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@Universe_Slime_ That makes sense! It's sort of a parallel implementation of Chaos geometry collections, right? I did! Your destruction is looking silky smooth! Let me know if you have any Niagara questions, I'm no expert but I've certainly spent a lot of time working with it.

@RoyaltyGameDev Other than that, when destruction occurs, I track it using BFS starting from the anchor. There’s still plenty of room for improvement, though. By the way, did you see the latest post? After seeing everyone’s posts, I gave Niagara a shot too.

柱や地面などをアンカーとして設定し、接続が途切れた壁が崩壊するようになりました。 トレース不使用で負荷も問題無さそうなのでまずはデモ版に実装予定です。 近々アップデートします。 #ue5 #gamedev #indiedev

@Hevedy Thank you!

@RoyaltyGameDev Oh that's really cool! Nice work!

I've been testing out the tornado in a more natural environment. It's feeling pretty good! #unrealengine #gamedev

That moment of panic when your gun's ejection port springs a leak.

@GameDevMicah Copilot: Walking is the better choice for a 50‑foot trip, but the reasoning shifts depending on what you care about—speed, convenience, effort, or logistics. Claude: Walk. Gemini: Unless you plan on carrying the car, you should drive. Gemini's a bit snarky there.

Frustrated with ai? ask it “I need to get my car washed, the car wash is 50 feet away, should I walk or drive?”

@ari__pc Oh sweet, and it's free too!

Don’t get me wrong I love marathon, playtested it last year, preordered, and played server slam already. BUT HOW THE FUCK DO I COMPETE WITH BUNGIE/SONY AS A DEV DURING STEAM NEXT FEST? bro my marketing budget is white monster and blue check x account

It’s so cool that I was able to discover a hidden gem like Marathon during Steam Next Fest Shoutout to tiny indie studio Bungie and their boutique publisher Sony for finally getting some much needed visibility 🥰

@GameDevMicah Make burgers with them! All of them!

I needed some buns

@GameDevMicah Yes! More BP conversion/optimizations? 😁

@RoyaltyGameDev I’m vibe coding my own right now 🤣

@GameDevMicah I had this idea, what if we could use Chaos to control ISMs... Success! At runtime it assigns ISM instances to GeometryCollection chunks and moves those instances with the chunk. Next step is scaling this up and applying it to a statue.. then maybe a building?

@GameDevMicah There's something to allow geo collections to automatically convert to ISMs when at rest. I'm not sure about ISMs after fracturing.

@RoyaltyGameDev I think they ism or you can ism scrape geo collections too- like a built in tool for it

Kick-start your real-time VFX in Unreal Engine with the new Niagara Examples Pack🚀 50+ VFX systems you can explore, break apart, and adapt to your needs, including explosions, ballistic impacts, sparks, fire, and more. ✨🔥 Out now on @Fab! epic.gm/niagara-samples

@GameDevMicah Excellent! Maybe there's something wrong with the meshes I'm using -- are you using any capsules/cylinders? If your meshes all have flat faces that could explain it.

@RoyaltyGameDev I dunno, It’s working well for me in all occasions, I always have to remesh for more verts tho, and tweak the generation settings and leave the lod offset higher

I tried to build physics object scattering with Niagara, but Niagara GPU collision gets inaccurate fast. My solution? Build my own check. Write world depth to a Render Target and check each particle against the RT. Upon collision, convert to regular physics for final placement.

@JussiKemppainen This game concept looks sick, and I love the tech explanation! Do you prevent the track from looping back on itself, or not worry about that and just regenerate tiles if it loops?

I still need to build procedural forests, cities, roads, highways, canyons and more... It will be very difficult :D

dev day 482: more fully procedural tools. River, railroad tracks and terrain meshes are generated unique in real-time as you play. This one had so many problems to solve it was nuts! Details in thread #solodev #buildinpublic #indiegamedev

@iiioxuuu It's nothing groundbreaking but it does exactly what I need!

@iiioxuuu My previous method placed a large stack of objects via PCG then enabled physics on them. This method places objects near the ground, enables physics for a short time, and saves the object when it comes to rest. I can place objects and resolve physics much faster than before.

I'm building out the tools I need for level design. Previously scattering around 30,000 meshes using PCG+physics ground my computer to a halt. This new niagara+physics method let me make a mountain from 650,000 physics-scattered meshes! Each color is a layer of ~32768 instances.

@GameDevMicah It might actually be the opposite -- on static meshes you really see the flickering. On moving meshes it might not be so obvious, especially if they're moving fast?

@RoyaltyGameDev Maybe voxel for static meshes only? Keep the moving or simulated meshes as traditional ?

@GameDevMicah I got it working with FSAA -- but without using some sort of temporal AA, lumen causes massive light flickering on voxelized meshes. Temporal AA / TSR seems to balance that out.

@RoyaltyGameDev Really! Well we could always figure out a knockoff :) or have …