Traditional game dev warm-up for your brain from me... in Unreal Engine. Niagra with static mesh (simplified sphere) and distortion material (I call it space warp). Dynamic parameter to control refraction in material from particle system #gamedev #UnrealEngine #UE5show more

Visual things inspire us to new ideas. I once... created this Unreal Engine material and now I'm thinking of using it in a game. Maybe it's an energy slug? But I've already created a similar entity - an anomaly. Hmm, I'll think about it #gamedev #UnrealEngine #UE5show more

Over Christmas, I'm working on a new #Unrealengine tool... for helping you find possible optimisations and bugs in your levels. 👉#gamedev s out there, what searches would you find useful? In the video below you can see me doing a health check to look for potential static mesh optimisations and bugs. Then clicking through to look in more detail at the static meshes that have their mobility set to moveable #UE5 #gamedevelopmentshow more

#UE5 #gamedev #tutorial #UETips #UnrealEngine 🥳New video is out... on my YT! I go over many techniques commonly used in UE to make characters interact with the ground, water, particles etc. I also break down a system I built to generate your own interaction data from capsules.show more

A new version of SPEAR (A #Simulator for #Photorealistic... #AI #Research) just dropped! 🤓 SPEAR lets you control any #UE5 #UnrealEngine game from Python. You can any call UE function, render photorealistic 1080p images at 55 fps, and it works in standalone shipping games.show more

Crimson Desert has this surface shader.. It has a... transformative effect on the game visuals and it's seemingly applied to every object in the game. It doesn't look like tessellation, it appears to have artifacts from a screen-space effect. I believe they are using the height maps from every PBR material in the game to create some sort of screen space displacement mapping.show more

Particle explosions 🎇, volumetric illumination using pre-rendered lightmaps and... multiple lights (point, directional). I strongly prefer Unity's default particle system over VFX Graph for these kinds of effects. The latter is overkill, cumbersome to work with, and really only necessary in instances where you're working with data directly from the GPU (and/or extremely high particle counts). #unity3d #gamedevshow more

You know I love Unreal Engine. I finally got... to the stage where I started practicing optimization. For 4 hours I tried to make the glass with ice not only outside the window in reality, but also for the game. I made several variants and even interesting patterns for UV, which I will show later in separate "learn stuff" videos. The summary of this video is obvious, refraction and transparency eat like a big whale. So I had to turn it off and do it through a mask.show more

⚽ Day 41 of building my soccer game solo... in Unreal Engine 5. Tonight we added better animation logic to the drag back turn. The sole of the foot rolls the ball back, the ball loses momentum, then a notify state kicks it forward with physics enabled for a more realistic feel. Up next: I'll be developing the same logic for normal dribbling animations, then more turns. I'll need to begin blending animations together which has proved to be quite difficult! #indiedev #gamedev #soccer #football #unrealengineshow more

Something cannot come out of nothing; that is the... ultimate “magical system” modern science wants you to believe. Even for the Big Bang to happen, something must have existed before it. Therefore, everything is energy, and the material Universe is only an illusion created from electromagnetic waves — just like you create an entire universe when you sleep and dream through your electromagnetic thoughts. God is the infinite, ultimate energy, vibration, and frequency that causes everything to exist, and we are made in His image because we exist on every divine level of the Tree of Life. In the Kabbalistic system, it is divided into 10 or 13 Sefirot; in the Kundalini system, it is divided into the 7 Chakras; and in the Ancient Egyptian tradition, it is divided into the eight parts of the soul. The material Universe is the lowest realm, where energy is the most dense, and the highest material form is the plasma body.show more

While learning Unreal Engine 5, I decided to port... over most of Hyperion to it to see if I could potentially move my workflows over to UE5. Although it worked decently well, it didn't work well enough to allow me to change over entirely. Hyperion is simply too complex of an asset for real-time workflows (or at least is limited due to my knowledge of said workflows). 131 4K-8K UDIMs at over 8 channels and a solid amount of shaders with layering being the biggest bottleneck. I couldn't even match the shading setup to what I have in RenderMan, UE gave me a warning that the material was too complex. I was using the new Substrate materials, which mimic RenderMan LAMA shaders. The render below is using the pathtracer. As you can see there are some random flickering parts which I couldn't fix during my tests. This render of course doesn't have any displacement either (which Hyperion heavily relies on). I think Unreal Engine has a very bright future, but it is still limited by todays hardware technology for high end VFX work. Maybe in a few years I will give it another try when hardware improves and the engine becomes a bit more versatile in feature-set.show more

That was the most hyped I’ve ever been from... a Chargers win in my LIFE. You can judge me for that, since this isn’t a playoff game, or a Super Bowl….. But the up and down emotions I experienced with tonight’s game was unreal. Seriously shoutout to my fellow Chargers fan. We deserved this. We deserve some epic crazy stuff to happen to us every once and awhile. Period. I love you guys. #BoltUpshow more

🚨 SCIENTISTS ARE USING AI TO MAP A HIDDEN... “CLEANING SYSTEM” INSIDE THE HUMAN BRAIN AND IT COULD CHANGE HOW WE UNDERSTAND SLEEP, AGING, AND NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE. It’s called the glymphatic system a vast network of fluid channels that flushes toxic waste from the brain while you sleep. For years it was almost impossible to observe in detail. Now AI-powered imaging is revealing it like a living galaxy of microscopic rivers and pathways inside neural tissue. Why this matters: Your brain produces toxic proteins constantly. The glymphatic system is one of its primary waste-clearance mechanisms clearing the very proteins linked to Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and other neurodegenerative diseases. But here’s the unsettling part: This cleaning system becomes dramatically less efficient with age, poor sleep, stress, and brain injury. Sleep may not just “rest” your mind it may literally wash your brain. The deeper implication is staggering: The brain isn’t just a computer. It’s a dynamic, living network that constantly rebuilds and cleanses itself in real time. The more we map it, the more it looks like an entire universe of connected energy flows inside our skulls. What if some neurological diseases begin when the brain can no longer properly “wash” itself at night? Follow for more frontier neuroscience and future technology.show more

claude fable 5 is live. spawn 5.0 was built... with it: 1,687 prompts, 102 sessions, my job shifted from architecture to judging taste. what we built, each of which would've been at least a month with a whole team on opus: — a from-scratch physics engine (mantle) that rivals rapier, testable in a day as a side thread — clustered froxel lighting: 8 lights to 1,000+ fully dynamic ("it's stupid fast" — creator of threejs) — realtime diffuse GI on webgpu, on your phone (landing in the next update) — million-particle gpu vfx with a shader architecture beyond what unreal and unity ship — mmo-scale netcode plus, for good measure: an (alpha) native ios app. all of it in about a week. all of it running on mobile. and the list doesn't include half of what we shipped — full changelog in the thread below. and the part the benchmarks won't show you: this model has a wonderful personality. it's genuinely funny. i laughed so hard i cried multiple times, mid-physics-rewrite. the genius and the character aren't separate features.show more

Colin Morikawa hits this unreal shot…using a 9-Wood! Formally... thought of as a club just for seniors, pros have started putting them in the bag. Anyone out there game a 9 wood? I need to try one. If it works for Colin, my ego shouldn’t stop me from trying one. But it just seems weird. I guess I should start with a 7 wood…show more

Comparing my animation from last year to this year... (oof🫣) 2024: me just messing around in Unreal Sequencer to teach myself gameplay animation and learn UE blueprints and environment tools. 2025: realized I couldn't figure out the nuances of gameplay animation out on my own, so I took a class. I wanted to make a real game for Steam, and I thought the Halloween characters from my old educational project would be fun to use again in a whole new game. One year of practice can really make a difference! Don't give up! #gameanimationshow more

AI-Powered weed control! 🌱 The LaserWeeder machine from Carbon... Robotics has captured the imagination of American farmers. This technology uses AI system to identify weeds in crops and zap them with precision thermal bursts from lasers. Bit of facts about the cool robot: → The machine can remove weeds from over 40 crops and can also be used for thinning crops. → It can operate in virtually all weather conditions, with millimeter accuracy at all times, and can work through the night thanks to its built-in lighting system. → High-resolution cameras and computer machine learning enable it to distinguish weeds from crops in milliseconds. → The LaserWeeder can replace about 70 workers on farms where manual weeding is used, and can weed up to four acres per hour. What other applications can we expect to see in the future in farming applications? Btw. I believe farming robots are A HUGE THING in robotics! 🔥 ~~ ♻ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →show more