Spin up your very own Perforce server
You need source control
If you’re not using source control, start using source control. All game companies do this,
Magivoid Devlog #2 - Teams, AI, combat, and a thingamajig
Teams
With a landscape and a character shooting fireballs in place, it’s time to add things that a game
Magivoid Devlog #1 - Terrain, locomotion, fireball!
Intro
In the last post I mentioned not knowing what game to make. This isn’t entirely true. I don’
Magivoid Devlog #0 - I would like to make a game
Why?
I started messing about with computers about three decades ago (yikes, 2023), and I quickly gravitated towards building games.
Assign player team on spawn
Gameplay Tags
Unreal Engine has this great generic system for storing arbitrary labels called Gameplay Tags. It’s essentially FNames
Simple bullet spread for AI
Good AI is not fun AI
It’s easy to make your AI bots accurate. Target minus source and you
Better third person projectiles
The problem
In third person games you tend to fire a projectile from the muzzle of a weapon, the hand
Safe casts in Unreal Engine
Actor to Character
Say you have a pointer to an Actor and you’d like to cast this to a
Custom AnimNotify in Unreal Engine 5
Adding a new AnimNotify class
Unreal Engine offers a few stock notify types for things like playing audio or triggering
Custom email domain with Cloudflare and Gmail
Setup to receive emails
1. In your Cloudflare dashboard, go to Websites > your website > Email.
2. Click Add
