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Bandcamp Bans AI Music AI music has become a big problem on streaming services. Remember the Velvet Sundown, the AI-generated psych-rock band from last year with hundreds of thousands of Spotify streams? Remember bands gett...

Bandcamp bans AI music

Even wat tijdlijn cleanen hoor 🥰

Istanbul hosts a sizeable feral cat (Turkish: sokak kedisi, "street cat")Many Turkish citizens view street animals as communally owned pets rather than traditional strays, and the country has a blanket no-kill, no-capture policy

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Experiment is a fantastic friend of mine, and he is about to lose everything in less than a week.

If you have anything you can give, please donate it to his Ko-fi! ko-fi.com/experimentt If you cannot donate, please repost and share his bluesky post as much as possible!

Support a good cause y'all!! World sucks right now! If you can't donate, share the link! Let's raise some money for some kids!

Grandpa Simpson yelling at a cloud

Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!

... and here I was thinking the initial version already looked final!

Have another Free Cross Stitch Pattern that I made for the #NoKings #Protests (though this one is much smaller)

This one honestly feels like it's missing something... but I can't put my finger on it. Choosing to believe my brain is just being a perfectionist and making problems where there are none

Behold. The absolutely terrifying antifa terrorists at the #NoKings Protest I went to in #Kansas

Be afraid of the teachers, grannies, grand dads, and inflatable animals.

Be afraid... Be very afraid...

Almost 800 people were there

I've written a python script + tutorial to send perforce commit messages to Discord.
freetimecoder.net/tutorial/Per...

YouTube video by Unmasked Games Scrapmetal (Full Album)

Unmasked Games is proud to present Scrapmetal, a collection of original tracks composed by our music team. Now available to purchase on Bandcamp!

youtu.be/vBc6BdFJmEY

An Update About Masks of Power Hello, Bionicle fans. For the past eight years, Team Kanohi has been at work creating the Bionicle video game of our dreams. That project has taken many shapes during that time, from Masks of Power: ...

We have an important update to share about BIONICLE: Masks of Power.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Thanks for the breakdown! It's looking fantastic and it feels like way more models than three ✨

No pre-made models? 👀 Is this procgen?

More views of the Tundra

No Nanite | No Lumen | No pre-made models

#indiegame #gamedev #UnrealEngine

Even if Duolingo is helping you as it once did me, deleting your account is the only correct move right now. The company posted record profits, but capitalist greed means they're killing jobs, lowering quality, and will be creating an increasingly inferior experience for increasingly higher prices.

i miss the early internet. people were like “you gotta see this dude. this cat sure is long.” and they were right. it was really long. it never shoulda gotten any more complicated than that.

WE’RE NOT DEAD!

As we enter our fourth year of development today, we wanted to show off a map called Everest which recently hit a large milestone, and an early glimpse at something else, many fans have been asking for… 😉

3D Environment Artists Wanted!
Links/Credit Below 👇 🧵

#IndieDev #Indie #UE5

Monster Crown: Sin Eater - Monster Taming RPG Hand-craft your perfect team of monsters and wage a one-man war against fate in the Crown Nation!

Do you like monster taming games? @monstercrown.bsky.social has launched a kickstarter to bring a new Monster Crown game to life! aand it's already going very well ✨
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mon...

Whenever customizing Unreal Engine, I want to build only what I need. By setting up an example game project with a source build of the editor, only the parts used will be compiled. https://twevs.github.io/2023/06/19/unreal-engine-how-to-set-up-a-source-build.html
#UnrealEngine

Ah fuck, I’m like a year deep into Unreal Engine.

Is Tim Sweeney here? Can we call out this dumbassery? Can Epic replace their mentally compromised CEO?

#unrealengine #epic #gamedev

YouTube video by Unreal Engine Myth-Busting “Best Practices” in Unreal Engine | Unreal Fest 2024

There's a great talk about this topic from last year about Unreal myths, backed by profiler results. "Don't use Tick" is actually the first myth in the presentation: youtu.be/S2olUc9zcB8?...

Forbidden as in bCanEverTick=false? Otherwise if the timer is doing what tick was meant to do you can set the Tick Frequency from 0 to 0.1. Timers are just ticks in a different part of the engine.

You can also use Initial Life Span / Set Life Span on an actor and Unreal will handle the Destroy.

Might save a life.

Same, though then I ditched my utility ai implementation for a state machine graph. Currently investigating state trees to see if they can eventually become an all in one solution, but they are really terrible to debug right now.

The Abbess Garden on Steam The Abbess Garden is a cozy and historical gardening game set in 17th-century France. Play as Agnes, a young peasant tasked to grow plants, find and identify new ones, and decorate the garden. Help th...

A friend of mine released a trailer for her queer spy gardening game: The Abbesss Garden! 🌱 Check it out and maybe wishlist ✨

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Need to visualize some math for my next UE5 tutorial video, so I made some quick visualization Blueprints.

It's possible to set the value of preprocessor defines like `if SOME_VALUE` through your `MyProject.Build.cs` and `MyProject.Target.cs` files:
```cs
// In Build.cs
GlobalDefinitions.Add("SOME_VALUE=1");
```
```cs
// In Target.cs
GlobalDefinitions.Add("SOME_VALUE=1");
```

#UnrealEngine

YouTube video by FreetimeCoder PCG Stalagmite Placement - Unreal 5.5 Tutorial

New PCG Tutorial is out ✨
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cbC...

#UE5 #PCG #procgen