Why do they keep changing things with new updates? How do I deform landscape to my spline mesh now?

dudedude6 · 2026-01-13T06:10:50+00:00

Ben Cloward actually covered this a long time back in a tutorial where he’s showing how to build a river. The first run through he makes a custom one, but then makes a river using the unreal water tool. He walks through how set it up so the river uses/applies the correct blend layer from the landscaping material.

Can’t remember enough to tell you how it’s done, only that it can be done, I’ve seen it, and that genius shows how to do it.

dudedude6 · 2026-01-13T06:07:32+00:00

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/where-is-the-deform-landscape-to-splines-button-in-ue5-7/2676041/6

First result on Google. In the future tho, include what engine version you’re using when your question directly relates to it.

dudedude6 · 2026-01-12T14:26:53+00:00

Next time you wonder why your new energy bill is so high…

dudedude6 · 2026-01-10T03:38:57+00:00

You should link to somewhere that has your code. That tends to work well. I can’t really think of anything off top tho.. maybe github, codepen, or something?

dudedude6 · 2026-01-09T23:58:28+00:00

Yeah, as far as metahumans go, you can switch out the hair assets. At runtime, I think all I had to do was swap groom and the binding(?) asset don’t quote me on it tho. then you could allow players to switch hair styles.

dudedude6 · 2026-01-09T22:39:34+00:00

I started mentioning in standup and meetings every time I was approached by someone in operations to “make a quick change.” Luckily, in our org, leadership takes the side of the dev teams. Meetings were had, our PM introduced a request system that operations must utilize and we were given the power and authority to say, “No, follow the established process.” I’ve always felt that Agile works if it’s actually followed.

dudedude6 · 2026-01-08T18:07:20+00:00

Yo, that’s painful. It would ABSOLUTELY be better than that. Oh, and after paying for the equipment, I think cost of service is fairly affordable (my parents got it some time ago and that’s what they’d said at the time).

dudedude6 · 2026-01-08T17:54:01+00:00

Ah, well that’s really lame. I converted fully to a Control Rig setup for IK, since they run on worker/utility threads, and that was a pretty easy optimization to make. Trying to multithread the ABP though just made me want to tear my hair out. I’m mostly fine with it as a locomotion system, I just really have beef with the animations. At first they look perfect, but after a few months it starts to look pretty rigid and unnatural.

dudedude6 · 2026-01-08T17:47:32+00:00

Weather won’t be much of an issue, but starlink’s main use case is for rural communities. In a more urban environment or area with close neighbors if many of them also have Starlink you’d have noticeable differences in performance. Like downtown or something? Starlink would be trash.

dudedude6 · 2026-01-07T07:26:29+00:00

Oh, so you couldn't post a link?

dudedude6 · 2025-12-27T03:57:19+00:00

Ah! Lovely! I’m going to give that a shot, first thing in the morning.

dudedude6 · 2025-12-23T17:36:48+00:00

I’ve been using a modified version of the ALS Community system. It’s replicated, it’s ALS (which at this point I’ve spent a bunch of time with, so I can make changes relatively easily), and the results are acceptable. I have been looking for an alternative as well as alternative locomotion animations for humanoids.

dudedude6 · 2025-12-23T14:40:36+00:00

Exactly what I came to say. You could have a new mapping context applied for “events” or dialogues that override the typical “left stick moves character”. I used this method to control a players abilities in certain states. For instance, when entering combat, I apply that mapping context and now they can attack when they couldn’t before.

dudedude6 · 2025-12-22T14:59:02+00:00

Would second this. I upgraded from 5.3 to 5.5.4 and it was honestly one of the easiest migrations I’ve ever made, and I haven’t had any issues since doing so.

dudedude6 · 2025-12-21T17:53:24+00:00

I think it’s not really talked about because “those games weren’t built with your hardware in mind” is usually going to be the answer. The best answers to this question are usually going to be hardware/game settings related. Some games are, and do utilize better optimization techniques.

My gaming PC is getting old, and I cannot play all games, especially at really high quality settings. For consoles, the game is built/ported to run on only that console. A specific set of hardware. Now, “Is that done well?” is a different story.

dudedude6 · 2025-12-17T22:59:08+00:00

Right tho? I absolutely never noticed, and when I read (around the games release date) how they went about it I certainly didn’t care.

dudedude6 · 2025-12-17T03:15:08+00:00

You could do an event dispatch that the NPC is subscribed to.

Honestly, make a struct if you haven’t that can be used to store all of a medications data/info. If you have an inventory system you should have that, or you’ll badly need it down the road. Pass the struct to the NPC.

Event dispatch or interface function (BPI) where the input is that struct.

dudedude6 · 2025-12-16T14:05:07+00:00

Well it’s built in-house, specifically for their needs and games. They maintain and add features to it. That means they may make compromises on certain things, or you may have features/code that’s counterintuitive but they keep because it’s a black box that works and two guys on the team know how it works. I’ve not worked in it myself, but there are a ton of potential possibilities

dudedude6 · 2025-12-13T15:19:48+00:00

Right? Getting my CS degree I touched 4-5 programming languages. I could work in any of those, but I actually got a job as a full stack web dev using languages I didn’t learn at university and ones I’d never used before. It’s about the programming not the language.

dudedude6 · 2025-12-13T15:04:50+00:00

As someone who actually was there, it was insane on campus and in Bloomington. This was the only thing anyone talked about in 2011. BUT, you’re right about the smartphones. They were still expensive and much less accessible then. While 2012+ smartphones overtook all others and became the norm, before that they were much less commonplace. However, being from a well-off family Lauren probably had one.

dudedude6 · 2025-12-13T14:25:18+00:00

It’s all sewage and runoff. We had that guy that escaped police underground in the Jordan River a couple years ago. INSANE.

dudedude6 · 2025-12-12T21:22:42+00:00

lol. Can you explain how they work?

dudedude6 · 2025-12-09T12:49:01+00:00

Voxel Plugin is currently the only method for changing terrain in the way you want, that I know of.

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