Staying Within Your Frame Budget Isn’t Enough on Mobile
crusselI'm making an iOS game at the moment, the first time in ten years I've worked on mobile. I came across an unusual performance issue recently, which in hindsight would've…
Mac Unreal 5.2 Quixel Bridge Issues
Won't run, and crashes the editor If trying to run Bridge from UE5 on Mac results in a) Bridge not starting and b) UE5 crashing, it's the same issue Unreal…
Say Ha-Lua To My Little Friend
It's fine, he's already dead I've always had a soft spot for the scripting language Lua, for a number of reasons: It's lightweight It's fast It's super-easy to integrate into…
Builtin A* Pathfinding in Unreal Engine 4.25
A few years back I wrote Neatly replacing NavMesh with A* in UE4 and ever since I've had a vague notion that it's probably gone wildly out-of-date. As it happens…
Just Cause-style wingsuit/grapple/gliding
I've clocked up over 60hrs on Just Cause 3, and most of it is just gliding about with the wingsuit. There's something very compelling about that calm beauty intersersed by…
VR Hub / Apartment Trashing Simulator
As part of the International Festival for Business last week I helped out at Realspace's VR hub in the Liverpool Science Centre. Realspace have recently set up, amongst other things…
For The Loot!
Match details: join us tonight 20:00 BST (GMT+1), Steam has to be running, and change your download region to UK/Manchester. I'll be hosting as 'chrismcr'. Download the post-jam game here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9KD6ll9l1k…
Escape in UE4
Just over four years ago, for Ludum Dare 23, my friend Pete and I made a game called Escape in C++/OpenGL. The theme was 'Tiny World', which we chose to interpret…
Unity Visibility/Fog of War Effect
Here's a method for 'fog of war' from an old Unity project. This is the kind used in games like XCOM where the world geometry outside the visible range of…
Neatly replacing NavMesh with A* in UE4
I've been working on a tile-based game recently, and I wanted to use A* for pathfinding (NavMesh is overkill, and not a great fit). I could've just written an A*…