One reason I kind of grumble about Blutilities is they, eh. I don't like how you launch them. You have to go find them in your folder structure, or stuff them into your menu options up top, bleh. Editor Mode Utilities are nicer for stuff you use a lot, I think? But whatever, you do this:
I missed January, so as bonus, I'm doing a kind of dense topic. UNREAL TOOLING.
So there's two (arguably three) ways of doing tooling in Unreal. One is so simple it barely even merits a post.
You just, make a function, right?
2023-02-10 00:41:00 +0000 UTC
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It's the holidays, and I'm SUPER sorry I missed November, so I wanted to show y'all something silly. I think I've figured out how to handle this Patreon finally, and it'll basically just be me moving into Blueprint and showing Blueprint code instead of C#. So more node networks pictures, less cop...
2022-12-19 22:53:09 +0000 UTC View Post
This is just explaining the FootTrace function, and the why behind the Z instead of the XYZ when doing the traces.
What's With Z Instead Of XYZ
First, let's explain the why. The gist is that you want to distort animation space instead of a more literal pin-foot-to-poi...
2022-12-19 22:43:08 +0000 UTC View Post
What you're looking at here is UE5 ControlRig, though all of this should work fine in 4.27 too. It looks big and complicated, but, really it isn't!
BTW, I went back and forth on how the heck to share this stuff, and settled on "screenshots?". Let me know if anyone hates this, it's the most ...
2022-12-19 22:22:06 +0000 UTC View Post
The BIG HELPERS get to see the bird do a screamy run. Because you deserve it. Enjoy this lil screamy run.
Hooray! I got facial animations working! this was WAY harder than expected, had to go back through and make them all Additive Blends instead of bone-masked blends, or they got really bi...
2022-10-07 19:33:09 +0000 UTC View Post
So I'm working on rocks. Yeah I know, super boring, but. Come on, this is an open world video game. There Will Be Rocks.
These aren't my rocks exactly, these are Quixel asset store things. Apparently they're coral? Cool! Sure, I can see that
2022-10-07 19:30:57 +0000 UTC
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Y'all big-number folks haven't gotten anything lately, so please enjoy this piece of concept that I don't even know if we'll use, makes absolutely no sense from your perspective, but which
I
absolutely
ADORE
2022-08-03 22:24:32 +0000 UTC View Post
I swear these do relate to the game we're making, but a straight read of them by an uninformed party would make you immediately assume a vastly different kind of game, so let's just go with,
I Just Think They're Neat (tm)
2022-08-03 22:22:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Last time I shared concept art that had a lot of the hat concepting process, so figured it was appropriate to follow that up with
ACTUAL HAT!
Getting all of this right was weirdly complicated. That bird's face there is the second, or maybe third iteration of the mesh, which we pushed ...
2022-08-03 22:13:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Next-game of course has a bird again, though we're leaning a bit less realistic. Well, as realistic as SkateBIRD ever was, heh, we're just leaning a bit further still. So boots are in! Boots are fun. Boots let us do all kinds of things, and avoid some major issues caused by the desire of peets to...
2022-06-20 17:32:08 +0000 UTC View PostI'll drop a $3+ tier post of just concept art stuffs, but yeah! Game's coming together pretty well. We ended up shifting to not announcing this year for a lot of reasons. Mostly it's that the original plan was announce (pretty well before game launch), and there's some shifting opinion on whether...
2022-06-20 17:27:34 +0000 UTC View PostSince we're between games, and the current Goals structure only made sense in the leadup to SkateBIRD, I'm changing that around. The main change is that polls will stop being an every-month pick-a-bird thing, and become a more nebulous thing that I just do sometimes. It'll get less nebulous once ...
2022-03-11 18:03:19 +0000 UTC View PostOk, another bird poll!
Caique
Pygmy Parrot
Red Lo...
2021-12-03 21:59:18 +0000 UTC View PostOk, so first: we'll do two bird polls this month probably, to catch up on that.
Then in terms of game news, hey! It's snowing in SkateBIRD if you didn't notice (on PC anyways). Happy holidays! Check out the Office level. It'll stay like that through December, and HOPEFULLY this dang console...
2021-12-03 19:20:50 +0000 UTC View PostBeen ages since we did one of these, so here! Bird poll! Figure out what bird goes into SkateBIRD next. Also, you gotta pick between owls or hawks/falcons this time. May the best predator win!
Spotted Owlet
2021-10-18 23:27:37 +0000 UTC
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Alright! We're finally post-launch, and can start to figure out where things sit.
First of all, I picked one of the randomly previously-suggested birds from folks in here, and added a (American) Magpie! So that's in-game now. But we need to spin the polls back up again, so I'll throw one of...
2021-10-18 18:56:23 +0000 UTC View PostI think we've gotten around $10k over the 3 years of dev? Is that right? It's something like that, anyways - and that is WAY more than I ever figured we'd get from a Patreon. Just a whole bunch of people kicking in a buck or two, a few more kicking in more, and yeah, you're collectively a huge pa...
2021-09-16 14:06:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Just a mini-update to say that we're delaying to Sept 16. Sorry!
Why? Usual reasons. Shipping a game is hard. Hit some bugs, SDK stuff where the old code worked but the new one suddenly didn't, you get the idea. Gave us more time to polish other stuff though, so that's nice!
... 2021-07-29 17:36:10 +0000 UTC View Post
We're putting the demo live a few days in advance of PAX Online, to give folks more time to notice it's there, try it, have fun, etc! We've gotten a lot of "wait the demo was live? and now it's gone again? AAAAAAA" feedback previously, so hopefully this helps.
Demo's...
2021-07-13 16:55:27 +0000 UTC View PostSO YEAH! Some stuff happened. I can finally talk about STUFF.
First - our release date announce hit. On August 12th, for $19.99 US buckaroos, you can be a skateboarding birb on PC (Steam & Itch), Xbox, Switch, and Luna. Well, unless you're on Game Pass, in which case $...
2021-06-16 01:13:51 +0000 UTC View PostHiya folks! My posts will be a bit thin for the next few months, because hey, remember that SOON. trailer we put out recently for SkateBIRD? We meant it. We're jockeying for slots in E3 to, you know, show y'all something cool, and I'm working on the last bits of work now. We're preparing for TRC/...
2021-04-30 20:59:04 +0000 UTC View PostNow we're all caught up. Starlings are probably gonna win that last poll. Now then, CHOOSE YOUR BIRB.
Quaker Parrot
Guacamaya
2021-03-22 22:06:34 +0000 UTC
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Yep, missed Feb in all the excitement. So this month we're gonna do TWO polls. Pick your favorite birb!
Quaker parrot
Starling
2021-03-17 18:41:51 +0000 UTC
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Ok, we're gonna change how the Patreon works for a few months, because I'm really heads-down on shipping the game now. But I got some ideas! So let's start with what I've been doing, then scroll down for what I'm thinking I'll do for Patreon rewards (which hopefully folks think are cool).
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2021-03-17 17:13:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Kind of a general coding post this month, so everyone gets it, since it's more about general approach. If you want development update stuffs, scroll down.
Let's Get Stupid
Anyways, here was the problem: the dang bird keeps skateboarding out of cutscenes!
2021-02-16 19:13:32 +0000 UTC
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This is TIME LIMITED, so don't wait too long. The event ends Feb 9th at 10am, and the demo gets pulled back down. That's next Tuesday! So you got through this weekend to give it a try.
You'll find the demo here: 2021-02-03 18:10:09 +0000 UTC View Post
(Patreon is a giant piece of junk, so I had to post this again, it didn't add the poll to the last one because - it's a giant piece of junk)
I've owed y'all a poll for a while, but wanted to wait until I could show you a WEE LIL' ROBIN!
2021-01-28 18:20:40 +0000 UTC
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So, first we'll do the usual update stuff:
The big news is that I finished ANOTHER level. Office! You might remember some of the geometry from waaay back years ago, in one of the demos we releas...
2021-01-11 22:13:19 +0000 UTC View PostBecause it's December, we're only doing Christmas birds, and birds that match a Christmas'y color scheme. PICK A CHRISTMAS BIRB!
Guacamaya. So festive!
Red Lored Amaz...
2020-12-08 18:42:41 +0000 UTC View Post