I stopped following the Virtus free UE4 Youtbube courses. Way too many shortcuts, mistakes, confusion and bad taste. And his expresion skills are poor, which annoys me.
So I bit the bullet and bought Udemy courses.
The first course is 60 hours long over 340 videos and teaches how to use Microsoft Visual Studio C++ with UE4, with 3 simple games being built along the course.
The second one is 15.5 hours long over 85 videos and is about developing games with blueprints including all aspects, levels, materials, animations, lighting, post-processing, menus, HUD, physics and so on.
I started with the C++ course, it was pretty fine, until I noticed the whole course is undergoing a full review, at which point I stopped, asked the instructor whether it was worth continuing before he had finished and proceeded with the second course.
I was then on the verge of cancelling the whole stuff and asking for a refund: on the first lesson, the ‘Unreal Evangelist’ as they call those UE gurus was using some starter content that was nowhere to be found.
The dude said at the beginning of the video: ‘make sure you have downloaded the assets’ but never explained where the frack the download was!
One hour of frustration later I finally found the tiny folder button in the videos list and could download the assets but I was already pretty disgruntled.
I calmed down and proceeded with the videos and must say it’s of incredibly high quality. I’m learning tons of stuff in no time, it’s unbelievable and, for the first time: fun.
Unfortunately, the instructor has not an ounce of pedagogy. His American is, well, below average American, which speaks volumes, he doesn’t explain correctly some key steps in his course and is generally messy. He knows UE very well though and while infuriating at times, the course is exactly what I need to progress.
So I have no other choice but to hang on and pray for the best!
