When first starting this project, I had absolutely no experience with Unreal Engine 5 (UE5). I knew that some of the games I love to play were created using it, but I did not know the first thing about it. Over the course of this semester I have been able to test myself and learn some pretty cool new things. With this obstacle to overcome, I think I can say that my biggest success so far has been the ability to overcome challenges when facing something brand new with no previous experience. I will not lie and say it has been easy. Learning the ins and outs of UE5 has been grueling and tiresome, but I have continued to research, read, fail at implementing, and research again. This project has reminded me that no matter what you decide to do, if you focus up a little, put it some time, and really try to grasp concepts, you will blow yourself away with what you are able to do. If you have a partner or team that has been as great as mine has, you’ll also have someone to celebrate your breakthroughs with.
Now to emphasize, I have only scratched the surface with the things I have tried to learn with UE5. This is a whole new world and it is incredibly vast. With that being said, I am incredibly proud of what I have been able to learn and struggle through and I think that is my biggest success so far. Not giving up, continuing to fail, so that maybe, just maybe, I can learn something awesome and be able to take that knowledge with me into the professional field of software engineering.
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