Just recently started making my own game as a hobby and found the universal asset library from quaternius on itch io. It's pretty useful, honestly. But I struggled with trying to get it to work with free models that I found that were CC0 on Sketch Fab. Not really sure what I'm doing honestly. There's also Adobe mixmo that I guess I could try
I've never used unreal engine before for more than maybe like an hour, running around with the default settings. I primarily use Godot. But today I have a professional curiosity because I'm curious what it's like in unreal engine trying to make custom systems... So let's say that a developer for an indie game wanted to make their own game and they want like a full terrain system like no man's sky. Not necessarily with the gun or whatever but users can just play the game and create their own terrain heights and flatten things and all that jazz so they can put buildings down. How difficult would it be to do that exactly? Would it be a challenge? I don't really know advanced c++ or anything crazy like that
I actually really like blue sky compared to the alternatives that I've tried, reddit, twitter, facebook, instagram, etc. But I think the platform has an Achilles heel that has ruined the entire thing. Labelers are being weaponized against other people, sometimes not in a malicious way but in a manner of pure stupidity and incompetence. For example, a lot of people believe that sky Watch blue is a very reliable labeler because it's a community based one. But unfortunately that's not the truth. This is a very harmful and inaccurate labeler that I have seen at least a dozen times or more mislabel people that I personally know, and 'cause their engagement to basically tank on the platform or get them treated in a way that isn't really fair
If you've never heard of Sky Watch Blue and you're curious how it works: It basically is an automated algorithmic system that both scans the Blue Sky platform looking for what it thinks are offenders to its many rules. I would estimate that it has about a 65% accuracy rate here which is terribly low, for something that is going to be labeling people and a lot of people are following. But other people can also report users to the labeler, which is probably the worst part. There are people report things falsely, either because they don't like someone or they see them as competition, or they're just annoyed at seeing them.
Labelers also tend to be very difficult to undo, a lot of them don't have accounts that are active or don't respond, For example Skywatch Blue, i've never heard of anyone ever being taken off of their label when they are labeled inaccurately.
"it's just a label!! Why do you care?!?" In brief, It's similar to defamation. Imagine that you're trying to start your own niche in the blue Sky community for anything. Maybe you're an artist or you sell pottery or something like that, or you're an athlete... Someone reports you or the labeler picks you up as being a follow farmer/inauthentic behavior Simply because you used starter pack or two. Yeah, that happens. It really does. Now people look at you with this label, inauthentic behavior, and it's not even proven like in a court of appeal or a court of law or anything like that. There's no actual factual basis to that label, it's not technically proven. But people will believe it anyway. I've literally seen people and followed people who are labeled as follow farmers or inauthentic behavior, and they are normal people that don't do that. Game developers, 3D artists, etc.
Labelers aren't really all that helpful though, either. It's kind of BS, really. If you want to see a label for you privately that no one else can see, that makes sense. Sure. Like, who cares if I label the drawers in my house or in my pantry with all kinds of crazy stuff right? But imagine if I go out in public and I start putting these stickers on people. I just smack one on someone's back saying, dumb bitch. How insane is that? That everyone will now see that because that's the way I personally felt about the person? It's really insane, honestly.
People have gotten really immature with these labelers, in closing. It was really meant to solve for serious issues like extremely toxic people, actual follow bots who aren't even real people and follow like 30K people and then they have 5K followers, like that's obvious. But now people are just putting labels on people for anything. I saw one that called a group of people Puritans or something ridiculous, and they were just normal people. Like how immature! "I had a disagreement, so instead of blocking, I'll just make a labeller to piss em off" ugh
I'm making a 3D game in Godot as a hobby, trying to learn how to do everything myself. I'm starting with ground texture and sculping to make a basic small outdoor area. My struggle is understanding how to get decent textures and work with them. The first texture pack I found looked great in the photos but when I got the file downloaded, it was a total mess of old DAE files, and "collada" whatever that is. Apparently it's legacy and can't even be imported into blender anymore so I gave up on that one and tried to find another one.
I got a GLB file next from fab, about 500 MB, this one was filled with JPEG files once I brought it into Godot. Which was strange because I figured they would use PNG or webp or something. So two different texture packs I thought might work, a complete bust. But the look of them in the images were both great and what I'm hoping to do in my game, with the roads and stuff.
I guess I don't really know what I'm doing though. I think the first thing I should do is probably sculpt some terrain and then find out how to put grass on it, using a decent low resolution grass because I don't need anything 4K or mega Scan or anything crazy. But it's been kind of weird, trying to figure out what I'm trying to do.
At my previous job, I had this hardass manager who believed everything should be done right, by the book. Don't rush things out the door, really take your time, make sure the numbers are right, double and triple check them. So our team took slightly longer to put out analytics, but they were always correct and vetted. The weird part was though, no one ever really asked us if they were accurate, or even commented on the accuracy at all of our metrics or data points. In fact, very seldom in my career over the last 3 years have I seen or heard much commentary on data accuracy
AI has definitely not helped at all, either. I wish I was joking or it was some sort of meme, but The amount of times that you hear about AI producing fake results and data these days is shockingly common. In those cases, no one seems to care either. It's just a robot / agent. What are you supposed to do about it? Scold them? It's not like they're even real, that's the attitude.
I thought analytics and data were supposed to be assets and resources used by the business to make decisions? So when it's wrong, why do they not care? It's really strange to me though honestly. We don't care about data accuracy anymore it seems like. So why even pretend?
I work at a big Fortune 500 company, hired about a year ago, early 2025 when the economy started to trend downward. Now, a year later, our company is really starting to feel it. We laid off 10% of the entire company in January, and the petty, childish BS that comes with additional layoffs is starting to be cascaded down across our whole department...
Our manager is obsessive and keeps asking us to CC her on everything, every communication every email, anything we send out, wants to know what we are doing at all times
We had to put together a time tracker that lists all of our tasks, everything we are working on, every project and initiative, hours spent. They claim it's "quantify all the hard work we are doing", so we can back that up and use that as a tool to guide us on what we need to focus more time on. I'm totally buying that lol /s
We are hounded on a weekly basis for accomplishments, updates, achievements. They want metrics, every week, even if we don't have anything. We started providing basically anything we could come up with because they are scrounging so aggressively for any sort of metric they can get. It's like they are annoyed when we can't provide them anything, because it's only been a week. What do they think we are launching and finishing entire projects and initiatives in a single week?
We have a bunch of progress update meetings on a weekly and bi-weekly basis now that we didn't have before, where we talk about what we are working on, what we have achieved, what needs to be done. It's like being babysat honestly. They are so painfully aware of what we are working on at any time. Why do they need to be involved in every single meeting and why do they need to be so frequent???? Hmmmm
Seems like things are going to change again, because of this really bad economy and layoff season is getting a really good Kickstart this year