I was asked to compile a programming standard for a project. I decided to publish this terse version, it is mostly intended for the blueprint-only programmer. If you are a C++ programmer, follow the UE4 […]
Last year I was so frustrated with compile times in UE4 that I hacked together a script that changed the color of one of the lights in my office to let me know when a […]
This is a short article with a few tips on how I hunt down engine code in UE4. There’s no big secret here, just a series of tools that can be combined by anyone with […]
In our game we use streaming levels to load the player into various interior buildings. The player enters an airlock, which is just a loading screen that they can move around in while they wait […]
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 […]
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 […]
Imagine for a moment that you are out car shopping. As you reach out to open a car door you realize there’s no handle?!? The salesman says “oh yeah, you have to crawl through the […]
Mr. Robot was recommended to me and I finally got around to checking out the pilot episode. I dig the show, I really dig that they made an effort to use real stuff for the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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