Sylvain Durand

Annnnnd that's a wrap for portals! Any actor can now cross, the physics state remains coherent, and the scaling is working (the lighting is not coherent at both locations in the video but w/e) There are a few limitations but that's fine :-) #IndieDev #GameDev #UnrealEngine

@lemire Honestly, I was never burned out by doing something hard. I was only burned out by doing something futile.

It's kinda insane how if you really love Programming you should probably not go into the current software development industry because you are certainly not gonna be doing enough Programming to be content with your life.

Collider convexity nightmare turned into poetry Thank god for Unreal Engine 5, but the fracturing tool drove me tiny bit nuts

That moment you decide to give Unity another shot but the playerInput component refuses to trigger events on anything that isn't the editor client & after a couple hours you get hit with these... Back to Unreal Engine 5 I guess, but the custom game engine route is tempting...

Quitting your $300k job as Senior Software Engineer in BigTech to become Founder of the 1000th AI-powered copilot and raising a modest seed is Silicon Valley’s version of joining a gym in January

Binary space partitionning is really cool Dead simple, but still really powerfull Using it here to create a tiled ground with hallways and rooms in Unreal Engine 5

It appears my latest game idea is getting political

Wouldn't it be funny if AI solved the global warming indirectly. Investors pushing lots of money to build new nuclear plants (and even funding fusion research) to make AI training cheaper. When the bubble bursts we have lots of CO2-free energy available.

Trying to stop the user drain I guess? Wonder how they'll compensate the revenu side of this, simply increasing the per seat cost sounds silly x.com/unitygames/sta…

Everything wrong about our perception of machine learning and AI is due to excessive anthropomorphism -- which the field actively promotes.

@GarlicBroccoli @SebAaltonen @GL1zdA There is value in both! A good wrapper on the low level api can work, but it needs to be ubiquitous. Literally thousands of people have written their own easy-to-use glVertex3f() sort of layer on top of high performance APIs.

Quite impressed rendering engineers aren't going extinct given how rare actual good resources are for Vulkan No dig at people making tutorials though, thank god they do Guess you just have to get good enough to get rid of the urge to kill yourself reading the official docs

What surprises me about talented people in tech is their capacity to be brilliant in one area and entirely delusional in another, even within their domain. For instance, those who invented modern machine learning, fully aware of its mechanics and inherent weaknesses, might still claim, "Superintelligence is near; we need to prepare." I want to scream, "How can you, knowing exactly how it works, believe it will soon consume us?" Yet, they somehow do. A language model, however good, is still a machine learning model—a simple mathematical formula whose parameters are only as good as the dataset used to estimate them. Any dataset, no matter how large, has high-density regions, like news articles or fiction books, and low-density regions, like cutting-edge scientific and medical articles. Thus, the model excels in high-density areas and becomes unreliable in low-density ones. Anyone capable of training an LLM knows this; it's common machine learning knowledge. Yet, they persist in saying "superintelligence is near." So, I wonder if it's just human nature to excel in one area and be utterly mistaken in another, or if they are cold-blooded liars causing panic to profit from scared people?

Didn't know wtf I was doing with the character movement & portals. I was mindlessly piling up mechanics but didn't have a game in mind Soooooo, here is me getting sidetracked again and making a multiplayer Vampire Like to learn #UnrealEngine replication #IndieDev #GameDev

@ThePrimeagen Gonnecticut

what should we rename go to?

Not quite ready yet but portals are now handling non-player actors. I did a thing while debugging... Nothing fancy but hypnotising :) #IndieDev #GameDev #UnrealEngine

Scaling a character movement component when crossing a portal ended up being a pain because the component maintains a constant distance to the ground (1.9 to 2.4 cm) Worked my way around that and made portals interact nicely with the custom movement modes, looking good #IndieDev #GameDev #UnrealEngine

Finally done with the portal rendering optimizations, so back to fun stuff: the player is now scaled by the ratio of the portals scale when crossing This should allow for cool level design stuff, but need to implement physics scaling first 🙃 #GameDev #IndieDev #UnrealEngine