Ludovic Chabant

I haven't checked Twitter much in the past few months but still had my posts cross-published here from my website. I'm turning it off now and you won't see me here anymore. Check out Mastodon, Bluesky, or my RSS feed instead. So long!

“If you’re you're saying that you don't even have to pay a license to that person to use their work to create the product that's destroying the market for their work—I just don't understand how that can be fair use.” — Judge Chhabria

@ayoROJO Hi there! Yeah that's me :D To be honest though that's quite low priority... I'll see if I can get some basic support done for the next release though. Thanks for checking it out! (btw I'm not much on Twitter anymore, find me on Bluesky/Mastodon)

@ludovicchabant Would you be the guy to save Gameplay Cameras and add ortho support? 🙏

The “Ambiguous Cylinder Illusion” is one of my all-time favourite optical illusions (the squares overlapping while the circles don’t really kills me!), but I had not seen the “interactive applet” that lets you inspect how the illusion works. Genius! futilitycloset.com/2024/11/22/rou…

One of the key elements of good character design is that you should be able to recognize them by their silhouette. George Lucas is a well designed character.

My Friday group played Mutant Year Zero for a few months a couple years back, and here are my notes on it! Hopefully this is interesting and useful to anybody planning to run it. #TTRPG ludovic.chabant.com/blog/2024/11/2…

Goodbye public market, hello little False Creek ferries. I love taking the little boats!

We have arrived! Food acquired.

Out and about along the seawall

This is a really cool typographic website for the history and presentation of a new typeface inspired by the old-school Heathrow Airport signage. airport.revolvertype.com

The original “How To Train Your Dragon” animated movie is an absolute gem, and one of my favourite movies… of course they’re re-making it as a live action movie. It looks well done and seems to match the original shot by shot soooo… once again, what’s... ludovic.chabant.com/blog/2024/11/2…

“A little-known Canadian wartime tragedy left a lasting mark on international law”: this is an interesting bit of history that ties the modern International Criminal Court, WW2 Nazi war crimes, and a WW1 Canadian hospital ship. theglobeandmail.com/gift/38d5ba805…

“The Reality Of Tariffs In Tabletop Gaming”: Steve Jackson Games’ Meredith Placko lays out what the next US presidency might mean for the #TTRPG and board gaming markets. sjgames.com/ill/archive/20…

This article from NiemanLab titled "I’m a journalist and I’m changing the way I read news. This is how." didn't start particularly well for me. It read less about ways to read the news, and more about the inability of some people to just, you know, keep th ludovic.chabant.com/blog/2024/11/1…

This is your reminderthat ever since video games moved to online services and proprietary servers, they effectively stopped being a form of art. They’re just “content” and “monetization” until they’re thrown away. Want to work in video games? Stick to... ludovic.chabant.com/blog/2024/11/1…

Apparently cheese heists are a thing now? Where is this “cheese black market” they mention? Is it just average cheese cut with low quality cheddar to increase margins? (First slice is free!) Or can I get French imports of good, rotten, stinky cheese?... ludovic.chabant.com/blog/2024/11/1…

I wasn’t paying attention to the changes in PC hardware these last couple years, so imagine my surprise when my employer sent me this 8TB storage to add to my workstation, while my home NAS still has giant old school hard drives with half that capacity…

Netflix (2018): Thanks to stock value and a head start on streaming, we have more money than anyone to finance the white whale projects of Scorsese and Orson Welles, where box office receipts won't matter, only the art. Netflix (2024): Wanna watch a YouTuber fight an old man?

Journalism fail: you discover breakdancing and don’t care.

@QuodSoler @Black_Eye_Tech And yes, the Single Director only ever runs a single rig. Other directors give different ways to do your camera logic/state machine/etc (BP, StateTree, C++, etc.). The Priority Queue director is half-assed right now, I'll soon give it some attention and love.

@QuodSoler @Black_Eye_Tech Yeah Twitter isn't the best for feedback! Feel free to email me... both my work and personal emails shouldn't be hard to find ;) You can also find my on most UE Discord servers (although I barely ever post). Or whatever else you like.

I have yet to play with the new Unreal Engine Gameplay Cameras feature. If this can replace the old Camera Modifier stack system or at least make it more user friendly this is going to be a really big win. Maybe the devs at @Black_Eye_Tech have also played with this?