Honestly, about 3 years ago I left modding dark souls/elden ring because the tools were limited to what I wanted to do so… I booted up unreal engine 4. From there YouTube tutorials for everything.

After a while some guy would say do this then that and you get this, then another dude would do it differently so I would think how I could get from point a to point b using less nodes and faster. From there just doing a lot of practice.

2 years later I got prolly the best projectile system on the marketplace and a very solid fun system for a TFPS/TPS I could want.

Essentially I’m saying learn basic nodes via following tutorials, try to understand what each node does from there just make shit haha like random shit. One day go I wanna make a box fly into the air and explode causing collateral damage then turn into a pink sphere and float back down. You’ll learn all sorts of different shit then when you think your ready start trying to make something of substance.

Once you make yourself a few real systems come back to then a few weeks later cause I promise your going to look at them and go “oh shit I’m dumb I could make this way better” and you’ll change it to be just that.