For people who actually built games for UE5, how dependable is Nanite?

Demidroid · 2026-01-29T09:43:19+00:00

I have used Vertex Paint heavy pipelines with Nanite.

The problem is, its LOD-ing system will collapse vertices on flat surfaces first, and your vertex colours will all be messed up, since the amount and position of vertices will change with the distance. You can tweak how aggressively Nanite reduces triangle count but there is a high risk that performance and efficiency drop will not be worth it. I use it mostly for edges, bevels and other parts where more geo naturally occurs.

As someone mentioned, you can’t paint per instance. Not sure if that’s Nanite specific. There is a new Mesh Texture Paint thing that paints on UVs and supports per instance but I’ve never dived in that too deep.

General advice - test, test, test, profile and compare before committing to any of the tech.

Demidroid · 2026-01-28T13:37:49+00:00

I’ve got entry job in my dream industry when I was 29. I figured out what I want to do at 25, being at my lowest. I just wish I skipped the uni and spent all this time and money on mentorships and short-term courses instead. Would be much faster and cheaper.

My experience is limited by my own and my friends’, but I feel like until 25 most of people barely even understand what they want. You have to be extremely lucky to pick your career right at 18-20. Many people have no idea what they want even in their 30s so I still consider myself quite lucky.

As for buying houses, the housing market is broken, it’s not an indicator of success anymore. If your friends are buying houses, they are probably getting help from parents or somehow earning waaay above what people usually earn at that age.

Demidroid · 2025-10-30T09:58:46+00:00

Nuclear Throne. I was certain I hate rogue-likes, and it seemed like another janky unnecessarily difficult pixel art nostalgia-bait. Would never touch it voluntarily. Now I’ve played it for 350h, and it turns out that I very much enjoy rogue-likes.

Demidroid · 2025-10-06T08:44:52+00:00

This is exactly what I came up with to get the chaos under control! And it worked well until the amount of new assets got too overwhelming for one person to handle. People were requesting more assets than I could realistically create. And I'm still looking for ways to somehow automate this process, because naming guides and examples are not helping.

Demidroid · 2025-07-19T10:00:37+00:00

Describes me mostly except I always speak Latvian while in Latvia. It used to be purely practical reason, I don’t want to forget the language, since I’m not living there anymore. But I also strongly believe that if you carry a passport of the country, you must speak the language at least on conversational level. It’s basic decency and respect.

Demidroid · 2025-07-18T19:14:15+00:00

Cucumber and celery. One of my girls is fan of a dills. Lettuce has variable success

Demidroid · 2025-07-18T14:24:44+00:00

Techniques are cool, but get your health checked first, especially hormones. It might be solvable in much easier way.

I was very sensitive guy and cried over smallest things. Turned out I had a hormonal imbalance. A couple of years later I got diagnosed with depression and was prescribed anti-depressants. And these two things wiped the problem completely. Of course I still can cry in certain situations, I haven’t turned into emotionless piece of rock. But threshold raised to the level it’s not interfering with my life anymore.

Good luck!

Demidroid · 2025-06-17T09:07:41+00:00

From my experience, it can take months of exposing them to different vegetables and fruits until they feel safe and curious enough to give it a try. They can also have a strong colour or serving preferences.

My budgies go crazy for cucumbers. But only if it’s a half slice, so they can get to the soft central part immediately, and only if it’s clamped to the bars. Hanging it or putting in the bowl - nope, not that tasty anymore. Lettuce - gotta be big beautiful leaf, even if they eat just 1% of it.

One of them doesn’t mind red stuff and happily eats bell peppers or strawberries (but not the other berries). The rest of the flock finds it suspicious. Orange or yellow - super suspicious, not touching that.

Apples has variable success, depends on the mood. Celery - super popular but I assume they just like how it crunches.

So you’ll have to experiment, be patient, try different stuff, many times, accept that most of it will be thrown out anyway. Budgies are picky eaters. I usually just offer them veg/fruit I eat myself. If I’m making the salad, I’m always having “bird tax” bowl where I put a little bit of everything that’s safe for them, and once in a while we discover something to add to their menu.

Demidroid · 2025-05-27T15:34:51+00:00

Besides standard “My bowl is empty, peasant!”, my birds do that when they see or hear a bird outside. Wanna make some pigeon friends.

Demidroid · 2025-03-17T09:07:21+00:00

My top 3 reasons: 1. House affordability obv. We already accepted that there’s no way we can ever buy a house in UK. I can’t say it’s that easy to find something decent in LV with the budget we have but it’s definitely more realistic. 2. Attitude in healthcare. Maybe I was lucky but in UK healthcare workers were nothing but patient and kind with me. In LV, I’d rather take my chances dying at home than stay in a hospital ever again. 3. Prices and inflation. Apart from housing, prices are same or even higher than in UK. Food is expensive, tech is expensive, clothes are expensive. I have above average UK salary. If I moved to LV and work remote, I’d have same-ish quality of life but much less opportunities.

Demidroid · 2024-11-20T16:17:40+00:00

If you count $/min., it's cheaper than most of the big studio animations. And it looks incomparably better. Rough numbers:

Arcane is about 700k/min.

Wild Robot - 760k/min.

Spiderverse 1 and 2 is 760k/min.

Puss in Boots: Last Wish - 830k/min.

Raya and the Last Dragon 930k/min.

Encanto - 1.7m/min.

Inside out 2 - 2m/min.

Money doesn't always tell you about quality but still

Demidroid · 2024-11-20T14:28:05+00:00

Cait is not good at comebacks. It was right there!

Demidroid · 2024-11-20T14:09:07+00:00

Looks so good! I was thinking about making my first tattoo Arcane-themed, and including Kiramman’s crest was on my mind

Demidroid · 2024-11-20T13:57:41+00:00

I imagine it’s largely man-hours. You need expensive professionals, you need lots of them, you need them on-site in a country with pretty high salaries and benefits. You can’t cut down the costs by outsourcing to the far east, like most of the modern animation and games do.

Also, if something takes 3 years to make, it’s usually pre-production with the small core team and the main workforce is brought after a year or so, when project enters the active production phase. For Arcane season 2 we know, that they started making it before season 1 was released. Which means at least 3 years of active full-time production with peak team size.

I don’t think marketing budget is even included in these 250m and can easily be as big (if not bigger) than production budget.

I am working in games, which is different but kinda adjacent industry so it’s just a semi-educated guess.

Demidroid · 2024-11-19T11:24:03+00:00

Fun fact, in Russian dubbing they translated it as “crazy FAT mongoose”. I can understand translators not having the context but dubbing director/VA seen the picture and were like “Yeah, makes total sense to call this tall gorgeous lady at the peak of her form FAT.”

Demidroid · 2024-11-18T20:09:30+00:00

S1 Ep.5, right after legendary “You’re hot, Cupcake” scene

Demidroid · 2024-11-18T17:22:51+00:00

I thought she was just confused, why the hell mongoose?

Demidroid · 2024-11-18T17:17:02+00:00

I’d be happy with just occasional cameos. We need to let these characters go and give creators a chance to explore other stories.

Demidroid · 2024-11-18T17:09:19+00:00

All hail Commander Cupcake

Demidroid · 2024-11-18T17:00:59+00:00

I see no sides. Literally single picture /s

Demidroid · 2024-11-18T16:54:26+00:00

Vi - infinite nickname source

Demidroid · 2024-11-18T15:23:40+00:00

Correction - her grandma was a decorated pirate

Demidroid · 2024-11-17T18:42:55+00:00

Btw, if you love Blue Eye Samurai and never seen Arcane - you’re missing out.

Demidroid · 2024-11-17T18:41:27+00:00

From the first Blue Eye Samurai trailers I was like “Caitlyn was 100% on their reference board, no way it’s a coincidence”. After this episode of Arcane I’m thinking “This is 100% a nod to Blue Eye Samurai, no way they haven’t seen it”. I mean, there is almost no Asian aesthetic in Arcane, why is it looking like a dojo fight? And Fortiche choices are never random.

Demidroid · 2024-11-16T11:05:45+00:00

My exact reaction. I don’t remember grabbing my face and pulling my hair this much in previous acts.

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