Anyone here abandon Unity for another engine only to return later?

I wonder if Unity had a good FPS movement script as a sample instead of the dumpster fire they used to include, if people would say Unity is designed with FPS in mind as well.

 

Mind you, Unreal Engine does not have a good movement script by default. It just has one. I wouldn't put that in an actual game, but great for prototyping.

Despite this, it is not about the movement script, it's the entire default behavior and setup. UE is really great if you make FPS or TPS games, it has many-many helpers and services you can just wire in and use them. But as soon as you start to distance yourself and your game from these, it loses its comparative advantages fast.
If you want to mix and match these services with other type of games, you need a (or 2-3) C++ programmer real quick.

 

It is not because of the movement script, though. It is because of overall framework design.

 

Even if we accept that (and I don’t, I think it’s just something people using Unity like to say to justify their choices) it’s still better than Unity, where it really shines at prototypes and falls apart when you want to finish a project.

It’s not a coincidence that Unity’s own Open Project was abandoned a couple of months after they said “okay, let’s polish this and finish it”. (but they did get to say “look, we are dogfooding our engine!” which I guess was really the point)

 

No, not really.

Imagine that two people get into accident. One breaks left leg and the other breaks right leg. While you can argue that one leg is more important, in the end both are temporarily crippled.

That's the engine situation with Unreal/Unity. Each has a major flaw in a different spot. While you can argue that you can work around it, the flaw is still there and will get in your way at some point.

 

ALSV4 does look amazing.. not going to lie.

edit:

well, looks like unreal decided to exempt my first million from that 5% royalty.


unity, we are friends for life but



*walks out the door*

edit #2:

*walks back in*

so, turns out, you need a Mac to deploy to Mac.

 

Lul, so raged. I'm working with Unity more 2 years and never had any "unresolvable" issues with editor. And I hope you'll be happy to work with Lua))0)