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Alien 👽 Max | gamedev 🇺🇦 @alienmax.bsky.social · 12h

About my little genius, again. I never thought about Lerp mathematically. I was making material in Unreal Engine, my 11 year old son came up and saw that I used a lerp with black color. He said: you can just multiply. I can show you how to make your lerp #UnrealEngine #UE5 #tips #gamedev

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Alien 👽 Max | gamedev 🇺🇦 @alienmax.bsky.social · 15h

I like your image, it's very atmospheric. As a character, a ghoul with a philosophy in the Fallout world and a bit like a character from "True Detective."

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Alien 👽 Max | gamedev 🇺🇦 @alienmax.bsky.social · 18h

In honor of Saturday, I'm going to show you something new. My sci-fi puzzle game will feature devices that ride on rails. In 15 seconds you saw the basic part gameplay, energy devices and terminal. Steam soon #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #UnrealEngine #indiegame #scifi #indiedev

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Alien 👽 Max | gamedev 🇺🇦 @alienmax.bsky.social · 1d

My previous game was in Unity, and I didn't have this opportunity :) Unity opportUnity. Ha-Ha. Something is vibrating strongly in my head today
#Unity #gamedev #jokes

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Alien 👽 Max | gamedev 🇺🇦 @alienmax.bsky.social · 1d

WOW. Is this a sick thought on my part or is this a typical thing because I'm new to this. This way you can do localization without saving textures in all languages where you need to display text, and create textures for materials - a layer with text, having only dictionaries #gamedev

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Alien 👽 Max | gamedev 🇺🇦 @alienmax.bsky.social · 1d

Remember the terminal I showed earlier? I wanted to make it possible to change the text in the holograms on scene. I thought, maybe Unreal Engine could render widget to texture? Wow. This is brilliant. The text can be in any font in any language

#UnrealEngine #tips #gamedev #UE5 #indiedev

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Alien 👽 Max | gamedev 🇺🇦 @alienmax.bsky.social · 1d

Unreal Engine from my 11 year old son. He started experimenting with Blueprints. I showed him how to make a collision event, he figured out the rest. Because visual programming is very intuitive and similar to other. He called it a sphere of Half-Life 2 #UnrealEngine #gamedev

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Alien 👽 Max | gamedev 🇺🇦 @alienmax.bsky.social · 1d

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Alien 👽 Max | gamedev 🇺🇦 @alienmax.bsky.social · 1d

Unfortunately, Unreal Engine cannot work in this mode, PC need energy. But in 2022-2023, this is how I finished the game Erra: Exordium, because the 2D game and Unity worked on the laptop and the battery power was enough.

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Alien 👽 Max | gamedev 🇺🇦 @alienmax.bsky.social · 1d

Tonight, evil attacked our country's energy facilities with missiles. Parts of the city have no electricity, I still have it, but the voltage is jumping and it's better not to turn on some devices. The batteries are charged, water supply is ready. We already went through this

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Alien 👽 Max | gamedev 🇺🇦 @alienmax.bsky.social · 2d

My message is that unemployment falls on the shoulders of those who work, the bloggers I hear references to this topic from don't talk about dogs and cats, they only express dissatisfaction with why they have to pay money to those who have not worked for years

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Alien 👽 Max | gamedev 🇺🇦 @alienmax.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote that this is a different topic) and you got so worked up about it. This is not a topic that scares as much as AI and unemployment that will or may be. Here's what's better to discuss

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Alien 👽 Max | gamedev 🇺🇦 @alienmax.bsky.social · 2d

If even 1% of people who receive this money don't want to work, then that's a cool statistic. I heard from bloggers that there are a lot of people in Europe who live on benefits, have a lot of children and don't work, and that's a big problem.

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Alien 👽 Max | gamedev 🇺🇦 @alienmax.bsky.social · 2d

I mentioned it in one sentence and clarified that it was a different topic, not for this article. And you got hung up on it and I immediately understood why, because you went through it and received money when you weren't working.

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Alien 👽 Max | gamedev 🇺🇦 @alienmax.bsky.social · 2d

And the fact that there are countries where people are paid money, benefits, which completely de-motivate them from working, did I make something up? and I wrote that this is a completely different topic, which I don't want to write about because it's an obvious topic

Alien 👽 Max | gamedev 🇺🇦 @alienmax.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not saying it's cool if people become physical appendages, it's just one of my theories in which the emphasis was on something completely different, not what you wrote. 1. Knowledge loses its value. 2. There will be high unemployment.

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Alien 👽 Max | gamedev 🇺🇦 @alienmax.bsky.social · 2d

I know you love it when I show you some Unreal Engine stuff, and even more, when I show you the code. So, today I remembered one of the tips related to InvLerp node. I call this image stabilization for 2 colors

#UnrealEngine #UE5 #tips #gamedev #indiedev #shader

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Alien 👽 Max | gamedev 🇺🇦 @alienmax.bsky.social · 2d

As always, my sick thoughts in the form of a prediction about what will happen next... AI and us, the value of what you know is falling in price

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#ai #future #civilization #profession #vacancy #job #life

Your knowledge is now worth much less… What next?

We choose a specialization and spend a lot of time studying. We need to get as much knowledge as possible. Knowledge is our key during…

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Alien 👽 Max | gamedev 🇺🇦 @alienmax.bsky.social · 2d

WOW, I've never heard of such cameras that worked with floppy disks

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Alien 👽 Max | gamedev 🇺🇦 @alienmax.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not a photographer, so I don't know which is better. The photos that these soap dishes make are strange, compared to what a smartphone makes. The older the camera, the thicker the face ))

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Alien 👽 Max | gamedev 🇺🇦 @alienmax.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not a photographer, but here's what I have. Before phones took better photos, this is what we used. If you're careful with your technology, even 20 years later it can still give you memories of the past, especially when you forget the memory card with the photos in it.

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Alien 👽 Max | gamedev 🇺🇦 @alienmax.bsky.social · 3d

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Alien 👽 Max | gamedev 🇺🇦 @alienmax.bsky.social · 3d

I really like playing with materials in Unreal Engine. It's like a break from creating gameplay. You probably know that my Sci-Fi game will have a variety of energy. I like VectorToRadialValue node, so, here's another prototype

#UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #indiedev #shader

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Alien 👽 Max | gamedev 🇺🇦 @alienmax.bsky.social · 3d

I made gameplay of inspecting objects a long time ago, but only yesterday I realized that if the location is dark, the object is hard to see. So I added lighting. Sometimes logically obvious things don't appear right away #gamedev #indiedev #UnrealEngine #scifi #videogames

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Alien 👽 Max | gamedev 🇺🇦 @alienmax.bsky.social · 4d

I continue the topic Unreal Engine from my 11 year old son. He made the energy field material and ask me about distance, I told him - try Distance To Nearest Surface node. He twisted it a little and improved the field to reflect hits. I said: WOW, I want it too #UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #indiedev

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