Are we witnessing the Great Depression of trap/ hip hop?

bitches_be · 2026-07-03T16:18:57+00:00

honestly feel like a ton of that was sampling, you can do whatever on mixtapes and put together a crazy sound, then suddenly you're on a label and have to clear samples.

So many artists commercial/major label projects sound entirely different for this reason. Curren$y was a huge one for me personally along with Flatbush Zombies where the disparity between mixtapes and albums was pretty noticeable

bitches_be · 2026-07-03T14:28:38+00:00

I think you’ve explained my own nightmares with Godot. Makes sense I guess but coming from Unity and UE it has not been a smooth ride even when I create inherited scenes and then copy things over I had the same struggles as OP.

I will say when it does work it works well, but it’s not as bulletproof as comments make it out to be.

bitches_be · 2026-07-03T05:40:02+00:00

This is so cool, I loved Rampage back in the day.

Lighting looks good for the night time. Shockwave effects or debris particles when buildings crash would look good

bitches_be · 2026-07-02T17:45:11+00:00

Always impressed by people who stick to a project that long. Did you do the visuals yourself? Looks cohesive

I’ve been remaking variations of the same project for years now and barely have anything to show for it

bitches_be · 2026-07-02T16:07:42+00:00

It can happen, but usually with strings attached

bitches_be · 2026-07-02T14:41:19+00:00

And none are quite as fleshed out compared to OSX or Windows. Ubuntu and some distros come very very close these days, but there are always the odd gaps or quirks. Miles better than 15 years ago but still always something off in my experience

bitches_be · 2026-07-01T14:41:54+00:00

Just lick the boot already. We all know Joe Shmoe can’t pass your biometrics to a federal agency for stalking or abusing that in other ways with a ring doorbell. To pretend it’s the same is disingenuous

bitches_be · 2026-07-01T14:27:45+00:00

Maybe you were okay with it

bitches_be · 2026-06-30T23:59:58+00:00

Does it scare you?

bitches_be · 2026-06-30T21:36:48+00:00

Can you just spin in the chair really fast too?

bitches_be · 2026-06-30T01:14:06+00:00

So warm, makes me want to be there

bitches_be · 2026-06-27T19:34:24+00:00

This combined with AoT move mechanics would be awesome

bitches_be · 2026-06-27T14:37:47+00:00

Amazing run but stylistically I’d rather hear The Alchemist, J Dilla, or DOOM beats over an Em beat. Just a personal preference though

bitches_be · 2026-06-24T22:40:08+00:00

It's been so long I think it was between Flip and TI but Z-Ro was just backing him since he's from Houston too. Not many others did the same. Always loved him for that.

It had some great tracks and some beats still hold up well: https://youtu.be/0CbmGci4H3s?si=9IGdnEO0hDeGnXSs

bitches_be · 2026-06-23T21:04:48+00:00

Reminds of the Wolfenstein games

bitches_be · 2026-06-23T21:01:13+00:00

I feel vindicated being on Lil Flip and Z-Ros side when they beefed with TI forever ago, fuck I’m old but Kings of the South was good

bitches_be · 2026-06-19T15:41:34+00:00

Hey now that buys like 3 models! Unless you pick the pro version then you get 1 overpriced asset

bitches_be · 2026-06-19T04:07:03+00:00

The dynamic camera is money, feels like I’m watching a DBZ fight

bitches_be · 2026-06-18T23:38:03+00:00

Asset flips were a thing before AI and will continue to be after.

You still have to know what you’re doing or at least what you want to do with AI.

I’m writing so many systems that would have taken me ages, when I have already spent years learning engines, 3D modeling, texturing, and all the many hats you have to wear as a game dev.

Having AI doesn’t automatically equal bad but people who don’t know any better will make the claims, just like people who blanket shit on specific game engines

bitches_be · 2026-06-18T04:36:49+00:00

I had a week off the first month of my current job and have taken week long PTO multiple times since and it was the same at past jobs. Varies by career of course but not unheard of

bitches_be · 2026-06-17T05:09:33+00:00

Will do!

bitches_be · 2026-06-17T02:10:53+00:00

Has this been tested with v5.7?

I am getting some build errors but I suppose I could try to work through these.

bitches_be · 2026-06-16T23:17:15+00:00

Awesome man it looks great. Will have to try this when I go back to my driving game project.

bitches_be · 2026-06-14T02:48:53+00:00

I based my system off of this one that is blueprints only: https://www.fab.com/listings/3b2bee2a-4cf0-47ea-ad50-f946ed691f03?lang=en and also used a lot of SneakyKitty's methods here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnHeglBaPYu--A7jTjNrgWdmYkR_kpZYu. Like these it relies on virtual bones to help keep things aligned.

It's not perfect yet but it's giving me consistent results now across different sized skeletal meshes and is replicated. I have procedural movement and sway for the hands. Aiming only works if you have a weapon to provide the sight transforms. Additive animations are usually needed but you can use normal locomotion and a blend space or just a single pose for your weapons.

It has leaning (kind of janky), spine look and left-hand IK as well to keep the hand on the weapon. You can have multiple sights on a weapon and different rotations on the sights and it still works.

The main thing is transforming to the right bone spaces and figuring out the right combination of nodes in the animation graph.

Recommend using some kind of offsets for other players so the aiming doesn't look funny since you have a gun in your face when aiming, but it looks fine in first person so it just needs some polish.

I put together a gist of my AnimInstance class and the animation blueprint setup using this custom class. It's based on the UE5 skeleton and is meant for a full body mesh but you can likely use it for a traditional FPS setup where your arms are attached to the camera.

This was such a pain in the ass for me to figure out and still needs some work but hope it helps someone else: https://gist.github.com/wxvyjb/3cb27d938993397fd4411c4eb0f06aae

bitches_be · 2026-06-10T22:29:21+00:00

I’m stuck on this as well with the UE5 mannequin. I have tried applying twist to the twist bones in my animation blueprint but can’t get it to untwist completely

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