lounge

[broken sigil]

Weird, actual transmission and engine sim in that plugin are implemented in BPs while C++ side is only used for replication
It isn't taking advantage of physics substepping which is worrying but otherwise looks pretty good

[tulip orbit]

I "purchased" that vehicle plugin, but havent played with it yet.

Gotta clean the house... looks like I'm going to probably be moving in a few months

[median wraith]

is there a way to set default parameters in a project aka console parameters without the need of use the engine folder file ?

[rare sparrow]

Like this? https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/blueprints-access-to-gconfig

[median wraith]

nono

made a exec at first of the game anyway

the only way I know is to edit the main engine file ini file

but there are no per project

[rare sparrow]

[humble remnant]

I wish they added more SFX to the free assets

There have only been some perma free stuff and it's less than ideal

And some of those free assets are in times more expensive than quality SFX packs

[humble remnant]

I guess one point to be made is that they don't want to release a full package for games to be made?

Dunno

[deep glen]

https://citybuildingjam.coregames.com/

[nova finch]

[fluid bloom]

singing and dancing has now been banned in restaurants/bars in Finland

[regal pecan]

That must make the tourists very upset.

[zinc matrix]

American prohibition and Nash equilibrium should be a pretty good indicator of the outcome of such banning 😄

[fluid bloom]

especially if you were looking forward to singing karaoke

seriously speaking though: it's a covid measure

[zinc matrix]

I may agree with the singing, but socially distanced dancing? 😄

[fluid bloom]

try telling drunk people "no danging closer than 2 meters"

[zinc matrix]

😆

[pearl elk]

try telling drunk people not to spill their drink all over the dance floor

[cursive crypt]

It helps disinfection.

[fluid bloom]

got my samsung 980 pro nvme ssd

this thing is tiny

I thought it'd be something like a ram stick size wise

but it's like... the length of an index finger

[cursive crypt]

I'm with 970 evo+ and I'm quite happy with it. Stuff gets smaller. How big in GB is yours?

[fluid bloom]

1 TB

I was planning on making it my main drive and reinstalling windows on it but I just realized I don't have a copy of win 10 laying about 🤔

this one was free from MSDNAA 😄

[cursive crypt]

Ah, cool... I had to decide between 1 TB of a bit higher grade, like yours, or 2 TB with what I had. Chose the latter. I mean size is a bit more important at that point.

Ah, lol... I invested in Win10 usb stick before years... Used it to move recently. Very nice

[fluid bloom]

I wanted 7 GB/s read speeds and not break my bank at the same time 😉

[cursive crypt]

Yeah, I imagine them text files loading instantly

[regal pecan]

That goes in the "I'm impressed it can read" category.

[stable gull]

what's a granny smith?

[cursive crypt]

It may be correct in fact. You are writing down on a label "iPod" covering the apple. Ofc, it will say iPod, not an apple.

[regal pecan]

I'm also wondering if this is a contextless attack. E.g. If you asked a person how to describe the picture, would they really ever choose Granny Smith?

[cursive crypt]

Similar to Golden Fall. Type of apple.

[stable gull]

exactly my thoughts, majority of pic is now ipod

[regal pecan]

So what happens if you give it an ipod with a picture of an apple, inside of a library?

[ancient hornet]

what if you write "I am not an iPod"?

[cursive crypt]

Stack overflow, because "iPod" expands to "i am not a ipod"

[normal prism]

Best kind of apple

Deliciously sour

[viral vector]

Really you'd want it to say "Granny Smith with iPod label"

[cursive crypt]

Still I wonder why is a toaster there? Like it is > 0% 🤔

[normal prism]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILZD7SC5Wv8

Neat shit

[fluid bloom]

snow on ground, says it's bitterly cold -> no hat of any kind

smh

😄

the hardest part of trees will always be the branches

that guy went straight to the deep end of the pool by capturing and doing a pine model 😄

neat

[normal prism]

I never knew photogrammatry was so accessible

It still looks like a lot of work, but totally doable

[fluid bloom]

I think Witcher 3 has had the most natural looking pine trees

scots pines that is

[median wraith]

I expected he to use more automation or even tools as the one I did to have references on screen all the time or 2 screens

[median wraith]

Buy speed tree then

😉

[fluid bloom]

I have 😉

it's still a load of work, it's no silver bullet

[median wraith]

This guy cannot as can't be resold

[fluid bloom]

true

[median wraith]

Maybe I do a video about how I did my mediocre cartoon trees

[cursive crypt]

I made a jar of pickles lastly 🤔

Even made an UE asset for it.

[median wraith]

With photometry?

👀

[cursive crypt]

Aye... was pita, the reflections

photogrammetry tho

[median wraith]

I used that free tree it tool

TreeIt*

[cursive crypt]

Hm? Ah.. I think I remember

Oh, yes. Kinda old school, but how it was?

[median wraith]

Well for my use cases worked

But is limited in many ways

And the uv normals must be post edited

[cursive crypt]

Well... so much from small producer with no funding I see

[median wraith]

Yeah they did updates last years

[cursive crypt]

Hope ST got some competition at last...

[median wraith]

Na isn't a competition

It's kinda as the tool this showcase on Blender

[cursive crypt]

There also some nice stuff, but is not for real time, or just small batches of some author - doing them in Z, some DCC or whatever

[median wraith]

Just it comes with examples textured

Now Blender ported that tool to node based system sure could be made more powerful than the actual speed tree

[cursive crypt]

Which tool?

[median wraith]

The one in the video

[cursive crypt]

tl;dw

[median wraith]

I mean Blender added recently procedural tool

Ala houdini

[fluid bloom]

one of the best features a tree creation software can have is the ability to bake individual high res/geo branches into simplified models

every app has some sort of procedural placement tools

but doing proper LODs is essential

[median wraith]

I got a tool from Epic market to create lods for trees etc

Does the whole process in one click so

For billboards etc

[fluid bloom]

I'm talking about the not-billboard LOD models

[median wraith]

Well these are usually properly managed to me by these tools

Blender or treeit

[median wraith]

wait what happened with the landscape lods in the 4.26 ?

[cursive crypt]

Is that a fishing net?

[deep glen]

lol

flow map painter using vertices?

[median wraith]

idk man at first were strange in the 2D viewport it looked like that but seems like don't have LODs working ?

[deep glen]

btw, if anybody wants to make a plugin that doesnt exist (or im having massive brainfart) a duplicate filter for content browser would be nice to have

[cursive crypt]

Finding duplicated assets?

[deep glen]

showing duplicate (named) files in the project filter

[median wraith]

I don't like the volumetric clouds, its eating the whole performance and returns low quality after all

for the common game in the ground I mean

Target fix

5.0

I bet this confirms there is no 4.27

[cursive crypt]

oh no

Kinda hoped for one last version, stable 4.x

On the other hand, that might be their way saying - not soon

[median wraith]

ohhh Epic likes trolling

Lod distribution is in a total different section

[pearl elk]

Stable version, good joke :)

[solid aurora]

Yeah the fix will be removing it in 5.0 [;

[cursive crypt]

4.27.12!

[pearl elk]

4.996.99994

[cursive crypt]

:/

[pearl elk]

It'll be released on its Unrealiversary

[median wraith]

6 ms just for TAA

how cool

[normal prism]

Are you using the new TAA algorithm?

[cursive crypt]

nah, they just troll Hevedy

[normal prism]

😆

[median wraith]

its seems like AmbientOcclusion Half option were removed

oh nevermind

[median wraith]

yeah were testing

[normal prism]

Right, do another profiling with it off

[median wraith]

now used TAA quality 3

[normal prism]

What I noticed myself, was that while yes, TAA cost was high, it came out of basepass cost

[normal prism]

With the old gen, the separated cost for TAA was gone, but the basepass cost was higher

[median wraith]

Quality 3 to get fix for motion errors

Now that I fixed the landscape lods and removed the volumetric crap from sky got 100FPS on 970GTX at 1440p

is a decent base

[median wraith]

Hey do you think someone will notice this playable landscape cut ?

• Nah

[cursive crypt]

Mosaic filter

[median wraith]

you got TAA disabled ?

@zinc matrix I got minecraft on reloads

How you did the aurora ?

I'm on my way to fix that TAA issue

[deep glen]

nice

[median wraith]

ohhh

oh UE4 don't like my "trees"

[cursive crypt]

@median wraith Are you upgrading the version?

[median wraith]

In the work I have to use the 4.26

checking out so maybe port all my changes here

and finding out things for the work project

technically still don't know if vertex colors are more expensive than a 64x64 texture

or the inverse

[tulip orbit]

what the fuck..... I just saw the strangest thing..

was out for a smoke, and there was a huge line of lights going across the sky. perfectly straight line, but very distant

ahh.. google says its elon's starlink satellites..

😬

[median wraith]

lol

[cursive crypt]

Huh, did you got hired at the end? 🙂

[median wraith]

yeah

In my country I get regretted even because I live at 40km away from the companies, they don't even check the portfolio or CV

true history

[cursive crypt]

Oh, congrats, a game dev company?

[median wraith]

found an awesome work on an international company/team (they found me first actually)

[cursive crypt]

Nice 🙂

[median wraith]

yeah

is gamedev

[cursive crypt]

Good to hear.

[median wraith]

my country state in the jobs matter is kinda sad and bad

we are like living in the 70s still

[cursive crypt]

I can imagine... especially in that field. However, you can work from home now, which is great lol

[median wraith]

you can't even work in remote as freelance they need to meet you in person

kinda absurd

[median wraith]

yep

[cursive crypt]

Don't forget to share when you/they release whatever you are on, guess it is NDA anyway

[median wraith]

I will be honest I didn't even had issue moving at first for job around the country, but they discard you, don't even ask if you can move or whatever

[median wraith]

oh yeah sure, if the team release it will ask and share

🙌🏽

[cursive crypt]

🤘

[median wraith]

Checking news today

seems like we have lost 30.000 vaccines and nobody knows where are at

🤖

[deep glen]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XlKGV4mZO4

[median wraith]

Now sure what is that

but the intro to the video totally looks like a trailer to the asset epic set for free this month

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmZ10kXwuZI&ab_channel=SaeidGholizade

[deep glen]

ive been waiting for that tool for a while now, really wondering how much they improved over the past years

[median wraith]

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/item/af8a5240c385482a9c6763001ba75868 I picked this one for free the other day

is kinda cool

oh yeah the one you posted have AI driven helpers

[deep glen]

"hev purchased it, abort!"

[cursive crypt]

lol

If I look at the Q section, there are some issues. I guess it needs more debugging, so the author put it on hold.

[median wraith]

XDDD

[cursive crypt]

Garry mod? 🤔

No idea, btw - is it that?

[median wraith]

lol

How a physical placer is Gmod alike ?

[median wraith]

Virtual Textures and just projected in vertical for landscapes ?

makes it kinda useless for cliffs etc, I thought it were as the tech under Rage o_O

[cursive crypt]

It is just a texture, big one.

[median wraith]

yeah but Rage and alike virtualize the texture in a 3D grid

if you take the landscape as is from vertical thats terrible limited

[cursive crypt]

I think the left is just matter of shaders. So you gotta do them.

[deep glen]

windows update > middle mouse button not working properly. eats inputs or spams all the inputs in a delayed fashion. wtf

[median wraith]

I'm having issues with mouse and is new

But only happen to me with ue4

[deep glen]

uninstalled drivers and now it works

<_<

[median wraith]

I just got an ad in the phone about a GTAV role play clan

There is people actually paying a campaign for that seriously

No

[pearl elk]

megatexel

[humble remnant]

And that's why I don't update

[pearl elk]

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/9b/8e/8a/9b8e8a4bb1f5b8399769746fb0b2d779.jpg

thats why Im still rocking one of these badboys

[cursive crypt]

Oh... interesting, I have an acquaintance of mine, old sw dev who has the similar one. Maybe was with a metal band tho.

Like I know him since ages and still the same watch, lol

[pearl elk]

https://timeandtidewatches.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/1a1e355e-6575-4111-a097-87f70839b42e.jpg

You dont want to know how much this is worth 😛

hmm whats all this Bloodlines 2 drama

[fathom wadi]

Time doesn't exist. It's a scam created by sundial salesmen. I heard the early prototypes had a guy with a torch standing above it all day.

[median wraith]

By the way didn't posted this before

idk this morning was a cool concept and managed to get good perf but I don't like it (surprising I get more than 60FPS lol)

[cursive crypt]

What's with the angles?

That not voxels I guess

[median wraith]

Are rotated

are voxels to processed meshes into blender to meshes into UE4

[cursive crypt]

Uhm... tri mesh, voxelized in blender, turned back into tri mesh and sent to UE?

[median wraith]

but don't let me manage the detail I wanted so abandoned that in the morning

Using MagiaVoxel actually

[cursive crypt]

Okay... interesting view... are the tris less than the original?

For the trees they can be even more 🤔

[median wraith]

well Magika report a dense vertex, here is reduced

but from the reference tree a lowpoly version have way less poly

that have like about 100k

[cursive crypt]

100k for a tree? wtf

[median wraith]

how many poly you think are these voxels XD

[cursive crypt]

How many? 🤔

[median wraith]

that I told you

there are a lot of small boxes

[cursive crypt]

Ah, I thought you talk about the source mesh, lol

Uhm.. okay, they instanced so should be fine

[fluid bloom]

100k? 😄

I still think crysis trees were really good and those things were 700-3000 polygons usually

[median wraith]

these are pretty much outdated

they used the same ones in the remaster

[fluid bloom]

I guess, though for thick forests they work

though it has been ages since I played it, maybe I just don't remember

[median wraith]

@cursive crypt I'm compiling so can show you meanwhile

🤖

[cursive crypt]

hehe... interesting

[fluid bloom]

nice green balls

[fluid bloom]

it works but it's missing the correct rotation of the stars themselves

I have zero experience with astronomical coordinate systems and what not 😄

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MtpHM6Udv0

I don't exactly remember where I got until I quit working on it 🤔

that thing included a system that took cubemap captures of the sky and environment so that they could be used with the skylight

and then it blended through them as time advanced

but now that feature is useless since now the skylights support realtime capture (of the sky) 😄

doing the stars themselves was really easy

just a bunch of quads with a simple emissive material

[zinc matrix]

Very cool!

[fluid bloom]

seems to be broken right now, it was a 4.17 or so project, migrated to 4.26 without crashing though 😄

honestly that project was just something I did to procrastinate and avoid working on my master's thesis

😄

I guess I could rework it a bit and release it as a plugin to use with epic's sun sky stuff 🤔

[deep glen]

https://i.gyazo.com/35be23b352e45dfc6be1d959c3cb9c85.png
this made me giggle

[median wraith]

I have to see the two images as related isn't it ?

🤖

@cursive crypt found a better inspiration, rather than use 100k trees

yeah I think this is his 4º warning already

🤖

[fluid bloom]

😄

I never got any of those jokes as a kid

I just thought they were weird as hell

[solid aurora]

the worst part is future kids probabaly won't get them at all -;-

[foggy path]

tbh I don't know how it's bad for kids to not get adult jokes :P

[broken sigil]

@fluid bloom Just a warning
Take a look at #rules, #6

That was pretty NSFW, it is a cartoon but we all know what's happening there

Doesn't show anything as graphically as the one I removed

[tulip orbit]

Not as graphic as this! ||https://imgur.com/gallery/ho6klyT||

[broken sigil]

https://tenor.com/view/star-wars-yoda-sad-disappointed-am-i-mandalorian-gif-15937614

[tulip orbit]

😇

[median wraith]

oh nice

just 10 times more

[deep glen]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA0MsGWvmzs
Starting in a minute

[fresh heath]

https://www.filfre.net/2021/03/wing-commander-iii/

Huh

Meanwhile I still can't get my vaccine

[tulip orbit]

priorities 😄

[solid aurora]

not impressed

I expected nothing and it still didn't impressed me ;s

[median wraith]

all TomLooman example files now are paid wtf

[zinc matrix]

The Udemy course resources?

[median wraith]

no, the ones he had on the web for free

[zinc matrix]

$2, meh.

On the back end these sort of changes might allow him to further help the community, and produce more content. I generally favor people charging money.

[median wraith]

yeah but no if you gave something for free already

[zinc matrix]

I know what you mean, it feels bad having something taken away.

I was looking to see if he had a Patreon or something, but nothing (yet).

Maybe he's just experimenting, and it'll go back to being free 😉

[deep glen]

@solid aurora some thing are odd, but the more stuff they show the more impressed I am.
i mean its not holodeck-amazing but for a first iteration of such a tool its not bad

[regal pecan]

Is there a TL:DW/R for what it does?

[deep glen]

ai-powered content placement for artists

[normal prism]

Skipping back to the beginning, this is pretty darn neat

Available now, it said?

Free, I heard?

https://www.prometheanai.com/download-public

Hmm 🤔

[regal pecan]

That's pretty limited. You'd want to at least test the AI suggestion and composition construction.

[normal prism]

Yeah

[deep glen]

hopefully at some point, but this is def something I hope will come sooner rather than later

https://giphy.com/gifs/KGpnYIkDaCfGY0msE1

[normal prism]

It looks like an amazing tool at least, hadn't heard about it up till now

Pleasantly surprised

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/sleepy-raccoon-morning-gif-20612330

[regal pecan]

I'm not sure how applicable it would be for most games, or even arch-vis... But as soon as Bobby Kotick hears about it, some level designers are going to be LFW.

[deep glen]

rofl

[normal prism]

I'm not sure how applicable it would be for most games
How so?

[regal pecan]

Now if they made it work with particle systems... "More blowy. Add fire. More fire. Lots more fire. Add all the fire."

[normal prism]

This would help any amount of set dressing/world building you need to do

[median wraith]

Hey I still happy with the marketplace item

[zinc matrix]

did you just say procedural walls and window holes are not good

[regal pecan]

You don't already have procedural walls and window holes?

[zinc matrix]

in ue4?

oh right. with brush actors converting into sm

[regal pecan]

#madeablueprintforthat

[zinc matrix]

#givemethatthenrichboy, #thankyou, #seeya

https://tenor.com/view/who-me-aw-shucks-zach-cabrera-gif-12414002

[normal prism]

Dedication right there

[regal pecan]

The AI doesn't do the procedural walls. It looks exactly like the user is using brush actors tied to the window/door frames. Even has to "update geometry".

[zinc matrix]

taht would be false ad competition or what its called

if they show it as a feature but it isnt

that is a lawsuit worthy

u can make quick money

[regal pecan]

99% of the vid is prop placement.

[zinc matrix]

no..

it literally makes hole in walls

[regal pecan]

18:00 to 20:00 clearly the user is doing it

[zinc matrix]

lol

useless

[proud pier]

Just in...

[zinc matrix]

Do you need a degree for 3D modeling?

[regal pecan]

@zinc matrix no.

[zinc matrix]

Alright, thought so.

[regal pecan]

I do, if only because I'd need a degree to convince people my models are any good.

[zinc matrix]

I mean I have been modeling since I was 14, I just wanted to know just in case

LMao I am 16 though

[regal pecan]

"That looks like a cube."
"No, it's a six-sided polytope."
"Oh ok."
"That will be $650."

[zinc matrix]

True true

What kind of modeling do you do?

[regal pecan]

I play with blender for my personal satisfaction.

[zinc matrix]

Ahh, how long have you been modeling?

[honest depot]

Just wanted to share this cursed thing

[median wraith]

If a freelance purchase a product in the marketplace can use that code with his clients on individual projects ?

[zinc matrix]

I don't see anything about marketplace asset licenses from Epic...

Maybe it's per product, on the author's terms.

[zinc matrix]

I'd guess "yes" unless you see license terms that say otherwise.

[tidal ivy]

if you are contracted to do work, you cannot use your marketplace purchases

[zinc matrix]

I suppose, the client would need their own license.

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/marketplace-guidelines

[tidal ivy]

they would, yes

[zinc matrix]

2.2.g Products distributed through the Marketplace are licensed only under the Unreal Engine EULA, which is not superseded by custom licenses publishers include in their products’ distributed files.

[tidal ivy]

I don't think that's strictly relevant?

[zinc matrix]

It seems like by submitting to the market place, the license is governed by Epic.

[tidal ivy]

yes

[zinc matrix]

achktually

[median wraith]

Yeah there are clear spots that don't allow you resell or release as is

but that was some kind of non clear part

I mean if is a packaged project for a client

there is no problem

but for someone you are working on where need the sources I think the most logic side here is what Amber said

[zinc matrix]

so ive heard ue5 public ea wont be released early this year for all?

[broken sigil]

no clue where you got that from since no one knows

[regal pecan]

Somebody in Epic knows. Or, worst case, knows there's no knowing.

[humble remnant]

What the fuck?

[broken sigil]

yeah I got that as well 🤷‍♀️

[median wraith]

Marketplace question from a guy about a pack:

Can you show some screens of the overall assets?
Mainly he ask as the trailer is kinda limited.
Reply from the asset author:
Unfortunately I'm unable to provide other screenshots because it's against company rules: (Url)

Lol what

[nocturne pasture]

Every day, I'm grateful that the working title for my game is "Oh Shit"

Every classname, every variable, becomes infinitely hilarious.

"OhShitPlayer"

"OhShitMainMenu"

[broken sigil]

lol

[weak radish]

New custom font and colors for visual studio, yay or nay

[cursive crypt]

nay

But the important is that you like them

[broken sigil]

couldn't look at that more than 10 minutes 😐

[cursive crypt]

I have spent like a full day to make my own theme, worth it anyway. The default VS/ReSharper is pita

[broken sigil]

yeah, my color scheme is all soft colors and easy to look at
If I'm gonna be looking at it for 8 hours might as well be pretty and easy on my eyes 🤷‍♀️

[cursive crypt]

I was mostly debating whether I want to try desaturated, but not my thing 🤔

[cursive crypt]

Care to show in fact? 🙂

[cursive crypt]

Hmm... I see, desaturated low-values

[broken sigil]

yeah
I have bright orange and greens but are desaturated quite a bit
I can look at this for hours and be fine, I used to use have bright colors similar to what VAX has by default and after like an hour my eyes would get all watery and irritated

when I switched to rider took me around 3 hours to adjust all the settings and the color scheme 😂

[cursive crypt]

That mine... more harsh in comparison, but I'm happy with it works great for me as logic and eye performance. I try to get up from the PC from time to time, hence why even if more bright is not wearing me out.

[cursive crypt]

I actually asked them and they said they are working on migrating such settings from VS -> Rider.

[weak radish]

yea i spent like 10 minutes making my theme lol. i looked for themes since the color scheme of visual studio is crap. i found a website but it was so outdated it supported like visual studio 2013 or something like that lmao

[cursive crypt]

I think I have found like one or two sites with VS themes, there was one on GitHub too 🤔

[weak radish]

really? I gotta take a look

[weak radish]

i cant find them lol

If you want to, can you give a link to it?

[cursive crypt]

Can't find it anymore, but quick search lend me that, not sure it will do, but check it out https://studiostyl.es/

[weak radish]

yea I found that website but there is no scheme for visual studio 2019

[broken sigil]

yeah, it's important it works for you
I can just from colors figure out what is what
Dark blueish are member variables, light blueish are local vars, orange functions, green classes, yellowish green structs, dark blueish with a border are function parameters, etc...

would probably work much slower if I were to change my colors now

[weak radish]

the most it goes up to is vs 2015 lol

[cursive crypt]

Aye... exactly each colors means something. Purple is a macro, literals are yellowish, white are funcs, greens are types, greys are instances, orange is control flow, etc...

[cursive crypt]

Maybe they are back portable? Have you tried? 🤔

[weak radish]

no i havent tried

[broken sigil]

yeah 👌

[cursive crypt]

Interestingly I can find tons for Visual Code, but not for Studio, lol

[weak radish]

this sounds like a lot of work. ill just stick to my... "abstract" color scheme

[weak radish]

i love the layout of visual code, but man it's intelisense (can't spell it) sense is awful

[broken sigil]

after using VS for years switching to Rider felt like I was joining the dark side 😅

[cursive crypt]

Well, you heard us. He for 3h, me for a whole day (I did two-three themes to choose from)

VSCode is kinda text editor afaik, I better stick to Vim at that point 🙂

[broken sigil]

and that's literally 3 hours of me barely changing the color a tiniest bit and checking how it looks over and over lol

[weak radish]

tbh rider is one of the best IDE out there but it costs money so most people just stick with visual studio when they are learning and practicing

[cursive crypt]

True, it makes sense. It is money vs no money.

Currently their Rider for UE is free, but that soon to expire.

[weak radish]

lmao yea

[weak radish]

did i hear, free?

ah no it's going to expire nevermind

[cursive crypt]

Aye... until the 1st official release, which might happen this year or the next one, I dunno 🤷‍♂️

[broken sigil]

I mean even with VS you are practically forced to buy VAX to be able to work normally so might as well for almost the same money get a full IDE

[weak radish]

i might be dumb for this but, what is a vax?

[pearl compass]

visual assist, but that is subjective to personal workflow

[weak radish]

that doesnt sound that important to me, more like an extra accessory

[cursive crypt]

VAX, ReSharper are the two most pop "smart assistants" for Visual Studio

[pearl compass]

They are useful, but they are just extensions to the tool you need to use 😄

[weak radish]

Oh lmao I didn't mean it like that. They sound very useful but I'm saying that they don't sound super essential like your need this or you won't be able to code lol.

[pearl compass]

yep, never essential

[broken sigil]

it isn't essential but for working with UE4 or large C++ codebases in general it does help a lot to have it

[cursive crypt]

I will chim in that they have trials, so if you care to check what they do - download them.

[broken sigil]

yeah

[pearl elk]

Rider Melon Dark ftw 😛

[median wraith]

Somehow the 970GTX manages to run raytraced games at 1080p with 70FPS 🤖

[zinc matrix]

everybody can run rt without gi

like literally

[median wraith]

I'm talking about total realtime light, shadows and GI with penumbras

and yeah no the series 900 cannot run RT

but somehow Teardown for example can do it

in UE4 even the series 1000 cannot run RT and are locked

[foggy path]

Huh?

I ran RT lights in my project in UE on my 1080 Ti

and it ran at like 13 fps

[median wraith]

well somehow this dude managed to make it work even on a 970GTX

maybe is software sided as Crytek did ? idk but works too good to be software managed

I get the same FPS with a almost empty scene in UE4 I mean

[lucid walrus]

@median wraith it's software and voxel based, I think... the GI, that is... there was another guy who also attempted something similar for Unity a while back...

https://twitter.com/hxLexie/status/1067636045313802241?s=20

Lexie Dostal (@hxLexie)

[WIP] HXGI - Dynamic Realtime GI for @unity3d Revoxelization working, Copies sparse radiance data from the old chunk into the new one one. Still a lot of work to go, but the systems all coming together. https://t.co/anmm7AuCj0

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https://forum.unity.com/threads/hxgi-realtime-dynamic-gi.472486/page-15

[median wraith]

this isn't made in Unity

What game engine are you using?
The game uses a custom physics and graphics engine built for this game specifically. It uses raytracing for lighting, but does not require an RTX GPU.

about that yeah could have some helper

to store the light idk if have GI at all

but you can see all the shadows, penumbras etc in raytracing and the noises

[lucid walrus]

I'm just saying that realtime GI on a 980 isn't a unicorn

[median wraith]

yeah I mean I were actually more surprised by the fact the 970GTX runs raytraced light and shadows at 1080p at more than 60FPS

even if is a voxel game

that GPU isn't even listed as minimum specs

one question

does the fact having x2 UVs in UE4 duplicated the vertex count in the viewer ?

[deep glen]

shouldnt

[median wraith]

idk then where this polycount and vertex comes from

let me fast check

mmmm

here the people says is due the edge split but

makes no sense

as there is already split

[pearl elk]

Theres certain optimisations you can do when all your geo is made of the same sized voxels

theres certain shapes you just cant make though because you lose precision

[fresh heath]

https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/24/22299140/nypd-boston-dynamics-spot-robot-dog

[tulip orbit]

spot the robot? thats easy! its right there in the middle of that picture

[sage ermine]

@median wraith you want for scene or for specific object?

[median wraith]

not sure what you mean at all ?

about the mesh is for lowpoly things that aren't actually lowpoly

[zinc matrix]

can i drink https://www.klosterfrau.com/marken/melisana.html daily?

[median wraith]

The volumetric clouds turns out work better for night scenes

as the noise is usually black and have black errors there is no problem at night 🧐

[pearl elk]

lol no problem even though the god rays are coming from I dunno, definitely not that moon

If thats a moon, could be a helicopter with a spotlight

[median wraith]

oh that are flying things

the moon is in the left

[pearl elk]

space station on the right

[median wraith]

the sphere ?

na thats like at 30meters

well maybe a pocket edition space station

[pearl elk]

mini moon gonna land on the grass

[median wraith]

the clouds parameters looks kinda limited I think

there is actually a material cloud but there are no settings ?

idk

[glossy stone]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIZOcsu8tWk

kaboom

[plucky pagoda]

If anyone has been thinking of getting Affinity Photo, Designer, or Publisher I just noticed they are all 50% off right now.

[zinc matrix]

How does this look?

[cursive crypt]

What do you mean?

It is a fork for bbq clearly.

[zinc matrix]

lmao

[loud basin]

theres no more updates before 5.0 releases is there?

[torpid star]

valve software exposed: https://twitter.com/vectorpoem/status/1368107595723014148/photo/1

JP (@vectorpoem)

@joewintergreen get to the this

Twitter · Mar 6, 2021, 7:54 AM

[fresh heath]

HP Reverb G2 appeared in local stores, nice

Much cheaper than all Vive variants

And that's all you can find here

No Oculus stuff, no Valve Index

Unless you want to buy used hardware

[cursive crypt]

The mm-dd-yyyy format should burn in hell

[humble remnant]

HL has hella references to other things

The elevator in that scene in particular is called the AkiraElev too iirc

[burnt cedar]

😠

[fresh heath]

https://tenor.com/view/gordon-ramsay-rage-raw-shouting-kitchen-gif-17087812

[tulip orbit]

gotta pay your bookie on time

[carmine frigate]

when i worked at a ski resort i had to be able to ask "can u move ur toes" in liek 10 diffrent languages 😛

if some1 broke his back ur not supposed to move them

[cursive crypt]

Wish you speedy recovery! Isn't it hurting?

Also... How so in the same place?

[normal prism]

@ancient hornet, you around? I was having an interesting discussion with @wheat narwhal about caching references vs built-in getters (i.e. GetOwner, GetPlayerController etc.).

I distinctly remember Godot having performance issues with things like that, but I can't really remember anymore what the functions were, and why they were slow. Just that I had to spend time refactoring my logic to cache everything. get_parent, I think.

Figured you might remember from that time long ago 🙂

[ancient hornet]

I don't really remember the performance in Godot on that topic

[normal prism]

Been a while 😄

[tulip orbit]

https://preview.redd.it/rmtoczzfxgl61.jpg?width=960&height=852&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=df937ec6133d340d0a0729443a26354db8834602

[carmine frigate]

thats why i never hold my farts

[tulip orbit]

yeah, I dont fart near open flames

[fathom wadi]

I fart at will. My digestive issues are not to be trifled with. If you gotta blow, just blow it away from others. Otherwise, guff freely once more into the night.

[fathom wadi]

hah

[median wraith]

The cars they gave this month get ejected to me into the sky

on landscapes

[nocturne pasture]

My game's basically moved into alpha now. I told people, the reward would be that I get to spend the next few months designing icons, buttons, logos, and fonts.

I was right. That's all I've done today, and it's...well, it's definitely not for me!

I have a new respect for people who can maintain such an intense attention to detail.

[median wraith]

and thats the this month free asset (cost a good amount by default)

[torpid star]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09LTT0xwdfw

[fathom wadi]

its cheap for 100 tho. So you get what you pay for 😄

[torpid star]

wahahahahahahha

[broken sigil]

I see a man of culture 😆

[torpid star]

😄

[median wraith]

an update on my video thing, it seems like it just happen when you go on negative values in the world vertical Z

no idea why is so asked the dev

[fathom wadi]

good to know

[regal pecan]

Realistic cars, never tested below Z=0?
I can empathize with it getting through cursory testing, but...

https://tenor.com/view/come-on-seriously-dude-really-spit-gif-5806216

[humble remnant]

Note to self: Make own vehicle physics

Got it

Considering how rapid that yeet is, my guess is there's a Power or Log used somewhere

[tulip orbit]

yeah there was definitely some math involved somewhere.

[pearl elk]

bloody math, its always the problem, we should just remove it. Problem solvered!

[fathom wadi]

math - math = NaN

[broken sigil]

Pretty sure it's using constraints instead of a raycast based solution for the suspension, which is more than likely a part of the problem

[fathom wadi]

if its using conventional UE vehicle methods it probably needs tweaking for your setup. A lot. And tested. A lot. The physics needs a lot of accurate math otherwise it's flip-city. From wheel setups to physics materials to the whole shebang. Even then. The edge case stuff will still happen. It's all tweaking it down til it works.

[carmine frigate]

well the cars in fortnite act pretty weird sometimes aswell

[foggy path]

Chaos physics will fix it all!... maybe

[carmine frigate]

that is chaos

but yea, good things come to those that wait

[broken sigil]

I just want UE5 already 😫

[cursive crypt]

It will be mostly the same, why the impatience 🙂

[zinc matrix]

I'm impatient because I have unreasonable amount of expectations for the deprecation of the gameframework. Those expectations are purely my own, without any evidence whatsoever.

I wish ue5 would come out soon, so I could get over with my inevitable disappointment as quickly as possible!

[pearl elk]

I think Epic are having too much fun releasing Fortnite updates to hold up a minute to move to UE5 😛

[broken sigil]

@cursive crypt I'm mostly excited for the changes to the component system and double precision

[cursive crypt]

What are they?

Double precision for what tho? Sounds like overkill

[pearl elk]

double precision for everything

need dem 128bit Ints

[broken sigil]

for the whole engine, coordinate system, physics, etc...

some projects really need it, especially those which can't use origin shifting

trying to find the video where they talk about it

[cursive crypt]

Sure, sometimes it may be useful. I doubt they will make it so heavy (I hope), so you have to choose for which systems this applies.

No need, tl;dw 🙂

[wanton ruin]

hi i am new to UE 4 and megascans in general , my issue is that my first person actor is clipping through the megascan assets , i hav checked all hthe object attributes and compared them with basic Ue primitives , but i dnt know what else i am missing

i am clipping through a rock asset in the play mode

[solid aurora]

using double precision have miniscule effect on performance

as long as your data is aligned

prefetcher can handle pulling it to cache

if it is not you are screwed anyway

[wanton ruin]

@solid aurora hi where can i get help for my querries ? thanks

[cursive crypt]

Yes and no

While your fpu is fine, the data bandwidth is doubled

[broken sigil]

on modern CPUs 64 bit operations are faster than 32 (floats) so it can actually be a performance benefit at the expense of more memory being used

[solid aurora]

it had 2% difference in star citizen [;

you are more likely to be bottlenecked on 4k texture

than double precision physics

[cursive crypt]

Yeah, don't judge about a car just of how it looks like.

[solid aurora]

either way

[cursive crypt]

I mean, I can't and won't speak about something I'

[solid aurora]

it is single most awaited feature by me

everything else is extra

[cursive crypt]

I'm not familiar how they did and what exactly they changed

[wanton ruin]

sorry to interrupt , but where can i post querries related to the engine ?

[cursive crypt]

So, saying 2% is the perf difference... I think we can come up with tons of examples where this won't be the case

[broken sigil]

honestly I don't care about the rendering updates, double precision and component improvements are what I'm most excited about

[solid aurora]

yes, we can come with tones of the cases, where it will be not evn the case 😄

[foggy path]

Look at the channels list in #more-resources and then the topic of the channels.

[broken sigil]

double precision most likely will need to be enabled like chaos, with a definition inside the build.cs

doubt it's gonna be set to double by default

[median wraith]

is because the negative values confirmed by me latter, only happened on the lower terrain section thats under 0

[zinc matrix]

I mean, they could make ue5 double precision by default, a major version change is the best place to do it.

but then again, everything in chaos is templated, so it looks like it'll be an engine switch at compile time

if it is the latter then it is a bit disappointing since double precision will have to potential to be the redheaded step child

[median wraith]

@gloomy badge @broken sigil sorry for the tag, but to make clear the question etc, the author already replied me, I gona crazy looking everywhere for a z value check but didn't found it, turns out the author told me there in the world blueprint there is the function to reset the vehicles and yeah there it is (if someone of you find the problem you know where to look at) about the rest yeah is kinda decent physics base, and the examples are expanded on a lot of vehicles, but yeah you can try by yourself as is free this month

[carmine frigate]

yea it looked allright on ur vid til the point it got launched in the air

[median wraith]

aside from more or less realistic physics the only "bug" issue I found is

the cars at certain speeds cannot turn at all but thats normal, except by the fact the wheels visually don't turn and are limited as well

and this that only happen in this car

[pearl elk]

Only happens to Hevedy 😛

[median wraith]

I don't know why Epic didn't merged my landscapes fix

Epic should hire Edy to implement the Unity vehicle physics here

🤖

The genius from Blender and the one from Unity are both from the same province of spain I think

[pearl elk]

show me a vehicle and I'll show you how to get it pinned on geometry 😛

[median wraith]

😂

[pearl elk]

I think most of the issue is that the physics cant really be realistic because design wise you want controls which dont exist on real cars.

Id buy the "feels good vehicle physics" pack over the "most realistic vehicle physics ever" pack 🙂

[carmine frigate]

that plugin from boredengineer and 0lento is pretty dope aswell

well not sure who made it

i dont know much about cars and stuff, so when stuff is named driveshaft i get confused

its kinda fun to play with

[median wraith]

I think was Bored

but it was all BP wasn't all the examples ?

oh yeah there were helpers but the base wans't in C++ I think

[carmine frigate]

thats prolly the best to prototype vehicles

[median wraith]

idk could be yeah

to me back in the days I liked the

[carmine frigate]

i bet it went trough a bunch of iterations

[median wraith]

thurf ? or idk how it was named

[carmine frigate]

those tanks handled real dope

[median wraith]

there was other free one and were really cool

still I like more a system build over C++ than BP

[carmine frigate]

ow there was also that other APC thing free

[median wraith]

large projects as this case ones get way too dense

[median wraith]

I will be honest that was kinda mediocre when tested it

the vehicle bounces for no reasons

in other hand the free model they gave was awesome

and by the way

BeamNG should be an example for all

The level design is perfect

idk how they managed to make that with such engine

and still that engine got more robust features by 2021 than Godot

and the vehicle physics system as well they did is awesome

[pearl elk]

Ive honestly had issues working with things built in C++, its just that the default is not exposed to BP so its a heavy reliance on the engineer to update things kinda the very thing BP was made to avoid

Its more cultural if anything tbh an engineer might say, oh I dont want them to access this so I'll code in a blocking way without realising the designers needs. That sort of blackbox can be nice in a way, you dont want too much complexity in BP but it can cause extra work which didnt need to exist.

[broken sigil]

problem with physics stuff made in BPs is that it can't take advantage of physics substepping, that plugin is using constraints so suspension is going to be fine at low fps but from the looks of it friction and drive are done in BPs so if you test at low framerate you'll get drastically different behavior

[median wraith]

what of all listed plugins today ? :p

[pearl elk]

lol Chaos Vehicles substepping was broken last I heard 🙂

[median wraith]

true

[broken sigil]

the free for a month one

[median wraith]

oh

[pearl elk]

Event MiniTick ftw

lol jk, if you look at UE3 there was actually a PhysicsTick

[median wraith]

yeah checking the sources for first time of this plugin it seems like have a very limited amount of things at C++

more about physics stabilizers and networking than actual physics cals etc

[broken sigil]

Bored's vehicle stuff I believe exposes the physics callback to BPs so that's fine
But still to get accurate results you need to read velocity and transform data directly from the body instance in the substep since actor/component transform is updated at the end of the frame when the physics simulation is done
So if you use transform in a substep from the actor you will get old data from a previous frame

[median wraith]

by the way Blue, why you didn't updated or released the 4.26 on the market ?

[broken sigil]

because I forgot 😐

[median wraith]

oh

[broken sigil]

I'll update it in the coming days

[pearl elk]

substep can actually cause some glitching on its own, for the box trace we were doing in a project I was helping on it was producing erratic results but line trace sometimes clipped through geo

[broken sigil]

wish I had time to rewrite that damn thing or make V2

[median wraith]

Yeah but body duplication isn't invented yet

🤖

[broken sigil]

yeah sadly lol

[broken sigil]

it's only a visual thing pretty sure, remember seeing that when I drew a debug line where the trace was but the actual response from the trace was accurate

[median wraith]

your cars for example turn the whole wheel

[pearl elk]

Seems like there are alot of different Vehicle kits in the works, maybe everyone should join forces and make a Power Rangers plugin together 😛

[median wraith]

I will give a honest critic here, the turning on this one seems a bit more realistic than yours, but this one seems like forces to do it rather than have a proper calcs control

while yours give a free control

and yeah the AI example, physics interaction with vehicles are welcome here but not needed

[broken sigil]

yeah, problem with mine is that it's using my approximation for the tire/friction model
If I were to rewrite it I would replace it with Pacejka tire model which is as good as it can get

For the project I'm currently working on I'll be rewriting my physics stuff very soon so yeah I can't wait for that
I didn't have as much as experience as I do now when I first wrote the vehicle physics plugin so it would be much much better now
Maybe one day V2 becomes a thing, who knows 🤷‍♀️

[median wraith]

Yeah that happen always, and the more examples/code/resources we see etc the more knowledge we got, hey you did there more than what the 99% did at that age lol

[zinc matrix]

So I'm worried my game is really similar to Bee Simulator... I decided I wanted to make a game about wasps, and was originally going to have some sci fi element added, but just modelling normal wasp behaviour feels complex enough at the moment. I also didn't know Bee Simulator was a thing till like 6 months in

At the moment the game is basically.... wasp simulator

[broken sigil]

haha yeah
I was 17 when I made it 😛

I can't believe it has been that long...

[median wraith]

By that age I feel like a hacker making triggers work at COD

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/its-been84years-titanic-rose-dawson-gif-5372593

[broken sigil]

lol

[median wraith]

xd

[broken sigil]

gonna be 4 years in a few months since I released it, I'm getting old 😆

everyone older than me here is probably rolling their eyes now lol

[pearl elk]

I was 17 almost 23yrs ago

my eyes did a barrel roll

[broken sigil]

lol

I feel old at 21...

[pearl elk]

might be due for a mid life crisis soon

[broken sigil]

👀

[median wraith]

oh by 21 was when my C++ skill started to be decent

[broken sigil]

I've been using C++ for around 6-7 years

[median wraith]

so are you good ar something ?
well no that's why I'm technical artist

[broken sigil]

lol

[median wraith]

yeah i started by 14 in editimg and 16 into code

thats a lot of years already

12 or so

[pearl elk]

I think I might have been doing C++ for more than 21yrs lol

[median wraith]

I wish UE4 were released before so I could evolved as person maybe before

[broken sigil]

I first started with 3d modelling when I was 11 or 12, did a bit of unity and C# at that time as well and finally started learning C++ at 14-15 right before I discovered UE4

[pearl elk]

I was thinking about it, Im pretty happy with the era I was born into. I got to see the twilight years of the arcades, the transition to alot of new technologies, birth of the FPS 🙂 Im good

[median wraith]

yeah by 2007 to me only modding was a thing, UE wasn public and no one of the engines other than blender and open source ones was

then Torque3D, Godot, UDK and others started to release

[broken sigil]

I surprisingly never got into modding

[median wraith]

Man

even Visual Studio was paid

[pearl elk]

lol not to mention slow, clunky and bad

[median wraith]

I mean as you said you came in the point when someone gets into modding but you had already engines so why go for modding

[broken sigil]

yeah

[median wraith]

that comes as feature even today

but is less bad lets say

[pearl elk]

Yeah VS Code is def more slick

[median wraith]

I wish it worked properly with C++

[broken sigil]

Rider cough cough

[median wraith]

There was a time before UE4 release when I was about release something with Urho3D after move from Doom engine

[pearl elk]

fairly back when I was coming up most PCs just wernt strong enough to run a decent IDE

[median wraith]

I remember to be in the open source forum like, what they made UE4 sources open ?

the what

I didn't liked UDK*

[broken sigil]

I remember saving like 20$ for months to buy my first subscription for UE4 lol

[median wraith]

oh I got 2 times it for free

one from an event

the other no idea from where

[pearl elk]

I had months free sub to UE4 lol

[broken sigil]

haha nice

[median wraith]

MonthsOlympus

you were vip ?

[pearl elk]

only thing that bugs me about Rider is when it does autocomplete it doesnt take into consideration where the caret is. It erases text I want to keep, I think its just my workflow not being very linear from start to finish on the line I jump around.

[median wraith]

You had access to the beta and that I think

[pearl elk]

Im an UE4 Founder and a UDK MVP 😛

[median wraith]

I posted 10 times on the UDK forums back in the day

and wasn't under Hevedy

[pearl elk]

I didnt get to keep my UDK banner though when the forums moved over

[broken sigil]

I was invited to Fortnite BR testing or something like that, there were like 500 players total
I was there before Fortnite was popular, nothing game dev related but I have something to brag about lol 😛

[pearl elk]

being invited to anything like that is pretty special tbh because it means you were chosen out of a crowd for something in particular

I dunno if Epic have UE5 Founders or not, I assumed they would do some private previews before going public

[median wraith]

I was at Fortnite survival tests someone invited me

but they didn't even gave access later or even a hat to congratule

: (

[broken sigil]

yeah, honestly I have no clue why I was selected, same thing pretty sure happened with paragon
But it was nice to get to play it early

I remember telling my friend about it (fortnite) and having to wait for it to go public so we can play lol

[median wraith]

they didn't invitated me, so can confirm such engine version don't exists

🤖

In Paragon someone added me as friend post match to insult me and my family as bad I was playing it

😂

[broken sigil]

like it was announced but wasn't available to play for like a week if I remember correctly, and I got access that week early for some reason

[broken sigil]

lol
Trash talking is a part of the fun in competitive games but that's a bit too much

[pearl elk]

lol Paragon wasnt easy, I was the gun dude expecting to run around like a shooter and shoot people. Then the game starts and its like wtf, wheres the sprint button

[median wraith]

by 2011 when Epic announced fortnite

I had other expectations

about gameplay

[pearl elk]

I was honestly expecting more like a fighting game, then I got a MOBA it was like oh... yeah Im not the right person to test this 🙂

[broken sigil]

wish anything came out of the new UT game, it's just kinda left there in an unfinished state

[median wraith]

there is some kind of survival game I never seen and I thought it were about be that

but then turned into some kind of fast food survival

maybe sell better and yeah have a wider range of public

[pearl elk]

Theres a post on the UT forums somewhere of me telling Epic that Fortnite is a better bet for a MP game because it has that lightheartedness Valve struck gold with in TF2.

Issue with UT is people took it so serious, makes it difficult to appeal to a wider audience

[broken sigil]

yeah, UT is for tryhards lol

hard for any new players to get started

[pearl elk]

Thing is you want a Pro community to come out of a popular game, it doesnt really happen the other way around

[median wraith]

yeah UT died there

and tbh is better to have now Fortnite than UT

because engine needs

[broken sigil]

yeah, I don't have problem with that, I like difficult games (and apparently torturing myself), but difficult in terms of skill levels, not RNG

[median wraith]

UT had another issue that was the one the original Gears of War creator and ex epic guy had

[pearl elk]

I see Fortnite though and I see all the things I hated about TF2 as it went on. Having those cross franchise tie in's were nice but eventually it has an impact of the artistic integrity, I mean look at CoD its pretty noticeable in that too

[median wraith]

You cannot release a fast shooter that only work with the last GPU series at 30FPS

[broken sigil]

give me any shooter with a ranked mode and I'll waste hundreds of hours on it 😐

[pearl elk]

I managed to get to level 30 in zombies btw 🙂

[broken sigil]

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

[pearl elk]

lots of it has to do with upgrading the perks I rekon, the RAI-K helped but by the time I got it I need a pack-a-punch just to get it to do decent damage lol

[broken sigil]

Yeah I watched a bit of it but never actually played it
Currently playing Apex legends again, got to Diamond rank

[pearl elk]

I should give that another go now I got a better PC and internets

[broken sigil]

yeah I find it fun, probably wouldn't play it if I didn't have ranked
Ranked gives you a goal to work towards

Played it 2 years ago only for a bit and now started again recently

[pearl elk]

Might as well make the most of those sharp reflexes while youre young 😛

[median wraith]

I cannot play competitive anymore

by the way Blue, you know Edy cars solution from Unity ?

[broken sigil]

haha yeah
It happened so many times that I got accused of aimbotting lol

In rogue company got to top rank in a few days after the ranked stuff got released, played against some TTV guy, we beat him
Watched the video after he stopped streaming and he was so pissed, raging and accusing me of cheating the whole time as we played, it's actually a compliment when someone thinks you are cheating lol

[median wraith]

To me all the games feel kinda the same now

[broken sigil]

I remember seeing videos but never played around with it

[pearl elk]

If I start raging like that I know its time to stop playing that game. I mean whats the point if you arnt enjoying it, thats part of why I dont play competitive because I dont want the pressure

[broken sigil]

yeah, sometimes after playing competitive feels like I just ran a marathon lol

[median wraith]

its free I think

[pearl elk]

I'll compete with friends because it tends to be more level playing field and there are some unwritten rules you just dont get online

For eg if a lesser player spawns right infront of you while youre stacked, you dont just take the freebie, you pretend liek you didnt see em

[broken sigil]

I can see how that could be fun

haven't played a good story game in quite a while

[pearl elk]

I got Watch Dogs Legion sitting there waiting, not sure when I'll get to that

[broken sigil]

last 2 story games I really liked were Arise a simple story and Outer Wilds
These days I think I prefer more smaller Indie story games than AAA

[pearl elk]

lol yeah, do not recommend Last of Us 2 if you want small story

[broken sigil]

I liked Last of us 2, watched it on YT tho, don't have PS
I like lengthier stories but what I mean is to me indie games seem to be more creative than AAA

[pearl elk]

playing Last of Us 2 felt tedious to me though, I enjoyed it but just as I thought I was getting near the end... nope again

[broken sigil]

yeah, that's true
would still like to play it myself, if I can get my hands on a ps5 😐

also The medium is pretty good, came out recently

[pearl elk]

you know what really bugs me about sequels though, is that I wish stuff from my play through of the first game would carry over in some manner. I dont like feeling like its a clean slate and I have to start over

[broken sigil]

yeah

[pearl elk]

That'd be fine to me if Im starting with the sequel, I think thats fair especially to build some of the backstory I missed but it feels like too much onboarding for an existing customer

Ive played FPS games for a long time so its always quite comical to run through the forced tutorial for the zillionth time

oh is that how the mouse works, I didnt know that, thanks guys 😛

[broken sigil]

lol

[pearl elk]

I'll be 80 playing FPS games, the tutorial will pop up and I'll be like please, I was playing FPS while your grand dad was in diapers

I wont be able to hit anything but I'll give it my best 🙂

[broken sigil]

haha yeah

[pearl elk]

Hevedy woulda made the vehicles in that game so the wheels wont fall off

[median wraith]

if I do vehicles even the doors will split apart and won't even move forward

[pearl elk]

https://tenor.com/view/break-car-fall-apart-broken-ride-gif-4915243

[median wraith]

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSyPqEf4W7Y&ab_channel=[reviveproject]

this people

[pearl elk]

Thats kinda odd, if I remember didnt they hire some people working on a modern war mod on BF 1944 to work on BF2... now people made a 1944 mod on that lol

https://tenor.com/view/star-wars-circle-is-now-complete-ready-to-fight-gif-13935226

[median wraith]

XD

[dense stratus]

if you want a small indie story game I recommend what remains of edith finch, firewatch and cloudpunk. They are all quite different games but all have that small indie story game feel

[unborn lotus]

I think Open Roads by Fullbright also looks interesting

[dense stratus]

oh yeah it does

[broken sigil]

Played what remains of edith finch and firewatch but never heard of cloudpunk
Will definitely take a look, thanks

[dense stratus]

no problem

[fresh heath]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFuWWr3481w

[broken sigil]

This might be a perfect combo of rock and EDM (I guess?)
https://youtu.be/6fBFtIX1Exs

Don't support that anime background tho 😐

[foggy path]

that foregrip looks unergonomically placed

[torpid star]

a blast from the past (11 months ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22742733

Pulcinella

The Unreal Engine Wiki is now permanently offline

Hacker News · Mar 31, 2020, 9:21 PM

This is bad, very bad. A complete and utter disrespect for people who poured in their blood and sweat in creating the content for them and for free. Migrating only "top" content is insufficient and so ignorant. The value of wiki is almost entirely in long tail. Vast majority of Unreal engine is undocumented where you get all kind of issues few have seen before. If it wasn't for the community creating content for them, it would be unusable for many users. To salt the wound, they aren't even telling you exactly why they are doing this. Why making read-only archive is so hard, at very minimum. Didn't expect this from Tom Sweeney's company.

I'm just salty that my bookmarks 404 now.

[carmine frigate]

thats not a foregrip thats a clip

that leg is super crooked tho

other than that its not too bad

[fresh heath]

Unlike Blueprint, Control Rig uses its own lighter-weight VM called RigVM to provide highly efficient pose calculations.```

Huh

Unreal has at least two different VMs

[zinc matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/gatto-cibo-cat-bread-hungry-cat-gif-15925702

[carmine frigate]

survival games

[normal prism]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wxc3mKqKTk

[median wraith]

@zinc matrix what game is that ?

oh okayç

[ancient hornet]

uh, blade & soul ported to UE4

https://www.bladeandsoul.com/en/game/revival/

[median wraith]

nice, now just need to think about spend 5 years more to update to the 5, that is about release :p

[quiet narwhal]

its been updated to UE4 for a bit now, just not in the west. and from what I saw recently they cancelled it in the east. they are basically trying again in the west with the upgrade and hoping....

[median wraith]

The indies I know had to redo all the game and levels from ground

this companies have some tools to port the contents ?

or maybe they do its own after all

*outside of the code that must be done from ground

[carmine frigate]

but did u drink ur own piss like bear gryls?

ahh good

im in the forrest for 5 min, piss drinking time

[median wraith]

Nightmares

[carmine frigate]

he made a function to make functions?

clearly made by some that has no problem with a bunch of functions

soo, its that thing aware it exists?

https://tenor.com/view/terminator-skull-crush-gif-12359855

[zinc matrix]

lets do blueprint-shaming

[tulip orbit]

https://i.imgur.com/ddXt0p1.jpg

[dim ruin]

wrong server lol

my b

[soft night]

https://tenor.com/view/steven-rogers-captain-america-capitan-america-chris-evans-first-avenger-gif-13501998

[fresh heath]

Someone actually reuploaded today's stream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttsvSZ32NRw

[sinful delta]

        typedef enum
        {
            INVALID_MODE = 0,
            IDLE_MODE,
            FULLSTREAM_MODE_200,
            FULLSTREAM_MODE_125,
            FULLSTREAM_MODE_100,
            FULLSTREAM_MODE_50,
            SET_HAPTIC_CMD,
            ENTER_DFU_MODE,
            RE_INIT_IMU,
        }DeviceCmdType_t;

        typedef struct
        {
            uint8_t Header;
            uint8_t Length;
            DeviceCmdType_t type;
        }DataPacket_t;

DataPacket_t* Packet = (DataPacket_t*)PhoenixControllerData.Data.GetData();```
I have this data stream that starts with a header struct, I think I'm supposed to just read it straight into a struct. however `type` is coming out as a really big number rather than 0-8 or whatever. it's obviously reading past where I want it to stop because there's more to the message. how do I get it to write the enum type correctly and not go beyond the existing enum range?

is this a job for memcpy where I can set an actual size?

is metahuman out?!

gimmie!

[median wraith]

lol what game is that

oh lord

[vivid bloom]

Epic launcher is being epicly annoying won't let me click a single thing has anyone had this issue?

[zinc matrix]

size of mama hornet compared to baby... think I might need to rethink scale

[vivid bloom]

Nah man looks legit hahaha @zinc matrix

[rose nimbus]

I want to say it had something to do with construct scripts. But I don't remember.

[fresh heath]

https://twitter.com/EWDurbin/status/1368306968167931918

ee w. durbin iii (@EWDurbin)

everyone has a fucking opinion about programming languages these days, yeesh.

Retweets

358

Likes

3602

Twitter · Mar 6, 2021, 9:06 PM

[fluid bloom]

https://i.redd.it/b53rkfcszl761.png

https://i.redd.it/upaoqz6pmlg51.png

okay I'll stop

[fresh heath]

https://twitter.com/BurgerKingUK/status/1368849338596745223

Burger King (@BurgerKingUK)

Women belong in the kitchen.

Retweets

32481

Likes

99608

Twitter · Mar 8, 2021, 9:01 AM

[carmine frigate]

old school, i like it

also BK should have rollerbladers serve on the carpark

[foggy path]

that tweet is just an edgy bait and switch, if you check the replies it's like HAHA j/k we want to employ more women

pretty tone deaf marketing tbh lol

[deep glen]

it was a calculated tweet, but boy are they bad at math

[dense stratus]

yeah it's ridiculous, using a misogynistic joke to promote something to help women is definitely not something you should do

them doubling down in the replies isn't helping either

[cursive crypt]

Aye... today is the Women's Day. Happy day to all of them 🎈

[solid aurora]

It's good marketing

you disagree with it

and still talk about it

making more people hear about it

perfection

[cursive crypt]

I won't bother clicking there. I don't care. They say also that there is no bad advert 🤷‍♂️

[foggy path]

It's good marketing in making people aware of how tone deaf BK UK is :P

[solid aurora]

yeah, there are only adverts nobody heard about 😄

[dense stratus]

I doubt it will make people more likely to work or eat there unless they are sexist though, certainly puts me off as a woman

[foggy path]

I don't think this helps them achieve their claimed goal of employing more women

it's bad marketing in that sense

[tidal ivy]

people who work at Burger King don't work there out of choice

it's usually the available, or least bad, minimum wage job

[dense stratus]

yep it would definitely make me not want to work there

[dense stratus]

I know a lot of people don't really have a choice but when the post is about trying to promote working there to progress a career in food it's not helpful

[carmine frigate]

ow, its about recruiting more women,

well seems like a dead end carreer path if they wunna keep u in the kitchen

also comps like that have some sort of pyramid scheme carreer paths

if u start late on the bottom ur never gettin on top

[cold umbra]

Hello everyone, I'd like some tiny help about naming my game
It's a 3-questions long survey, should not take more than one minute to fulfill.
Any help appreciated 🙂
https://twitter.com/Maso_Games/status/1368912692782727172?s=20

MasoGames (@Maso_Games)

Sometimes you don't know how to name your game, too much ideas or not enough, we need your help !
https://t.co/H3dh2aDab6

#UE4 #indiedev #gamedev #puzzle

Twitter · Mar 8, 2021, 1:13 PM

[carmine frigate]

MyProject6

[steady sorrel]

Hi guys! Been so long since I last talked...

[zinc matrix]

does the owner of subreddit get banned if their sub gets banned?

[foggy path]

Seems like a question better suited for reddit 🤔

[ancient hornet]

doesn't it take quite some effort to even get a subreddit banned? oO

[foggy path]

I think so, would probably require fairly blatant breaking of Reddit rules and/or US laws :P

[zinc matrix]

question is not answered

dont answer.

oh

no it doesntt?

bestgoer wtf

ew

[ancient hornet]

the thing is, if you are thinking about making a subreddit that is at risk of ban, it screams here that you are either doing something blatantly illegal, or pretty disgusting 😄

[normal prism]

kinkshaming

[ancient hornet]

reddit is pretty kink open 😛

proof

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime_titties/

[normal prism]

😆

[cursive crypt]

Wasn't that the top news site? 🤔

Names can be misleading 🙂

[ancient hornet]

yeah people took over that subreddit to post news and now it's probably the best sfw news subreddit available 😄

[north dragon]

I think the behavior is different when you code complete with different keys. eg "tab" will complete and remove text after, but "enter" should be just placing text without erasing anything.

[cursive crypt]

Huh, interesting. Was looking at that the other day for the Nth time. Had to leave space before Tabbing the auto-complete. Will try with Enter now...

[pearl elk]

yup thats what it is, I typically use tab and enter does infact keep the text so I'll try to train my brain to do it that way. It happens alot when Ive written something then want to add a Cast using autocomplete, I tend to write the thing I want to cast first

[solid aurora]

something else broken in Rider

it keeps opening new Tabs when press Alt+O

if the h/cpp is already open but in other (split) window, it opens new one -;-

instead of jumping to the already open

[north dragon]

it's fixed in dev build, will be available in the next rease

[solid aurora]

Awesome. Most imporant update along with UE5 : D

[steady vortex]

What's a good job title for someone who did almost everything on a project? I'm working on my CV and have no clue how to narrow it down haha

[latent spruce]

How would I search for keypress combinations in Unreal WITHOUT searching for keybinds or macros - basically I am curious about programming my numpad to do special actions but I can't find any workflow or tips video for this, without coming across things that deal with blueprint macros or action manifest bindings ...what is the nomenclature I am looking for?

[steady vortex]

Master of none haha

But yeah, totally am

[quiet narwhal]

its normally known as a "Generalist"

[steady vortex]

@quiet narwhal Aye, so should I put in Generalist Developer? in the title description on my resume?

[latent spruce]

"Multisystem Adept" sounds much, much better @quiet narwhal @steady vortex

plus, you get the added benefit of having to explain what that is

thereby enhancing your legitimacy

[steady vortex]

Not bad, sounds like an awesome title

I know the term Generalist is used in job postings though

[latent spruce]

the word adept does not mean specialist or master too, more like a journeymen or skilled personnel

[steady vortex]

Aye, I suppose you're right

Also sounds better than Solo Developer

[latent spruce]

I'm looking for some type of OVERLAY SOFTWARE that shows different key combinations/shortcuts for a given app, based on what app you have currently on screen - so if you were in Unreal and hit the activation key, it would show you the unreal shortcuts, like a keyboard layout would popout on your screen and the B key would have CTRL+ Browse to asset in Content browser, listed on it - if I went to Blender and hit it, then I would see on the R key, it would say, CTRL+Perform Edge Loop - does anyone know if any software like this? \

[quiet narwhal]

some recording software can do that for you, are you using any recording software?

for example OBS has a plugin to do it https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/input-overlay.552/

[zinc matrix]

Every time i get email from epic games im exited that i might start doing virtual worlds without need of baking light

but then its just another annoying newsletter for how to bake light maps and how to make effects for real life events...

[latent spruce]

Could I activate that WITHOUT streaming?

I could even render keyboard images in blender (there's like, a huge community of some OCD people who do that) and just toggle that overlay on when needed

[fathom wadi]

@latent spruce that would be a cool app. There are multi-overlay hub apps you can find. Overwolf is a popular one. I'm not sure if it can do exactly what you want here, but you could write a simple database app for Overwolf's system and have it display images you build into db.exe

[cursive crypt]

How to crash UE fast: leave the "Plugins" key in your *.uproject empty, but still a valid json.

[quiet narwhal]

@latent spruce I beleive you can activate without streaming yes, its just an overlay

[zinc matrix]

youer fired. sorry.

[placid thistle]

can anyone recommend a freelancer who is pretty good with materials and procedural meshes ?

[tulip orbit]

I could recommend myself, but I'm pretty terrible at both those things 😄

[cursive crypt]

Then I recommend you. I have no shame.

[placid thistle]

lol

[deep glen]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5seU-5U0ms

almost 50 years by now

[fathom wadi]

I bet they sat there and said "Well what now?" and one said "We wait for Unreal Engine 5"

[regal pecan]

Catmull sounds familiar. Where's Rom?
Edit: And there's a face too. Bioware take note.

[fresh heath]

Early commercial 3D: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADF3-6owY0A

[foggy path]

I'm surprised nobody has realized my game uses models from mixamo

or at least nobody has yet pointed it out lol

[deep glen]

@foggy path your game uses mixamo, how lame