So that is a hard one. I don't know how to use Unreal Engine at all, but I'm currently developing a prototype in Unity too see if this game Idera is fun before Spending the energy really developing it. Unity has come a LONG way and is a fairly capable engine. I'm far from an expert but I would be willing to give advice and coding help in unity if you decided to go in that direction.
One of my biggest issues is not getting stuck in a subscription system of any nature in the future. From what I'm reading some Unity stuff is pay to purchase/use but the actual "personal not for profit code/engine is free" and that Unreal is almost completely free with the exception of being able to prurchase 3rd party apps that meet your needs if you cant't or don't want to make them yourself "in-game". My current dilema is doing ANOTHER re-start of the MK into a new "program". Whichever I pick I am going to try to stick with permanently. Even if it loses all support going forward. I would actually prefer a setup where everything resides on my own PC's and server with the net being required at all. Don't get me wrong I wan't a strong online community to contribute to and to draw from but I don't want server authentication to get in the way of me accessing my stuff. I'm going to do some more research on pros and cons of both progs before I pick.
100% Understandable. So I can't speak for Unreal engine, but Unity has been adding more and more to the free side of things. You can keep everything local and do all the building, deployment, etc without connection to internet. In terms of paying unity, the software is free until you make 100,000 dollars in sales at which point you get to pay them a percentage. The subscription form of unity, provides support, potentially networking support for Online Games, online building/deployment tools, the ability to create your own splash screen. I believe for what you intend, the free version is perfectly fine.
Haha no offense, but if your making 100K a year on your TTA Youtube videos I think you can afford the $25 dollar a month fee
It use to be very difficult to do, but I believe it's gotten alot easier in the last few years. In fact they have a great guide on how to do it.
docs.unity3d.com
I'm curious to how those models are saved in planet coaster. IN theory we should be able to export them.. HMM Need to downlaod some mods and see what the file structure is like.
The boys on reddit are having fits trying to figure out the compression algorithm used by the game. The have found the files. Just haven’t cracked what math is used. It’s just a matter of time.
Take a look at the page post with the frontierland station from my earlier work. I will be able to re - skin the exterior of the TTA to make it look like a good fit without to much trouble thanks to the fact that while it is in the walking guest part of the land it will be elevated up with the RR station and hidden going through splash mtn. The rest of the time in Frontierland is in territory only traversed by the train so so themed exterior and vegetation to separate them should accomplish most of the camouflage. Hopefully. We'll see how it goes as I work around that way. I will be winding it around and behind the jungle cruise in the Planet Coaster Game model over the next few days. I will be re-coloring and applying a jungle theme to the tta for that area. If this actually goes as I think it should you probably won't be able to see the TTA at all from the JC without looking behind you while on the boat. That is the idea anyway.
But on another note I have a plan for adding the TTA to EPCOT as well.
