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"The fact that the country has to constantly be in court to fight its own president is really wearying" -- anon

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#Unreal -- Why are the MyBlueprints variables only one by one editable? Also, my coding adventure exporting MyBlueprints ... went quite well, so I wrote it down. tomofnz.wixsite.com/tomofnz/sing...

Level design without the art

He should be sent to the Fletcher Memorial Home in 4 days, not 4 years.

While cleaning my 'users' folder because my drive is nearly full, I found a bunch of clips Rebelle recorded of my 'painting' and stitched them together with ffmpeg and python. tomofnz.wixsite.com/tomofnz?ligh...

youtu.be/rjjxEzpjiyQ?...

This would be a great base for one of those costumes where it's a single person wearing a false attached companion - or however that'd be described. The lady could have her right hand free, and her left hand in the man's head to orient and pose it.

Realistic solo game dev motivator

SortClosest (An input array of mesh components, for example meshes within an actor, relative to some location). These handy functions are super fast to make. #UE5

The alphabet, arranged symmetrically designed by Scott Kim. This is unimaginably pleasing.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=no_e...

2025, Pear-shaped world? Nothing's changed.

He should be sent to the Fletcher Memorial Home in 4 days, not 4 years.

Fascinating reading ; games industry economics for 2025. Presentation slides by Matthew Ball. www.matthewball.co/all/stateofv...

Ethical view of ai usage from Freya Holmér www.youtube.com/watch?v=-opB...

Lesson learned...

#UE5 A small accident avoided using python script in unreal. Audio files that need trailing silence removed... batch process 'em... Now concatenate sounds to play back to back? I made a function to play a SoundCue array using the duration of each as a delay. tomofnz.wixsite.com/tomofnz/sing...

12. Motion

Florentine girls at a Medici concerto [playing midjourney]

I tried to add on my character a #UE5 Fab system 'Interaction Component Push' and failed badly & took all night to scrub it from my project. I decided to try again, and 2nd time works a charm. [I need to hide weapons and tweak hands offsets.] It's by JBS Game Systems: www.fab.com/listings/67a...

Made in Abyss

Wow. It's an honour.

Dreaming about breathing

There is nothing in the desert, and no man needs nothing. Nothing but corpse piles.

iPad doodling when just can't sleep ... already 3am.

#Procreate #FFMPEG #iPad Procreate exported videos may have black frames scattered throughout. While finding a solution that extracts them, I found out the fixed output clip is also far smaller than Procreate's exported clip. Win win! Blog post explains: tomofnz.wixsite.com/tomofnz/sing...

I've been tinkering with making a 'Temperature' driven event component, using Mappings. For example, I want enemies to not aggro until they reach a threshold set by how often their physics has been bumped by players. Repeatedly pushing an NPC angers them, but in a crowd they all respond. #UE5

Random 2am

A tip for planning maps: do them in a numbered zone progression where the map itself doesn't at first have detail, because as soon as other people see it, they'll start to respond with changes and new ideas and start adding in story elements that need to connect clearly, so a simple diagram helps.

A dungeon interior map doodle. I mocked it up in editor then did a Vizcom generate from screenshots to indicate its exterior connections.

From way back, a cover art mockup in an early stage, for Ode Sim Nem.