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[west hamlet]

are there any ue4 fan remakes that have actually been finished?

just curious

i've never been able to find any that are actually 100% completed.. i think that the super mario 64 one got pretty far? not sure. but im curious about other ones, as that specific game isn't something that i particular love a lot (sacrilege, i know haha)

[unborn lotus]

@fluid bloom could that be because of the mp team asking for more content and "value" for everything submitted?

@west hamlet PT remake?

[fluid bloom]

I have no idea, I have never submitted anything

[west hamlet]

PT?

[unborn lotus]

Well I had packs rejected because of being too small, or not enough features so that might be it

[west hamlet]

the only PT that comes to mind is Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror film lol

[unborn lotus]

@west hamlet silent hills pt demo

Look for unrea pt remake? As any fan made remake, it got taken down everywhere

[west hamlet]

oh

i cant play silent hills hahaha too scary

i just saw a turok ue4 remake project vid, that would be amazing

so tired of development mega-companies C&D'ing fan remakes when they absolutely have no plans or intentions to remake a game themselves.

theoretically, they could always just let a fan or group of fans finish their project and then publish it, make their money. i just don't get it.

[cursive crypt]

Damn... I just went over the Affinity products and fed them. It is unthinkable that you can't customize how big your interface appears on the screen.

[lone grail]

Good day everyone

[zinc matrix]

Hi

Something seems off today

[median wraith]

seems nice to me

[lone grail]

Noice

[plucky pagoda]

substance indie is $149 for a year right now.

https://www.substance3d.com/monster-discount-2020

[fresh heath]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RtNV-kjh5M

[lone grail]

I feel bad for buying houdini and should have stuck with blender 😦

[plucky pagoda]

Nah, Houdini is worth every penny if you're going to use it for what it does well. Blender and Houdini are completely different creatures.

The new KineFX stuff in Houdini alone is worth the cost.

[lone grail]

I guess so, I just don't have the need for VFX at the moment but coming soon I'm sure, I bought it to use kineFX and been having issues rigging though the houdini discord did help me solve my issues, I still don't quite understand the animation process in it yet, I've seen procedural animations done in it and that's why I wanted to use it but I got no clue how to utilize the tools

[plucky pagoda]

I haven't used the rigging in 18.5 yet, but it is confusing how they handle joints and bones.

[fluid bloom]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8hYrNsRoTs

[plucky pagoda]

I understand the reasoning behind it but it adds unnecessary confusion when rigging for Unreal

[lone grail]

I quite like how you place the bones just by clicking, and the auto weights is pretty good, better than blender for sure but not production ready weight painting by any means, the issue I had was that I needed to clear weights and data from the mesh I was using to then apply the new skeleton, simple fix but lots of headaches since I'm new.

[plucky pagoda]

Ah

[lone grail]

Ah I see, I just imported my skeletal mesh from houdini into ue4 and it doesn't detect any of the bones at all

[plucky pagoda]

How'd you export it?

It took me a bit to figure out how to get it to export right for Unreal

[median wraith]

best Blender update is the Houdini update

[lone grail]

File > Export is what I did but UE doesn't see any of it's bones so it's definitely not right lol

[plucky pagoda]

Make sure everything is visible. I've had better luck by right clicking the last node I want to use and exporting to FBX from there.

or using a FBX ROP node

[fringe sundial]

@lone grail why did you even buy houdini when there is a learning edition?

and free 2 month licenses every 3 months from the epic megajams

[lone grail]

Because I'm stupid

[fringe sundial]

and yeah, use the FBX ROP node

works better

[plucky pagoda]

Oh, you didn't try it out first?

[fringe sundial]

and btw, blender and houdini mesh very well together

[plucky pagoda]

I use Blender and Houdini

[fringe sundial]

blender excels at sculpting and "fast" modelling

so you model stuff in blender then rig in houdini

[lone grail]

Well I have owned houdini twice before for VFX

[fringe sundial]

or use houdini to process/bake the meshes

[plucky pagoda]

I don't understand it when I hear people say they like Blender's sculpting

[fringe sundial]

blender polymodelling is the best in the entire industry

[lone grail]

Also I didn't know it would cost me just over $400 when it says $2something

[fringe sundial]

blender sculpting is just second, behind zbrush

[plucky pagoda]

Modeling is good. Sculpting gets bogged down too fast.

[fringe sundial]

it will forever keep second, which is kind of a shame

@plucky pagoda they literally just implemented MASSIVE optimizations for sculpt mode

[plucky pagoda]

Ah, I'll give it a try again

[fringe sundial]

still never going to go into the 30 million triangle scale zbrush does

[lone grail]

I used FOP FBX Export node and UE still doesn't see any bones

[plucky pagoda]

That and remesher make ZBrush unbeatable

ROP

[lone grail]

I mean that yea

[plucky pagoda]

Make sure you don't check the box next to ascii

[lone grail]

Oh that's checked by default lemme try again

Yep bones still are not seen

[plucky pagoda]

Paste a screen of your node setup?

[plucky pagoda]

Does that last node above it need to be set to visible? You have it set to the first node.

[lone grail]

Didn't work either

[plucky pagoda]

That's what I use

ugh, wait without the ascii

err maybe...

[rich quiver]

there curve in blender animation system

[lone grail]

Nope didn't work either

Ue can't find bind pose is one of the warnings

[plucky pagoda]

My bad, last screen was wrong

[lone grail]

Still nope

Would it be okay to rig in blender then use houdini for the procedural animations?

[plucky pagoda]

Probably. I use a script in Blender for a lot of my rigging and have imported back to Houdini with those.

If I don't checkmark that force skin deform export box, UE imports it as a static mesh.

[lone grail]

Ue imports as a static mesh no matter what I do

[plucky pagoda]

Other than that idk, still fairly new to Houdini

[unborn lotus]

i only wish the uv editor gets an update in blender 😦

[plucky pagoda]

http://www.russian3dscanner.com/zwrap/

[lone grail]

I kinda wish I could refund houdini

[plucky pagoda]

You can always send an email and beg.

[lone grail]

I would not have bought it if I knew they would take $400

[plucky pagoda]

?

Houdini indie is like 250

[lone grail]

Yeah but they only have it in USD I guess

[plucky pagoda]

Oh, you bought 2 years

[lone grail]

Nope

1 year license

[plucky pagoda]

?

Is that 400 usd?

[lone grail]

No CAD

[plucky pagoda]

oh

ok

[lone grail]

I thought I would pay what it said or even what the checkout said, but nope I feel ripped off

[plucky pagoda]

I use this to rig in Blender it has an option to export a UE Mannequin rig : https://blendermarket.com/products/auto-rig-pro

[lone grail]

I tried using addons for rigging in blender but I always have issues so I just rig myself

I literally can't spend any money at all because I got houdini

[plucky pagoda]

That sucks, I feel you on missing it was in USD on the site.

Send an email and explain that. They might cut you a break.

[lone grail]

I'll try it

[undone light]

Nothing beats that feeling of a built project after an hour of resolving compiler errors.

[plucky pagoda]

They have staff active on their Discord, but no idea how helpful they are with things like that.

[pearl compass]

https://sea.mashable.com/culture/13348/kfc-china-launches-5g-driverless-food-trucks-were-finally-in-the-future

[uncut otter]

!8ball will my Arby’s sliders be made with good meat today?

[turbid spindle]

@uncut otter, :8ball: Concentrate and ask again.

[uncut otter]

!8ball concentrating will my Arby’s sliders be made with good meat today?

[turbid spindle]

@uncut otter, :8ball: Outlook not so good.

[uncut otter]

Sigh

[lone grail]

I sent to customer support, not sure if anything will happen but fingers crossed

[carmine frigate]

smoke needs some world pos stuff

[vale agate]

It needs you be slower and there needs to be more of it

[carmine frigate]

and it needs a splashdown

it also needs to be a sandworm

[rich quiver]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-slack-tech-m-a-salesforce-com-idUSKBN2852PA

@pearl compass driveless cars have been battle tested during the pandemic

[vale agate]

I have discovered that in quarantine everyone hates me

[fluid bloom]

slack stonks up

[lone grail]

Stonks ⤴️

[fresh heath]

stick and stones, slack and stonks

[median wraith]

Youtube official music channels have more adult content than the actual adult websites

[fluid bloom]

my palantir stonks are ⤴️

well... were

[cursive crypt]

Palantir? 🤔

[lone grail]

Lol, yeah some music videos are weird

Nikki Manaj or whatever basically makes her videos as soft core porn and that's allowed on youtube

dude says "Ass" gets demonetized lol

[robust shale]

Hey some black friday tip, outside the unreal marketstore 🙂 Reallusion has an offer for "Ultimate Digital Human Creation Bundle" that has aaaalot of stuff, and if you buy it with iClone you get an additional 50% off. Semi-pricy but some really great stuff in there. Watch out though that you need an stupidly expensive 3dxhangfe license to quality for the free indie Unreal Live link (so you can use your iphone/ipad for motion capture)

Substance painter just dropped 32% of the indie subscription (https://www.substance3d.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Master_Monster_Discount_20_400x400.mp44). If you havent tried substance painter you really should. No more putting up with sub-par texturing of assets 🙂

Synty is running a general 50% off, (https://syntystore.com/) with 70% for the apocalypse pack. Better to buy than the Unreal marketplace since you get Unreal+Unity+source files

Unity store is also running a sale of course (https://assetstore.unity.com/?gclid=CjwKCAiAnvj9BRA4EiwAuUMDf7M0WJXVads6Bdk-GqAa4ZL_uAtl-UmlZWZdFjMdtMN1IdPXlXprXRoCO_IQAvD_BwE) , with 50% off, and some 70%, if there's something you need that's not on the unreal store its pretty easy to convert animations and models

[mossy nexus]

Reallusion can bite my ass

[lone grail]

I might try Rider for Unreal Engine, because intellisense not working right in VS is driving me insane now that I'm picking up more in coding whoever mentioned it earlier is right lol

[robust shale]

They do feel a bit enterprise shady 🙂 but Character Creator 3 is pretty good unfortunately

[mossy nexus]

I don't deny they have nice software, but their selling practises are shitty

[zinc matrix]

can anyone tell me if UE4 supports multithreading on a cpu?

[robust shale]

Rider is amazing, it's so good. I did 20 years of VS development only to regret I didnt discover it earlier. You get all resharper stuff built in and its so much faster

[mossy nexus]

@zinc matrix no need to spam different channels.,

[lone grail]

Nice! I'll get it now since it's still in beta I will probably pay after its out of beta if it really is helpful and smooth

[mossy nexus]

UE4 can do multithreading. It requires knowledge of it. I don't have that knowledge.

[zinc matrix]

wdym by knowledge

[mossy nexus]

it means you need to know how to use the thing

[lone grail]

Need to know how to get it working efficiently

[zinc matrix]

gotcha

[robust shale]

watch out, if you're used to VS, Rider can feel a bit disorienting to start with, but power through a few days and dad you're uncle. Ctrl-shift-a to search all menu/features 🙂

[lone grail]

Thank you I definitely will try and push through, I actually don't use many VS specific tools other than find and build, so I probably won't have a hard time
I'm hoping I can uninstall VS after a while of using Rider for UE because VS takes SOOO much space on my C drive

[robust shale]

Rider has this really interesting initiative, that's live already on mac I think, where they've decoupled the actual editor ui from the background compiling, intellisense etc. VS runs in 32 bit because they felt the overhead going to 64-bit wasnt worth it, but since everything runs in the same process you get all kinds of nasty freezes (Unreal editor cough cough). But Jetbrains has an published standard where the editor just acts like an front end and pushes everything else to a "local server" thread, thus keeping the ui responsive. It's pretty amaz. I actually think VS Code uses it.

[median wraith]

steam is collapsed by the sales noice

[cursive crypt]

oh? At this time of the year, credit cards are on fire.

[median wraith]

yeah the download servers are kinda broken

[cursive crypt]

If you are not selling, it is bad month. Most of my payments fall around, sigh...

[lone grail]

That's really cool Jippmokk, I'm excited to get started in it, when VS is doing background processing I can't do anything on my pc without extreme lag, and the pure bulk of it disturbs me greatly

[robust shale]

Yeah, I kinda got used to it, then I switched to Rider and realized I'd been in an abusive relationship 🙂

I do think the Unreal c++ version is much slower than the c# version tho for natural reasons. But at least it's responsive 🙂

[lone grail]

Yeah I feel like that is happening lol, I just setup rider with all the defaults, I actually preferred the first keymapping setup which is IntelliJ mappings, only because F2 is rename and I like that because that's how I did it in VSCode

[robust shale]

it does suck up memory tho, but guess VS does the same 🙂

[lone grail]

VS sucks memory like a vaccum but when I'm coding the only things I'm doing is either googling or listening to youtube music or podcast or interview / documentary stuff

[robust shale]

I'd like to watch a SNL sitcom of memory offenders between Chrome, VS, and Unreal Editor. It'd be pretty nice, but funny, or tragic 🙂

[lone grail]

I'm watching the setup video, and you can actually use rider features while background processes are happening, in VS I can't code while that's happening lol.
Lol yes

[robust shale]

yeah, man they need to fix Unreal editor at some point, everything seems to run on the UI thread

ITunes called, they want their software engineers back

[lone grail]

Lol

I was thinking maybe when I am comfortable and confident I will completely retarget to Rider and delete VS maybe I can actually get UE4 Source Code and build engine from source, but I dunno if there is a point in doing that for me since I wont be able to do shite to the engine code lol

[fresh heath]

Interesting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBp8zvLVsgg

[robust shale]

Gaea is blowing my old mind when it comes to terrain generation, jesus christ, it's going to put all asset authors out of business. It's basically like Blueprints for terrain generation, free for indies up to 1024k, can do craaaazy stuff like coloring, erosion, flow maps etc. I'm torn between feeling incompetent at that, or vectoraygen

[lone grail]

I remember when World machine was top of the game, I have never heard of gaea until now, looks impressive

It's cheap for indies wow

[mossy nexus]

Gaea and World Creator 3 are nice

[robust shale]

dont even need to buy it initially, can just stich together tiles.And oh man the map generation things, you could make the most awesome player topographical maps

I mean look at the island generation, https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1696689320632615

[lone grail]

What in the unholy witchcraft is going on there

[robust shale]

It's dark magic I tell you 🙂

[mossy nexus]

ugh faceache. no thanks.

[cursive crypt]

Oh, cool, I did something similar before few years. Ofc, cpu only and fully automatic, kinda too many problems however to move forward (mountains + rivers).

[robust shale]

It has the weirdest UI tho, It's actually nice, but like nothing i've ever seen. I mean, not weird weird, but certainly not based off any framework

[lone grail]

It's very minimalistic and I like it

[robust shale]

Yeah... its surprisingly good

[lone grail]

This is something I'd definitely love to have in my workflow but my game plan was to make a top down game and dunno if it'd really be necessary right now

[robust shale]

Ahhh, I was working on a top down game, my only tip, make some blueprint with data structures per tile and use hism thereafter (I mean as much as you can) Screw aligning floors, walls and cra... stuff

[lone grail]

It wasn't gonna be directly up and down, camera is set to a 45 or 50 degree angle, I still think maybe I should continue my third person shooter based on Lil Red Riding hood

But my top down was gonna be a zelda style Earthbound in 3D

[robust shale]

Is it titled "Huff 'n Puff"?

[lone grail]

Lol nah, the third person shooter project didn't have a name, but it was supposed to be a dark gothic Victorian era game where you play as a girl in a red hood with a rifle hunting werewolves among other things

I have a hard time sticking with a project

Now that I am doing something focused more on fun, I kinda wanna go back to that project

[robust shale]

tell me about it, I have like 5 projects going in parallel, but feel like, jesus christ this is too dark for me right now, let's make an happy island! 🙂

[lone grail]

Yeah sames, except I just removed 70 projects from my HDD lol

[robust shale]

70????

ok, maybe some test projects 🙂

[lone grail]

Lots of small prototypes

[robust shale]

The best kind, all pleasure, and no delivery 🙂

[lone grail]

Yeah I really really need to get down to 1 project, and right now it's one of these 2

[robust shale]

I want to build a Sauna game, but can't come up with the game mechanic 🙂

[lone grail]

The top down I have the ability to rotate the camera around player to find hidden objects behind buildings and what now because in some top down RPG's I would love to see the world from different angles

[robust shale]

Go with your heart 🙂 that's the one you're going to put in the time with anyway. Im between two, and the other one for sure has better structure and plotline, but doesnt feel as engaging as the setting of the other one right now

[lone grail]

Yeah I'm in the exact same boat based on the description

[robust shale]

that's interesting, havent seen that before

[lone grail]

When I make something I always try to add something different, though the TPS doesn't have anything different just ordinary TPS right now lol

[robust shale]

My favorite game to play now is The Raft, omg its so nice, just slight survivor mechanic and chill and play with your friend(s) you wont be able to see in forever 🙂

You should always try to do something different 🙂

[lone grail]

The raft looks cool I've seen lots of lets plays on it.
Yeah I always always want to do things that are different

The TPS I was gonna combine with Dark souls elements to make it a bit different, and the top down weapon system will be pick up object, swing and throw then grab the next object laying aroudn

[robust shale]

It's really about starting to play it coop with someone, as it very coop and experential based. But interesting niche', co-op chill kinda. I play Deep Rock galactic which is similar (although intensive sometimes)

I feel like everyone is either doing a dark souls clone or a breath of the wild clone 🙂

[lone grail]

I'veI haven't really sat and played a game to chill for a while other than Pokemon, me and my gf got the Pokemon games for switch a couple weeks ago and been playing those

[robust shale]

Is that a game?? can't find anything about it

I was thinking a sauna game would be about juggling water consumpting, water pouring on the rocks and dipping into the water, but not sure how to make it fun. Would be fun if there was like sauna mini-bosses. Like a fishing game 🙂

hahaha, bastuklubb

[lone grail]

Make it stressful, make the comfort level very slim and going over will dehydrate and kill the player lol

[robust shale]

My local Sauna 🙂 https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dn.se%2Fsthlm%2Fhar-ar-stans-svettigaste-hang%2F&psig=AOvVaw26x5Jy4WFs5cMJhxv89DIk&ust=1606428108089000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCJiGnpvZnu0CFQAAAAAdAAAAABAE

[lone grail]

I wish I wouldn't struggle sticking with a project, it's the hardest thing about making games

[robust shale]

Yeah I feel like I should do a really small game, just to release something. But then my mind goes "NAH! Let's make a open world game with complex stuff in it!"

[lone grail]

Yeah I thought about making the top down game to make thing a bit easier but when I was working on a First person game I was feeling like I'm stuck in a box and now the same with top down, getting a claustrophobic feeling

[robust shale]

Make a flying game 🤷‍♂️

[lone grail]

Nah not a fan

I feel more free when making third person for some reason

I probably should stick with the top down game though

[robust shale]

I find it really hard to find a good third person camera. The ALS one is black vodoo, third person remastered is ok, there's some expensive on on the marketplace

[lone grail]

Why not just use Third person template and edit it?

Worked great for mine

[robust shale]

I mean you can, but there's a lot of subtleties and things you need to implement for third person, top down is easier tho

[lone grail]

I'm using the third person template camera for the top down lol

[robust shale]

the only tricky thing is using the mouse cursor to look ahead if you're doing something miami hotline-ish. Some camera lag and strategic zoom in and out really helps gamefeel

[lone grail]

That's really easy to implement though, I'm not using a aim, but I'm using the mouse and right stick to rotate around player

Though I might switch to using a magic character instead of pick up physics objects

[robust shale]

ahh that's easier than using the mouse cursor

[lone grail]

Yep, I want something that can translate well across mouse and keyboard and gamepad

[thorny dock]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/25/comcast-data-caps/

[robust shale]

I do love the concept of a top down shooter, feels like its a bit of an underestimated genre these days. You get so much more overview so it becomes more about tactics that twitchy fingers

[lone grail]

Yeah top down shooters are great

I might just go in the middle and do a third person Witch game like I planned before

[robust shale]

Make the game you want to play 🙂

[lone grail]

I wanna make so many because I wanna play so many

[robust shale]

Yeah, but the game to do is the one you can't bear not to play 🙂

[lone grail]

No idea what that could be lol

[robust shale]

One day 🙂

[lone grail]

I don't wanna wait I just wanna make my game now! lol

I should just write a bit of a story and go from there, because I mostly get attached to games that I make stories for

[robust shale]

Games are like potential partners. If you need to convince yourself it's not right

[lone grail]

How do you choose then?

[robust shale]

The right one is the one you can't say no to

[lone grail]

I don't want to do something too complicated but I still want to do something that I can impress myself with

[robust shale]

that's logic, not emotion 🙂

[lone grail]

I'm super stressed and feel like a failure every time I think about swapping projects

[robust shale]

It's part of the creative process, when you stumble upon a great concept you'll know

[lone grail]

I've been doing this for 7 years and it's still happening

I'm so stressed because I have a lot of pressure to make my game

I get 3 days off each week and I get motivated to work on a project and I start, I get a lot done those 3 days, I go to work for several days, then when I come back It feels like a different game, I don't want to work on it but something different I dunno

[robust shale]

I mean it's difficult being a creative person, you'll always have new ideas. And every project is boring after a while when it's just FINISH IT 🙂 Make sure you're making the game you want to make and commit to it

[lone grail]

I think my game needs to be third person, because first and top down make me feel cramped

that's a start

I want female lead because most of my stories are like that for some reason, I just do it because it feels good for how i write, that's another good start

Now the style of the character can dictate the game, Witch? Lil Red? Gundam? I dunno lol

Once I get that I could write a small prologue then start on it

[robust shale]

that's like arguing about aspect of someone you're dating :)) "I want her to be funny, I don't want her to be yada yada" Good game design and fun is not broken down like that

[lone grail]

But comparing a game to a person your dating doesn't sound very good because how can everything about a game just come naturally without thinking or planning?

Everyone does have different processes in creating

[robust shale]

Spark of creativity is instant, execution takes time 🙂

But dont date an middling idea too long 😉

[lone grail]

I'm just gonna pick things I want and see where that leads

[robust shale]

that's part of the brainstorming process

[lone grail]

Yeah

My creativity works in a weird way, it always has, ever since I was little, when I wanted to write, I would only think of 1 thing whether a setting, a character design, or anything and I could write around that very well and just everything falls in place as I'm writing

[robust shale]

Well, you can always make soup from a stone, but better to start with some good meat 😉

[lone grail]

Yeah that's what I plan on by gathering what I want and then evolving it

There is no right or wrong way, everyone has their way

[robust shale]

I don't think Da Vinci thought "I know Im gonna paint something nice for that neighbour" and evolved it into the Mona Lisa 🙂

[lone grail]

I mean that's kinda how everything is started, people think about what they want to do

[azure chasm]

@lone grail hello

Im you 4 years from now

Literally

Dont do it without a solid game plan

[lone grail]

At least I'm still alive in the future lol

[azure chasm]

Lmao... Im the same way creatively

It just flows

However... you will get feature creep

If you dont focus and settle on a solid game plan

[lone grail]

That's what I'm saying!
Okay I'll start that first, I'll put on a movie or something and get my notebook out, tonight will be planning, tomorrow maybe impliment

[azure chasm]

Good solid gameplan, like an actual game design document..

Features , how they will work, etc. It doesnt have to be the entire story

But an outline

Is nice

[lone grail]

Yep, I did that with my Little Red Riding hood TPS and that's probably why I keep gravitating towards it, I just lack and ideas on furthering the mechanics, because it has shooting, running aiming, walking, but I feel like it should have more, but I will start with a empty mind and just see what happens

I think 1 issue is I've been trying to force myself to make something E for everyone kinda non violent, cartoony, but since I've been writing since I was 6 I gravitate towards moody, dark, sorta creepy story telling, it's what comes naturally to me and it's what I can write the best so maybe that will be what I end up doing

Did you make the banana man in fortnite? lol

[robust shale]

hahaha wtf

Does he turn brown when shot?

[lone grail]

Visual health system would be good just going more brown until mush lol

[fresh heath]

https://twitter.com/Carnage4Life/status/1331707774334427137

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Welcome to the future

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Twitter · Nov 25, 2020, 9:14 PM

[humble remnant]

Fuck the future

Return to stone age

[lone grail]

Yes kill everyone with a club to reign dominance over the village and Yabba dabba doo the fk outta there... Yabba dabba don't

[humble remnant]

I think I'd rather take that than have Amazon spying who passes by my doorbell

[lone grail]

Pee on it

Spy no more

[rare sparrow]

!ask Should we go back to monke?

[turbid spindle]

@rare sparrow, :8ball: Signs point to yes.

[rare sparrow]

Welp

[lone grail]

!ask Should we reinvent the bubonic plague

[turbid spindle]

@lone grail, :8ball: My reply is no.

[lone grail]

Fair enough

[bronze axle]

!ask should I eat more junk food before dinner?

[turbid spindle]

@bronze axle, :8ball: It is decidedly so.

[lone grail]

!ask Should pfist wait until after dinner to eat anything!

[turbid spindle]

@lone grail, :8ball: It is certain.

[bronze axle]

Hey.

[lone grail]

Reverse card played

[bronze axle]

That doesn't make any sense though because dinner = eating something.

It's not dinner if I don't eat anything.

[lone grail]

!ask will pfist starve to death?

[turbid spindle]

@lone grail, :8ball: Reply hazy, try again.

[lone grail]

Okay you can eat dinner

But only snacks after dinner

I just finished dinner

I don't like how that was worded

[broken sigil]

🤔

[lone grail]

That's pretty cool

Does anyone do coding as a side hobby from UE4 development?

Lol

[broken sigil]

I have enough of it as a job

[lone grail]

I love coding, but I've only coded inside Unity and Unreal and a bit of web snippits like 6 years ago lol, but thinking about pickup a programming language I don't know and doing stuff with it for fun outside of unreal, maybe get a job using it perhaps, I was considering Python or Javascript, never used JS, used Python a tiny tiny bit, but I thought using C++ out side unreal would make me even better at my game programming perhaps lol

I wish I did coding as a job

Or anything that is related to unreal or code or design

[broken sigil]

I find it fun and I enjoy it but I can't be bothered to even look at it after I'm done with work

[lone grail]

Yeah I get that, I work retail so I can't really relate lol

Yeah I used to hate coding when I had to do it but wasn't very good at it, it changed once I started understanding and doing more, I still kinda suck at coding C++ in UE but I'm getting there

[broken sigil]

I used to hate it, I started with 3d modeling, image editing, CG and then eventually decided to learn programming (C# and then C++)

[lone grail]

I did the same

I started with graphic design, then 3D art then coding C# then C++ more recent

Well not recent I know all the basics and got a certificate for basics in C++ couple years ago

[broken sigil]

I haven't done any 3d modeling in like 4 years now, I like it but don't have time anymore 😐

[lone grail]

I gotta do everything for my projects so I do all every so often

[north torrent]

If you are too busy programming to 3d model then it sounds like it is time to quit programming.

[lone grail]

I do coding when neccessary, art when nesseccary, and etc when necessary

Don't look to master everything, just do well in each and it'll all be good, have fun with them

[broken sigil]

Hell no

[lone grail]

I'm gonna get started on my game plan

I just wasnt feeling it

[unborn lotus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS8Pd3Rvsn0 does anyone know where the bending city scene is from?

[cursive crypt]

@ionic flame you do git pull, then git merge master. Also #source-control

[austere glen]

I missed it too last time! and posted on cpp

How do you not end up playing a few games at home while coding? I'm trying to stop a bad habit...when I'm in the zone I can code for a month without games..when I'm not..or it's boring stuff, it's so hard to resist...

[rare sparrow]

🦃

[lone grail]

My planning stage is going well, I have lots of things written to begin production tomorrow

[real palm]

How do you not end up playing a few games at home while coding? I'm trying to stop a bad habit...when I'm in the zone I can code for a month without games..when I'm not..or it's boring stuff, it's so hard to resist...
@austere glen Wait you actually play games rather than stare into the abyss when bored?

[frosty halo]

I have this problem constantly. Had it for a decade now. What helps is scheduling the everliving crap out of your day. Coding is incredibly mentally intense you can only do so much before you lose effectiveness and your productivity/output becomes nil. I do 8am to 10am coding. Tackle the biggest problems in those two hours. Then have any meetings I need to have. That eats another hour and a bit. Then back to coding but smaller tasks till 1pm. Then I end my day. I make myself available for any work stuff, but my effective work ends. I eat lunch and do an hour of anything (gaming/3D modelling). There’s other stuff in between all of that, but that’s basically how I approach stuff.

If you have more free time in your day and don’t have to do stuff like childcare or housework - you will have more gaps to be tempted with. Just bash out your important work at the start of the day so that any temptation to game becomes as guilt free as possible. You know you can basically afford to relax and unwind cause you did all the really pressing crap that’s got deadlines.

[hasty escarp]

@prisma cedar We cant direct message you because you left our server, join our server again so we can dm you.

[austere glen]

@frosty halo I have kids so when I’m not working it’s usually taking care of them haha. I don’t actually have free time so maybe I’m forcing gaming into my work time...Never really on a tight deadline these days. Makes gaming tempting indeed.

@real palm you should stream it, I’ll watch

[real palm]

you would watch me stare into an abyss?

[frosty halo]

I look after a 1.5y/o during the day. It’s all about juggling. And also accepting that sometimes you’re just gonna end up neglecting some part of your life because nobody can do everything

[real palm]

Imma tell you right now that you're gonna be so bored

I refuse to even set that up

!help

[turbid spindle]

@real palm, Check your direct messages. :incoming_envelope:

[real palm]

Ay I have DMs disabled here

It works! [having another user reply to a message but then editing the message they replied to]

[frosty halo]

It wouldn’t

Wait you mean the little bit at the top?

[frosty halo]

Try it

[real palm]

Huzzah!

[frosty halo]

Now you can bamboozle people

“Check my reply I never said that”

[real palm]

But the edit tag is there

Effectively, there is no way to preserve the initial message in discord with validation

[frosty halo]

Well.. there is on a technical level. Just not at the cost Discord would be prepared to pay.

And it’s not useful

[real palm]

Quotes are only a markdown format and you could easily edit that as it stands

Actually they retain full edit history IIRC in case they need it for safety&security investigations

That has to be for a limited time period, but that period could easily be extended for replied-to messages

[frosty halo]

I think you’re right. It wouldn’t be practical to retain history for indefinite periods.

Think of the esesdees needed

Oh the space.

[real palm]

Messages at-the-time-of-reply could be stored indefinitely

opposed to the full edit history

and disable the reply feature (or have an alternate reply) when out of band

idk

It's likely not even an issue, but it'd be easily worked around if they really wanted to

This discord already has an edit-mirror.

When you edit a message here, it's noted within a log in a moderator-only space

[frosty halo]

I don’t know too much about how they do it.

[real palm]

Discord can't put those together to save space, they have to preserve them

[frosty halo]

There’s probably lots of regulatory stuff as well that comes into play.

[real palm]

In the case of slackers? No.

[frosty halo]

You know - to ensure that if anyone’s trying to groom kids with copies of Doom or something, there’s a lot of that

[real palm]

It's just so that if I happened to be an ass, they would log any changes I made to the language of a post.

[frosty halo]

Log

[real palm]

And Slackers could enforce action

[frosty halo]

Not lot

[real palm]

discord likely has an internal log of edits already, but those expire after a couple of weeks

[frosty halo]

Do they have a dev blog? I’m sure they must.. would be interesting to read some of it

[real palm]

I'd bet they could store the replied-to state of a message with a reply and if the current status of the original message differed it could read [original] Modified message here with two links

that being a trade-off. Most users who would actually utilize the reply feature are competent and could be trusted to not need edits

idk

No visibility into discord's internals

[frosty halo]

Never EVER assume end user competency.

In all my time developing stuff I’ve learned the hard way that even the smartest people can be idiots.

In every way

[real palm]

mmm

Well hopefully there can be a wide data set that indicates at least one-less-edit-per-reply and then there's a space to store the original text

[frosty halo]

Ugh swapped phones last night and this one is still learning autocomplete. Thus we get the weird mistakes.

[real palm]

Otherwise the standard etiquette should be to initiate a reply but also quote via markdown?

either way, discord would be paying for the space

[median wraith]

don't be like this people that give negative reviews for no reason

[frosty halo]

That crop

What’s he moaning about?

[median wraith]

the asset says its for 4.25

the guy talks shit because purchased it for 4.20 and don't works lmao

as result the asset on store have low stars

[frosty halo]

Idiot

Actually it’s a bit worse

An illiterate idiot

He’s not alone - there’s tons of people like that on steam. When Baldurs Gate 3 went into early access they said everywhere that this isn’t a full game, it’s paid alpha basically, and to expect tons of bugs and stuff to break. Half a day later the steam page is full of the following:

”I paid £50 for this game and it’s not even finished. There’s bugs everywhere. Lol nice one. Don’t buy.”

[median wraith]

Kinda the same

I mean usually the people act like sheeps following YouTubers to buy something

What can expect here on the overall of cases

[frosty halo]

The point remains. If someone doesn’t wish to use their own critical thinking and instead buys whatever they see some rando on youtube buys - kind of stupid.

[mossy nexus]

Never under estimate the power of people to act like under educated, overly entitled dicks.

[frosty halo]

The best part about the Internet - it connected the world. The worst part about the Internet - it connected the world.

😦

No, actually, the best part about the Internet - I can summon food to my home.

[cursive crypt]

https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/radeon-prorender-blender

[zinc matrix]

when will 4.26 release? today, or next week? place your bets! 😄

[north torrent]

4

[cursive crypt]

Yeah, its cool

[median wraith]

When you buy something from marketplace and need adapt every mesh to your material system

noice

[mossy nexus]

Thems the choices you make

[robust shale]

TBH there's so many great assets with crappy textures. Going through stuff in Mixer or Substance Painter can give great results

[frosty halo]

I’m still sitting here and I’m torn between feeling bad about using megascans for my project and the fact that it would take me years to make something comparable and it wouldn’t even look that good.

[robust shale]

Don't feel bad. Use assets from the best. There's still plenty of credit to be taken with creativity and game design 🙂

The "You have to do everything from scratch" attitude for indies is counterproductive

[unborn lotus]

@frosty halo well is your goal make a game or make good looking assets?

[frosty halo]

Well that’s sort of the thing. I don’t WANT to be stuck making really generic stuff. Only the custom stuff I absolutely wanna have. Which works fine for indoors - I’m pretty okay at making shit like modern furniture and whatnot. But stuff like.. okay so here’s what I’m actually moaning about. I have this art board for an outside scene. It’s a beach with volcanic terrain. I want there to be a cave mouth and the sides of that cave be made from basalt columns. So I know I can get rocky stuff from quixel but the columns I cannot find anywhere for free. So I started making one. But it’s a pain.

I made this so far. Which was the easy part. And it’s not final but I wanted to test with this.

Now it turns out I have to bake normals, AO, displacement, find a megascans texture that’ll fit with this mesh and overall feel. Then paint this as foliage onto the landscape.

Then I started thinking - well how much of this is the player gonna see and how close will they get? Will the detail even matter?

I answer one question and fifty pop up.

And it’s just one dumb asset that’s causing all of this for me.

Sorry for the rant.

I think I need some whisky and a break from this.

[north torrent]

Unless you specifically want to sell assets it is far more important to look at the scene as a whole. Look at the possible angles that the player will view the scene from. Have some cameras saved in Unreal so you can hop between the most common positions the player camera could be.

Build compositions, not assets. Look at the color of the scene, the lighting, the balance of positive and negative space.

In the end nobody is going to pat you on the back for making rocks from scratch when you can just download rocks that look like rocks.

[frosty halo]

Yeah I suppose you guys are right.

[unborn lotus]

I suggest doing what I do, think of your scenes as asset packs and put them for sale. Finance your game on the way and have fun. Split them in hero level which you do yourself and filler (like megascans stuff)

[frosty halo]

I’m pretty sure at this early stage people would pay me not to put my assets onto the marketplace haha

I think maybe I’ll just focus on on scene as a whole and perhaps it really doesn’t matter that the rock I used is also used by a million other people. A rock is a rock is a rock.

Now to find some rocks...

[cursive crypt]

lmao, that Affinity is just overhyped. No basic UI customization and you can't even auto-stretch grayscale image.

[lone grail]

I quite enjoy using Affinity Designer, and I like how it's not a monthly fee / yearly contract like adobe, last time I used an adobe product was 2014, it was photoshop, and it took almost 3 weeks to try and get them to NOT renew the contract once it was up, never again will I deal with that lol

[robust shale]

Serif does some great stuff for sure, and nice that you can use your ipad pro

[lone grail]

Yeah they stared on IOS and Mac, I was happy when the beta first came out for windows, I use it for my UI needs in unreal

[cursive crypt]

Haven't yet looked at the Designer 🤔 Sure it has neat stuff inside, its just... not mature and some things are missing.

Ofc, Gimp also miss many 😄

[lone grail]

To be honest it does what I need and I don't really mind not having customizable UI, Designer is like Illustrator alternative, but it does more than just vector art too

[cursive crypt]

That true, I think it fits the need of many. Apart from the UI however, I really miss stretch on grayscales. Its auto level filters are not documented and I'm not sure what they do actually. Also no any kind of scripting too (except top-level macros).

[lone grail]

What kind of scripting do you do, python?

[cursive crypt]

You can't switch the workspace from the menus too. Your tool options are bound to the main window which can't be resized.

For example, yes.

[lone grail]

I've been thinking about learning python or another higher level language for fun

[cursive crypt]

Not a big deal tho, I use CLI tools for automations, but some specific algorithms are nice there.

For fun? Yeah, maybe. Its also part of the work too.

F... I really wanted to switch to something more performant and feature rich.

[lone grail]

I watch a lot of programmers on youtube and they do web stuff, python stuff, JS stuff, and to me it looks pretty fun, I dunno if I'd do web but it looks like fun and was thinking of picking one up and maybe even getting a job in the future but if not just make some cool projects

[cursive crypt]

Gimp on Win lags.

[lone grail]

I don't like gimp very much

[cursive crypt]

I like it tho 😄 It's clunky and some ops or features you don't have, but it is quite straight to the point.

[lone grail]

Fair enough lol, did you just get Affinity Photo?

[cursive crypt]

wtf, I can't revert to the image. I need to Close and the Open Recent, lmao

Yea

[frosty halo]

What’s this? An app?

[cursive crypt]

Serif are the makers of Affinity products

[fresh heath]

Common Lisp is pretty interesting, I'm currently trying to write something in it

[soft night]

what you think of this year?

[fresh heath]

It's a lot like Python, but a lot faster

[frosty halo]

Ohhhh

[fresh heath]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2tTpjGOhjw

[frosty halo]

It’s like procreate

But I’m guessing has vector capabilities?

[cursive crypt]

Like Python? hahaa

Its quite easy as syntax tho

[fresh heath]

A dynamic language with REPL

It's compiled to native machine code unlike Python

[cursive crypt]

True, I agree. However, that's most of it.

[lone grail]

So is it sorta like Haxe if it compiles to native code?

[soft night]

dotnety is awesome

[frosty halo]

Cython would like a word with you

[fresh heath]

Not the main implementation

I've heard there are incompatibilites

[frosty halo]

True.

[fresh heath]

Common Lisp supports native compilation from the beginning

[frosty halo]

But tbh we’re running Python at scale for work and honestly it’s as fast as anything.

[cursive crypt]

Ah, yeah, forgot about these. cython, jython, ironpython,

[soft night]

python.NET is great

have you heard that?

the .NET in ML solutions is actually faster than Python

[frosty halo]

the times when it turns out something is slow, it’s 9/10 times the piss poor design of the codebase and not the language speed. You’d have to be running discord or WhatsApp on Python to really be in a position to say it’s not fit for distributed systems. And even then. Depends on the system.

[fresh heath]

Google contributes to one of the main implementations of Common Lisp, SBCL, as it is used in Google Flights

They even have their own style guide for the language

https://google.github.io/styleguide/lispguide.xml

[lone grail]

If you know common lisp, would you also know Lisp? or is it a higher level implementation of Lisp?

[fresh heath]

Lisp is a general term for similar languages

[lone grail]

Okay, I'm trying to google what lisp is about and what it can do

[fresh heath]

Common Lisp is the unification of them

[lone grail]

Okay, common lisp is the megatron of lisp

[frosty halo]

I honestly can’t even bring myself to type lisp. Where Python went nuts and made indentation their target, on the polar opposite lisp just shits brackets everywhere.

[fresh heath]

Yeah, it combined every Lisp that was used by DARPA and others in the 80s so that people could focus their efforts on a single language

The best book on the language is free online: http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/

[frosty halo]

Would be nice to just write the language that’s the easiest for everyone to pick up and easiest for everyone to read and understand without trying to be all hipster and make all these special abstractions all over the place.

Except that those are earmarks of most modern “cool” languages.

Even elixir just wraps around erlang

Admittedly that’s less of a problem considering how it makes it easier to write stuff

[lucid walrus]

https://twitter.com/Vuthric/status/1331758077968744452?s=20 FFFffffffffff....

Asher Zhu (@Vuthric)

Packed my fluid simulation and renderer into one single Niagara system, which unlocked so many magic tricks🥦

(60fps playable water)
#UE4 #gamedev #techart #vfx #realtimevfx https://t.co/uYLEAx30vk

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Twitter · Nov 26, 2020, 12:34 AM

[bold fulcrum]

Particle part is the easiest thing in there. It is rendering system which is very big brain.

[frosty halo]

If there’s no tutorial about how to make that water - there’s no justice in the world.

[lone grail]

True dat

[frosty halo]

But my mandarin is about as good as Trump’s English. So it’s no bueno for me.

[sharp wolf]

what is that software called that folks use to capture images and gifs. It starts with a G, saves to online. my friend is looking for a screenshot software, and i cant remember the damn name. I use SnagIt

[thin storm]

gyazo is it I think

[lucid walrus]

@sharp wolf ShareX, GifCam, WebmCam... there's lots.

[sharp wolf]

Gyazo!

thats it!

Thanks @thin storm

[lone grail]

I use Gyazo it's fantastic, Gyazo gif captures mp4 for me though so I'm kinda confused on that one, unless there is a way to change the file it saves from mp4 to gif? anyone know?

[deep glen]

just change url to .gif

it also stores a gif version

[broken sigil]

damn that looks good

[lone grail]

Okay thanks Luos

[jovial talon]

@deep glen when posting on reddit I'd recommend not putting the OC flag - it will pretty much kill your post because it will spend several hours waiting for moderator approval

So time since posting/number of upvotes will be low, and reddit will rate it lower

[deep glen]

really, thats dumb hehe. but thanks :)

never knew

[jovial talon]

Yeah, I've been hit before too

And cool skull hehe

[deep glen]

thanks :)

[lone grail]

After coding on rider today as the first real taste test, it's absolutely brilliant!

[cursive crypt]

After using that AP for half a day, I'm still not sure. Another issue: exporting grayscales != converting to grayscale.

... also there is no way to select transparent pixels? Tool's settings are not remembered across sessions. And 3rd there is no screen space brush setting, which I'm used to 🙂

[fresh heath]

Twitter won't let me switch back to the chronological feed, what the hell

"See latest Tweets instead" doesn't do anything

Logging out fixed this, strange

[fluid bloom]

Austrian town of Fucking changes its name to Fugging https://i.redd.it/e1fke0hzbl161.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/6dHiAZ9.png

[lone grail]

I guess since those youtube videos made it popular they didn't like it lol

[median wraith]

Why this guy gave this pack back in the time

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/female-mannequin

and now totally changed the pack

because the pack used to be this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEPXW-KD4AU&ab_channel=PiorO

idk but when he gave it for free wasn't a mannequin that for sure

now don't even have the woman face

[fresh heath]

That's cheeky

[alpine fern]

pretty sure I remember "female mannequin" being free at some point

[median wraith]

I don't know how many times had this over my head, needed some kind of graphics that don't get super big on space or consuming... at first idea my best option where low res realistic meshes etc, but I think will go for cartoon all the way in

[zinc matrix]

!ask is unreal engine 5 going to be good?

[turbid spindle]

@zinc matrix, :8ball: Concentrate and ask again.

[zinc matrix]

!ask is unreal engine 5 going to be good?

[turbid spindle]

@zinc matrix, :8ball: My sources say no.

[zinc matrix]

Ooof

[mossy nexus]

The old version(s) were not made to UE4 skeleton so they got changed to the mannequin from 4.19 onwards

[median wraith]

mmmm

[fresh heath]

!ask Is water wet?

[turbid spindle]

@fresh heath, :8ball: Don't count on it.

[lone grail]

!ask is water dry

[turbid spindle]

@lone grail, :8ball: You may rely on it.

[fresh heath]

[lone grail]

Water is confirmed dry, you heard it here first folks

[zinc matrix]

Hmm..

[lone grail]

I updated Rider for UE and now I can't use it

Says I have no suitable license with account 😦

[mossy nexus]

Tomorrow live from the Reborn studio, join Exodus, Shadow, Saxanth, and Nadav discuss UE5 and other subjects. Special guest will be Alexander Paschall!

Yeah it's not the most eye friendly font in the world.

Not me or anything to do with me, just sharing it for him 😄

[fresh heath]

Looks very metal

[north torrent]

It is not a bad header font, but you don't use a header font for the body...

Using the font for 'Dino Sources' looks great.

[prisma cedar]

Alexander Paschall... is that the guy that 'left' epic after being 'really cool' on stream to guests?

[mossy nexus]

He left to teach in Spain for a while, he's back with Epic now.

[prisma cedar]

Welcome back Alexander!!

[mossy nexus]

Well, that was fun. Marketplace drama.. 😄

Yeah, I wasn't going to attack him on the quality of his product though as that's a shitty thing to do.

I just don't understand why he wouldn't even entertain the idea of talking to Epic directly

It was a bizarre reaction

Mind you he was the same guy who claimed there was a truth to be discovered and we were all sheep for not believing in the truth, but never even told us what this truth was, only that we had to research it ourselves..

His belief that the community would be up in arms about his mistreatment was probably... not accurate.

Not sure @gloomy badge

This was maybe a month or so ago. I made sure to add a note to his profile.

Nope. it looks pretty ropey

Maybe it did do lots of cool things, but the video(s) were very subpar

is planning to submit his 1st asset pack very soon and is now bricking it... :D

So MOA you slagged off that guy.. and look at your video 😄 😄

yarp

I have too much free time

Yeah we get all the crazies here

Yeah we get the~~ all~~ are the crazies here

Cool

[broken sigil]

https://tenor.com/view/kid-run-hallway-oops-walking-back-gif-12263463

[mossy nexus]

I have no idea what the difference is between forward/deferred

[fresh heath]

https://kotaku.com/from-xenogears-to-xenoblade-the-history-of-monolith-so-1845759844/

[north dragon]

Hey Adam, one of the Rider devs here. We've had a bug in licensing system in Rider, fix is already on the way, will be available on Friday. Meanwhile, as a workaround, you can go through the link provided in the licensing message and start 30 day evaluation period, it'll let you work with Rider until fix is delivered. Cheers!

[lone grail]

Oh thank you for the reply I appreciate it, I've just uninstalled the newest version and using 2020.2.2 again, I'll just wait to update tomorrow

Today is the first full day using Rider and Rider > VS * 1mill lol, I'm totally purchasing it when it fully releases in 2021

[mossy nexus]

If anyone is curious about the guys pack search YouTube for "PixelSkeleton3D"

[north dragon]

It's 2am Friday for me)

Oops, answered wrong msg, my bad

[lone grail]

Alls good lol, it's 6:02pm Thursday for me right now lol

I can make people disappear in your time 😮

I dunno anything about the marketplace drama

[mossy nexus]

Might have been

Woot

🙂

[lone grail]

Did you switch to forward rendering?

What for?

Ahh, noice

how is msaa compared to taa

Lol

Lol I havent worked in forward so I wont touch it incase I mess everything up

Yeah but there is potential for doing something lol

Yeah I want the fancy features so I'll stick with deferred

[lone grail]

I just learned how to make variables in C++ extend to blueprints, this is very exciting and it was super easy lol

Yes

Damn can't get variable from C++ class in AnimBP

Oh nvm I did it, I forgot I didn't build after inserting BlueprintReadOnly

Ayyyy I changed animation based on C++ variable, baby steps but I'm progressing with the code

[broken sigil]

https://tenor.com/view/noice-nice-click-gif-8843762

[lone grail]

I can see the light

I changed the characters animation based on if a button is pressed or released for aiming, and I figured that out myself which makes it feel special

Time to make a super quick anim instead of using the falling animlol

That looks really good so far

[lone grail]

It's a pretty good feeling staying up a bit late but actually making progress

[lone grail]

Damn I dunno what I did but now my aim anim isn't playing when aim is pressed 😦

Okay I'll try it

You are right it's working now, thanks

I just need to figure out how to not allow sprinting while aiming now, because if(aiming) issprinting = false; doesn't work for some reason

[fresh heath]

Where are you setting that?

[lone grail]

I have 2 functions for sprinting and 2 for aiming for the press and release, and I set a bool true and false respectively

I had the if statement above inside the aiming press function

[lone grail]

Timelines in C++ seem very complicated

[cursive crypt]

So, yesterday I evaluated Affinity Photo and PhotoPaint. Looked at what other alternatives there are for more technical workflow (manual tools, layers, color spaces, UI customization, automation, etc. VS fancy effects templates, high-level operations). Turns out, the alternatives are really Photoshop, Affinity (somehow) or Gimp/Krita.
PhotoPaint is too high level, tho has nice asset explorer and some interesting effects. Also clunky as speed and UI.
There were 1-2 MacOS only tools, several web-only tools which is out of question and the rest are too basic softwares.

[plucky pagoda]

Affinity is awesome

[cursive crypt]

Tell me how you deal with grayscales then? Normalization, 8-16 bit conversions, linearizing, correct white point space.

Channel work is a bit clunky too, no scripting, too basic UI customization...

It is not bad per se, very performant, has nice layer features and others, good tools.

Anyway, I figured out some workarounds and will use it, but if it is not for some advanced stuff which Photo workflows use (e.g. panoramas, hdr) I better stay with Gimp / Krita, lol.

Right tool for the right job as they say.

[unborn lotus]

10E per month for photoshop is nothing, less than my phone bill, no hassle with workarounds

[north torrent]

My Photoshop document is 14,000 x 11,000 pixels... Does that make me a bad man?

[cursive crypt]

haha... nope, no Photoshop, no point to jump there. I'm highly relying on my tools and I don't rent them to work (as much as possible ofc) or stay cutting edge.

[rare sparrow]

https://twitter.com/HoussineMehnik/status/1332039903169929222

Elhoussine Mehnik (@HoussineMehnik)

Releasing #UE4 "Editor Scripting Tools" experimental plugin this weekend!
It took an eternity :p
#UnrealEngine #unrealdev #gamedev

Likes

132

Twitter · Nov 26, 2020, 7:13 PM

[fresh heath]

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/11/for-the-black-friday-2020-sale-itchio-are-giving-100-to-developers

[median wraith]

Yeah nice

I sold 3 total units since 2015 thanks to their web and 15 from my web

[carmine frigate]

Make hevedy president of itch! 🙂

[zinc matrix]

ello

[median wraith]

someone here have a C4D ?

legal*

Got a file that needs to get exported as FBX but cannot open it

[fresh heath]

https://twitter.com/Blender/status/1332267171305689218

Blender (@Blender)

✨ Learn how @EmbarkStudios is using Blender for game development.

🤗 Celebrating their renewed support for the Development Fund as Corporate Gold members. #b3d #DevFund https://t.co/NoBQHcgBiy

Twitter · Nov 27, 2020, 10:17 AM

[carmine frigate]

@median wraith what kind of file?

[median wraith]

got a file that's free from art station

and I need the meshes

to import them inside Blender

so technically can be fbx or obj as are buildings

[carmine frigate]

whats the extention?

[median wraith]

c4d

[carmine frigate]

try the unreal C4D plugin?

[fluid bloom]

wasn't embark studios working on some game using Rust? 🤔

[fringe sundial]

yes

this guys really like to be on the latest bandwagons

tho honestly rust is very legit on "serious" gamedev

specially for engine code

how many times have you crashed Cpp from a null pointer?

well thats impossible to do in rust

nullcrashes straight up do not exist there

another is that code in rust runs exactly the same on every platform

"safe" rust has fully defined semantics

so if it runs on PC it will run exactly the same in console, assuming its safe code, and doesnt deal with platform difference

it also makes multithreading trivial

very trivial

the donwside is that actual development speed in rust sucks

rust compiles even slower than Cpp, and the compiler gets in the way all the time

so when you are coding tons of code fast in early stages, rust really gets in the way

on more mature projects, the safety and bugless parts become a much bigger deal

[serene oriole]

Guys, I want to share a tip for profiling animation. It's very short so please give it a try.
https://seonghyeonchoe.wordpress.com/2020/11/26/3-simple-ways-to-profile-your-animation-in-unreal/

[fluid bloom]

@fringe sundial yea I know 😛

<--- has done a paid client project using Rust

best 6 months of my career tbh

😄

[fringe sundial]

@serene oriole terrible guide, sorry

for animation these days you really want to inspect Insights

as it gives you information on how parallel your animation goes

and inspecting that is crucial

the STAT things are good for a very high level overview but thats about it

[serene oriole]

@fringe sundial That's a great advice. Thanks! I'll try the Insights.

[fringe sundial]

in insights you will also see much clearer how much time is spent on actual animation blending (this is done in worker threads) vs anim-bp logic

[carmine frigate]

also the amount of bones that move is nothing, its the amount of verts they push

[fringe sundial]

not really

the amount of verts doesnt matter

amount of bones is important, but thats because they are calculated on cpu

the gpu can handle literally tens of thousands of animated mannequins no problem

animation only bottlenecks on cpu

[carmine frigate]

those are 100% weighted to 1 bone

[fringe sundial]

that doesnt matter

the shader will still do the calculation for 4 weights per bone

couse thats what its hardcoded for

and again, you understimate how brutal modern gpus are

the logic for bone transformation is nothing to them

rendering animated meshes and static meshes takes about the same time on modern gpus

due to how fast they go

the problem is how unreal calculates animations, which is super slow

first of all animation BP is slow because BP is slow, as usual

tho you can move that to cpp

second is that unreal animated graphs often are crazy megaoverkill

people stack 9999 blends and state machjines and iks on top of each other

and this takes time to process (on cpu)

and third is that after animation is done, unreal has to update the physics bodies of the mesh to physx (physics asset) and it has to move the objects attached to the mesh. That one is horribly slow

thats why you need insights

you have those 3 parts, and the timings in the STAT capture kinda mix them

anim bp logic, animation calculation (parallel threads), updating attached objects/physics asset

[fresh heath]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/epdvzp/amazon-workers-to-stage-coordinated-black-friday-protests-in-12-countries

[median wraith]

https://www.artstation.com/marketplace/p/ba9w/new-york-train-asset-pack?utm_source=artstation&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=homepage&utm_term=marketplace

Is just me or this is the asset from Epic metro combined with the free vagon they gave

edited textures etc ?

[fluid bloom]

what metro?

[mossy nexus]

Looks very very similar to Dekogon Studio's free asset (monthly?)

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/city-subway-train-modular

[fluid bloom]

I don't think it is

the hand rails next to the seats are shaped differently at least

other one has sharper curves

the other one has a smoother sloped curve

[rare sparrow]

Looks based on the same train, but it also looks different enough to not be just an edited copy

[fluid bloom]

ceiling is different

[mossy nexus]

If they are both based on real life things, similarity is to be expected

[rare sparrow]

[stiff crystal]

@zinc matrix are you seriously going to spam the whole group with DM's?

pretty sure this is not ok with the group rules

[zinc matrix]

@stiff crystal ?

hello?

[fluid bloom]

😄

[mossy nexus]

https://tenor.com/view/popcorn-stephencolbert-popcornday-gif-5026734

[zinc matrix]

can I ask what are you talking about?

[fluid bloom]

[08:35] jonimake: I tend to call those people out in public on the shared server I'm on with them
[08:35] jonimake: they're usually like "huh? What message? I don't understand"

[zinc matrix]

sorry

[stiff crystal]

I'll also ping <@&213101288538374145> in case others complain about him

[deep glen]

@zinc matrix
" begging for support or sending unsolicited DMs asking for help is considered harassment and may result in an infraction or a permanent ban, depending on severity."

[stiff crystal]

well, technically it's not asking for help but it's violating the spam rule at least 😄

I don't really see why the rule says about asking for help specifically

[deep glen]

!strike @zinc matrix sending unsolicited dm's.

[turbid spindle]

:triangular_flag_on_post: Tomas Wood#3767 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[cursive crypt]

Manny, a cheerleader.

[mossy nexus]

!ask did you enjoy that?

[turbid spindle]

@mossy nexus, :8ball: Very doubtful.

[mossy nexus]

!ask are you a cheerleader?

[turbid spindle]

@mossy nexus, :8ball: Better not tell you now.

[mossy nexus]

eek

[lone grail]

I keep going back and forth trying to decide if my magic game should be Third person or Top down perspective 🤔

What is first person top down?

[fresh heath]

A giraffe simulator

[lone grail]

I thought that's where you were going with that but I've heard some crazy stuff before

Lol I have a very specific game I'm making I'm just unsure about perspective

[median wraith]

@fluid bloom this https://www.artstation.com/artwork/vGZk3

yeah seems different

don't think someone spend all that time editing these

[lone grail]

Noice!

[carmine frigate]

the League weebo vid also had a metro

i think Metro 20somethingsomething also had a metro but i never made it that far 😛

[frosty halo]

^ pretty hard to miss the first level you start out with unless you did a true Russian playthrough and began the game so drunk that motion but got permanently fused to your screen

Blyat 2033

[carmine frigate]

i did start in a tunnel but there was no train

[frosty halo]

Dismantled for scrap to make a still 🤷‍♂️

[foggy path]

https://twitter.com/SatisfactoryAF/status/1332341677994995714

Satisfactory (@SatisfactoryAF)

https://t.co/XWtAe65XOp

Twitter · Nov 27, 2020, 3:13 PM

[mossy nexus]

@plucky pagoda That's what I said. Since I last looked in any depth to it they have changed the Ts&Cs. That loophole is no longer there.

[plucky pagoda]

You have to be crazy vigilante about piracy. Discord, Facebook etc... shut down servers & pages in an instant for allowing promotion of piracy.

It's not worth risking the server so someone can give away a few animations to build their own Youtube and Discord server.

[fresh heath]

Food with bad topology

[mossy nexus]

There used to be some legal mumbo jumbo saying stuff about not sharing any unaltered animations, which would have meant anything altered was exempt. I thought it strange-ish at the time, so I'm not surprised it's gone. I also can't see any Mixamo specific stuff either, which there used to be.

[plucky pagoda]

Oh, yeah, never saw that.

[carmine frigate]

last time i tried mixamo i had to go trough some messy creative cloud stuff

[plucky pagoda]

That'd be nice. I keep a project with all the animations on their Xbots and retargeted to the manny so I can grab them if I need them. Haven't used them in a long while though.

Yeah, they just killed Fuse.

Said they've updated the website for Mixamo and new tools will be coming. But they've said that before.

[mossy nexus]

If I want to use Mixamo anims, I use the convertor made by Terribilis Studios, which can do them in batches. No retargeting required.

[frosty halo]

These UE4 tuts are getting out of control

[plucky pagoda]

Oh, cool. Yeah, if he could just share the animations that tool wouldn't be necessary.

@mossy nexus Yeah, wow that's a really nice tool.

[mossy nexus]

It's not perfect, but it get's the job done 99% of the time.

[frosty halo]

wrist bones not included

[pearl pewter]

Who put exponential height fog density to 0.05?

[fresh heath]

Mixamo seems to struggle with wrists the most for some reason

[lone grail]

Oh damn someone ran over the wrists with a tractor

[zinc matrix]

thank gosh I hate getting spammed with dms

[lone grail]

I didn't get spammed but must've been because I wasn't around at the time

[zinc matrix]

Rarely happens and when it does its the worst

yeah i find the active users get dms the most

How are you adam

havent chatted with you in awhile

[lone grail]

I've been pretty active, I was just asleep when it occured lol
I'm doing pretty good, trying to figure out how to not let my player jump when aiming in C++
How are you doing?

[zinc matrix]

pretty good

Been figuring out ubuntu

I have windows on my main machine

[lone grail]

A new OS is pretty exciting, I've never used linux before

[zinc matrix]

But my second is using ubuntu as less system resources and a buddy is helping me with setting up a perforce server on it and using it as a server

Its got 1tb and Im gonna get backblaze since linus shilled me on it

it should be enough for now so I have backups in case windows breaks on me again

Lost about 5 videos of my course work due to the last one

[lone grail]

That's pretty cool

Oh losing stuff is less cool

[zinc matrix]

yeah thankfully it wasnt much and it took me a short period of time to restart it

still have section ones finished prototype and my personal project

the uproject file was missing from the project I lost and a few files were corrupted so I wasnt sure what happened

[lone grail]

That's kinda weird, what kinda course is it?

[zinc matrix]

The game dev.tv one

Uh blueprints

I had a ram issue though and windows kept bsoding

[lone grail]

Oh okay I bought the C++ one but barely touched it lol

[zinc matrix]

after I removed that stick it ran but Unreal uses 98% sometimes ticking to 99% of the Cpu when adding in an asset so I did a bunch of updates including the bios, and cleaned up my startup stuff.

Then overclocked my cpu since my cpu is pretty weak. And everything is flawless

even my network lag on online games is gone

[lone grail]

That sounds like a mess, but hey if it works it works

[zinc matrix]

oh yeah I know

but my bios was like 10 versions old

[lone grail]

I don't think I've updated my bios since I built my PC in 2016 so not as bad

[zinc matrix]

think there was some other drivers from the website I needed too.

yeah im on amd and the cpu I bought is kinda weak and not needed since I bought a gpu shortly after.
The ryzen 5 2400g.

first game though to actually show some loss in performance Was Far Cry Primal.
as well as unreal using the cpu.

learned that ubisoft games benefit from single thread performance

So imma upgrade to the Ryzen 7 3700x since for what I need and cyber monday and it already dropping I might be able to get it for a steal

[lone grail]

That'd be nice, I want to upgrade but not the right time right now and I haven't decided how far to upgrade yet

[zinc matrix]

8 cores instead of four and a higher ghz.

i see

[lone grail]

Noice!

[zinc matrix]

5000 series though is sold out for the most part and is surprisingly expensive for no core count upgrades here

[lone grail]

I got Intel i5 6500 3.2, and GPU is a GTX 970

[zinc matrix]

I think some r7 5800x were available earlier on newegg if anyone needed one but everything else was sold out

ah not bad. My old pc has an intel i5 2500 cpu. its saying 3.70 ghz but its supposed to be 3.30 ghz

(i think something is turboing it maybe)

my main one has an rtx 2060 super

and then the old has a gt 610

[lone grail]

Mines not looking so bad lol

Mine can actually still run pretty well everything I need to at high settings

[zinc matrix]

hehe yeah compared to old pc.
Not sure on the cpu of the new one vs yours

My rtx 2060s for the most part runs everything at 60fps 1080p at very high to ultra

ill grab the benchmark pic I did with far cry primal

performance loss is purely due to cpu tho

[lone grail]

Pretty good, gotta test with farcry 6 coming out lol

[zinc matrix]

yee but I havent played any others for some reason

Far cry primal was kinda cool so I bought it

[lone grail]

I have barely played any farcry but I own all of them somehow

[zinc matrix]

Heard they copied the map straight outta the prev tho

I liked the klingon approach I saw they did with it in a developer vid

whole new language

[lone grail]

Yeah that was pretty cool

[zinc matrix]

fallout 4 and 76 I have the most hours in strangely enough and it runs them fine

but they arent benchmarked these days lol

I have borderlands 3 which I had strange hitching in heard they Switched from ue3 to 4 which caused some performance issues

I think I fixed it tho with all the updates I did tho As I tested for a bit to see if the frames were stable

[lone grail]

They added bunch of physics too which could cause it maybe

[zinc matrix]

mass effect 3 is the last test I have to check

prev I was getting 23 fps with that game (apparently the steam reviews were plagued with similar issues)

Witcher 3 is another ill have to try since I think its more demanding than majority of my other games

[lone grail]

Yeah I heard it's really demanding on PC

I finally solved my issue of not mixing jumping and aiming in all situations all in c++, what a relief

[median wraith]

A store using my private phone in google and their website

Me an intellectual giving away things becuase is blackfriday to every client that calls me

[zinc matrix]

I love it actually

I was a simp tho and bought first for a year

Lol

[zinc matrix]

no spoilers but the bos update the other day was great

[tulip orbit]

😆

[mossy nexus]

Thats a surprisingly good effect

[zinc matrix]

let me guess a mole rat killed the person playing

them mole rats be the scariest thing in the game rn

[zinc matrix]

oh feck lmao I almost did too
i didnt even see it

[carmine frigate]

i hope its gunna kill the fly

[zinc matrix]

I see. Im level 170ish I think

level 100 mole rats are evil

[carmine frigate]

hmm, mayB this gamejam ill make something that runs 99.9% in the material editor 😛

[zinc matrix]

id use a flamer if I had a legacy flamer with explosive bullets

I think they exist but they dont drop anymore

[carmine frigate]

iwant to play with chaos, but dont want another source build

well niagara is working and it has a content examples

i actually like it better than cascade

[mossy nexus]

Consider that stolen too 😄

[plucky pagoda]

?

[carmine frigate]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/221796616653373441/781944188798763020/spider_troll.gif

[mossy nexus]

As in I'm stealing that

[plucky pagoda]

Ah, cool, I just stole it from someone in voice

😆

[mossy nexus]

This... is just... well... https://youtu.be/RjEUzCpyWGA

Yup. Agreed.

[carmine frigate]

yea dont worry, thats still based on previous gen 😛

[fresh heath]

https://twitter.com/kenshirriff/status/1332392930510737408

Ken Shirriff (@kenshirriff)

ARM processors power mobile phones and now Macs. Happy birthday to @Arm, founded 30 years ago today by Acorn, Apple, and VLSI Tech. Celebrate with Visual6502's transistor-level simulator of the first ARM (Acorn RISC Machine) chip, built five years earlier.
https://t.co/u3o2JIbamd

Twitter · Nov 27, 2020, 6:36 PM

[neat forum]

https://twitter.com/bombyxgame/status/1332112126509400064

Bombyx (@bombyxgame)

Minicut @ #bombyx anime! SUPER THANKFUL to be working w/ incredibly talented artists & musicians, including KATSUMI YOKOTA (AD for #rez) & MIKE DUBOIS (Artist for #pinkfloyd & #gratefuldead)!

BOMBYX = Psychedelic SciFi Music/Video/Game

Visit us at https://t.co/qYEhfGeAl6 !! :D https://t.co/6ClUfny1KW

▶ Play video

Twitter · Nov 27, 2020, 12:00 AM

[bold fulcrum]

@carmine frigate Sir, that was very inappropriate of you. Your post incured a sizable moral damage, property destruction and loss of reputation. Please refrain from doing so in the future.

[zinc matrix]

👀

[thorny dock]

I was scrolling through the lounge and suddenly all these bugs came out of nowhere, think I can RMA my ASUS monitor saying something short circuited and imploded from within? (which would explain the perfect punch oval coming from the exterior to interior)

[median wraith]

Natron insteresting tool

[pearl pewter]

Smagget mac nagget

[fresh heath]

https://twitter.com/mtrc/status/1332454812680679424

mike cook (@mtrc)

It's been a wild few years for AI, huh.

Twitter · Nov 27, 2020, 10:42 PM

[foggy path]

It makes me wonder how much does that cost if ran on dedicated hardware

I think those estimates are based on running the training data on something like AWS

Unless they make advances in training methods, AI's are rapidly going into a direction that only large enterprises or governments can afford to train them

[solemn steppe]

W I D E C O M P I L E

[fresh heath]

https://tenor.com/view/wide-vladimir-putin-russian-walking-gif-17506944

[elfin cradle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE6wxDqdOV0

[foggy path]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17tg2MtN0JE much better song of same name

wat

[foggy path]

I'm assuming it's referring to extinction lol

[fresh heath]

I really like meme crossovers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDVHay7ln0I

[brittle dove]

@foggy path It wouldn't be cheaper running it at home, or on a small datacenter worth of hardware you put together yourself.

[unborn lotus]

Enough for?

[balmy shuttle]

https://youtu.be/6aFxA699pRA

[frosty halo]

Don’t we have a channel for this instead of having them DM people at random??

A bit annoying.

[mossy nexus]

It's against the servers rules too

" begging for support or sending unsolicited DMs asking for help is considered harassment and may result in an infraction or a permanent ban, depending on severity."

Message a Mod, or not.. 😄

[frosty halo]

@tall plume - is this something you need to be aware of? (Above)

I don’t even know what the due process is. So if tagging you isn’t the right thing lemme know.

[tall plume]

Ah, yeah, thats against the rules but i just climbed into bed

I would say ping @ moderators but most of us are asleep

[frosty halo]

I forget the time diff. Sorry!

[tall plume]

I put a note in modchat

If nobody gets it, ill get it in the morning

[slow gyro]

!strike @crude storm Sending unsolicited DMs, asking for help.

[turbid spindle]

:triangular_flag_on_post: SErve#6905 received strike 1. As a result, they were muted for 10 minutes.

[slow gyro]

Could already give them 2 strikes actually, given you are not the only one

[frosty halo]

I just wish people read rules instead of trying to be cheeky. Plus their whole message is like - come help us for exposure. If they want exposure I can send them pics of me flashing in a trench coat.

[slow gyro]

I sometimes feel like all of those accounts are the same person.

It's always the same stuff. Bad grammar, royalty, throwing in random stuff like "We have a GDD.", great for you, so do the other 17.000 dead projects.

And then always these totally over the top goals. A Battle Royal. No money to pay their devs, but sure enough to pay the infrastructure required for this.

Which they probably have no idea of. It's the "I make an MMORPG" all over again.

[frosty halo]

Your post just made me sad in the context that it actually is really hard to make a game as I’ve come to realise. And I’m one single person. Prepare the game graveyard!!!

[cursive crypt]

It's oke. That field is covered by the bodies of fallen devs.

[frosty halo]

But muh dreams

[cursive crypt]

(headpat) Many addicts experience the same, some of them grow over it.

... not very reassuring 🤔

[frosty halo]

No it’s not. But it’s true

Sometimes remembering it’s a hobby and may not end up in a fairytale ending of becoming da bezt artistè in the world is a good thing.

[mossy nexus]

Soo if I've got this right... That field is covered by the bodies of fallen devs, and addicts sometimes grow over this macabre field. I'm guessing this is for the nutrient values, lots of nitrogen in that field!

[cursive crypt]

Everyone should understand why he is doing it. Dreaming for glory & money is one thing say. Doing it just for the sake of doing it, is another thing. Retrospection...

@mossy nexus yeah, feed on your fellow devs

[mossy nexus]

😄

[frosty halo]

Well I started this to stop myself from burning out on dev. My hobby after my day job was more programming. So I thought - learn something that isn’t programming. That’s the main goal. If I turn out good at a particular aspect of game dev, that’s a massive bonus but not the end goal

The end goal is to prevent me from hating my profession cause it’s all I ever do or think about.

Cause my personality is such that if I pick something up - I will do it to death and beyond. Until it’s dried up and useless.

And then I burn out.

[cursive crypt]

Why games tho? There are millions of other things.

[mossy nexus]

ping pong

space hopper

[frosty halo]

Games have an aspect of creativity. I can sculpt, model, compose, control every aspect of everything.

[mossy nexus]

flabbergastery

[frosty halo]

And I’m an avid gamer.

Made sense.

[cursive crypt]

Hmm 🤔 I don't nominate myself for your therapist, but - so you say its because of creativity and control?

[deep glen]

gamedev is 99% losing control and solving the problem XD

"ahh lets do a relaxing day of making vfx"
spends whole day reinstalling everything because windows/fighting 3dsmax/ue4 has an off day

[frosty halo]

Control over what I do and influence. Not control of what comes out haha

There’s tons of stuff that can go awry

But that’s part of the fun

Like last night I just spent the evening learning to create falling boulders from a sky island I made

Was fun

[deep glen]

yea, just making fun. there are good days, and there are days where you just want to burn the house/office and become self sufficient in a small wooden cabin on the hills.

[frosty halo]

And I learned some stuff

And I’m still not 100% sure I want to keep them that way. I wanted to use niagara but I couldn’t figure out how to spawn meshes

And I don’t know that flat Boulder shape textures would look as nice even though they’re gonna be obscured by fog and low lighting.

[deep glen]

you can spawn a loooot of things in cascade/niagara

including meshes

also:
https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/radiation-on-mars-fungus

[frosty halo]

Radiosynthesis. That’s pretty big

[fluid bloom]

water is a better shield though

that's just dead weight

water has other uses 😛

[frosty halo]

Same with water - you have to lug so much of it into space to act as shielding.

Plus how much of it can you recycle if you use it as drinking water?

[fluid bloom]

you mean how well the ISS can recycle water?

[deep glen]

generally the water underneath the plates is not accessible for drinkage

but still a decent backup source i bet hehe

[frosty halo]

You’d probably need what.. 60cm thickness to eliminate 3/4 of the radiation

In any direction

[deep glen]

not sure i want radio synthesized mushroom soup

but, who knows. in the future we can use it to clean area's we polluted

[frosty halo]

Have you got any material I can use to read up on this?

[deep glen]

< havent used niagara yet, but I know it can.

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/Niagara/HowTo/MeshEffect/index.html

[north torrent]

I think the hardest part about being a solo developer is keeping to a schedule and putting in the time even when nobody is watching or motivating you.

[cursive crypt]

Probably for some people. For me, it is setting down on practical goals.

[slow gyro]

Man, Niagara is so crashy @deep glen

Effects that use SkeletalMeshes have a setting for "WholeMeshLOD", so the LOD level that defines the whole mesh.
-1 uses the worst, so let's say you set it to 0. Now if you have a SkeletalMesh that has MinLOD set to 1 or higher, so 0 is stripped when cooking, you gonna crash xD