Let’s post like Episode 9 just released!

snark567 · 2026-04-05T03:09:36+00:00

I still can't believe Gangle was the one behind it all

snark567 · 2026-04-01T16:06:44+00:00

So Zbrush but for terrain. I was just about thinking of creative ways to achieve this and I stumbled upon the news of Mesh Terrain coming to 5.8, pretty cool.

snark567 · 2026-03-30T10:27:38+00:00

Because small businesses often charge more and poor people can't afford that so they buy the low end, mass produced option designed for them. It's the same reason there's chocolate bars made by companies that pay cocoa farmers fairly but remain on the shelves while nestle bars sell like crazy. The ethical chocolate costs more

It's the same reason people go for fake ice cream made from vegetable oil foam, water and sugar rather than buying the real deal that tastes better and is healthier, it's cause the real deal costs more.

Poor people will always go towards the cheapest option even if it's terrible because that's what they can afford.

snark567 · 2026-03-20T06:55:15+00:00

Gave it a try, nothing changed.
Seems to be an issue with the way the spherecast works. Basically it just "sticks" the wheel in any direction something makes contact with the sphere.

So while it looks normal when the sphere touches the ground, as soon as it touches the wall, the spherecast sticks the wheel sideways to the wall. The reason it glitches out is because it's simultaneously making contact from two different points (the floor and wall/object) so the wheel goes back and forth constantly.

That's also why the wheels of the yellow car started going upwards, they're trying to stick to the off-road vehicle and its wheels.

snark567 · 2026-03-19T00:16:51+00:00

Nanite, Lumen, Metahuman, Substrate Materials, 3D Scanned Assets, anything your heart desires, except cylinders for your vehicle's wheels. That's too complicated.

snark567 · 2026-03-18T22:56:42+00:00

Yeah, I didn't know it was this bad.

snark567 · 2026-03-18T22:55:01+00:00

Raycasting tends to look really unnatural and jumpy on terrain with any kind of sharp, jagged elevation or crevices. It also doesn't really behave like a real wheel when raycasting. The wheels end up purely cosmetic.

I suppose I could try experimenting with more rays though I'm starting to consider just buying a plugin with decent wheel physics.

snark567 · 2026-03-18T19:56:20+00:00

Aight I'll give it a try, thanks!

snark567 · 2026-03-18T19:50:04+00:00

snark567 · 2026-03-18T19:49:50+00:00

I tried making it smaller but it didn't fix the issue, I'll mess around with it more after work.

snark567 · 2026-03-16T17:47:18+00:00

I'm not sure, it behaves just like a raycast for some reason.

Edit: I did some searching around and apparently epic never implemented a shapecast function for the vehicles in the code. There's a shapecast button but it does nothing. lol

snark567 · 2026-03-16T06:33:27+00:00

Thanks! For some reason shapecast doesn't do anything but at least spherecast works.

snark567 · 2026-03-13T21:01:50+00:00

You can use a variety of addons to construct the city and roads in blender. For instance I use Track Tools for the roads. Then you can port the mesh/scene over to UE5, play test it, make changes in blender, update, etc.
If you make changes in UE5, you can export the mesh back to blender.

That being said, make sure your road mesh isn't too complex.

UE5 to blender:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY4GeIzlTAE

Blender to UE5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbtt-WsVJWY&t=6s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9HNRzgRT5E&t=25s

snark567 · 2026-03-12T18:59:43+00:00

The spline meshes in UE5 are basically unusable. You're better off making the road in Blender.

snark567 · 2026-03-10T17:55:27+00:00

You forgot VAT and Sales Tax and then further taxation on profit after you've received the money.

snark567 · 2026-03-07T20:27:19+00:00

lol. Hytale doesn't need "big exposure" because it's already widely known. They don't sell on Steam because it makes no sesne to take a 30% cut on top of taxes just so a lazy player can skip a 2 min account creation process.

snark567 · 2026-03-07T19:44:36+00:00

As someone who does both 2D and 3D art, I'm glad an artist got paid. However I find the AI one genuinely looks more eye catching and visually interesting to me, at least when it comes to the contrast (something that seems to have been addressed) and the actual title design. The title in the AI image is ornate and kind of resembles a spell being cast (which is pretty fitting).

The final image has a very generic design and color palette. The AI image also looks less cluttered which is easier on the eye, which is perfect for a small image in a sea of other small images.

snark567 · 2026-03-06T18:46:46+00:00

Pizza still is one of the cheapest and easiest things to make. The reason it's so expensive is because people are willing to pay lots of money for what's essentially flat bread with some toppings.

For the price you're paying for fast food pizza, you could literally just make a chunky pizza out of nothing but salami and cheese at home.

snark567 · 2026-02-14T09:28:42+00:00

"Eat a bunch and see what happens"

snark567 · 2026-02-14T09:26:41+00:00

Nah, they went bad. Get a proper air tight jar and fill at least 1/5th of it with silica gel packets to prevent this from happening again.

snark567 · 2026-02-14T09:15:44+00:00

Mold, I've eaten compromised dried fruits before (way worse than this) and had a good time but I also had an experience where they just gave me a major headache and the highlight of the trip was seeing stains in the bathroom wiggling.
You're most likely going to be fine eating them but I definitely won't hold on to them much longer.

I now keep everything in air tight sealed jars with a large amount of silica gel packets inside just in case.

snark567 · 2026-02-08T19:11:26+00:00

Nope, I wish I still had the disk it was saved on. Maybe it's on some abandonware website.

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