Steve Streeting

Also stop fondling that invisible pumpkin you weirdo

(I use Gitea for all my private stuff, it's great)

it's not really practical for public projects unless you want to be invisible. I'll have to console myself with just being a drain on their resources since I sure as hell am not going to pay for anything

You either die young, or you live to see business asshats rub their greasy paws on everything that was once good

GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. Thomas Dohmke wrote that humans are often resistant to change. He said that's okay, but these people should probably find another profession.

Oh piss off into the sun Thomas Domke, I'm not about to take advice from someone who can't even decide whether to grow a beard or not https://www.businessinsider.com/github-ceo-developers-embrace-ai-or-get-out-2025-8

Warning: do not animate while listening to music

Video: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@sinbad/114982563043686785

(Ignore the clipping of his legs through the front of the robe, that'll be sorted out with some weight painting adjustments)

The Seven Voyages Of Steve (@sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place) Attached: 1 image I'm not an animator by any means, but now we're doing all our animating in UE using control rigs that Marie has set up, I think I can do decent enough work with things that are not too complex. We needed a "floating" animation, so I made one

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@sinbad/114982227765465642

I'm not an animator by any means, but now we're doing all our animating in UE using control rigs that Marie has set up, I think I can do decent enough work with things that are not too complex. We needed a "floating" animation, so I made one

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The only thing I do need is support for multiple custom domains. But all of them will be static

bit for loads of things I don’t need.

Typical game dev day. Two tasks which on the surface seemed to be about same level of complexity. On digging into the detail, one took several hours of painful debugging, the other took <5 minutes. Estimation is especially hard in games I find

30 years ago I was that guy who fixed people's printers, or showed them where to click in Excel or whatever. I actually quite enjoyed that part of the job, even though I really wanted to write code instead. So doing both is ok really

When I'm trying to work on our game & someone jumps onto Discord with a support question, I'm always like ugh interruptions 😩. But in the end when I've solved their problem and they go away happy bunnies, it's worth it. It's nice to help people out

In hindsight the CEO who doesn’t know we exist and puts us in dank basement offices is vastly preferable to one that evangelises 24/7 on LinkedIn about the future of AI

On balance I think the world was better when most people didn’t want to touch a computer with a barge pole and it was just weird little nerds like me who thought they were cool

I love how even in 2025 the 7z command line tool signs off with "Everything is Ok"

Merry the black and white cat fast asleep on a blue blanket

Busy Saturday #caturday

BRB, going back in time to give past Steve a slap for deciding to make a multiplayer game

I'm still using an Xbox wireless controller on PC, it has issues but it's basically OK and the Elites were a rip off. There's so many new great controllers coming out, so I keep thinking of upgrading, but every time I do a new "best" one is almost out

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There’s lots of reasons you might want to do this, such as segmented armour which isn’t contiguous but moves like cloth. But it isn’t really advertised unless you look for it https://youtu.be/vrc6IDtCIg0?si=uykXCN5UHc2-DIAZ

So turns out it’s much better to have a single sided invisible 0-thickness mesh inside the real mesh and do the cloth sims on that, driving the double sided thicc mesh like it’s bones. Way more stable, and cheaper to boot.

enough. But while that works with cloth sims, it’s more expensive and has edge cases because it’s actually simulating both “walls”

Probably because this is the first time I’ve used cloth sims, but we have wizards in robes and they need to swish about. Seriously, that’s why they wear them. It’s all about the swishing.

I don’t know why I wasn’t aware of this before but it’s so useful to be able to use a lower detail, single-plane, invisible cloth mesh as your simulated cloth and drive the higher detail, extra thick cloth mesh from that, kind of like a skeleton

bool UMinerCommunicateAbility::ShouldActivateAbility(ENetRole Role) const { // The default implementation rejects cases where the actor role is ROLE_SimulatedProxy // but when you're dead you still need to be able to communicate. So allow it return /* Role != ROLE_SimulatedProxy && */ (Role == ROLE_Authority || (NetSecurityPolicy != EGameplayAbilityNetSecurityPolicy::ServerOnly && NetSecurityPolicy != EGameplayAbilityNetSecurityPolicy::ServerOnlyExecution)); // Don't violate security policy if we're not the server }

Well, technically it was a code comment

Today's weird commit message: "When you're dead, you still need to be able to communicate"

Marie had to do quite a lot of troubleshooting on the cloth sims for this revive animation, because crouching down and stretching forward was breaking it as it stretched, and the cloth would often go through the floor. Looks way better now!

I needed to test interruptions to reviving team mates, because you can be interrupted by getting staggered by damage while doing it. That was totally the reason. But also: psyke!

Video: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@sinbad/114948438163454165

I think in our game universe cats are inherently magical creatures, they just can’t be bothered most of the time. They can revive you with a shake of the tail, but have to be bribed with tuna to do so, & you only have a couple of cans in your pack 😄