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Alien 👽 Max | gamedev 🇺🇦 @alienmax.bsky.social · 6h

I'll remind you of the cleaning robot that will be in my sci-fi game, but that's not its main mechanic. I've already written about how to do this (it was in the summer), and it's really easy in Unreal Engine. Drawing Opacity for decals

#UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #indiedev #scifi #games

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

Don't bump me! Because I know kung-fu, I meant Unreal Engine. I will answer you with an offset. This technique is called - BumpOffset. I'm serious, this is no joke :) Today I'm a stand-up comedian from a indie game dev

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

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

How to make a static mesh cable from a Cable Component that responds to physics in Unreal Engine? Spline will help! Is this component may be related to Niagara? When I saw function "Get Cable Particle Locations", I began to believe in it more #UnrealEngine #UE5 #indiedev #gamedev

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

I took this photo in 2005. I didn't know then that 20 years later this object would become a symbol of indie game development for me. This composition embodies everything, and the smoking incense stick is the hope that the player will smell it #gamedev #indiedev

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

Do you also have a folder with hundreds or thousands of videos of what you've done in the past years on Unreal Engine or Unity, that you watch for inspiration? I remembered how fun it was to work on the rover, a year ago, the first successful suspension #gamedev #indiedev

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

Finally I got to the last demo location that needs to be updated, because I already have all the final elements for it. I started with an energy field that reacts to the proximity of objects. How to do this in Unreal Engine, look in my profile, in previous posts #indiedev #gamedev #scifi #games

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

Refraction for my energy beam. You know what I mean Vern? Now that beam has no Niagara, only 3 objects: 2 cylinders and one sphere. If you don't understand what I'm talking about, check my previous post

#UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #indiedev #shader

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

This Sunday for me is an endless cycle working on material in Unreal Engine. I'm trying to make new energy. At first there was refraction, but it's stupid when there is emission. I decided to refute it to the mask and here is one texture T_Noise01 #UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev #indiedev

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

You are the second to guess.

a man with a beard and mustache is smiling while wearing a leather jacket .

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

You are the first to guess.

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

Educational should be presented with humor. Here is the Unreal Engine material, World Position Offset. I did it at night, so words can't be removed from the song:

Oh you touch my tra la la
Mmm my ding ding dong
Deep in the night
I'm looking for some fun

#UnrealEngine #gamedev #indiedev #shader

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

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 · 5d

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."

a man with long hair and a beard is sitting at a table with his hands outstretched in front of him .

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Alien 👽 Max | gamedev 🇺🇦 @alienmax.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 5d

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

a man with a beard wearing a leather jacket and scarf is smiling .

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Alien 👽 Max | gamedev 🇺🇦 @alienmax.bsky.social · 5d

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

a man in a leather jacket is smiling while sitting on the ground in front of a group of people .

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Alien 👽 Max | gamedev 🇺🇦 @alienmax.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

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Alien 👽 Max | gamedev 🇺🇦 @alienmax.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 7d

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 · 7d

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 · 7d

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 · 7d

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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