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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@runevision Yaaas, love this effect
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The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 01:16:37 JST
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I only just recently noticed that my blog post links weren't generating nice "cards" in Mastodon. I'd set up my Hugo blog to generate Twitter card metadata years ago, and I thought Mastodon pulled that same data, but either it never did and I missed it, or things have changed. It's easy to fix, you just need to include this line in your theme inside the <head> section:
`{{ template "_internal/opengraph.html" . }}`
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The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 00:46:22 JST
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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 Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 23:59:13 JST
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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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The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 23:36:19 JST
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@psychicparrot42 the absolute bugger is that these giant companies burn a ton of money putting everyone else out of business, leaving you with few options. Competition law has been left on the floor for too long. I often try to buy local even if it costs more but for some things it's just impossible
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The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 21:38:03 JST
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Come on Pip, my code isn’t THAT bad
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The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 21:06:16 JST
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I generally enjoy biking everywhere, except the rare days when I get horizontal sleet in the face and feel like I’ve had Botox 🥶
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The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 20:41:20 JST
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Yeah. 🙁 Literally the only reason I can do this is that I’m funding it from past successes (non-game in my case). I’m guessing a bunch of previously successful indies will do the same. But after that? 😕
I’m a ageing dude now, I don’t have to worry about a “future” career very much so I’m lucky. If I did, I’d definitely think twice about going all-in on the games industry. I tried when I was young & failed to get hired, & I think that was secretly a blessing
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@wirepair you have to have one of the pipes with a T at the end and be crouching when you do the stealth takedown. I only started getting it in the 3rd area
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The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 08:38:58 JST
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I just admit I’m having enormous, timely fun hitting Nazis in the nuts in The Great Circle. There’s a specific animation for it. Nice work, animator who made that one
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The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 01:23:40 JST
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@psychicparrot42 @JeremiahFieldhaven @crussel I usually write all my "systems" in C++ but I've been writing more BPs than usual this week mainly because it's all player-facing in-game visual interface type stuff and that always feels better to noodle with in BPs because of all the tweaking
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@unjello @logicalerror yeah I belatedly reached the same conclusion
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The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 01:16:18 JST
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I’d been keeping my abandoned Xitter account live solely to protect against imposters stealing the username, but you know what, I don’t even care anymore. Anyone still using that place should know better, so who gives a toss? Deleted.
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The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 21:21:20 JST
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@PatHightree yeah maybe if I moved it to another key I don’t reach for it would be ok
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The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 20:36:20 JST
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OK I've turned off Rider's "Full Line local LLM completion" thing. It was useful sometimes, especially when dealing with tedious boilerplate, but it's become too annoying at jumping in when all I want is a variable name completion and Tab makes it spit something more complex in there. Sometimes it's right, but a lot of the time it's not and I'm tired of backspacing over it, on balance I think it's not a net positive. So ends my one use for (local) LLMs
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The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 20:33:04 JST
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@jkb I think for me it was the Thai flooded cave rescue daft sub idea, then dogpiling the guy who *actually* saved people and called him out for talking BS and wasting everyone's time. That's when I realised "oh this guy is just a rich idiot, and a really nasty one"
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The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 19:32:28 JST
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I can’t understand people who leave a negative review on a niche little indie game where they kinda liked it but want to make a bunch of snarky points about how it could have been better. You’re not Roger bloody Ebert, and this isn’t a multi million pound company asking sixty plus dollars. Give them a break and just move on, ffs. Didn’t your Mum tell you that if you don’t have anything nice to say, say nothing at all?
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The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 00:53:56 JST
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Updated my blog post on manually positioning Niagara particles because having needed to use the Niagara debugger today, I noticed the setup I previously had would accidentally endlessly grow the number of particles, basically forever, if you re-used the systems. So that's fixed now. #unrealengine https://www.stevestreeting.com/2025/01/09/niagara-particles-setting-positions-manually/
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The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 21:45:33 JST
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@reidrac 100% signalling the base, denying until the balance shifts so they don't have to anymore 🙁
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