long shot but, if @teamcherry.bsky.social ever needed a freelance tech artist I would absolutely love to work on almost anything shader/rendering/art related in their games

beautiful

Hey! New article! This one's about the history of first person shooters, what makes 'em work, and why I like the shooters I like. It's also me lamenting how they've died, and talking a bit about why I want to go ahead and make one.

docseuss.medium.com/first-person...

Unreal 5 CVar tip:
Slate.GameLayer.PlayerCanvasVisible
Slate.GameLayer.ViewportSlotVisible
Slate.GameLayer.DebugCanvasVisible
Slate.GameLayer.AllCanvasesVisible
These let you easily hide all/some of the UI, for a photomode, getting trailer shots, or whatever else you want!

Made a start on a sequel to the first game I've ever made before I was a professional. Now i have the skills to do it in 3D and with multiplayer:

Hello everyone! It's been a while. :)

We would like to thank Time Extension for their recent article highlighting the current financial state of the GPS. We would like to expand on it somewhat and respond to some of the comments left by readers.

www.timeextension.com/features/we-...

Just one of our three cats enjoying the sun.

A day late but there's still tons of info being shared at REAC 25 today, not too late to register!
enginearchitecture.org/2025.htm

Optimizing your game is an environmentally conscious activity and can save a ton of greenhouse gases. Also add a frame limiter, and stop rendering your 3D world behind full screen UI.
SetEnableWorldRendering(bool) in Unreal.

In Unreal you can make specific nodes Development only with hotkeys.
Go into your editor preferences and search for Nodes. You'll see entries for Enable Nodes (Always) and Enable Nodes (Development). I've set them to ctrl alt A and ctrl alt D. Enjoy! ✨
#Unreal #Blueprint

Tiny little shader thing: if you want to add components of a vector together, you can just dot product it with a vector of all 1's. Not always faster or slower, but especially in shader/material graphs I feel it looks better.

No Meta, I don't want to talk to your AI in my messaging app.

Absolutely massive collection of #unrealengine links by the #ue5study group, for everything from BP, Animation, Materials, UMG & C++, to publishing plugins on the Marketplace.

It's in Japanese but there's an "EN" button at the top, if your browser doesn't auto-translate it.

ue5study.com

if you see this quote with a photo of a bridge from your gallery

I see a ton of forums with "optimized settings" for Unreal games, and one is the r.fastvram.* settings being set to 1. This will not help. It's a console variable meant for Xbox One originally. With its tiny (fast) ESRAM of 32MB. You can assign a texture to go in there if the GPU needs it a lot.

There is no "Unreal Engine" starter pack to follow.

So im creating one here: go.bsky.app/S3U5wKj

If you have any Unreal Engine skills, reply if you want to be added. Repost if you can so other people can be aware too.

#UE5 #UnrealEngine5 #UnrealEngine #Gamedev #Indiedev

Big bunch of hopefully helpful info I wrote down for Unreal Devs that have gotten started but aren't sure yet what settings and workflows are optimal: www.torkar.studio/blog/unreal-...

Reposting info from my Twitter:
Did you know you can add a custom view mode to the buffer visualizations in #UnrealEngine ?
In the project's DefaultEngine.ini you can add a few lines to add any Post Process material you've made. I used this for easily checking Ray Tracing cost. (1/3)