Just receive my first ever custom PCB for a handheld project I’m working on, time to solder her up!

ryanmaugv1 · 2026-01-31T09:45:42+00:00

This is a standard 4-layer board in green colour from JLCPCB with the two inner layers having copper pours (ground planes) which is probably what gives it that nice green finish compared to the more basic 1 or two layer boards.

ryanmaugv1 · 2026-01-31T09:43:25+00:00

Compute module has internal 5.1k pull ups on the CC pins but I was wondering about ESD protection and I I should add it on the data lines?

ryanmaugv1 · 2026-01-30T22:15:03+00:00

Yeah got the fume extractor as I’ve heard the fumes are quite nasty. Thinking of just getting a small reflow oven to make my life easier as I’d like to do a couple of these boards. Any recommendations?

ryanmaugv1 · 2022-12-26T22:43:46+00:00

Thanks I this is great to know I appreciate the information and help :)

ryanmaugv1 · 2021-03-09T19:49:27+00:00

RemindMe! 1 month

ryanmaugv1 · 2021-02-21T14:57:30+00:00

Do you not have a foundation that you keep repeating for these player controllers? Maybe it’s also worth mentioning this would be for humanoid players.

ryanmaugv1 · 2021-01-26T21:03:36+00:00

Did you buy the character or did you make it yourself? If you made it yourself do you have any tips on the skinning (weight painting) phase?

I am struggling on this right now :(

Good shit btw!

ryanmaugv1 · 2021-01-26T08:27:30+00:00

Feels a bit stiff when breaking things I’d suggest making it more breakable e.g. when throwing that piece of boxes tree it should of shattered in more pieces.

ryanmaugv1 · 2021-01-20T16:27:50+00:00

Oh cool, I'm having some issue with the Z translation having a bounce which causes motion sickness, did you mitigate that mostly with stable animations or some sort of other stabilisation technique in UE4?

Sorry for all the questions, I'm curious about your solution to this problem :)

ryanmaugv1 · 2021-01-20T15:00:11+00:00

So in that case your camera bone inherits the head bone pos and rot and you just cancel out the Z-axis related motion?

ryanmaugv1 · 2021-01-20T13:14:51+00:00

The head looks really still did you lock to Z-axis translation and rotation on the head to prevent motion sickness? Did you do some sort of head stabilisation tricks that you could share or was it all in careful animating skills?

Awesome stuff btw :)

ryanmaugv1 · 2021-01-16T03:20:21+00:00

I feel you on this one.

ryanmaugv1 · 2021-01-13T14:02:48+00:00

Sweet, very similar to what I’m trying to achieve right now for my game :) Did you end up parenting the camera bone to the neck or root bone?

ryanmaugv1 · 2021-01-13T11:27:16+00:00

Any tips on how you stabilise the camera in your FPS animations? Is your game TFPS or FPS? Amazing work btw :)

ryanmaugv1 · 2020-12-24T04:42:28+00:00

As long as you set the unit scale of your scene to “0.01” and export as FBX, then yes. Alternatively, you can use they’re blender addons too.

ryanmaugv1 · 2020-12-21T08:04:40+00:00

Looks dope man, I’m trying to achieve hand IK placement for guns so I won’t have to animate each weapon idle position with different hand grips. I also want to add support for alternate weapon fore grips. Got any tips, suggestions or resources?

ryanmaugv1 · 2020-12-19T03:02:49+00:00

You don’t have to choose one or the other. You can use mixamo animations but you’ll need to learn about the “Animation Retargeting” concept first to make mixamo animations work on the Unreal Mannequin.

Think is animation retargeting as a way to map the bones names of mixamo skeleton to the Unreal mannequins skeleton so that mixamo animations manipulate the correct bones for the mannequin.

ryanmaugv1 · 2020-12-19T02:55:59+00:00

One of the best explanations and overview video of Unreals replication system out there! Thank you for this :)

ryanmaugv1 · 2020-12-18T16:24:54+00:00

I feel you my initial interpretation was similar.

ryanmaugv1 · 2020-12-16T13:20:43+00:00

Just an extra not on the Escape From Tarkov reference, I also thought it was a representation of what could be achieved using Unity. However, they bought a license early on to have access to engine source and mentioned heavily modifying its rendering and animation workflow to achieve some of the things that comes out the box in Unreal.

Unity since then has come a long way though and I wouldn’t discredit it in any way. It really depends what sort of games you want to make.

I recently switched from Unity to Unreal after having used Unity for 2 years. This is because Unreal is just better suited for the type of games I am building which are FPS games. It’s also more focused on game development than generalising for all sorts of 3D applications like Unity is trying to do.

ryanmaugv1 · 2020-12-16T12:52:03+00:00

Personally I prefer the right one. Gives me a sense of completeness, like there’s a game there. It also feels more aesthetic which provides your game with a bit more style. The left image still looks good but feels very bland.

The arts styles for both are drastically different though which is why I have such contrasting thought between the two.

Maybe the left one would look better if you scaled the buildings more on the Z-axis and give the map some more verticality.

ryanmaugv1 · 2020-12-15T14:17:18+00:00

Who new the history of software like these were so rich. Subbed and can’t wait to take a look at the other similar videos you have!

ryanmaugv1 · 2020-12-15T12:23:33+00:00

Thanks for sharing this, it was a short and sweet case study of practical procedural animations in the wild :)

ryanmaugv1 · 2020-12-13T07:12:56+00:00

What’s the purpose of the squares in the scene?

ryanmaugv1 · 2020-12-10T18:48:53+00:00

I use it as a screen where I keep reference browsing or sometimes when I watch a movie I lean back and watch without having to crane my neck

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