How proficient are you in Unreal 5 Blueprints? I know it well enough to be terrified by most YouTube tutorial videos... dear god. - ThreadSky

chetsucks.com • 430 days ago

How proficient are you in Unreal 5 Blueprints?

I know it well enough to be terrified by most YouTube tutorial videos... dear god.

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wahooney.bsky.social•429 days ago

My graphs can look pretty rough while I'm sketching something out, but once my solution is working and locked I neaten that up ASAP. I've been punched in the nethers by past Wahooney too many times.

chetsucks.com•429 days ago

This just broke me - on a "serious" account with 75k followers looping through this mess to figure out fall damage...

The first comment made me weep...

"After discovering how difficult programming was, I was about to drop the sponge, until I discovered your channel."

shawnaroo.bsky.social•429 days ago

Fall damage is stupid anyways. Any drop should be fine unless the ground has insta-kill spikes on it. This is true across all genres.

kapura.bsky.social•429 days ago

a 10k line script file named "loot.nut" is scary, but if it were in blueprints it would be a special kind of black hole that emits novel bugs as radiation

gameism.bsky.social•429 days ago

Wait. WHAT. The character movement component can give you your fall (-Z velocity) at any time. You can literally just query it on hit with the ground. ITS ONE CHECK.

If Z velocity < [WhateverYouNeed] then use a clamped float range for your damage amount. Done.

chetsucks.com•429 days ago

They named the event - onlanded... but why use that when you can make expensive loopy loops?!?!

gameism.bsky.social•429 days ago

If I’m interpreting what they’re doing correctly, it looks like they’re trying to make damage gates (tiny bit of damage to teach you falling is bad at first, etc), which, that’s a more advanced and nuanced way of doing it, which is fine!

Just, it’s not the first method they should be showing folks.

chetsucks.com•429 days ago

No they just want different damage at heights - but you can use onlanded and velocity, throw away everything under a threshold and then do math on the velocity to get the damage you want... it's way cleaner and performant... and his pauses the check... so falling down a hill in stages doesn't work.

chetsucks.com•429 days ago

But I get what you just did - start with - he isn't an idiot, how do I justify his poor choices... you eventually get to - no these are all poor choices.... all of them.

dharhix.com•429 days ago

I think dying the first time hitting the ground from (a good height?) will be a good lesson in itself. 🤣

gameism.bsky.social•429 days ago

I mean, it IS, but that’s Learn By Death, and teaching that falling hurts but isn’t lethal unless it’s from REAL high up (usually how kids first learn it in life, and don’t die from it) is a more elegant and way less frustrating solution for players. 💫

dharhix.com•429 days ago

Well, yes. Of course. But OTOH, fall damage should be expected. It's almost 100% a given.

When I start playing a game, whether MMO or other, I--always--assess how it's handled by jumping off a low ledge and see what happens. I've been pleasently surprised a couple of times w/ no damage at all.

jonludwig.bsky.social•429 days ago

Use a float curve, use a clamped remap, for the love of all that is good use anything but this...

dharhix.com•429 days ago

distanceTraveledInMeterWithoutTouchingGround * damageForOneMeterFall

Yes, it's crude, but... Should work.

chetsucks.com•429 days ago

Yeah there are so many better but you can also check when landed and see the velocity and pretty much make your damage matrix off of that. But so many ways better than what was shown...

udonengineering.bsky.social•429 days ago

Seeing comments praising shit like this felt like full on gaslighting while I was struggling through these horrid tutorials trying to get started

gameism.bsky.social•429 days ago

I have had to have Come to Jesus talks with some team members that were like “just because you saw “A” video tutorial say to do it this way doesn’t mean it’s the right way to do it.” 😭

The weapon projectile firing via a character skeletal animation key event was the one that broke me.

chetsucks.com•429 days ago

That last point... what!?!?!?

gameism.bsky.social•429 days ago

Dude. It was AMAAAAAZING. The guy who made the tutorial was like “this is the only way to ensure it replicates” and I’m pretty sure I had an aneurism. I’m dead now, right? This is like Angel Heart? I’m living out my final seconds as if it were an entire lifetime?

jonludwig.bsky.social•429 days ago

Heck, I've wanted to shout at the screen watching some Epic livestreams for how terribly incorrect some of the information is, let alone the average YouTube tut.

truebeef.bsky.social•427 days ago

This is a result of the popularity of the Unreal engine, and everyone trying to be the next 'someone' on YouTube. It's great for Epic, and terrible for anyone wanting to actually learn proper code architecture.

C++ purist all the way.

esdin.net•430 days ago

Proficient enough to know that most people are giving terrible advice

urmultimedia.bsky.social•430 days ago

Any recommendations for people that give good advice?

trod.bsky.social•429 days ago

Watching this thread with interest :)

gameism.bsky.social•429 days ago

You have to dig for it, but Unreal’s YouTube series for Blueprint 3rd Person Tutorial is what I learned on. Wes Bun did them and he’s a smart dude. They’re in 4.8 but should be annotated for any changes through 4.27, and they still apply to 5.3 (same blueprints system). It’s what I cut my teeth on.

esdin.net•430 days ago

There’s a big difference between hobbyist guidance and that from folks working on shipping titles. I’d recommend looking through talks from conferences to get a more realistic sense of what works for production.

esdin.net•430 days ago

With the caveat being that if you’re building small titles that have plenty of head room, you can get away with basic patterns. There’s a trade off for time vs quality.

chetsucks.com•429 days ago

Yeah as someone always working on multiplayer games with a ton of enemies - it is a nice break to look at something and say - one character, has to do this once - it's okay...

But in general my rule is - people who make tutorials for a living are horrible. So most of youtube...

dharhix.com•429 days ago

I'm twiddling in Godot right now and although the engine seems stable enough at this point, the docs... They are lacking in explanations. They're okay, but they barely pass that bar.

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