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

Post by pfisch » Tue, Sep 19, 2023, 5:10 PM UTC

johnnyanmac wrote: post #110

pfisch wrote: post #83

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Blueprints have terrible performance. They just do. Even trying to compile them into c++ doesn't work well. Blueprints run at least 100x-1000x slower than equivalent c++. This isn't even discussing working with multiple coders and version control, which is also a disaster. If you are making a simple game then they can work. If you aren't then they are not great.

>Blueprints run at least 100x-1000x slower than equivalent c++. they are slower but unless you are doing literal math in the blueprints this is a huge exaggeration... which is exactly what one AAA game I worked on did. sigh . And they wondered why we couldn't hit 60fps (tho, that wasn't even the biggest detractor to performance). Now, BP's in general usage when you're not doing literally everything in them is about 1…