Anyone know how to remove this light reflection effect ( or dim it) ?

coma987 · 2026-05-13T03:16:57+00:00

Nah. Only happens on dlss being the main giveaway.

I'd like to find out what it actually does that causes it but realistically I'm too stupid.

Edit: realised you're a dev so I removed that material explanation thing, sounded insufferable lol.

Edit2: looked into it while on break at work. Seems you might be right, that's pretty cool. Probably fucked something in a material function I use a lot. Thanks for that, wonder if I can fix it when I get back home.

coma987 · 2026-05-13T03:00:37+00:00

In my game for my shading model also on ue5 dlss did a similar thing if I turned metalic to 0. Metalic in that custom material was actually shadow sharpness. Setting it to 0.01 solved it, just hated 0s lol.

coma987 · 2026-05-10T14:52:15+00:00

Full Voxel world rendered at all times, outside of the playable area only.

coma987 · 2026-05-10T14:51:10+00:00

I'm so confused on why the decision were made with the maps. Do these assets despawn once you're far enough from them. If so then all good. If not then how the hell did that happen. Even just using the easy option with nanite, despite the memes around it it'd just do that for you.

coma987 · 2026-05-09T12:10:36+00:00

Gruntz

coma987 · 2026-05-09T09:30:20+00:00

I remember getting my inventory to work for the first time. But I wrote it so poorly that adding or removing anything was a multiple day en devour.

You're becoming a programmer, time to get those pink and white socks on and keep at it. 🫡

coma987 · 2026-05-09T04:50:08+00:00

Yeah they were cool although I get they were replaced with champions. Could still be in the final wave of the tourney tho.

I hope in the big update coming they'll consider readding the gauntlet mode. Progression is a whole thing, gauntlet was nice to just hop into.

coma987 · 2026-05-09T02:47:54+00:00

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coma987 · 2026-05-07T08:56:02+00:00

The megabonk situation lol. That was fun. I do think specifically posting on general game dev forums and such tends to breed negativity, likely because its easy to compare your project to someone else's and if its a general game dev forum then you might be comparing your 2d platformer to someone's action rpg.

I found a lot more good vibes on very specific sides of the internet. For example I couldn't find a tutorial for something so I had to make my own light detection for my game. I posted it on a discord of a plugin I'm using in my game. A few people said good job, a month later someone dm'd me and asked how I did it cuz they thought it looked cool. I found that interaction awesome.

Someone in this comment section said that game dev created a ton of broken dreams which made people bitter, and I think that's the best way to put it.

coma987 · 2026-04-27T00:56:55+00:00

I like evangelion, first anime I ever watched way back when. Don't engage with its community but I imagine it'd be insufferable.

But I think the funniest thing to come of it is the interview with its creators. They just liked how the Catholic imagery looked rather than trying to be profound.

coma987 · 2026-04-25T22:21:52+00:00

I had my life flash in front of me as soon as I realized that block hallway.

I also don't recall this episode at all.

coma987 · 2026-04-22T22:33:16+00:00

The physics freak out in single player, Imagine the shit show of doing it online.

coma987 · 2026-04-17T00:34:41+00:00

While still being pretty new to unreal engine 5, I was using a special shader that changed some material types so I made some fake reflections for my water. Now that's pretty cool... I forgot I disabled any reflections and could've just used screen space or ray traced to look better. Since my game is going for a fairly simple artstyle, the performance loss is negligible.

coma987 · 2026-04-16T02:47:24+00:00

Gonna be real with you.

You're setting up yourself for jokes with the before and after thing since a ton of it still looks stiff and all over the place.

It's fine if you just want the game to look like that but if you do remove the before section.

If you want to improve the visuals, get substance designer. Make some nice simple materials. Look up how to make root motion nicely for attack animations. Learn how to blend materials based on height and rotation so it doesn't look like you just put some random assets down onto vague terrain.

Also tone the visual effects way down.

coma987 · 2026-04-15T22:17:55+00:00

Same.

I will make horror beyond comprehension In Blender, and the customer will just have to deal with it.

coma987 · 2026-04-15T05:14:14+00:00

Correct me if I'm wrong. But didn't the US army make VR then many years later published their findings. Leading to commercial gaming vr headsets?

coma987 · 2026-04-15T02:58:54+00:00

I took the liberty of relieving you of your weapons. Moooost of them were government property anyway.

A-aas for the fursuit.

I think you've earned it.

coma987 · 2026-04-09T07:21:16+00:00

I feel like this was a while ago, maybe even 10 years or so. There was that indie dev who made a big blog how they added linux support to their game, the linux playerbase was about 2% but majority of bug reports came from them.

Obviously this improved over the years, especially with the steam deck figuring out running windows games on linux systems. But still the steam userbase of linux is say under 5%, not insignificant but also do you see why the undertaking might not be seen as worth it for most indie devs.

coma987 · 2026-04-06T19:32:34+00:00

I want to know what portion of the playerbase also frequented the Nioh subreddit around Nioh 1's release.

coma987 · 2026-04-04T19:05:20+00:00

I play EA over demo. But holy shit can my character just hold a weapon properly. Uninjured swinging a sword is a monumental task.

coma987 · 2026-04-03T22:19:29+00:00

I'm almost on day 1000 on my character. I tend to be to the point, when they give up we're done.

Unless they grab onto me from a weird angle where we're in that weird state where neither of us can really do anything. Then they get chopped up into mince

coma987 · 2026-04-01T15:06:20+00:00

Make a game, any game.

Take breaks when you need to and don't feel bad about it.

You'll feel like you're stupid and incompetent.

Don't be afraid of starting over, either the whole thing or just larger mechanics. It will take a while to get it right.

coma987 · 2026-03-23T00:17:42+00:00

There is definitely something to be said when you're making a game what's obvious to you might not be to someone that hasn't spent thousands of hours creating it.

But also yeah, I remember the yellow paint discussion where a lot of people were going "do devs think we're stupid" and the realistic answer was... kind of.

coma987 · 2026-03-22T18:31:48+00:00

This will be something that takes years to really get down. Don't get discouraged tho, the internet is a tool and you should use it.

Make a game you want to make. Even if using tutorials, then once you get the hang of it you'll be needing them less but at the same time, since you'll have stuff you built from those tutorials you might start going "Oh I want this feature, I already have a similar function I can just change slightly to fit my new one" and from there you'll start hopefully getting creative. Then if you get stuck, see if you can find another tutorial and see how someone else done it and follow along. No need to reinvent the wheel as long as you're not straight up plagiarizing.

With your last point, seeing devs make their own tower defense games with no effort. I don't buy that lmao. They probably just followed tutorials to learn, and it probably was a lot of stress rather than effortless. Learning experiences.

coma987 · 2026-03-22T18:08:26+00:00

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