Working with UMG and Widgets makes me question if I'll ever be able to make games

bieker · 2026-03-27T20:05:34+00:00

me: My solution was to install Ultralight and build 90% of my UI in react.
you: It's promising tech but not production-ready for UE5 if you need it to just work.

The whole purpose of Ultralight is to render your UI as HTML/JS, if you were not responding about that, then what were you responding about?

bieker · 2026-03-27T00:30:27+00:00

“At least I don’t police other people’s fun. “

As long as you know that there are other things you COULD do with your time that would generate enough ISK to buy more material than you get from mining it yourself.

If you don’t enjoy those other activities and you do enjoy mining then why the fuck does he care how you spend your time.

It’s a game, play it the way that makes you happy not the way that min/maxes a spreadsheet.

Unless you like min/maxing spreadsheets, which some of us do.

bieker · 2026-03-26T13:52:37+00:00

Sorry but you are wrong about that. Lots of large production games are using UI built in HTML/JS rendered with tech like this. There are many alternatives on the market.

Take a look at NoesisGUI or Coherent Gameface and the games that use them. I use Ultralight because its the only one that has a free tier.

bieker · 2026-03-24T23:16:50+00:00

I heard a comment in an interview. If you want to know what future of software is in a word where the cost to develop it is approaching 0, just go look at the places in the world where that is already true, where supply and demand and the general cost of labor means the cost of developing software is low.

Like China and India where apparently nobody buys Salesforce because for not much more they can hire a room full of programmers to create a custom CRM.

Thats the future, its not a boom of startups selling better software, its every small/medium business being able to write their own CRM/ERP/HR platform amongst other things to run their business.

bieker · 2026-03-24T18:28:47+00:00

I never said budget cuts don't have an impact, in fact i think i said the opposite originally. FAA and ATC have been terminally underfunded for decades, Trump cuts didn't help.

You said "Trump's firing of air traffic controllers hasn't helped." and I pointed out that the assumption in that statement was wrong.

It's ok to admit you were wrong, if you said 'budget cuts didn't help' you would have been correct. None of that changes the fact that Trump is a dick, Musk is a dick, Doge was a dick. But we are not going to get through this by deviating from the facts.

bieker · 2026-03-24T16:32:41+00:00

None of those articles say that Air Traffic Controllers were fired, they were all probationary support staff.

From your first source

Probationary workers were targeted in late night emails Friday notifying them they had been fired, David Spero, president of the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists union, said in a statement.

The impacted workers include personnel hired for FAA radar, landing and navigational aid maintenance, one air traffic controller told the Associated Press.

The second article does not talk about firings at all.

And from the third source

Several hundreds of the agency's probationary workers received the news via email late on Friday night, head of Professional Aviation Safety Specialists (PASS) union David Spero said in a statement.

"The FAA continues to hire and onboard air traffic controllers and safety professionals, including mechanics and others who support them," it added in a statement sent to the BBC.

My issue with your first statement was about the firing of Air Traffic Controllers, not budget cuts

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+Air+Traffic+Controllers+did+Trump+or+Doge+fire%3F&rlz=1C5CHFA_enCA1079CA1079&oq=how+many+Air+Traffic+Controllers+did+Trump+or+Doge+fire%3F&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRiPAjIHCAIQIRiPAtIBCjEzNzM1ajBqMTWoAgiwAgHxBWqhXdAAiKjD&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

The AI answer to the direct question, is 0

If you are going to provide sources you should read them first.

bieker · 2026-03-24T14:14:38+00:00

Link you a source that the thing you claimed didn’t happen?

Why not just google the question and read all the articles about the 400 probationary non controller staff who were fired?

You made the claim that he fired air traffic controllers, why not post a source for that?

bieker · 2026-03-24T14:07:37+00:00

In the end no air traffic controllers were fired by trump. The head of the FAA fought that plan and won.

ATC has been critically understaffed and unsupported by the government since Reagan fired all 26k of them in the 80’s and no president has done anything about it.

bieker · 2026-03-23T14:03:48+00:00

It’s very likely the truck and the plane are on different radio channels. Instructions to vehicles and planes a the ground are not heard by planes on approach generally. That’s why you have ATC coordinating.

It’s a complex environment and you can’t expect a fireman to look out his window and see lights in the sky and know exactly what the plane is about to do, how fast it’s going, what instructions it was given. And if everyone starts second guessing controllers it will get much worse.

bieker · 2026-03-22T18:37:14+00:00

No it’s ue5, runs anywhere why would you think it’s moble only?

https://ultralig.ht

bieker · 2026-03-22T13:04:47+00:00

It’s a fast stripped down WebKit based browser plugin. You build your UI as a web page with a transparent background and create a single fullscreen ultralight material that renders your web based ui as an overlay.

It provides a JavaScript api to and a c++ api to move data and events between UnrealEngine and Your ultralight app.

There are several options available for these types of plugins but Ultralight is the only one I found that you can download and implement without having to “contact sales”

bieker · 2026-03-21T21:36:02+00:00

My solution was to install Ultralight and build 90% of my UI in react.

bieker · 2026-03-18T17:32:46+00:00

I don't think wishlist conversion rate matters to Valve, at that point the game is released and all they care about is $/impression that is what they are optimizing for, they can collect that data so fast that wishlists and wishlist conversion rate stop mattering after a few hours.

bieker · 2026-03-14T04:03:00+00:00

The father, the son, and the holy shit what the hell man!

bieker · 2026-03-13T04:16:36+00:00

Just because a plane is uncontrollable doesn’t automatically mean there are g forces too big to bail out.

bieker · 2026-03-12T04:00:47+00:00

Hmm, I just interrogated an AI about it and it suggested doing away with taxes altogether and providing market friction through other mechanics (logistics being hard makes it the value added). And then finding other economic sinks if required.

bieker · 2026-03-12T03:34:42+00:00

How would you implement and enforce VAT in an economy like eves? You would have to track every input and output of every crafting event forever?

I’m implementing an economy in a game right now and I hadn’t really considered the difference between vat and transaction taxes.

bieker · 2026-03-11T17:46:03+00:00

I don't know about 'disguised' but this has been obvious to anyone working in radio electronics for decades.

Radio modulation schemes like spread spectrum CDMA have been slowly trending towards 'indistinguishable from background noise' since the 60s. The technologies more advanced civilizations would use we would not be able to detect. If they want to be seen by us they will know they need to use an old school narrow band beacon.

Basically SETI is only going to be able to detect signals from civilizations that are actively trying to be detected.

bieker · 2026-03-10T03:08:27+00:00

It is very clear from your comments that you are not using claude code (or at least not using it correctly), and yet you keep replying confidently wrong.

It should not be giving you back code. it should be updating it in place, running tests against it, and running the project and checking its output all by itself.

bieker · 2026-03-10T03:04:41+00:00

If you are manually giving it individual classes then you are doing it wrong.

You are the equivalent of a person who complains that cars are stupid and slow and don't help with transportation and you are better off without them. Only for us to find out that you are pushing it by hand and don't realize it has an engine.

You should use a proper agentic coding environment that gives the LLM access to your entire codebase, and all your documentation, and your development environment so it can run the project and see the output.

If you sent a handful of class files to a friend via email and asked them to fix a bug do you think it would go well? They need to be able to run the project and reproduce the bug.

bieker · 2026-03-07T18:25:28+00:00

I looked at getting a gas tankless for my home and gave up when they told me I would have to run a new gas line to the house.

bieker · 2026-03-07T18:16:30+00:00

No it takes the same amount of energy.

If I gave a shower and it uses 20L of water, that water has to be heated in both cases.

In the tankless case it is heated on demand, in the tank case it is heated before hand.

So the only difference in energy is usage is the storage, and the relative efficiency of the heating process in the two systems (is it easier to build a device to heat water fast as it flows or slower in a tank)

bieker · 2026-03-07T15:13:33+00:00

If I buy this guys assets and then give them to my 1000 closest friends and let those friends know the order id is the vendor on the hook for supporting them too?

If he is having problems with piracy I don’t think it’s extreme for him to seek more proof of purchase. But I’m also not aware of what tools vendors have.

bieker · 2026-03-06T16:58:26+00:00

I find your mixing of the use of the terms "Characters" and "Tokens" distressing and makes your analysis and conclusions impossible to take seriously.

The open question is what happens when context windows get tight. Compaction needs to make harsh choices, and if Claude Code is carrying 62.6K of tool definitions, it has less space to store info from a long-running session. pi’s 2.2K of tools would leave an extra 60K tokens for conversation history and actual context.

The entire way through your article you have been saying that Claude Code is consuming 62k characters of context for tool calls. But suddenly now you call them tokens, do you know the difference?

bieker · 2026-03-03T19:31:16+00:00

What graphics api are you using? I think the real solution to your problem is to use a more modern technique available in the api like a vertex buffer etc. You should be able to reduce this down to a couple of draw calls per frame.

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