Bryan Robertson
@ardbegatron.bsky.social
Senior API Gameplay Programmer at Epic Games
From Dundee, Scotland. Starlink, WD: Legion, Far Cry 4, Splinter Cell Blacklist, Crackdown, APB.
Opinions my own, etc.
From Dundee, Scotland. Starlink, WD: Legion, Far Cry 4, Splinter Cell Blacklist, Crackdown, APB.
Opinions my own, etc.
I think it's true for most Halo games, but hard to notice as they have one of those mechanics where it's essentially hitscan up to a certain distance and projectile after that.
December 13, 2025 at 12:39 AM
I think it's true for most Halo games, but hard to notice as they have one of those mechanics where it's essentially hitscan up to a certain distance and projectile after that.
One way to see this is to play Bloodgulch in Halo CE. If you stand on the top of one base and try to snipe someone on the other, you'll notice it takes time and you'll have to lead them if they're moving. I _think_ the tank projectile is the same
December 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM
One way to see this is to play Bloodgulch in Halo CE. If you stand on the top of one base and try to snipe someone on the other, you'll notice it takes time and you'll have to lead them if they're moving. I _think_ the tank projectile is the same
Because I really wanted the IK hand bones to be randomly floating off in space somewhere, that's really useful. That's why I didn't ask for it to do that you see, because I _really_ wanted it to do that.
December 11, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Because I really wanted the IK hand bones to be randomly floating off in space somewhere, that's really useful. That's why I didn't ask for it to do that you see, because I _really_ wanted it to do that.
Ahh so there's a tickbox to export leaf bones, so instead of not exporting them, it can export them with completely random fucked up transforms. Another amazing feature, well done.
December 11, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Ahh so there's a tickbox to export leaf bones, so instead of not exporting them, it can export them with completely random fucked up transforms. Another amazing feature, well done.
You know, DAWs could really learn a lot about usability from DCC packages. Like for example when you export a .WAV from a DAW, what if instead of exporting your song as is, it randomly added a blast of white noise in the middle?
Or if you change the settings to avoid that, now it adds beeping
Or if you change the settings to avoid that, now it adds beeping
December 11, 2025 at 6:13 AM
You know, DAWs could really learn a lot about usability from DCC packages. Like for example when you export a .WAV from a DAW, what if instead of exporting your song as is, it randomly added a blast of white noise in the middle?
Or if you change the settings to avoid that, now it adds beeping
Or if you change the settings to avoid that, now it adds beeping
Why yes, I would absolutely like to just delete the transform data on a bunch of bones so that they import at the origin. Yes this is definitely a useful feature that should exist.
December 11, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Why yes, I would absolutely like to just delete the transform data on a bunch of bones so that they import at the origin. Yes this is definitely a useful feature that should exist.
The absolute random shit it will just do too. Ahh yes, I clearly want the application to just completely delete all my skinning data for absolutely no reason. Yes, that is a useful feature.
December 11, 2025 at 5:00 AM
The absolute random shit it will just do too. Ahh yes, I clearly want the application to just completely delete all my skinning data for absolutely no reason. Yes, that is a useful feature.
Unfortunately this is one of those situations where I can't just use Unreal's tools and avoid all this confusing, annoying bullshit, because adding my bone in the tools will completely fuck all the animations. Has to be done via a DCC
December 11, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Unfortunately this is one of those situations where I can't just use Unreal's tools and avoid all this confusing, annoying bullshit, because adding my bone in the tools will completely fuck all the animations. Has to be done via a DCC
Hey if you pay me 50 bucks a month, I will transfer the soul of your dead relatives into a rock. You talk to the rock and whenever you imagine what they would say in response, that's actually what your dead relative's soul is saying, you're not just imagining it OK.
December 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Hey if you pay me 50 bucks a month, I will transfer the soul of your dead relatives into a rock. You talk to the rock and whenever you imagine what they would say in response, that's actually what your dead relative's soul is saying, you're not just imagining it OK.
Yeah I'm glad I've never been notable enough to get a huge following on social media, because I absolutely don't have the patience to deal with that!
December 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Yeah I'm glad I've never been notable enough to get a huge following on social media, because I absolutely don't have the patience to deal with that!
For what it's worth people I know who know him personally, speak very well of him. Some people just don't come across well on the internet I guess
December 7, 2025 at 6:48 AM
For what it's worth people I know who know him personally, speak very well of him. Some people just don't come across well on the internet I guess
I find that autocorrect often puts incorrect ones in even when I correctly omitted one
December 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I find that autocorrect often puts incorrect ones in even when I correctly omitted one
I assume it means I need to go searching ancient temples for a wee golden ball that lasers everyone to absolute fuck
December 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I assume it means I need to go searching ancient temples for a wee golden ball that lasers everyone to absolute fuck
Never heard of it, aside from maybe something to do with outputs from the build machine. Not sure if it means an entire build or something smaller like a .DLL or .exe though, as I'm not a build engineer
December 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Never heard of it, aside from maybe something to do with outputs from the build machine. Not sure if it means an entire build or something smaller like a .DLL or .exe though, as I'm not a build engineer
I often come to this conclusion whenever I use a streaming app on my TV and it takes literally on the order of seconds to switch from one selected menu item to another.
Clear that someone just threw together a bunch of JavaScript libraries and said "this'll do!"
No, no it won't.
Clear that someone just threw together a bunch of JavaScript libraries and said "this'll do!"
No, no it won't.
November 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I often come to this conclusion whenever I use a streaming app on my TV and it takes literally on the order of seconds to switch from one selected menu item to another.
Clear that someone just threw together a bunch of JavaScript libraries and said "this'll do!"
No, no it won't.
Clear that someone just threw together a bunch of JavaScript libraries and said "this'll do!"
No, no it won't.
Total piss-take too. I had a Surface laptop that was only two years or so old when Windows 11 released, but it's incompatible. I'm not replacing a perfectly good laptop over this bullshit.
November 25, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Total piss-take too. I had a Surface laptop that was only two years or so old when Windows 11 released, but it's incompatible. I'm not replacing a perfectly good laptop over this bullshit.
I also love how they decided that all user config files should go in My Documents, even settings for games. They also provide no way to exclude subfolders of Documents from OneDrive, so it syncs machine-specific settings between multiple machines.
November 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I also love how they decided that all user config files should go in My Documents, even settings for games. They also provide no way to exclude subfolders of Documents from OneDrive, so it syncs machine-specific settings between multiple machines.
The ZX Spectrum did give me enough of an introduction to BASIC that when they taught me COMAL in school (which is pretty much just BASIC), my programming skills took off really fast.
November 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
The ZX Spectrum did give me enough of an introduction to BASIC that when they taught me COMAL in school (which is pretty much just BASIC), my programming skills took off really fast.
So 99% of magazine listings in ZX Spectrum magazines were completely useless to a beginner by the early 90's
November 23, 2025 at 10:05 PM
So 99% of magazine listings in ZX Spectrum magazines were completely useless to a beginner by the early 90's
Never had an Amiga, they were too expensive. I did mess around a little on the ZX Spectrum, but didn't get too far typing out programs from magazines. By the time I was buying those magazines they all had sections of machine code in them but with zero explanation as to how to enter it
November 23, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Never had an Amiga, they were too expensive. I did mess around a little on the ZX Spectrum, but didn't get too far typing out programs from magazines. By the time I was buying those magazines they all had sections of machine code in them but with zero explanation as to how to enter it