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Tom Looman

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tomlooman.com Unreal Engine Developer. Making Courses for Indies & AAA Studios

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Glad that resolved itself (for now), hopefully a non recurring glitch on Teachable

14.08.2025 17:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Good idea, I'll look into this (for native support). Meanwhile you can always email me for a one-off discount code till this works natively.

19.02.2025 22:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks Matt! Turns out Lambdas are pretty sweet once get how you use them

09.01.2025 21:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Animating in C++: Curves and Easing Functions There are plenty of ways to animate or interpolate things in Unreal Engine. The skeletal animation tools for example are incredibly powerful, but none of the available tools in Unreal are very lightwe...

Come for animating in C++ with curves and math! Stay for the the best explanation of lambdas in C++ I've ever seen.

Another banger of an article from @tomlooman.bsky.social

www.tomlooman.com/animating-in...

09.01.2025 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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update on my Slime gameπŸ’š

The dungeon's popularity is plummeting! Only the Slime can make it fun again. Lots of magic sodas are needed to get the job done.

#indiegame #gamedev #techart #slime #game

09.12.2024 16:58 β€” πŸ‘ 807    πŸ” 170    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 13
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Unreal Engine Tutorials Provider of Intermediate/Advanced Unreal Engine tutorials and courses focusing on C++, Performance Optimization, Shaders.

It's that time of year again, Black Friday is upon us! Now is your chance to master Unreal Engine C++ or learn how to optimize your game's performance with one of my courses!

Get $100 off my courses using the link below or use code "BLACKFRIDAY"!

28.11.2024 14:22 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

Thank you so much Stephan!

29.11.2024 18:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks Rob! That's really high praise, I appreciate it a lot!

28.11.2024 17:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Unreal Engine Tutorials Provider of Intermediate/Advanced Unreal Engine tutorials and courses focusing on C++, Performance Optimization, Shaders.

It's that time of year again, Black Friday is upon us! Now is your chance to master Unreal Engine C++ or learn how to optimize your game's performance with one of my courses!

Get $100 off my courses using the link below or use code "BLACKFRIDAY"!

28.11.2024 14:22 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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Unreal Engine 5.5 Performance Highlights The following Highlights are taken from the Unreal Engine 5.5 Release Notes and focus primarily on real-time game performance on PC and consoles. My personal highlights have some commentary on them an...

Unreal 5.5 has a LOT of great additions for profiling, performance and optimization. I've compiled a list of the most interesting changes, with some commentary.

www.tomlooman.com/unreal-engin...

These awesome features and improvements will be included in my Game Optimization Course asap!

19.11.2024 13:08 β€” πŸ‘ 84    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Still reading through the massive release notes of UE 5.5. A lot of great optimizations, so I'm compiling a list of the highlights to be posted soon.

Easy to miss or not understand a change, so I got you covered!

14.11.2024 12:10 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
Performance and frame analysis - Metaphor ReFantazio Practical guide to vulkan graphics programming

Absolutely love reading frame analysis breakdowns of games. Here is a fun one from Metaphor ReFantazio, where many odd things are happening in the frame...

vkguide.dev/docs/extra-c...

09.11.2024 12:10 β€” πŸ‘ 47    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Okay that's nice to know. I'll get this set up once I finally get more active here!

07.11.2024 11:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe time to start posting here too! Hopefully can find some more folks from Twitter!

06.11.2024 19:00 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 2