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I had to start my project over 2 years ago because of the same reason, and dealing with it now, I been telling myself to switch to SSD but I'm a procrastinator

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Heh your life sounds like mine. Family with 2 kids, 2 jobs and end day time for dev. First game is up on Steam dough! It sucks! BUT ITS MINE :D

I just got started with UE5 a while ago with no coding or game dev background at all and I have to say it's more than just amazing. And while I do have a day job, I always look forward where I have full days off, weekends and holidays alike. Sure - and that's my opinion as a beginner - quitting the day job and giving up your whole life so to say isn't a good idea or even a good suggestion. However, when new to game dev, such as in my case, I appreciate it to have as much time at hand as possible. For a simple example: I want to do some level design and add a new mesh to the scene that makes me think "Hmm, wouldn't it look awesome when it would look like <that>?" and an hour later I am still fiddling around with materials or textures. In any way, UE5 feels like a drug to me. On days off I get up, do the usual things I do in the morning (like feeding the cats or brushing teeth) and as soon all that is done -> start my project, continue working on it. And what goes for tutorials in my opinion: Yes, if you follow them without the plan to understand them sooner or later, those will be just tutorials. However, and I am speaking from my own experience, over time and with a bit of a dedication and interest in all that stuff, you'll find out what the heck you were doing and what was once "a tutorial to follow" becomes a "wow, NOW I get what that means/that is for/what I was doing/etc". Having understood BPi's and event dispatchers so far, the thing I currently struggle the most with understanding is line/sphere/whatever trace to implement things such as foot step sounds on/in different surfaces. Besides all that: Nice video, appreciate it. Very grounded, motivating and inspiring. Thumb up and sub left.

good video Lesson 11 take breaks no one works everyday

oh you are not an hokage. you are still a man, enough here.

Lesson #6: Acquire Skills - definitely a key to success.

Love how real you are bro. Don't over sensationalize your stuff or make it seem dramatic or crazy. it just is what it is. I really appreciate that type of content creator.

Great lessons! I also absolutely agree with not quitting your job just to make games. The grass is always greener on the other side and you might imagine that you're gonna get more done with the pesky day job out of the way. But not having the safety net of a steady income cause a lot of anxiety and having too much pressure to make money can lead you down the wrong path. Not having a job anymore also isn't gonna magically make you more disciplined or motivated either and you'll have to be really good at managing yourself.

Not trying to brag but I'm pretty sure I am the world record holder for the game at 6:04

You make a great point on the take a course route. There are a lot of great youtubers that put out great content but nobody can learn a system in unreal in 20 minutes. You'll need 1hour minimum to scratch and get a general idea of what a system is. Courses allow for that polish and time to be taken to properly learn things. Coba Code makes a ton of great 2d/2.5d courses that are on Udemy.

Honestly, I think doing game development while also having a job is actually the preferable option. Because, yes if you're full time game dev, you'll get more done. But unless you have plenty saved up on the side to sustain your daily life, eventually you're gonna run out of savings to continue that full time dev life. At least that's been my experience so far.

I got the answer at the beginning of the video right!!!! ..... pure luck though lol

i dont know why but the breakpoints doesn't work at all for me ! kinda sad about it (i'm using unreal 5.4.4)

I heard that fighting games like street fighter and strive can only run on C++ from unreal

Great presentation style and nice pace. I'm on UE5.5 and all worked OK apart from the functions in STT_MoveTO, the override drop down now creates an event so the tick one is different. So instead I repeated the Move custom event to get the char to go from one to another. Or maybe I did something wrong? btw - I like the magnifying glass!

My take is make both. Make your dream game and when that gets hard, make smaller games. Get good with smaller games, then try again.

My problem with many folk I seen argue to indie devs on how "they should quit working on dream games, and work on small games instead!" that it is way to broad a statement, and kinda feels weirdly aggressive as if they want devs to stop working on stuff "they actually care about" just so randos can get more games quickly. While taking small steps to work up to bigger projects is a good idea... but one thing some folk don't understand is that not everybody are simply happy making "just any game," because some creators are only attached to certain concepts. For example for me it is my characters, I can't be bothered to work on any project if it doesn't involve characters that matter to me. We all have our own reasons for creation.

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I appreciate your dives into state trees. I suspect I will be diving into them. I only know behavior trees and want to get more familiar with the new method for working with AI. Excited, but also daunted. Looking forward to hanging out with you more through your videos!

thank you king

With everything you start small . Just start building !

Thanks for the link to this. I have spoken with a lead animator friend and he told me that for experience points, animators should focus on ABP. I am not disagreeing with either of you. I am trying to find a path that will allow me to keep being marketable as an animator.

Thanks for putting out these videos. I am an animator not a programmer. So I have had to rely on tutorials to get my animations in UE and test them in various actions. I am interested in getting an NPC to do certain behaviors in a level when I am moving the player character. I did a simple behavior tree to get the NPC to roam and then follow me when it detects me. However, I have read that behavior trees are not the true development way of doing this Ai behavior. I'm interested in knowing how to use state trees to do this instead. Do you have any suggestions for the best places to get a tutorial. No, I have not looked at all of yours yet. Any suggestion would be appreciated.

I’ve ended up spending more time building up generic frameworks for the type of games want to make. It’s kinda like making small games in the context of the game I want to make. I think getting reps in is what we all need while throwing ourselves a few challenges along the way.

(This is coming from someone whose been in games for 24ish years) I think it's good to think about what you want. You said you want to work at a studio (which, with the way jobs have been is really hard, and my mentees have had a hard time getting in). Do you want to be a jack of all trades, or what would you like to focus on? If you just want a job, Tech artist/UI UX are THE main ways to get into a company. But still, folks will want to see a portfolio with examples. So you could just do that, make examples. You could also combine multiple small games into a bigger game to understand project size needs, and then work on some sort of specialty to show "hey I made this game, but I focused heavily on X", which would show that you can do multiple things, but have a specialty.

Making games is super easy now. Too easy. Make your dream game now before everyone makes their own.

Good to see you're back at it.

Hey I work in the industry. I'm a 3D artist and I must say that being a generalist vs a specialist really depends on the type of studio you're aiming for. For example If you are a 3D artist and apply for a 3D artist hard surface role for a big studio, all you'll be doing is hard surface stuff and nothing else (Bungiee for example). But If you go for smaller studios that employ maybe 20-40 peopole, being a generalist really helps as often there's just as much to do as in a bigger studio, but only a quarter of people to do it, so a broad understanding of the whole "branch" really helps

So you're just saying now instead of doing something bigger and better, instead just work on the same small games you did before. I guess that's fine for some people, especially if you're looking for a job in the "industry".

I don't like the idea that making small games helps you create games, because what I see is that people who make smaller games get stuck only making smaller games and have difficulty managing slightly larger projects, because the development dynamics are different. Smaller games are ready faster and require less effort than larger games, which means that when you switch to a slightly larger project, you get the feeling that the project isn't moving forward, it takes too long, you start to struggle more with its development and end up giving up and going back to smaller games. I believe that the best way to learn how to create games is through a medium-sized project, which makes you get used to longer development times, and the creation of prototypes and mechanics as a side-project, as a way to test whether any of your ideas would work in your main game or are fun, before being implemented directly in the main project.

I really like hearing your ideology on game dev! Can we get some B roll clips of you working in UE? Would love to see some stuff you are working on while you speak. God bless, bro.

This is an awesome idea! I see so many people creating new games to improve themselves but returning to old games can be just as good. I definitely think that a specialism is great for gaining a foothold in the industry and then being a generalist will help you get projects over the line faster. Good luck!

I hate my current state. i know EXACTLY what my game is supposed to look like, i even had most of it done in Unreal Engine Blueprints but the performance got very poor very quick. And that was just with 1/4 players spawning bullets, so now i need to learn C++ and how to create an Object Pool. This wall hit so hard, i havent touched UE5 in months..

I pivoted recently from one small game to an even smaller game. I couldn’t figure out the enemies but then I realized I had made enough traps and what not to make a game without enemies. What took months of research and testing in the first game took days of setting up in the new one. Whether you go small or big, the thing to remember is the first game is about learning. So I think small is best at first to get your bearings. Then once you have all the mechanics down, make that big game. As for jobs in the industry. It’s all about who you know. I never got in. Actually my first and only 3D job not counting freelancing was at an insurance company. And I’m pretty sure they only hired me cuz I was the only 3D artist in town. Lol. But I saw a video recently from someone in the industry saying that 90% of the people in the industry got their job through a recommendation. Family, friends or harassing companies at cons. Lol. It is a real tough industry to get into. But once you get your name know, they come to you. Super hard to get in but super easy to stay in I guess.

Just wanted to say thanks for this! I have such a hard time following overly technical, or overly complicated instructions on stuff that I'm brand new at. So having tutorials like this really help me get quickly started enough to mess around with settings until I'm comfortable enough to start trying to learn the longer more technically in depth information.

Love your vids, cheers dude

I think you are spot on, or rather that I have the same philosophy. I actually published a few small mobile games with Unity before looking for a job in the industry. 8 years later I work on a very big game in Unreal. I learned a lot with each new game I made. I think you would be able to find a job at any company with your skill sets btw, knowing a bit of everything is useful in indie studios but also as a specialist (you can specialize on the job too). The state of the industry is not great though, so a lot of competition for those positions.

pretty much all the details needed to learn. Thank you :)

Hey, i’m stuck on this question since few weeks cause I’m afraid to take the wrong path and get stuck later, but you helped me take my decision, Blueprint it will be ahahah. Thanks for sharing about this

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Your kid is cute, but yeah 6 months is all touching things, looking at distinct shapes, colorful stuff, etc. A big key to making better games is to make games. Making small games just to make them is most important early on, not target audience. I found this out by doing game jams with 48 hour time spans, because just finishing something and letting people play it, and seeing their reactions is one way to make better games. Also as an aside, the examples of Star Wars/Xbone, etc were probably workshopped with focus groups, as bigger companies tend to do, and the issue is that even trying to reach a target audience you may fail to succeed. Also sometimes *target audience* is something you have to create with millions of dollars. Not doing exactly what fans demand is also not a wrong thing to do, because fans don't know what can be done. If fans want a new KOTOR, that's cool, but that's also just wishful thinking, especially since Bioware is doing other things. So is Obsidian. RPGs on their own are a perilous pursuit as is, and there's no telling that a new Star Wars RPG would do well. I used to work at Rockstar, and if you read game forums when Rockstar was releasing GTA San Andreas, you'd think they were mad to do it (because many racists showed up and said they just liked "organized" crime better, and don't like rap and other things associated with GTA:SA) However SA was the most successful GTA by a mile because they aimed for an internal metric, making a fun game that let people change stats, get haircuts, etc. That was a goal internally, that they thought people would rock with, and they were right. The biggest reasons of AAA issues these days aren't Target Audience, they are overscope, long time tables, etc. which are the opposite of what anyone at the beginning should be thinking about. Make some games over a few weeks, and gradually grow. Even some bigger companies do internal game jams to get creativity going because long projects *suck* tbh.

For some reason, the send state it's not working, it continues in same state and ignore my order. I did the same as all tutorials, but it never changes state, State Transition Node is complete ignored, it’s just keeping patrolling. It’s confirmed to being executed, it just not works. Edit: I’m using UE 5.4.4 and StateTree Component (not StateTreeAI Component) Edit2: I found out, Event just triggers if the AI is current on the State that has the Event.

I heard that dynamic behavior tree and state tree is a prefect combination.However,i heard that if there is frequent switching in complex ai behaviors or in scenarios with a large number of AIs.Dynamic behavior tree execution can be very performance-intensive.Im not sure if I should use dynamic behavior trees.

Thanks!

How do you get that debugger from the beginning to show up?

Hey man, love it! Making a game with my son RN!

How do you set a state tree when spawning a new character class? For blackboard, you can use the Spawn AI From Class node, but I can't get state trees to work when spawning during run time

your daugter is too cute! and I love that you made a game for her.