Dylan Meville

LOOKING FOR A COOL ART PERSON TO MAKE GAMES WITH. PARTNERSHIP, MAYBE WITH FUNDING WHILE WE MAKE THINGS. PLS MESSAGE ME IF YOU THINK YOU FIT! Info: docs.google.com/document/d/1Li… #gamedev #indiedev #unrealengine #gamejobs

@CynicatPro I feel like I didn't use physics for this for a reason, it was a long time ago when I first set this up to so I forget. Maybe phys was being a pain with replication and based movement etc. SetLocation returns SweepResult which I can check and ignore the set rot, works ok

@DMeville This really should be a rigidbody where you're setting the velocity and angularVelocity directly. Swept controllers like this are usually for character capsules, rotational sweeps are insanely tricky math and best solved by an iterative solver.

Anyone know of workarounds on how to make SetActorRotation on an obj sweep properly? My boat is moved via SetActorLocation/Rotation. SetLocation has a sweep option, so if I move forward (without rotating) I collide properly. But if I don't move and only rotate, I clip through!

Niagara system to trace downwards and position the particles. It took me way too long to figure out I had to add the collision thingy in the map get lawl I always struggle with niagara so hard

OooOoOoo misty ground particles spawning on only the water/shoreline/island meshes. Gotta figure out how to make the billboarding not look so dang gross but works good!

Can I make a new trace channel on the ground meshes, spawn a particle, trace it downwards, and if it hits that's where it starts? Hmmm

I think there's a niagara landscape interface which would sample the landscape heightmap but... I am not using landscape, just meshes directly for the ground and stuff. So what is the alternative? Can't really just sample the SS buffer because that would pick up treetops too..

Unreal Niagara/VFX Question. Thinking about adding a "ground mist" effect like particle spawns close to the ground and flowing along (for rainy/stormy/misty weather). If the ground is just meshes (not landscape) how could I do this?

I guess maybe grab the sweep result from the SetActorLocation and only apply the rotation if InitialOverlap = false?

First house design done!

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@WeVennStudios Not yet! I need to decide on a name for the game first and naming things is HARD 🤣

@DMeville Cool! Are you guys on steam?

Working on cleaning up the wallpaper/flooring items. Got proper previews in the house now!

@WeVennStudios Cozy multiplayer fishing game, decorate your house/boat with your friends as you explore the islands and catch all the fish!

@DMeville Cleaning wallpaper/flooring... proper previews in house now. What kind of house building game is this?

System is easy to set up with as many different materials for flooring/wallpaper as I want (even animated ones!) and they're all colour-customizable just like all other furnitures!

Doing this kind of UI stuff is my least favorite gamedev thing though. I'm struggling so hard to make a passable UI. Adding animations does make it instantly feel way more fun though!

Made this little item details panel today

@LowpolyLili Fantastic work! It's so pretty!

I had the opportunity to write an article about my latest environment, Evergrove and how I tackled building the environment! Link to article: 80.lv/articles/sculp…

(trying to design a "details" panel in the inventory, that shows item preview and other info, thought it looked like a playing card. Maybe I should make a tcg)

Crab trading card

Making some huge placeable building parts, I realized I can't take them to the customization shop to change their colours like normal furnitures, so I added paint that you can drop on any item!