Music Production
Exploring Hardware Interfaces for Game Development
Exploring the use of the Ableton Push 2 in Unreal Engine 4 as a super-powered game tuning device. […]
ue4
Shaders
UE4 High Res Screenshot Custom Depth Mask Clipping
I’ve been doing some composite work in UE4, the final step of which is to use the High Resolution Screenshot tool to capture an image using the custom depth as a mask. What this is […]
Game Dev
VR Paddling System Design
I wanted to document a VR paddling system that I designed a few years ago for a VR game called The Grand Canyon VR Experience. The goal was to simulate a standing paddle board experience […]
Creative
Throne of 1000 Swords Work Log
Well, things don’t always turn out how you plan. This week I wanted to participate in the Chair Challenge in memory of Kelli Paswater. I wanted to take something out of Game Of Thrones. I […]
Opinion
SkookumScript Acquisition & Retrospective
As everyone knows now, Epic Games has acquired Agog Labs, the creators of SkookumScript. I’m excited for the future and happy for the team. I’ve been using SkookumScript since January 31 of 2016. I’ve written […]
Unreal Engine 4
Triggering Overlaps for Level Streaming Actors
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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]