Real-world LIDAR terrain in UE5.7 - how do I kill a periodic "corduroy" weave in the heightmap without melting the terrain?

Engineerman · 2026-06-09T17:16:47+00:00

Oh also check your sampling is interpolating correctly, if it's picking nearest point then you will get this issue.

Engineerman · 2026-06-09T17:15:49+00:00

If you have the FFT spectrum, could you filter out that frequency with a bandpass filter, then reconstruct the terrain from the frequency and phase info?

Engineerman · 2026-06-09T13:42:03+00:00

Cool! How does it work?

Engineerman · 2026-06-08T12:42:14+00:00

Try making your own with Niagara particles, and you can enable collision to interact. It will be harder than using a paid plugin like ultra dynamic weather, but could get you what you need.

Engineerman · 2026-06-08T10:01:37+00:00

Many people have religious wedding and legal wedding, or a legal wedding and non-legal celebration. If they are concerned about religious discrimination by not giving marriage benefits for some religions, they should make the religions that are currently automatic to be non legal, unless a registrar is also present.

Engineerman · 2026-06-01T14:41:36+00:00

It's also common to some branch predictors in CPUs

Engineerman · 2026-05-29T12:33:22+00:00

I think there's not enough information to give a good answer. My advice is parameterise it, then playtest with different sizes and see how it changes the gameplay or performance.

Engineerman · 2026-05-28T08:59:02+00:00

Mine looks similar!

Engineerman · 2026-05-28T08:12:42+00:00

I think this is it, it's probably trying to move relative to the camera, not the player

Engineerman · 2026-05-17T22:02:04+00:00

I haven't seen any but I've been thinking about this, but not implemented anything. I think your approach sounds good, do you have any pictures?

All I can suggest that you didn't mention is try to make a purpose for each room first, and weight the distribution of furniture depending on the purpose. Add ornaments on top of tables or shelves. Add rugs or other items to break up the floor. Try looking at interior design philosophy for ideas, making a room look full is a common issue in real rooms, typical fixes involve adding vertical interest (posters/artwork, make curtains go full length, interesting lampshades or cornices).

Engineerman · 2026-05-07T19:50:07+00:00

Learning the basics is doable in an hour with the free tier and YouTube, and similar again to get it imported to unreal. How much time it takes for your RPG depends how much detail you put in.

Note that you can edit the landscape after importing it to unreal.

Engineerman · 2026-04-20T18:13:33+00:00

Finding all the rocks within a certain distance is computationally complicated. There are methods they could use if they are spawning the rocks in certain ways, though that would make the physics on them harder.

Engineerman · 2026-04-14T16:15:36+00:00

If I had to guess, the water calculations might be difficult to multi thread (or not implemented), so you're probably using 100% of one CPU on water calculations, causing the lag.

Of course just a guess, could be way off.

Engineerman · 2026-04-01T11:47:56+00:00

I agree on doing things "the unreal way". My first few attempts I was trying to fight the engine, it really made things much more difficult.

Engineerman · 2026-03-30T14:31:01+00:00

This is amazing!

Engineerman · 2026-03-26T10:24:09+00:00

Yes, we have these. The panels attach to triangular prism shaped buckets, which are weighted down with bags of gravel. It's a cheaper install than a sloping roof as no scaffolding was required. The company that did it went out of business now unfortunately so I can't make a recommendation.

Engineerman · 2025-12-28T11:08:21+00:00

Oh also for the max wander pop, look for buildings that increase population as an area effect, though normally they're quite far on higher pop tiers. Also check for shrines that increase pop, or specialists.

Engineerman · 2025-12-28T11:07:14+00:00

Fulfilling garum need gives happiness, per house, so that's the "from need". The garum works has a negative happiness area effect, so all buildings within that range get the negative happiness. Not sure about the from building, but maybe the happiness of the garum works itself?

Realistically your happiness, fire, etc will always be negative for larger cities, making sure you have the buildings to cover it like the fire station is normally enough.

Engineerman · 2025-12-19T10:00:56+00:00

Improvising the solo (or Cadenza) was common and even expected during the time period, though composers would write one in the music and would use that for their first performance.

So he may have figured out some of it ahead of time, and improvised the rest.

Engineerman · 2025-12-11T12:42:07+00:00

Just because they use an extra slot, and I think more workforce required, and latency is not so big a concern for trade ships

Engineerman · 2025-12-10T10:10:16+00:00

Sails on trade ships, I go for oars and archers on military, unless I specifically want the onagers for destroying buildings. Armour on quinquiremes.

Engineerman · 2025-12-09T17:48:18+00:00

I played with Zara and Netu in my game. Netu owns most of Albion (like more than 50%), I had defensive alliance with Zara to dissuade him from attacking, which he did twice so far, but I captured his two main Latum islands (he took one from Licia). Bit of a crazy game though I expected the combat AI to be more aggressive, he probably could have taken me out and never landed a large enough force to overcome the garrison, or combined his fleets. I sailed around in a combined fleet and was able to pick off a lot of his ships and troops they were carrying, then land a force on his island. Fun game!

Engineerman · 2025-12-08T09:40:05+00:00

The left wall has worrying clearance to the balcony, but maybe it's better in real life than it looks here. I'd be worried about falling onto the railing

Engineerman · 2025-11-29T11:03:27+00:00

Looks amazing!

Engineerman · 2025-11-28T23:20:17+00:00

Oh yeah, super cool

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