My hashtag#GDC2024 hashtag#UnrealEngine learning theater talk, Accelerating Your In-Editor Workflows with Editor Utilities is now live on YouTube and the Epic Developers Community!
I've linked the EDC article here, since it has all the links and snippets I mention during the talk. Check it out!
@brad_frost If you want it to automatically sync with your bank, then the only one I’ve found somewhat good is Copilot. With that said, Copilot sync is a bit of hit and miss depending on which bank you have. It doesn’t work with my bank anymore, so I’m now looking for alternatives too🤷♂️
Even though #Unreal allows you to specify light colors using temperatures in Kelvin, there is no corresponding material function to use the same behavior in materials. It's easy enough to add though, using FLinearColor::MakeFromColorTemperature() as a reference.
Very useful especially for VFX.
For example, you can have embers that change color as they cool by animating the temperature over the lifetime of the ember particles.
Trying to ban gas stoves is such a weird hill to die on. Miniscule impact on the environment (can be a net negative in regions with very dirty electricity sources), very tiny safety wins, but makes a lot of people upset. And to some might not be super bad on its own, but becomes straw that breaks the camel's back on "government overreach trying to control everything in our lives".
(And for some specialized applications like stir fry or wok just objectively worse)
This is going to sound like preaching to the choir, but,
I've now been using kagi.com as my only search engine (paid subscription) and I'm floored about how good it feels.
I had been using DDG before which was in itself a better alternative to Google (despite some underwhelming results in some very specific cases).
But Kagi feels like an order of magnitude above. I haven't had to do very hard searches, so it's hard to compare directly with others, but the day-to-day use is just ... amazing.
@zeh I tried it but it was so slow to the point that I couldn’t continue using it when I’m so used to the speed of Google. I do quite a lot of image searches too which were even slower.
I wonder what's a good Mastodon client for Android nowadays.
I have been using Tusky for a while and it's a good app in general, but it has some annoying bugs (when previewing images) that have never been fixed, which makes me assume development is abandoned.
With Blender 4.0 comes some welcome changes to the Principled BSDF, and https://physicallybased.info is now updated to reflect those changes when you choose Blender from the Engine dropdown.
IOR is now controlling both reflection and refraction, and Specular Tint is working as expected for metals. You can also find values for Subsurface Radius for select materials.
@mcc I've encountered some crashes on 4.0 beta, so I can't recommend it for anything else than testing. Full version of 4.0 is coming in just a few weeks though.