Unreal Engine 4
Vive Motion Controller UE4 Bindings
Getting the Vive motion controller buttons and axis bound in UE4 is one of the first steps to playing around in VR. I had to dig into the UE4 code a bit to find out […]
Unreal Engine 4
Unreal Engine 4
Emitter Not Following Skeletal Socket
There’s a major bug in our project that is exhibited by beam particles that are not correctly emitting from the socket location that the emitter is attached to. The problem has been seen in every […]
Replication
Character Movement Replication in UE4
There’s a piece of documentation on the official UE4 site that briefly discusses different methods for replicating Character Movement over the network. It explains 4 different methods for replicating new movement abilities and goes on […]
Unreal Engine 4
Using Animation Blueprints with Matinee
I recently did some matinee scenes in UE4 and came away feeling like I was using the tools wrong. That’s probably because I’m a programmer with no animation skills trying to use tools meant for […]
Shaders
Nebulas, Stars, Random Numbers and UE4
For the last week I’ve been catching up on ways to render stars, nebulas and space in general. The learning curve is quite steep and I’ve absorbed enough to finally feel like the firehose has […]
Perforce
How to use Perforce in UE4
Intro Perforce is a source control repository used to track and control changes to files. You should read the official perforce docs for UE4 first. Then come back here for more details. The benefits of […]
Perforce
Setting up Perforce on Azure for UE4
Today is one of those fun days where I get to wear a few different hats in my independent game development career. We’re bringing some interns on and we need a better way of collaborating […]
Reverse Engineering
UE4 Platformer Game Analysis
My journal from the dissection of the platformer game sample. PlatformerGameMode.h Contains a custom state enum for tracking the states of the game. Also exposes this through a getter but there’s no setter, the state […]
Unreal Engine 4
1,000,000 Stupid Questions for UE4 Developers
Please note that this post is from a time where I knew nothing about UE4. It is full of things you should probably not try and mimic. I’m leaving it here for posterity sake but […]
Unreal Engine 4
Packaging Unreal Engine Editor
Packaging Unreal Engine After building the latest 4.5 editor, I needed to package it up and move it to another machine. Figuring out which folders were required took me awhile, so here is to saving […]