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   The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 23:59:13 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

   Most of the advice you'll find online about doing camera calculations like "how do I get a ray from the camera" in #unrealengine are subtly wrong. Here's a simple guide on how to do it right: https://www.stevestreeting.com/2025/01/23/doing-unreal-camera-calculations-right/

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     PsychicParrot (Jeff) 😷 (psychicparrot42@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 00:00:30 JST PsychicParrot (Jeff) 😷

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     @sinbad Good stuff to know, thanks Steve!

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     The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 00:46:22 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

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     I added some gifs to demonstrate the kind of problem you can get using a ray from the camera component instead of from the player camera manager, under some simple camera lag settings changes.

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     The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 02:16:50 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

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     By the way, I wasn't sure if we needed cloth sims in our tiny indie game with relatively small on-screen characters, but I was completely sold on it just from how the robes do a little "swish" when a wizard does a heel turn. Totally worth whatever cycles that's eating 😊

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     Leandro (Cerberus1746) (cerberus1746@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 03:19:00 JST Leandro (Cerberus1746)

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     @sinbad Just out of curiosity
     is there a reason why you didn't auto in the line
     `float HitDist = FMath::RayPlaneIntersectionParam(Loc, Fwd, FloorPlane);`?

     My C++ skills are better average and wanted to make them at least a little average :-P

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     The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 04:55:32 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

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     • Leandro (Cerberus1746)

     @cerberus1746 I usually only auto for types that are long / annoying to type

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     ghosttie (ghosttie@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 08:21:31 JST ghosttie

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     @sinbad subtly wrong - the best kind of wrong