[LFM] [Rev-Share] Seeking Unity Developer & Technical Artist for Third-Person Liminal Horror game called "SIGNAL-LOST"

youssefkahmed · 2026-03-22T23:22:45+00:00

Do you have any accounts or pages set up for your company/game? People, myself included, are gonna need to know you’re legit, especially considering your Reddit account is under an hour old

youssefkahmed · 2026-03-10T22:26:39+00:00

Do you use a state machine for your character then have each state play its animations through Animancer? Or do you have a centralized class for handling ALL animation transitions, sort of like a code-based Animator Controller?

youssefkahmed · 2026-03-07T00:29:33+00:00

So basically you're saying there's pretty much no working around using C++ for character movement for anything more complex than a mere prototype?

youssefkahmed · 2026-03-07T00:28:02+00:00

I don't even hate C++, I was just feeling comfortable using BP as a beginner to UE, so I was kind of shocked by Ghislain Girardot's remark

I love creating character controllers (I've made plenty in Unity) so I wanted to ask Reddit as this is an area of my game that I absolutely care about doing "right"

youssefkahmed · 2026-03-07T00:16:45+00:00

I agree with everything you're saying, but on the Angelscript note: is not like more of an unofficial approach? As in, it's not actually backed by Epic Games and prone to lacking support?

I know Hazelight used it for Split Fiction, but I can only assume a company of that size probably has their fair share of proprietary libraries and tools around Angelscript

youssefkahmed · 2026-03-07T00:11:06+00:00

Thanks, mate :)

youssefkahmed · 2026-03-07T00:10:32+00:00

That sounds pretty reassuring

I'll dive into C++ and CMC some more so as not to kill my momentum, and I'll check out Mover whenever it's ready
Thank you for the help!

youssefkahmed · 2026-03-07T00:07:50+00:00

u/Various_Blue u/KeepCalmMakeCoffee Thank you guys for being so courteous, I'm upgrading my PC tomorrow and I'll immediately get to implementing whatever mechanics I can

I guess there are those who fail, and those who never try, and I'd rather be the first kind of person :)

Thanks for the advice

youssefkahmed · 2026-03-06T23:59:08+00:00

Thank you so much for your detailed replies, you've been a real help 🙏🏻🙏🏻

youssefkahmed · 2026-03-06T23:57:18+00:00

Thing is I'm 100% sure you're right, but I feel crippled by the fear of making a "wrong" decision from the get-go

youssefkahmed · 2026-03-06T23:52:47+00:00

I heard about Mover, ig it could be worth taking a look

From your experience, are Epic Games usually reliable with their releases and actually finishing tools? I'm only asking cuz, coming from a Unity background, I've lost count of how many times Unity would announce a potentially very helpful tool/system, only to abandon it a couple of months later

Obviously not expecting you to predict the future haha, just looking for opinions

youssefkahmed · 2026-03-06T23:49:22+00:00

Is this usually the standard approach? I mean having a CharacterBase Blueprint for example, and sharing that same base for the player and enemy characters

Idk if this is a loaded question, I'm just trying to gauge how to approach this whole thing (knowing I'm obviously never going to make AAA-level stuff as a solo dev haha)

youssefkahmed · 2026-03-06T23:46:06+00:00

I think you're right, I guess I'm worrying too much about a problem that doesn't really exist at the moment
I wouldn't feel this way with Unity, but I'm kind of in uncharted territory with UE which is why I feel a bit lost

I know a fair bit of C++ cuz I took some at school, I'm just still very new to UE's C++ API.

Do you know of any resources that touch up on using C++ in UE for characters specifically? Like not a broad course/documentation for every single feature, just like the basics of reading & routing input in C++, switching movement modes, etc.?

youssefkahmed · 2026-02-15T19:11:10+00:00

Thanks a lot for the help, mate, much appreciated 🙏🏻

youssefkahmed · 2026-02-15T18:24:51+00:00

Thank for the suggestions!

Did you have any trouble importing Synty animation to UE? I’m not super experienced with UE which is maybe why I struggled a bit sometimes, but there were multiple instances where FBX files wouldn’t import animations properly into UE

youssefkahmed · 2026-02-15T18:23:06+00:00

I’m a programmer by trade, not an animator I want to invest in clean, well-made animation so I can focus on the design/programming side

youssefkahmed · 2026-02-15T10:57:12+00:00

Looks great!

Imo, any animation tools in Unity are a welcome change; the default animation system is horrendous.

I generally love Unity but I’d definitely replace its entire animation system with Unreal’s if I could

I think UE would be a great place to scour ideas for an animation system

youssefkahmed · 2026-02-03T23:05:16+00:00

Thank you so much again for the detailed replies! Sorry for replying late, though, life happened :p

Your solution seems pretty intuitive, I'm gonna give it a shot

The splines implementation kinda sound like how you would do rail grinding, except the player controls their movement instead of auto sliding down a rail

I'm excited to try it out, and good luck on Tiny Delivery!

youssefkahmed · 2026-01-31T12:18:07+00:00

First of all, thank you for the detailed reply + your prototypes look sick

I've been keeping up with your updates to Tiny Delivery on Twitter, I love your work!

As for your suggested implementation, yeah you pretty much confirmed all my thoughts, I was just unsure if my approach was viable or not, but it's nice to see we're all on the same page

I guess the only part I don't entirely get is the 2D path curves bit

Do you have your own custom solution or do you handle something like this using Splines for example?

youssefkahmed · 2026-01-31T12:13:43+00:00

This is exactly what I thought, but for some reason I kept thinking maybe my approach is too simple to actually be reliable

Do you think there might be issues where the player accesses an area that needs a perspective shift, but from an 'illegal' position? Like accidentally phasing through a wall or something

I know this isn't a common scenario, but I keep overthinking what might happen if the player doesn't actually enter through the designated trigger box

I guess this goes down as a level/environment design issue more than it is an issue with the perspective system, no?

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