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C++ Unreal Developer making Games + Plugins
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Helm Boy @helmboy.bsky.social · Aug 12
3 major updates to Sweep City! ✨ True spline meshes, proper road generation, and GPU optimization🧹
Have a read of the full update for the breakdown

www.patreon.com/posts/sweep-...

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Sweep City Development Update 4 | Helm Boy
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helmboy.bsky.social
Thanks @unrealengine.bsky.social a bug from 2014 you still have done nothing about, gg wasting thousands of developers time.

forums.unrealengine.com/t/recast-nav...
Recast Navmesh does not save when editing properties
As @MieszkoZ pointed out in his answer, this problem could be fixed by adding new Supported Agent to the Navigation System in the Project Settings: With this, I can restart the Editor and the Reca...
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February 5, 2026 at 12:34 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
#UnrealEngine Physics when you dont disable all collisions with player and vehicle 🔊
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January 30, 2026 at 12:04 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
My favorite tool in level design now, so easy to build up walls, fences etc. need a better spline visualizer in editor now

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January 2, 2026 at 1:31 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
Who dumped all this mud here? Time for some heavier equipment

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January 1, 2026 at 10:35 PM
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January 1, 2026 at 5:40 PM
helmboy.bsky.social
Why does this engine need 3 different places to toggle looping, and only 1 actually works properly, the other 2 introduce a audible POP when it loops....
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December 25, 2025 at 1:18 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
Ok thats enough messing with brdf for today, do like how the edges pop now.

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December 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
The Spline meshing system i made for Sweep City level design works fast enough to be used in real time too! turns out its basically Satisfactory Belts
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December 6, 2025 at 2:13 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
Been messing around with the engines brdf and specular ggx for some better stylized less `unreal look`.
No post processing materials needed.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:27 PM
helmboy.bsky.social
Unreal source code at its finest💩
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November 25, 2025 at 9:34 PM
helmboy.bsky.social
Had an idea on a cleaning/power wash system that was surprisingly simple and works quite well for how quick it was to make.
Power Washing in Sweep City Maybe?🤔
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October 29, 2025 at 11:18 PM
helmboy.bsky.social
Chunk Stream plugin is now on FAB. This plugin is purpose built to download and stream data to storage, removing any download size limits in Unreal. Dosnt fill up your device RAM either!

www.fab.com/listings/334...
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Chunk Stream
🚀 True Chunk-Based File Downloading for Unreal EngineDownload large files at runtime without running out of memory! Chunk Stream writes data directly to disk as it arrives, making it perfect for downl...
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October 24, 2025 at 12:18 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
Quantum Sleeper is on 20% off on Steam autumn sale!
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September 29, 2025 at 10:47 PM
helmboy.bsky.social
Experimenting with some GPU instancing in Unreal, ended up with a nice Dyson Swarm
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September 21, 2025 at 3:58 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
3 major updates to Sweep City! ✨ True spline meshes, proper road generation, and GPU optimization🧹
Have a read of the full update for the breakdown

www.patreon.com/posts/sweep-...

#UnrealEngine #IndieGameDev #GameDev #IndieDev
Sweep City Development Update 4 | Helm Boy
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August 12, 2025 at 8:13 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
The dreaded road generation I kept putting off...
A lot of boring math later...
Solved the intersections with a generated polygon between the 2 roads, look at those clean lines.
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August 11, 2025 at 9:50 PM
helmboy.bsky.social
guess its time to use linux, sick of #microsoft bricking my drivers with steal updates while im working
August 8, 2025 at 1:18 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
Been building a tool for Sweep City for true spline meshes that can repeat and deform the mesh in the spline while resulting in only 1 draw call, not hundreds of components+draws like the standard method.
Super useful in level design!
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August 5, 2025 at 1:04 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
Trying out some lite cel shading for Sweep City, how do you think it fits the theme and mood?
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July 30, 2025 at 4:33 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
PSA: Beware Unreals Spline system, it doesn't covert tangents to the requested coordinate space, if your using their tangents and not getting a expect result you have to convert them yourself
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July 28, 2025 at 12:41 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
Error the task completed successfully...

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June 15, 2025 at 10:28 PM
helmboy.bsky.social
Turns out spinning is a good trick, new turn table to unload your trash.
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June 10, 2025 at 2:27 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
Think i flicked too hard..
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June 9, 2025 at 4:12 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
Big Development update for Sweep City, Custom colors ✅ Depot redesign ✅ Wide sweep upgrade ✅
Steam demo is also live now! for Next Fest
Full breakdown:

www.patreon.com/posts/sweep-...

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Sweep City Development Update 3 | Helm Boy
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June 2, 2025 at 1:27 AM
helmboy.bsky.social
Added sweep head colors customizable separately from the body
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May 27, 2025 at 1:03 AM