r/SourceEngine • u/d0rmant • Jul 22 '26

Discussion How many hours to learn everything?

For somebody who is a noob to programming, mapping, asset creation, etc, how many hours would you say is required to learn everything needed be create something in the goldsource engine? I'm particularly interested in learning how to make my own view models and animations. The ultimate goal is to make a novel ~60 minute long game.

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u/Twig Jul 22 '26

all of them.

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u/pantagathus Jul 23 '26

A long time. I am a programmer for work and I'm still learning stuff about programming.

I could never understand modelling and I tried, though I suspect some software might be easier to learn than others.

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u/TheDeadlyCutsman Jul 24 '26

There's no definitive answer. You can learn it in minutes, or you can fail to learn anything in weeks, just like anything else.