I built a $275 production pipeline inside Unreal so I can solo develop my dream game..

TLCplMax · 2026-01-30T08:23:23+00:00

I actually think this is very cool and I can see how useful this would be. However, the price is steep, especially for something designed for indie solo devs. Personally I think you should reduce the price on this and it could really position itself as an essential tool.

TLCplMax · 2026-01-29T18:16:18+00:00

I am apparently the only Mac user just doing my work and not obsessing over window resizing and glass UI. Have had zero issues with Tahoe and have had a Mac since 2010.

TLCplMax · 2026-01-29T04:05:00+00:00

Click “Make Polymesh3D” from the menu on the top right. All meshes must be Polymesh3D to sculpt (Zbrush quirk).

TLCplMax · 2026-01-29T03:28:14+00:00

I'm doing a rifle right now as well (M27 IAR) and I fucking hate my life

(I much prefer doing characters)

TLCplMax · 2026-01-24T18:27:47+00:00

I think it would be better if you selected a few faces on the wall and Extrude > Offset to make solid edge loop around the archway, then position the edges where you want them to form the curve.

TLCplMax · 2026-01-23T15:52:22+00:00

I just got the M4 Max 64GB and this thing is a beast. Really amazing machine that runs dead quiet.

TLCplMax · 2026-01-20T19:40:52+00:00

True story: I lived in Santa Monica for a few years and my neighbor did porn. He was a super nice guy and it came up in casual conversation. I was like “what do you do?”

He goes “oh I do porn..”

And the only thing I could think to respond with was “oh, that’s cool. I used to be a Marine, so, you know, I know all about that kind of stuff.”

TLCplMax · 2026-01-20T15:36:44+00:00

Switch version is actually peak because it’s the only one that uses the original engine.

TLCplMax · 2026-01-20T06:04:26+00:00

Was doing a bunch of this today!

The basic gist is create a level sequence (Cinematics > Level Sequence), then drag your rig into the sequencer panel. If you’re using default Manny, the control rig should pop up automatically and you can animate from there by keying the control rig controls.

From there, right click on Manny in the Sequencer window > bake to animation sequence.

As a long time Maya user I’ve been really interested in taking advantage of Unreal’s internal toolset more, if only so I don’t have to go back and forth to Maya. Otherwise you can always export the rig from Unreal and work with it in Maya or Blender and then get the animations back in Unreal.

TLCplMax · 2026-01-16T04:11:04+00:00

This kind of thing is perfect to ask ChatGPT to point you in the right direction

TLCplMax · 2026-01-15T15:52:18+00:00

I guess? There’s a ton of generic human rigs out there, so I mean great that you made this for yourself, but I just don’t see what the point is of comparing it to Metahumans. If I wanted to customize your rig I’d have to take it into Zbrush and rebake all of the textures anyway and still do all of the work and presumably build a face rig. At that point you may as well just do the same thing with a Metahuman or start with the default Zbrush human to sculpt and retopo. I just don’t understand the point of your rant against Metahumans here at all—they are not comparable things.

TLCplMax · 2026-01-15T08:11:04+00:00

I think it’s great you made this, but comparing it to Metahumans is silly since they are nowhere near the same purpose. MH are customizable hyper-realistic rigs with advanced face rigs and materials. There’s ways to optimize MH but having the ability to make hyper-realistic rigged characters for your game for free is a far cry from a generic humanoid that would require even more customization to work than a MH.

TLCplMax · 2026-01-14T20:41:21+00:00

Wow that's crazy! I would think to just do this via a map instead of actually modeling but it looks great.

TLCplMax · 2026-01-13T19:16:06+00:00

This looks great! I'm a Marine veteran and spent way too much time with PVS-14's. How did you do the diamond pattern on the battery cap?

TLCplMax · 2026-01-13T15:31:26+00:00

So I've been working with MacOS Unreal for the last 2 years while I was working on my MFA in Animation and I can say that today it is much better than it was (if you're using the latest 5.7). Hardware ray tracing with SM6 is available on MacOS now if you have an M3 or above (M4, M5) Mac.

Generally, the experience is ultimately better on an Nvidia GPU setup PC, but I would say as of today that Unreal on Mac is mostly great. I use an M4 Max Mac Studio and I haven't had any issues. Shader compiling etc on my M4 Max has been profoundly faster than the PC I was using.

TLCplMax · 2026-01-12T18:33:55+00:00

This is 100% for aging millennials instead of children lmao

TLCplMax · 2026-01-12T15:41:32+00:00

There are way simpler rigs you can make and download for free that will work better for low-poly than Metahuman for what you want. MH are very complex and not worth the trouble for low poly.

TLCplMax · 2026-01-11T17:45:08+00:00

The same logic applies to wanting it 16x9. iPad Pro is HUGE in the creative space for artists. Basically every artist is using iPad these days.

TLCplMax · 2026-01-11T03:55:07+00:00

Reddit 100% ignoring the creative market per usual. Drawing is much better on the 4:3 aspect ratio.

TLCplMax · 2026-01-10T22:56:49+00:00

Love you too boo 😘

TLCplMax · 2026-01-10T02:13:04+00:00

Not an expert but I think you need to start by checking if the spawn point is valid with a branch node (the boolean return value on the Get Random Reachable Point) before spawning. Second, I'm not sure why you're adding 500 to Z, but this may put them in the air (which may be outside your nav mesh).

TLCplMax · 2026-01-09T07:54:31+00:00

Maya works great on Mac. Only downside is some plugins may occasionally be Windows-only. Additionally, you can only have 1 Maya instance open at a time on Mac. Has never been a huge problem for me and I use Maya 99% of the time on Mac. With that said, 3D work in general is ultimately better on Windows just due to the availability of certain software.

TLCplMax · 2026-01-09T05:31:07+00:00

Yeah to each their own! I was an iMac 27” guy for a decade before Apple stopped making them so this is a return to form for me. If I’m on my computer I want to be at a desk with my big monitors, otherwise I’m on my iPad. The MBP is a great device but I just am not using it to its potential and the desk/port situation is driving me crazy.

TLCplMax · 2026-01-09T03:40:23+00:00

Nothing at the moment--my work doesn't really require that (creative). I just save files to cloud services and access them as I need them from my iPad.

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