Aaron Jacobs

PSO Precaching for Unreal Engine | Unreal Engine 5.6 Documentation | Epic Developer Community Use PSO precaching to automatically collect and compile PSOs.

Run with -clearPSODriverCache (check out dev.epicgames.com/documentatio... for more info)

Really glad I don’t have to keep this a secret any more!

News from me! Last week was my last week at Double Fine. It was an exciting time and I am very grateful to have learned so much at a beloved studio.

This means I am looking for work! If you need someone with social media/community expertise, please reach out.

Eager to start a fresh adventure!

We're back, in box form! The second run of PsychOdyssey is now available from @fangamer.com
Get your copy here - www.fangamer.com/products/psy...

Points of interest -

New lower price - $65!
New wallet style series holder

But what's different?

No Steelbook
No individual numbering

Looking down on a snowy slope at Bear Valley, trees on both sides, with a snowboard in the foreground and snow covered mountains in the background.

A view of the bay from Cañada College, facing east from a hilltop, with a bike in the foreground.

Post-GDC ride

Thanks for organizing this! Highlight of my week :)

Best part of GDC!

Game dev friends! If you’re in town for GDC, I’d love to meet up. Let me know if you’d like to grab lunch / coffee!

ATTN: #GDC2025 folks - we'll be doing our annual bouldering meetups at Dogpatch Boulders again this year, so pack your climbing shoes!

Monday March 17, 7am-9am
Thursday March 20, 7am-9am

Open to all skill levels, it's a very chill time. 🤙

My dad runs a landscaping business, and he bought a few F-150 Lightnings last year. They work reasonably well towing landscape trailers around the county, though obviously those aren’t super heavy. His biggest issue so far is with the software (trucks randomly won’t charge, etc.)

A view of snow-covered mountains (along with some sparse clouds in the distance) from Sierra at Tahoe, with a snowboard in the foreground.

Fuming? I thought I smelled something weird in the office...

Behind the Code: On The Move! Raz is an acrobat. He runs, jumps, climbs, rolls, swings, and slides through the world.

Last year I wrote about the movement systems for Raz that we built on top of Unreal’s CharacterMovementComponent. This covers the architecture of our Move Mode system, how a few of our custom modes work, and a bit about dealing with inconsistent gravity.

doublefine.com/news/behind-...

I’ve been using Resolve a lot recently, and this is probably my single biggest gripe with it. I’m curious about things end up in this state. Is it an issue of priorities? Communication of feedback? As a user, it feels like an obvious / easy thing to improve.

Dark Samus, looking forward at her claw-like hand

Me after drinking Dark Monday

Looks like they’re in good company!

Two children sitting in front of an AST Premium/286

Devin's posts provide a fun look into the technical details of Raz's movement, definitely worth a read!

I forget if I've told you this before, but when I was an orientation leader in college (which was a week-long thing), we themed our group after How to Train Your Dragon. I made a silly photoshopped version of the poster and everything. Anyways, thanks for helping to make such a good movie!

For my rendering project, I first parse out the full set of includes for each shader source, then use a directory watcher (via ReadDirectoryChanges() on Windows), and recompile shaders when their source (or any files they include) get modified. A bit of work to set up, but really handy!

Was wondering when this was gonna happen! I love the cover art.

Only if you have a really good monitor

A photo of the 2024 solar eclipse made from a composite of 5 separate exposures, showing detail in the corona.

A photo of the 2024 solar eclipse made from a single exposure.

Finally got around to properly processing my eclipse photo from April. Took me a few attempts to find a good way to blend the individual exposures, but I'm much happier with the result. Significantly better detail in the corona, and less noisy overall. New image on the left, old on the right.

Anti-aliasing /should/ have been consistent when transitioning through the portal (though it's possible there's something I missed). The most likely issue you'd encounter is the blending breaking down at glancing angles. More info in this video at 11:25 (AA) and 19:56 (blending).

I remember being so excited the first time I saw the shard with your custom material setup, it really sells that moment :)

Unfortunately I don’t know too many details about the Mac port (that was handled by ClutchPlay Games, who are fantastic by the way). I know there were definitely a few rendering issues and misc. platform / gameplay bugs that had to be dealt with, though.

Me too, lots of gimbal lock issues in that level :P

Glad to hear it, you definitely should!