Unreal is too much to chew on

for 2D or simple 3D games, sure. Godot should be able to do enough to enable a small team to launch a game. You just have to keep in mind that console support won't be as robust and smooth as UE.

Re: So You've Decided to Move from Unity to Unreal Engine

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Post by ThatPlayer »

babypuncher wrote: post #79
bastardoperator wrote: post #56

Or you can wait for Source 2 which is rumored to be dropping on September 23rd with CS:2

I'm not convinced Valve is all that interested in pushing Source 2 as an alternative to Unreal or Unity, and their organizational structure would probably make them a pain to work with.

I think they did when they first announced it, and that it was going to be free (like Unreal/Unity). But that was also in 2015 and we've seen no public release of Source 2 since.

Re: So You've Decided to Move from Unity to Unreal Engine

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Post by skeaker »

saurik wrote: post #132
skeaker wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"The gaming community" consists of an insanely large number of people. Some percentage of people on Earth are willing/crazy enough to use death threats to get their way. The gaming community is large enough that that percentage manifests itself in the form of death threats being used. The question isn't so much "what's up with the gaming community" as it is "what's up with this small percentage of humanity."

There is something interesting though that while the audience of superhero movies is super large and while there are a lot of overly toxic complaints and clearly a number of people who are super angry about various things, I haven't seen news reports of any offices at Warner Brothers or Disney being closed due to credible threats of violence.

I suppose you haven't looked hard enough, then: A 5 second google search for "marvel movies death threats" turns up multiple articles about threats against directors for killing off Marvel characters. To your point I'm not sure that they closed their offices over it, but how they react isn't really up to the people making death threats.

Re: So You've Decided to Move from Unity to Unreal Engine

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Post by brundolf »

johnnyanmac wrote: post #115
andersa wrote: post #111

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Blueprints are not performant, they are potentially the slowest scripting language to ever be used in a significant way, worse than python even. If you don't believe this, try implementing some basic number crunching routines in pure blueprints and see how long they take to execute. Though if you're just using them to configure and glue together C++ classes, like most gameplay code is doing, then it's usually fine. R…

>I really wish Unreal Engine supported a proper scripting language so the choice isn't between noisy node graphs hidden in binary asset files and raw C++ code. People keep shooting themselves in the foot with both of these. That's apparently what UE's new Scheme based language, Verse[0], is aiming to do. But this is very new tech and currently used in the Fortnite editor part of UE. It's not quite something to use in…

Oh I didn't know about this, this sounds great

Have they said explicitly that it has ambitions beyond fortnite?

Re: So You've Decided to Move from Unity to Unreal Engine

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Post by ricardobeat »

beanaroo wrote: post #109
jaimehrubiks wrote: post #31

> It's free until you make a million bucks USD, and only after that is it 5% gross, and only in quarters where you made more than $10,000 USD. So most folks never end up paying anything. There are no subscription fees or anything. To clarify, if you make a million bucks, and then one dollar, you only owe them five cents. It sounds very fair to me, what are the general thoughts here?

What happens when your business has a portfolio of products/services over multiple departments, spanning various platforms, and only one consumer mobile app uses Unity for an augmented reality component that's not a core offering (premium feature)? Should Unity still be entitled to the same cut?

Those are the Unreal fees, not Unity.

But to answer your question, they are royalties on top of that one mobile app, not your entire revenue. If you distribute it for free, you might pay no royalties; if it somehow is tightly related to your main revenue-generating product then you’d sign a custom licensing agreement with them.

Re: So You've Decided to Move from Unity to Unreal Engine

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Post by boppo1 »

danudey wrote: post #39
owenpalmer wrote: post #33

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I'm surprised they can sustain such low pricing

The arrival of Fortnite Money has meant that Epic can afford to spend a lot more and charge a lot less for everything they do. They opened a studio in Vancouver and started hiring whoever they wanted from other companies, e.g. The Coalition, with starting salaries that made jumping ship a no-brainer for the engineers they were picking up. For Unreal, I think it fundamentally comes down to: 1. We want to be the bigges…

But how long will Fortnite money last? Gamers are fickle. It wasn't too long ago that no one could imagine a 'halo-killer'.
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