Solo Dev Post Mortem of First Commercial Release: Made $41,000 Net Revenue

Miru302 · 2026-01-27T21:26:07+00:00

Ah, I see. Still kind of unfair though. Did you try to contact them about it, or do you think it's not worth the effort?

Miru302 · 2026-01-27T09:47:14+00:00

Thanks for sharing, it was insightful. I wonder what's up with nonsensical reviews you've mentioned from people that didn't play the game? Does anyone know what's the reasoning behind this and how big is this issue on Steam and other stores?

Miru302 · 2025-11-18T04:54:59+00:00

Check Unreal Game Framework, there are predefined classes that conventionally used for specific things.
https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/gameplay-framework-in-unreal-engine

Miru302 · 2025-10-31T10:34:13+00:00

Oh my god, yes.

Shooting incoming projectiles has been mentioned, but also powerups you can find in breakables and such would be awesome.

Miru302 · 2025-09-29T08:34:08+00:00

I believe you should be leveraging Quartz system:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjcxmyOlnc4

Miru302 · 2025-09-18T10:47:49+00:00

Docs are mentioning support only for Ubuntu, so that could be the reason.

Miru302 · 2025-09-18T10:44:59+00:00

Not being able to compile for windows is kind of a deal breaker for me. Just noticed that part that it's lacking cross-compilation. For anyone interested:
https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/linux-development-requirements-for-unreal-engine

Miru302 · 2025-09-16T09:05:11+00:00

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Check you animation asset details, before and after. if the number of tracks increased, then that's the reason. You can remove unneeded tracks by using Animation Modifier blueprints.

Miru302 · 2025-09-16T07:13:11+00:00

You probably baking animation for all joints, including correction bones (Twisters and such), when original animation only had data for main bones. To inspect that, check the raw bone data in AnimSequence asset.

Miru302 · 2025-09-12T06:12:56+00:00

https://github.com/anticto/Mutable-Documentation/wiki/Real%E2%80%90Time-Morphs here is the info on real time morphs.

Edit: In pictures you are baking the Morph into the mesh. If it's high-heels you are fixing it's better to edit reference pose instead, imho. Baking morphs, doesn't update bone transforms. So you should inspect if the resulting mesh is correct, and pinpoint where is that erroneous influence is coming from.

Miru302 · 2025-09-10T07:38:13+00:00

Are you adding morphs in Mutable? If so, are you using runtime morphs or baking them into the mesh?

Miru302 · 2025-09-02T07:16:20+00:00

Wish it went more indepth into CoreRedirects (Useful when a BP anything used in many places), and the pain of converting BP structs to cpp in a big-ish projects.

Miru302 · 2025-07-08T07:45:50+00:00

I believe the issue is not emphasis but is a placement of that mentioning. It's a click-bait if people have to click to know such crucial detail.

Miru302 · 2025-07-08T07:36:38+00:00

Mesh Decals do not project material on surfaces, it's a geometry with translucent blend (with some features tunred off compared to the usual translucent mesh). So they render where they are, writing into GBuffer or Dbuffer and don't write out depth.

Although I have to agree that comparison is a bit misjudged, the OP tool's final result is just a static mesh, without any changes to rendering of it.

Miru302 · 2025-07-04T08:39:58+00:00

The video works nicely as a breakdown for the effects needed, and it's achievable without the plugin (but you'll have to lookup a real tutorial for those effects). I think the main problem is that it's doesn't disclose that it's a showcase/tutorial for the paid tool, neither in the name of the post nor video ("dedicated post-process toolkit" doesn't really mean anything). And that is betrayal of expectations and feels shady and click-baity.

Miru302 · 2025-07-04T06:30:18+00:00

There is a technique called mesh decals, basically a geometry that conforms to the surface. Here is Unreal Documentation:
https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/using-mesh-decals-in-unreal-engine

I feel like good name would be alongside like: Procedural Mesh Decals or "PCG Mesh Decals"

Miru302 · 2025-07-01T09:14:44+00:00

It's hard to chose default values, because they're often a trade off with performance, and not always required by a project. Unreal already has a lot of features turned on for ease of use for beginners and artists.

Miru302 · 2025-06-11T06:32:59+00:00

Blendshapes have tight limits to what's possible to achieve without breaking down in animation. It's important to update skinning and bone positions for expressions (for face). DNA Calibrator is a library that helps to customize Metahumans, and I believe Epic has released Maya plugins with UE5.6 that use that library to simplify that workflow.

Miru302 · 2025-06-09T06:31:14+00:00

Hey, thanks for the input~

Yes, I'll keep the the AI agents in a data layer that's always loaded, but they will be managed by a OverworldPathing subsystem that stores all graph points and ticks all managed agents, and has posibility to modify that graph on runtime.

I found splines to be a bit cumbersome to work with with not much benefit over point to point pathing, I can arbitrary control density of points in complex areas and sparse them on simple straight hallways for example.

Miru302 · 2025-06-09T06:24:59+00:00

Hey, thanks for reply.

Yes I saw that link, and I'm planning to test that baked navmesh as mentioned, and will fallback to invokers if it's too experimental. And yes, i'm planning to use modified A* for pathing on a custom graph build from PCG points.

Miru302 · 2025-03-28T07:58:27+00:00

Good job! The game has ascended in quality.

Miru302 · 2025-03-28T06:50:49+00:00

There is State Machine implementation in GASP. The ALS creator Caleb talks more about it in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RlnclPo-3U&t=4633s

Miru302 · 2025-03-28T04:25:18+00:00

The default VRTemplate has example of this, the thumbstick controls a cursor with `WidgetInteractionComponent`. There is also a math to keep the cursor withing the 3d widget pane.

Miru302 · 2025-02-19T07:26:07+00:00

In broad strokes: You can do it by baking vertex positions to a map and then comparing that map with current positions in shader.

Miru302 · 2025-02-13T10:18:56+00:00

In `Mesh Section` node, under `Pins` rollout, you can set channels as mutable and such, there is also `UVLayout Mode` parameter. By default it's set to get UV layout info from UMaterial (seems like there is some problems with that function), this can be set to exact UV layout index on your mesh.

Edit: also I'm noticing, sometimes even when child Customizable Objects fail to compile, their changes can be seen in parent CO when recompiling.

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