I'm trying to get into game development on linux, But i want an Unity/Unreal like environment to start out with, So i found out Unreal is build-able on linux, and i had a few problems but managed to mess with it enough to get it running, but all the material's are pink for some reason, i'd like advice on how and if i can fix the materials being all pink and super reflective looking, or if there's an alternative i could try similar to Unity/Unreal for linux.

Have you posted on  answers.unrealengine.com yet? Usually if i post there, someone has a useful answer pretty quickly.

It's strange to have such a weird graphical issue and this sounds like it would be a bug. Which graphics card and driver are you using?

53 minutes ago, Brain said:

Have you posted on  answers.unrealengine.com yet? Usually if i post there, someone has a useful answer pretty quickly.

It's strange to have such a weird graphical issue and this sounds like it would be a bug. Which graphics card and driver are you using?

Hey thanks for the reply! i was kinda hoping more for a suggestion on new software to use, cause unreals just generally laggy, but my graphics card is RV710 [Radeon HD 4350/4550] with the default ubuntu Radeon Driver. and yeah i'll try posting on there next i was just on here so i decided to use this site lol.

I have this same graphics card on a windows 10 laptop and it just doesn't cut it for unreal engine.

Unreal engine is a "next gen" engine, designed for newer systems and your card is from around 2009. If it's a laptop, you're probably out of luck upgrading it otherwise a new graphics card is in order. If your entire PC is as old as the graphics card though, perhaps you need to look into something that runs on lower end machines (unity for example).

Hope this helps!

2 minutes ago, Brain said:

I have this same graphics card on a windows 10 laptop and it just doesn't cut it for unreal engine.

Unreal engine is a "next gen" engine, designed for newer systems and your card is from around 2009. If it's a laptop, you're probably out of luck upgrading it otherwise a new graphics card is in order. If your entire PC is as old as the graphics card though, perhaps you need to look into something that runs on lower end machines (unity for example).

Hope this helps!

Ah but i'm fairly certain Unity doesn't work on linux. lol. i mean i guess i could try wine, but there might be issue's i dont notice at first and such.

1 hour ago, DarkJ1234 said:

Hey thanks for the reply! i was kinda hoping more for a suggestion on new software to use, cause unreals just generally laggy, but my graphics card is RV710 [Radeon HD 4350/4550] with the default ubuntu Radeon Driver. and yeah i'll try posting on there next i was just on here so i decided to use this site lol.

I had a radeon HD 4000 series too on a laptop. And to have decent performances I had to install the official ATI drivers. Also disable any compositing so that only your 3D app uses the GPU.

I don't know the state on Ubuntu. But if they are not installed by default on this distribution, you'll have to manually install them from here: https://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop/legacy?product=Legacy2&os=Linux+x86_64

Also note that you'll most certainly have to downgrade many packages including Xorg, your kernel, your compiler... You'll have to find the equivalent of Debian 7.

59 minutes ago, DarkJ1234 said:

Ah but i'm fairly certain Unity doesn't work on linux. lol. i mean i guess i could try wine, but there might be issue's i dont notice at first and such.

A quick google search shew that Unity is most certainly working on Linux.

12 hours ago, Silence@SiD said:

I had a radeon HD 4000 series too on a laptop. And to have decent performances I had to install the official ATI drivers. Also disable any compositing so that only your 3D app uses the GPU.

I don't know the state on Ubuntu. But if they are not installed by default on this distribution, you'll have to manually install them from here: https://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop/legacy?product=Legacy2&os=Linux+x86_64
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A quick google search shew that Unity is most certainly working on Linux.

Thanks, Yeah i'll look into that, thanks.
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Also, Holy crap how long has it been since i googled that, Last time it wasn't, i guess i just assumed it still wouldn't be.

11 hours ago, DarkJ1234 said:

Also, Holy crap how long has it been since i googled that, Last time it wasn't, i guess i just assumed it still wouldn't be.

Considering it was first released in 2015, quite some time I would guess.  We had a serious effort at Canonical before that helping her to get it to work well.  Ironically, the people who did a lot of that work are now working at Epic making the Unreal engine work better on Linux.  It's a small and specialized developer pool.

You might also consider evaluating the worthy Godot.

Unity support for Linux is around.

(https://forum.unity.com/threads/unity-on-linux-release-notes-and-known-issues.350256/)

By Linux they only really mean Ubuntu-current. Portability is quite poor to other distros (especially older kernels like RHEL6 etc). I perhaps blame the closed source nature of Unity and the wild-west style mishmash of libraries in Linux

If you cannot run UE4 (because "next-gen" apparently means extremely wasteful of resources) then perhaps try something like Godot https://godotengine.org/

In the long run. As a developer, try to wean yourself away from "Editors". They will often restrict you in the things you really want to do.

You might wanna try the Godot Engine, if your current options fail.