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Robert Segal

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Co-Founder @getsetgames @torontogamejam. Working on all things @unrealengine @fncreate (UEFN)/Verse Unreal Newsletter http://unrealnews.sarcasticcoder.com

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Apple’s new Processor Trace instrument is incredible Β· Victor Wynne The new Processor Trace instrument has flown under the radar with this years WWDC announcements but many developers will find it truly indispensable.

victorwynne.com/processor-tr...

17.08.2025 04:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Middle-Aged Man Trading Cards Go Viral in Rural Japan Town A trading card game consisting of real-life ojisan (middle-aged men) are going viral with kids in the city of Kawara in Fukuoka Prefecture.

www.tokyoweekender.com/entertainmen...

08.04.2025 01:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Optimizing Quixel's Dark Ruins Environment in UE5
YouTube video by Tom Looman Optimizing Quixel's Dark Ruins Environment in UE5

Tom Looman is one of my favs in the Unreal Engine UE5 Optimization space. He is trying a new thing, hour long optimization cruises in projects :) I enjoyed the first and look forward to more! I also took some notes on the hellsite. Cheers ! Gamedev indiegamedev

06.03.2025 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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GAS Debugging Tools | Tutorial Unreal Engine provides a number of debugging tools for the Gameplay Ability System (GAS). This article covers the Gameplay Debugger, Visual Logger, GAS ...

GAS debugging tools dev.epicgames.com/community/le...

18.02.2025 12:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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27.12.2024 08:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Gotta go fast- Fixing Unreal’s stalling outliner Unreal’s outliner is probably one of the most used panels of the editor. It’s the main tool for finding and organizing actors in a level, especially when the level is too complex to fin…

Did you ever think that your keyboard might be too fast for Unreal? Neither did I until I investigated a strange stall in the Unreal editor:
larstofus.com/2024/12/01/g...

01.12.2024 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Niagara doodling. Sometimes its nice to make something without a specific goal 🌩️!

#VFX #Unreal #Fun #lightning

25.11.2024 12:29 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Some VFX that I made previously for my project 'Lying Saturday'!
#vfx #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #indiegame #indiegamedev #gamedev #unreal #ue5 #unrealengine

23.11.2024 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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I feel like there's very little Python in #Unreal content.
Not sure why.
Is it because scripts seem difficult to use end users and not so handy?

We can try to solve that issue by adding custom menu entries.

Tutorial: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLEx...
#unrealengine #ue #gamedev #indiedev #epicgames

24.11.2024 10:56 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Made this fun eye customizer in #unreal forever ago, it was a small part of a larger project that I never got around to finishing

#gamedev #indiedev #ue5
#unrealengine5

17.11.2024 00:36 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Here's a quick #unrealengine C++ snippet that simplifies getting valid actor components in Blueprint (and may or may not be a performance improvement according to the quoted post).
gist.github.com/timoxley/36a...

07.11.2024 07:00 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
The game's frontend flow implemented as a StateTree showing a hierarchy of states

The game's frontend flow implemented as a StateTree showing a hierarchy of states

I love this idea of using state trees as general purpose building blocks, and not just for AI:

unrealist.org/dev-log-03-s...

#unrealengine

07.11.2024 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 77    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2
Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada β€” but Canadians can still use it | CBC News Citing national security concerns, the federal government has ordered TikTok to shutter its Canadian operations β€” but users will still be able to access the popular video app.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

07.11.2024 01:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0