Well, here's another reason I would have had to quit Epic anyway if I hadn't already. I don't care about the non-game industries. 3D worlds should be right-handed Z-up, no room for debate, sorry. - ThreadSky

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nothings.bsky.social • 18 days ago

Well, here's another reason I would have had to quit Epic anyway if I hadn't already.

I don't care about the non-game industries. 3D worlds should be right-handed Z-up, no room for debate, sorry.

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nothings.bsky.social•18 days ago

Character designers need to get over themselves. You're not making a 2d character on a piece of paper with X/Y axes. You're making a 3d character that goes in a world, and that world is Z-up.

liasae.bsky.social•18 days ago

Much to the confusion of my generally-working-with-screen-aligned-2D-planes self 😁

nothings.bsky.social•18 days ago

There's nothing wrong with having Z go in a different direction for UI or even the camera. It's just world coordinates.

liasae.bsky.social•18 days ago

Yup, agreed. It gets messy to think about with in-world UI but then everything gets messy with in-world UI anyway. I just personally get confused because Y == vertical is pretty deeply ingrained

vfig.bsky.social•18 days ago

yes but does +Y go up or does it go down?

as much as i am accustomed to right-handed z-up—why do we have to choose? its all just substitutions and sign flips, isnt it? why cant we build an algebra and tooling that just accepts them all?

nothings.bsky.social•18 days ago

the quote above (from Tim Sweeney) continues by saying that allowing per-project settings will just mess people up between projects or some such, which is fair (I have a similar complaint about subsetting C++).

but my rant I just linked argues that within a single project, we can have differences

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