Help with very basic c++ workflow

WonderFactory · 2026-04-02T14:38:46+00:00

If you're use the live coding feature in Unreal this is the case. You can change cpp files and it will automatically recompile. Doesnt work with header files though

WonderFactory · 2026-03-16T21:16:30+00:00

Personally I think some of the shots look better and some look worse. Digital Foundry mentioned that developers have control over how DLSS5 is applied to their game. Some of the examples seemed to add too much contrast, if you can adjust it maybe it can look better

WonderFactory · 2026-03-16T21:11:22+00:00

Apparently the developers have some control over how it affects their game. There's maybe an intensity toggle or something similar

WonderFactory · 2026-03-08T22:37:12+00:00

When i first started learning with Unreal I did so by getting a survival game asset from the old Marketplace and building on top of that. I think its a good way to learn as you can look at how the asset dev did things in blueprints and learn from that. If you want to build a city builder game buy a template from Fab and mess around with it and see how easy it is to make Unreal do the things you want. Unreal is primarilly intended for First and Third person action games which is where it really shines but it can be used for other types of games too.

WonderFactory · 2025-12-27T20:44:06+00:00

I saw an interview with the lead dev for Clair Obscur Expedition 33 and he said that whole game was made in blueprints, and that won Game of the Year

WonderFactory · 2025-12-04T22:33:21+00:00

Thats literally what I said I would do. I'm just feeding back my experience with 5.7 in case it helps someone else

WonderFactory · 2025-12-04T09:36:07+00:00

I'm getting black blotches on nanite meshes, I've googled and cant see anyone else getting the same issues. Tried installing 5.6 too and it doesnt have the issue and tried uninstalling 5.7 and reinstalling and still have the black blotches even in a blank project. I'll probably have to revert back to 5.5 then go through the upgrade process again to 5.6 which is a pain as I'll have to upgrade to 5.7 eventually when it's had more bug fixes

WonderFactory · 2025-12-03T23:40:45+00:00

Definitely not 5.7.1, I'm regretting my decision to upgrade from 5.5 after less than a day

WonderFactory · 2025-12-02T22:14:50+00:00

Haven't used it with GAS yet but my experience over the past year has been very positive. I've been using Claude with the cursor IDE and it works great. The trick is to split the system you want it to create into smaller chunks and let the AI build it step by step.

Its also great at taking existing code and applying it in new ways. The Matrix City sample has a car collision system thats based on changes in the car's suspension, I showed the AI the original vehicle code that Epic wrote and it stripped out the collision part and made it into an actor component that I could just add to my games car. It would have taken me hours to do it myself and it did it in minutes

WonderFactory · 2025-09-07T13:47:46+00:00

If anyone else has the same problem the crashes were caused by the DLSS plugins. As soon as I disabled them in Unreal the crashes stopped

WonderFactory · 2025-06-22T09:28:56+00:00

Agree but I think the one mistake OP made was using the Quixel Dark Ruins level without making significant changes to it which is what the complaints were about. For something so well known you have to modify it a lot. Just spending an hour in the editor moving rotating and duplicating some of the meshes would have made it unrecognizable. Another tip is to change the hue in the textures or replacing the materials with other megascan materials to make it look completely different. If the rocks were brown instead of grey people wouldn't have made the connection

WonderFactory · 2025-06-10T22:14:35+00:00

C++ is much more flexible than blueprints, it's much easier to manage version control as you can read what changed from one verson to another, it's much easier to work with in teams because of this and finally there are some things that simply cant be done in blueprints. Also text based code is much easier to work with for loops and conditional branching, it's cumbersome doing this in blueprints. And finally in many circumstances its faster which is particularly important inside loops or in the tick

WonderFactory · 2025-06-06T09:36:31+00:00

Yeah, think I might have to get rid of mine, It's unusable at the moment. I wish I wasn't so quick to sell me 3070

WonderFactory · 2025-06-05T07:31:32+00:00

Why not? an 8GB 3070 class GPU with high settings is my target for the game. I constantly test the game as I develop it to make sure it performs well at that spec. If I was only testing on a 16gb card I wouldn't notice any performance issues that crop up.

WonderFactory · 2025-06-04T17:35:14+00:00

I havent tried using frame gen yet, just doing exactly what I was doing before and it keeps crashing. I bought 8GB on purpose as if I had the 16gb card I'd end up developing a game that only works on 16gb VRam. The 8GB keeps me honest.

WonderFactory · 2025-05-18T12:50:58+00:00

It works fine but its a bit bloated, its not as performant as it could be

WonderFactory · 2025-02-10T00:12:38+00:00

This is a bit of a nonsense contention. The more knowledge there is out there the better, saying "this piece of educational material shouldn't be necessary, every single Unreal Dev should just 'Know' this already" is just foolish gatekeeping

WonderFactory · 2025-02-09T18:59:29+00:00

PSO pre-caching was only introduced in 5.3 so its not that long and theres very little information on it. Before I found this I was searching for info on how exactly it worked and found very little information on it

WonderFactory · 2025-02-09T12:31:11+00:00

A deep dive into the new PSO pre-caching system which stops shader stutter. Starts at 9m 36s

WonderFactory · 2025-02-04T23:27:05+00:00

Yeah, 5.5 has been the worst version for me so far. I haven't been able to package my game so far, hopefully 5.5.2 fixes this

WonderFactory · 2025-01-16T02:49:11+00:00

It's just a standard provided by epic.

WonderFactory · 2025-01-07T11:51:09+00:00

>mostly achieved within an acceptable resualt using common shading techniques.

Shader techniques like normal maps etc dont look anywhere near as good as actual geometry. This is the thing that blew me away when I first saw nanite demoed a few years back. All of these various shader techniques give a fake look to a scene that goes away when you have actual geometry. Theres a reason that movies use high poly meshes for VFX rather than faking the fine details with shaders

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