r/UnrealEngine5

Description: Set up a scene with a bunch of barrels — just to see them fly apart nicely across the area. I think it worked.

Has anyone got any clues as to what could be causing this weird stretching from the clothing? In mt BP for my character the issue is visible as shown, however in the SKM component its fine. Same way its clearly fine in blender. The issue is getting annoying.

Короткий ролик, що передає атмосферу гри «Night Record: Thin Walls» — психологічного хорору, заснованого на реальних подіях, дія якого розгортається в пострадянську епоху.
У грі робиться акцент не на раптові лякаючі моменти, а на реалістичні локації, тиху напругу та ледь вловиме відчуття тривоги.
Місце, де спочатку все здається нормальним — доки це не перестає бути так.

Якщо вас зацікавило — не забудьте додати гру до списку бажаного.

Hello, I'm in the process of making my first game. Just to be brief, it's an exploration-based Backrooms game. I am going to start modeling the pool rooms, and I wondered what you think of the tiling texture I made myself.

Would broken tiles suit? How about grunge? Not 100% sure atm, thought I'd ask the community.

P.S: These shots are test shots, tiles placed on roughly placed cubes. I've already set my texture to be world-aligned.

Thanks for the massive feedback on the previous post! I've addressed most of the issues that were raised and moved forward quite a bit, but there are still many things to improve. I'm genuinely hooked on this project and pushing hard to bring it to a quality you haven't seen in a game before. I hope you like where it's going and I'd love to hear your thoughts again.

Previous post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/1sy1jsu/this_is_the_movement_system_i_always_wanted_to/

QUESTIONS FOR YOU

Head Bob: This makes movement natural and gives the body weight, but I know it causes discomfort if overdone. Does the current amount feel balanced or is it still too much?

Camera Roll: I stabilized the camera and overlaid a roll based on body lean (visible when cornering fast). The video shows both versions. Do you prefer the lean roll or a completely flat horizontal camera?

THE ANTI-NAUSEA SOLUTION

The main concern from last time was camera movement causing discomfort. I implemented three layers of stabilization to address it:

1. Locked the camera to the horizontal axis. 
2. Added shock absorption through the spine kinematics.
3. Eye-lock stabilization. Hardest one. - In reality we don't feel head movement because our eyes stay locked on a target. Calculating that point of interest purely from mouse input and a bobbing head took a solid two days of math, but finally made it work. Let me know if you want a technical breakdown of this.

AVAILABILITY

I am currently offering the locomotion system for licensing. I am also open to full-time or contract roles to integrate this architecture into ongoing projects. If your studio needs a system like this, let's talk. 

ABOUT THE SYSTEM

Several things always bothered me in military games: characters that snap direction instantly, players who jiggle left and right without weight and momentum to dodge bullets, sliding feet, and the head-glitch exploit that lets players shoot without exposing themselves. 

Key features of my system:

• I have built the core around the physics to give movement real weight and inertia while keeping inputs responsive. Lightweight soldiers are fast and maneuverable, while heavily loaded units feel sluggish and struggle to corner while running.
• All movement is procedural. No animation clips are used. All step cycles are curve-based, which makes it easy to create very different movement styles.
• The camera sits at the right eye position. It is a true first person. This removes the gap between where your head is and where your gun is, so an enemy can't fire at you without exposing themselves first - head-glitch exploit.
• The locomotion is fully separated from the IK layer. It drives null objects, and those null objects drive the biped IK. This makes switching to another engine like Unreal straightforward.

PERFORMANCE

It takes about 0.5 ms to calculate all the system and IK solver together on my old machine. I have not done any optimization so far. I'm currently using Final IK, and later plan to switch to Unity's Animation Rigging package which uses worker threads for IK calculations and should give a significant performance boost. I also plan to add refresh throttling and LOD for distant units.

FOOTNOTE

During the work I understood why systems like this are so rare - it's extremely hard to build well. In real life you just walk. Here you have to break down every type of step you take and figure out how to implement it in code, while keeping everything clean and solid. If you duct-tape any issue, you will pay for it on every step after that.

I am trying to create a mechanic in my grid-menus where if you attempt to move an item to a grid inventory with no room for it, it returns the item to its original location. In these menus; the inventory update is triggered by an event dispatcher which runs the "Refresh" function on the widget for that grid. The issue is when I attempt to use this return mechanic going from a chest > the equipment slots, the event dispatcher is called but Refresh function does not run.

The return mechanic works in every other way however. If I want to go from the personal inventory > the equipment slots or a chest > the personal inventory it works fine. Does anyone have an idea why a properly Binded and Called event dispatcher like this would not work?

Hey, first time posting. I am a 25-year-old college graduate. For the past year, I have been trying to find a job as an Unreal Artist but haven't been successful and am really lost rn.

I am not sure what to do or what career path(as an unreal artist) to take. Does anyone have any advice?

Here is my art station link if anyone is interested https://www.artstation.com/sparshs18

Hey guys,

A few weeks ago we posted the reveal trailer for Trivals, our 3v3 PvP hero-sport game.

The feedback was really helpful. The main thing we understood was that people were left unsure what the game actually was: a sport game, a PvP game, or a team fighting a boss.

So we went back and made a new version.

We cut it down from around a minute and a half to one minute, and tried to make the core idea clearer: two teams fight over the ball, pass to charge it, and try to score by hitting weak points on a living goal/guardian.

We also fixed a technical mistake from the first trailer. The gameplay was recorded at 60 FPS, but the final video was exported at 25 FPS ^^", which made the footage feel worse than the actual game. This version should feel closer to how it really plays.

Curious what you think of this version now.

Steam page for anyone who wants to check it out:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2532110/Trivals/

Hi, I was tryna do a clean blend to the player, but right when the blending happens, it starts to lag as you can see in the video. Does anybody know how to fix this? Thanks!

Thanks for the massive feedback on the previous post! I've addressed most of the issues that were raised and moved forward quite a bit, but there are still many things to improve. I'm genuinely hooked on this project and pushing hard to bring it to a quality you haven't seen in a game before. I hope you like where it's going and I'd love to hear your thoughts again.

Previous post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnrealEngine5/comments/1sy75rk/this_is_the_movement_system_i_always_wanted_to/

QUESTIONS FOR YOU

Head Bob: This makes movement natural and gives the body weight, but I know it causes discomfort if overdone. Does the current amount feel balanced or is it still too much?

Camera Roll: I stabilized the camera and overlaid a roll based on body lean (visible when cornering fast). The video shows both versions. Do you prefer the lean roll or a completely flat horizontal camera?

THE ANTI-NAUSEA SOLUTION

The main concern from last time was camera movement causing discomfort. I implemented three layers of stabilization to address it:

1. Locked the camera to the horizontal axis. 
2. Added shock absorption through the spine kinematics.
3. Eye-lock stabilization. Hardest one. - In reality we don't feel head movement because our eyes stay locked on a target. Calculating that point of interest purely from mouse input and a bobbing head took a solid two days of math, but finally made it work. Let me know if you want a technical breakdown of this.

AVAILABILITY

I am currently offering the locomotion system for licensing. I am also open to full-time or contract roles to integrate this architecture into ongoing projects. If your studio needs a system like this, let's talk. 

ABOUT THE SYSTEM

Several things always bothered me in military games: characters that snap direction instantly, players who jiggle left and right without weight and momentum to dodge bullets, sliding feet, and the head-glitch exploit that lets players shoot without exposing themselves. 

Key features of my system:

• I have built the core around the physics to give movement real weight and inertia while keeping inputs responsive. Lightweight soldiers are fast and maneuverable, while heavily loaded units feel sluggish and struggle to corner while running.
• All movement is procedural. No animation clips are used. All step cycles are curve-based, which makes it easy to create very different movement styles.
• The camera sits at the right eye position. It is a true first person. This removes the gap between where your head is and where your gun is, so an enemy can't fire at you without exposing themselves first - head-glitch exploit.
• The locomotion is fully separated from the IK layer. It drives null objects, and those null objects drive the biped IK. This makes switching to another engine like Unreal straightforward.

PERFORMANCE

It takes about 0.5 ms to calculate all the system and IK solver together on my old machine. I have not done any optimization so far. I'm currently using Final IK, and later plan to switch to Unity's Animation Rigging package which uses worker threads for IK calculations and should give a significant performance boost. I also plan to add refresh throttling and LOD for distant units.

FOOTNOTE

During the work I understood why systems like this are so rare - it's extremely hard to build well. In real life you just walk. Here you have to break down every type of step you take and figure out how to implement it in code, while keeping everything clean and solid. If you duct-tape any issue, you will pay for it on every step after that.

For the past two years, I’ve been working on my own psychological horror game with elements of drama. The game is called Nightmare Within

Throughout the development process, I’ve significantly changed the visual style. The game has literally been transformed beyond recognition. This was prompted by feedback from the CGI artists regarding the old lighting. I was, of course, resistant and didn’t agree. But as a result, I completely overhauled the lighting, redesigned the levels, and switched to Lumen global illumination. And the game started to look noticeably better. I’m still trying to perfect the visual aspect of the project. But I’m interested in hearing people’s opinions here. Does it stand out from other indie projects?

Anyone who’s interested can, of course, find out more about my game on the official website I recently launched. There you can find dev logs, links to social media, and a link to Steam.

Thanks in advance to everyone for your feedback. I’d be interested to hear any criticism)The teaser is a bit out of date now; it will be updated when the demo version of the game is released

Website
Steam

What do you think about the feedback and sound effects?