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Hi #PortfolioDay, tech designer here. I make stuff feel nice when you play it and help my peers work more efficiently in engine. Sometimes I post gameplay, other times random experiments, and occasionally I do breakdowns on tech design/art things in #UE4

@clongmire42 @QuodSoler For a GAS ability to affect mover, mover would need to know the historical data of GAS's internals, deterministically. If you grant a sprint GAS ability, at frame 30, mover needs to be able to ask GAS during resim at frame 29, and see that sprint isn't granted, but is at 30 etc

@clongmire42 @QuodSoler Granted I've only done chaos mover so far, but I am expecting regular mover to be the same. I wanted to make a stamina system, and after a couple of failed attempts to have it on the game thread, and send it to mover, what worked is to make it inside a movement state, and export

Nobody teaches you how to build combat in Unreal. Hit detection, damage pipelines, GAS... you're expected to piece it together from forum threads. So I teach it: one free email a week on GAS and combat design for solo devs. Join 750+ → quodsoler.com/unreal-solo-ga…

@clongmire42 @QuodSoler It out via the aux state struct, so gameplay can read it next mover update. If you want gas to influence mover, their re-sim behaviour needs to match up, and be mutually accessible which sounds like a lot of engine change-y work.

FAIL GAMES coming to Steam in August #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #pixelart

UE5.8の新機能「Sandbox」を触ってみた！…少し試してみたい作業をローカルのみでできるの便利！（他の邪魔にならないように、Testフォルダとか作らなくていい） 作業内容をzipでexport -> inportする機能もあって、「ちょっと試してみて」と渡せるのも良き良き portal.productboard.com/epicgames/1-un… #UE5

I'm starting a new series of tutorials that explain the creature's locomotion in detail. We'll go through each part of the state machine and discuss various tricks and non-obvious moments. The rig and animations are free and available for download. All links below:

Since Unreal Engine 5.6 Booleans can now be converted to Bool Branches by right clicking them! Just a very small quality of life update, but it'll make you work slightly faster and make things more readable, similarly to Validated Getters.

@_Jambax stretch* not strengthen. But yeah, I cant remember where but unreal is doing some version of string pulling to make sure the path is the shortest, my best guess is that the issue can be resolved there

@_Jambax I remember running into this when I was prototyping a new AI movement component at work. It was explained to me that this is a case where the recast graph is going through a tile, in a specific order, where the post processing, cant strengthen it out to just two points

Those familiar with Recast/Detour and @UnrealEngine - any idea if this issue is inherent to recast or is it something specific to Unreals implementation? Seems to be something specific to either triangles, or pathfinding across tiles... 🧵

Indeed Unreal Engine is moving to Left-Up-Forward coordinates everywhere, starting with UEFN, and coming to UE5-6 in an incrementally-adoptable way through UI settings and C++ helper functions/macros to ease the transition. This will align Unreal with Y-Up, right handed standards of USD and glTF. Why? Because future 3d tools and ecosystems will be increasingly interoperable and standards-based. There are a lot of missing standards we’ll need to propose, and Team Unreal will be far more successful proposing new things if we adopt and add to existing standards and conventions. The USD-glTF-Maya-Houdini quadrant is the center of mass for complex code-art-pipeline tooling that is highly sensitive to coordinates. (Flipping coordinates when exporting from AutoCAD or Blender is easy enough; changing a movie vfx pipeline is not). Coordinates based on project settings sound like a have-it-your-way compromise but are a combinatorial mess when projects are a mix of code modules and content packages from many independent authors. The best time to make this change would have been 1995, but I believe the second best time is now with the launch of Scene Graph in UEFN.

MotionRig - A modular and procedural animation system. Epic MegaGrant application video.

@GhislainGir I miss it too haha, the phase of a project where you get the figure out the core 3Cs is always my favourite

@MrTapa Lovely stuff! Kinda miss working on movement mechanics...

Managed to make traversal actions in the MM template, be fully dynamic, and not require any markup. All ledge grab anims start from the ground in the data set, so mid-air grabbing has a sho range to force it to pick a frame that is already mid grab. Kinda works #UE5 #gamedev

@dachao1616 With an arbitrary mesh you can find thickness by tracing from the other side, but you won't be able to find any meaningful edges, you can just approximate by doing a one trace from above, or a couple and average a plane from them Here's what avatar does: gdcvault.com/play/1034304/O…

@dachao1616 Not with that type of edge calculations. If you want to use a custom shape you probably need to switch to using sphere traces as opposed to line traces so you get a higher tolerance, and in general the mantling required by the animations here requires an edge and thickness

I'm starting something new with some friends. 😎

@bitkari Best of luck friend. I hope our paths cross again, I wholeheartedly enjoyed making games with you.

Today is my last day at Splash Damage! I want to thank everyone I’ve worked with over the years, and wish you all the best as you create the most amazing games. I’ll keep you posted on what’s next for me! x

@B4DC0FFEE This reads like someone instructed chat gpt to announce layoffs without saying the word and deflect negative outlook towards the company

this is the sneakiest, weirdest way to announce layoffs so far. The amount of mental gymnastic to not say the word and spin the thing into a positive-sounding announcement is mind blowing. This gets full Ooof & Yikes from me.

I've long admired the work of Splash Damage. If we can help anyone land on their feet, we have open roles listed here: romerogames.com/careers. Speculative applications for roles not listed are also welcome.

@clongmire42 @amethyst_videos or is it that MM's further sampling will be based off of the post processed rate and stride warped anims, and thus pick the wrong thing?

@clongmire42 @amethyst_videos In theory, feeding the MM a clamped speed based on the nearest analogue input to speed samples, and then stride warping and changing play rate as a post process should work right, so where would the selection issues come from?

Tune in if you want to see some cool stuff!