The massively anticipated revisit to the birds in Niagara. This time, I take more care to explain the whole process, as well as provide the means of creating some basic movement, as well as an animation handler to handle all of the animation states our bird will get into.
Read MoreLearn about mip levels in UE4, using Texture Groups, creating your own, settings mip levels, and forcing an object to load at it’s highest mip levels.
Read MoreThis post talks about how to analyze and optimize your blueprints in UE4!
Read MoreKelly and I just released our first Fortnite UEFN creative map. Here I cover how we went through the publishing process, what we learned, and some helpful tips and resources to make your publishing process go over smoothly!
Read MoreMy chili recipe that I love so dearly. I make this all the time and it makes many portions, and tastes amazing!
Read MoreLooking to start creating games in Fortnite Creative 2.0 or UEFN (Unreal Engine Fortnite)? This will walk through UEFN, the Verse Scripting language!
Read MoreThis post covers the culling methods in Unreal that you would use in your game! View Frustum, Distance, Precomputed, and Dynamic Occlusion Queries are covered along with any associated volumes.
Read MoreLearn the basics of creating Blueprint Function Libraries in Blueprints as well as in cpp (c++).
Read MoreLearn how to make and use static classes in Unity Game Engine.
Read MoreRecapping 2022 and looking forward to 2023!
Read MoreHere we cover the basic steps and common pitfalls when setting up box triggers in c++.
Read MoreLearn how to create and play multi-surface player footstep sounds from animation data. Inside of UE4 (Unreal engine 4).
Read MoreLearn some tips and tricks to utilize the tools that Unreal provides you to take better advantage of your RAM usage on multiple platforms. Find bloated assets and then minimize their effect!
Read MoreUnreal has great native LOD tools to automatically generate LODs for Static Meshes and Skeletal Meshes. There are also great tools for Particle Systems. Niagara Systems also can use scalability settings to fit different platforms. Here I cover the basics of all of these different LOD systems.
Read MoreLearn how to make log categories, log to screen and output console in UE4 cpp (c++).
Read MoreI often repeat code, and when I create packages, I make multiple versions, and struggle copying over what I need and keeping the files up-to-date. Luckily, this can be achieved by having a single version of your modular code that lives on github, whenever you want to update the package, you can make changes, push them up to git, and all your projects will get the new updates. No more copying your files and code snippets from file to file! This is super useful to me as I often work on 4 or 5 projects at a time.
Read MoreIn Game Development, there are tons of tools at your disposal. It's hard to know what's good. Here I go through the tools and engines that I use in my day-to-day work!
Read MoreExploring the UE4 Niagara system, and following in Epic’s footsteps to try and create some Vertex Animation birds that fly around and sit on trees!
Read MoreThe complete, step-by-step guide to localize your game within Unreal Engine, UE4.
Read MoreI started working on an FPS many years ago when I was new to Unreal. It’s time to start a new project and see how I can make one with some new ideas and new techniques.
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