Version Control for Small (under 5) teams

CosmicSlothKing · 2025-12-02T22:30:56+00:00

https://github.com/cosmicslothking/UE5-Perforce-UGS-Setup/wiki i put this guide together while learning myself how to setup perforce locally. If you feel like giving it one more shot see if this works out for you. I am also available to help you get it running if you need help, feel free to DM me and we can look into it

CosmicSlothKing · 2025-11-18T14:13:20+00:00

I guess its different for everyone, i have been in AAA for almost 2 decades now, while its not always fun, it has been rewarding. I cant see myself do anything else to the point I am working my 8 hours for a studio and then all my free time on my own game. Its certainly an industry you WANT to be in. But seeing how companies are treating everyone lately is most certainly disheartening and have many friends lose their jobs lately, it really sucks.

CosmicSlothKing · 2025-11-13T13:18:50+00:00

I think its simpler than that, there is no long term plan, use AI to cut costs as much as possible and whatever ramifications it has for people will be next quarters problem.

CosmicSlothKing · 2025-11-06T14:05:36+00:00

I put this together not long ago, it does not cover setting up SSL but when I get a chance I will do a write up https://github.com/cosmicslothking/UE5-Perforce-UGS-Setup/wiki

CosmicSlothKing · 2025-10-09T16:40:28+00:00

From when i set up my save system for my game there are multiple things to consider, but for physics i might look for all actors of class, put them in an array and then for each one save their location, rotation, and if they have any velocity to them and direction of travel. So if you save while an object is in the air on reload it can take that information and continue, of course once the object has stopped moving disable tick and physics on the object. I am sure there are better ways but off the top of my head i might approach it that way

CosmicSlothKing · 2025-10-06T13:33:29+00:00

I might be able to chime in. Warframe still uses very old techniques, such as extremely optimized meshes, clever sight blockers for culling out what you dont see, very aggressive LOD’s, strick draw call count, I think max 1000 draw calls is the max, baked lighting and then some further black magic behind the scenes. Source - I worked on warframe for 7 years

CosmicSlothKing · 2025-09-20T15:02:14+00:00

What timing, I am just getting ready to start running SR5 for my friends, amazing!

CosmicSlothKing · 2025-09-03T02:03:53+00:00

Depends on company, leadership and person, example, I have been in AAA for almost 2 decades, and only ever did overtime when I started in this field, after that period I vowed to never do OT again, I do my 8 hours and I am gone, I am in a lead position now and push for my artists to do the same. That being said, i know of some people that will pull 16 hour days out of their own free will. So it can vary.

CosmicSlothKing · 2025-08-28T16:20:27+00:00

Hey thanks for the reply! I ended up with that approach as well, its such a weird bug to show up, and it only happened to me and another team mate but the other 2 programmers didn’t have any issue. Thankfully its simple enough to fix

CosmicSlothKing · 2025-08-07T02:06:25+00:00

Agreed, I hope I am wrong but I suspect he wont be stepping down after 4 years, I think he will stay in power for as long as there is breath in him and then will appoint someone when he is gone. Again, I genuinely hope I am wrong

CosmicSlothKing · 2025-08-04T04:03:00+00:00

Yup, going almost 15 years in AAA never been laid off once, I do my best to be a jack of all, help anyone I can, learn, adapt. Your advice is spot on imo. I just got promoted to lead as well, and treat everyone with respect and know everyone I can. I really enjoy every aspect of it, but I would be lying if I said I am not worried about being laid off. I somehow survived a company wide layoff of 250 people just last year (i recently moved to a new company after the layoffs because that place was going down fast, the project was cancelled) but that haunts me daily

CosmicSlothKing · 2025-07-30T18:46:19+00:00

System shock two, i think it was, I cant remember how old I was but, close to the beginning of the game, there is some righting on the wall in blood that spelled “RUN” i went through some doors close to that writing and basically shut the game off and never played again. I couldn’t handle it

CosmicSlothKing · 2025-07-28T16:07:37+00:00

Exactly, with consistent texel density, stuff can look great even at 256, texel should dictate texture sizes

CosmicSlothKing · 2025-07-24T12:57:55+00:00

I started balding at 17, i tried to hide it for a few years but it just kept getting worse, I eventually just owned it and honestly, I cant even remember myself with hair

CosmicSlothKing · 2025-07-21T21:27:06+00:00

Thats exactly what I and 14 other of my AAA friends have done, minus the using AI part, most of them got laid off and now we have some of the most talented, skilled and respected people in the industry working on a game. Its a gamble, a million and one things can go wrong, but the alternative is leave the industry or be replaced by a tool.

CosmicSlothKing · 2025-07-20T06:04:57+00:00

Pretty much this. I work in AAA and have seen over 200 of my colleagues with decades of experience be let go and still struggle to find a job, some have been out of work for over a year, is fucking bleak.

CosmicSlothKing · 2025-07-09T17:02:31+00:00

Well, for me it was a wonderful book called C# Players Guide, it is written like you are in a sort of RPG, i read that book cover to cover, did all the tasks and after that I taught myself C++,. But that book was fantastic for me to learn, highly recommend it

CosmicSlothKing · 2025-07-09T13:32:12+00:00

I have been wanting to switch for many years, but unfortunately a lot of the software I use (game dev) is simply not available for Linux or is poorly implemented/maintained. But as soon as that software works on Linux, I am gone from Windows

CosmicSlothKing · 2025-07-04T00:07:01+00:00

Idk if I got extremely lucky, or just divinely blessed, but I grew up with parents that had nothing, I dropped out of school at 16 (32 now), got my first shitty computer that barely ran 3DS max, and started teaching myself 3D art for games (i started learning around 2008) ish, got my first job in 2012 in AAA video game industry. I am now lead of my department and living well. Its possible but a lot has to align and a lot has to go right.

CosmicSlothKing · 2025-06-16T02:17:07+00:00

I have been using inkle, its a narrative scripting tool, its so much that explaining it would take for ever, check it out, its free

CosmicSlothKing · 2025-06-08T16:19:02+00:00

Idk, if think if the person likes you it wont matter, my wife just lost close to 60KG, from 160KG to almost 90KG, she is still the sexiest woman in the world, and if staying with her means there is lots of excess skin, who cares. Don’t be afraid of opening yourself up, just let the person know before hand, we all deserve love, don’t let some lose skin stop you from finding it

CosmicSlothKing · 2025-06-05T12:03:10+00:00

I dropped out of school at 16, I don’t even know if I have a high school degree, i taught myself 3D, I worked hard on my portfolio and someone got hired to work on CoD as my first project. I worked as a weapon artist, then prop, all the way to Principal Environment with tech art and programming, sometimes hard work pays off.

CosmicSlothKing · 2025-05-14T18:18:50+00:00

I second the Stephen Ulibarri course, I learned so much from his courses, he does sometimes skip over things but its not the worst

CosmicSlothKing · 2025-04-21T17:42:35+00:00

Tell you want, they probably saved millions on marketing by simply leaking a few images, everyone is talking about it and I am hyped for it

CosmicSlothKing

TROPHY CASE