Home Automation
Geeking Out with Philips Hue
I’ve been wanting to jump into smart lighting for a few years now. I finally decided that the Philips Hue system had enough of my desired features to warrant a starter kit. What follows is […]
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 […]
Game Dev
PhysX 3.3.1 Integration Notebook
Changelog July 29, 2014 Updated Rigid Body Section July 24, 2014 Added Rigid Body Physics July 9, 2014 Added details on collision spheres July 2, 2014 Added more cloth tearing info and cloth scale section. June […]
ShiVa
Using STK Packs in ShiVa
Most ShiVa games have a single STK pack file. The reason why is because it’s easy to hit the export button and dump everything into one giant file when you publish. On many PC platforms like Desura and Steam, […]
ShiVa
ShiVa Localization
As we are nearing our first Steam release, we wanted to make a strong effort to localize our game in as many different languages as possible. This brought up an interesting problem involving workflow and […]
Game Dev
Game Design Template for Galaxy Note
As a game developer, I love the Note 3. It has taken the place of my small moleskin notebook. The included S Note app includes many templates, but you can also create your own. Here […]
ShiVa
Quicksort for ShiVa3D
If you ever need to sort a table of numbers in shiva, I adapted this Rosetta Code entry for shiva. — Adapted from http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithms/Quicksort#Lua function quicksort (t, start, endi) start = start or 0 endi = […]
ShiVa
3D Platformer Character Animation Notes
We made a 3D platformer with a constrained 2D view not long ago, obviously in our engine of choice, ShiVa. The main character fired a number of different ranged weapons and generally made a huge […]
Android
Obfuscating ShiVa Games with Proguard
If you are worried about people hacking your ShiVa based game then obfuscation is a good place to start. Obfuscation is very simple to implement in your Android project and is a good starting point […]