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C++ Unreal Developer making Games + Plugins
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helmboy.bsky.social
Had an idea on a cleaning/power wash system that was surprisingly simple and works quite well for how quick it was to make.
Power Washing in Sweep City Maybe?🤔
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October 29, 2025 at 11:18 PM
helmboy.bsky.social
Experimenting with some GPU instancing in Unreal, ended up with a nice Dyson Swarm
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September 21, 2025 at 3:58 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
The dreaded road generation I kept putting off...
A lot of boring math later...
Solved the intersections with a generated polygon between the 2 roads, look at those clean lines.
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August 11, 2025 at 9:50 PM
helmboy.bsky.social
guess its time to use linux, sick of #microsoft bricking my drivers with steal updates while im working
August 8, 2025 at 1:18 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
Been building a tool for Sweep City for true spline meshes that can repeat and deform the mesh in the spline while resulting in only 1 draw call, not hundreds of components+draws like the standard method.
Super useful in level design!
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August 5, 2025 at 1:04 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
Trying out some lite cel shading for Sweep City, how do you think it fits the theme and mood?
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July 30, 2025 at 4:33 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
PSA: Beware Unreals Spline system, it doesn't covert tangents to the requested coordinate space, if your using their tangents and not getting a expect result you have to convert them yourself
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July 28, 2025 at 12:41 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
Error the task completed successfully...

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June 15, 2025 at 10:28 PM
helmboy.bsky.social
Turns out spinning is a good trick, new turn table to unload your trash.
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June 10, 2025 at 2:27 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
Think i flicked too hard..
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June 9, 2025 at 4:12 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
Added sweep head colors customizable separately from the body
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May 27, 2025 at 1:03 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
First pass of Sweeper color customization is working nicely
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May 25, 2025 at 11:35 PM
helmboy.bsky.social
Anyone can cherry pick.
May 19, 2025 at 4:40 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
POV: You just unlocked the Ben Swolo upgrade for your street sweeper 💪
New wide sweep attachment hits different when you're built different 🧹✨
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May 18, 2025 at 3:18 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
Points culled to view frustum and uploaded ]
April 15, 2025 at 6:14 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
Finally got SVO controlled LIDAR points working, plugged it into Quantum sleepers system rather easily now it has indefinite living points that can be moved.What a nightmare to make a simple instance quad draw in unreal,unity is 60lines, 800+ W/unreal

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April 15, 2025 at 6:13 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
The wonders of #unrealEngine ... change a line in a shader, now wait half a day to recompile every permutation
April 7, 2025 at 7:22 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
Thanks @landfall.se Now im addicted to Haste
April 3, 2025 at 12:33 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
We got curb generation going, now to take out the trash on it
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April 1, 2025 at 12:40 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
Alright hear me out.... prototype idea for storage capacity display
Bit of Noita inspiration

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March 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
After some good feedback from Playtest 1, ive finished off the storage capacity and added a default indicator into the cabin for when its nearly full.
Have an idea for another indicator, maybe as upgrade that would be interesting...
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March 23, 2025 at 4:27 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
Always enjoyable to read peoples playthroughs in Quantum Sleeper

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March 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
helmboy.bsky.social
Fresh design art pass on our Sweeper 🚛
The cabin gives you that perfect commanding view of the city, with all your controls neatly arranged up top. Perfect for those rainy evening shifts.Playtest sign-ups are open
store.steampowered.com/app/3394420/...
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February 16, 2025 at 10:32 PM
helmboy.bsky.social
🎮 Got tired of clunky data tables and instanced object definitions. Made a system using JSON to define game Stats and upgrades + custom property layout for UI. Now we have a clean way of referencing stats and upgrades + Runtime reloadable for tuning! ⚡️ #UnrealEngine #IndieGameDev #GameDev #IndieDev
February 6, 2025 at 12:35 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
Are you kidding me #unrealengine you just freeze the main thread and infinitely wait for the shader compiler when saving an asset....
GWarn->ReceivedUserCancel() wont do anything since they froze any ability to take input.
Irksome engine.
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January 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM