Megan Fox

Blutilities

One reason I kind of grumble about Blutilities is they, eh. I don't like how you launch them. You have to go find them in your folder structure, or stuff them into your menu options up top, bleh. E...

How to make a graphical tool in UE4/5

I missed January, so as bonus, I'm doing a kind of dense topic. UNREAL TOOLING.

So there's two (arguably three) ways of doing tooling in Unreal. One is so simple it barely even merits a post....

Bonus post (cus of skipped November)

It's the holidays, and I'm SUPER sorry I missed November, so I wanted to show y'all something silly. I think I've figured out how to handle this Patreon finally, and it'll basically just be me movi...

Leg/foot IK (extra code details)

This is just explaining the FootTrace function, and the why behind the Z instead of the XYZ when doing the traces.

What's With Z Instead Of XYZ

First, let's explain the...

Leg/foot IK with mix of old and new techniques

What you're looking at here is UE5 ControlRig, though all of this should work fine in 4.27 too. It looks big and complicated, but, really it isn't!

BTW, I went back and forth on how the heck ...

Bird Do A Yell

The BIG HELPERS get to see the bird do a screamy run. Because you deserve it. Enjoy this lil screamy run.

Hooray! I got facial animations working! this was WAY harder than expected, had to go...

So I Had A Rock Realization

So I'm working on rocks. Yeah I know, super boring, but. Come on, this is an open world video game. There Will Be Rocks.

These aren't my rocks exactly, these are Quixel asset store things. Ap...

This concept is an even bigger red herring

Y'all big-number folks haven't gotten anything lately, so please enjoy this piece of concept that I don't even know if we'll use, makes absolutely no sense from your perspective, but which

I<...

This concept art is a red herring

I swear these do relate to the game we're making, but a straight read of them by an uninformed party would make you immediately assume a vastly different kind of game, so let's just go with,

...

Bird has a HAT

Last time I shared concept art that had a lot of the hat concepting process, so figured it was appropriate to follow that up with

ACTUAL HAT!

Getting all of this right was weirdly compl...

A Bit About A Bird

Next-game of course has a bird again, though we're leaning a bit less realistic. Well, as realistic as SkateBIRD ever was, heh, we're just leaning a bit further still. So boots are in! Boots are fu...

General Update On Stuffs

I'll drop a $3+ tier post of just concept art stuffs, but yeah! Game's coming together pretty well. We ended up shifting to not announcing this year for a lot of reasons. Mostly it's that the origi...

I'm changing the Patreon "Goals" around a bit

Since we're between games, and the current Goals structure only made sense in the leadup to SkateBIRD, I'm changing that around. The main change is that polls will stop being an every-month pick-a-...

November(-ish) Bird Poll

Ok, another bird poll!

Caique

Pygmy Parrot

2021-12-03 21:59:18 +0000 UTC View Post

November Update (just a few days late)

Ok, so first: we'll do two bird polls this month probably, to catch up on that.

Then in terms of game news, hey! It's snowing in SkateBIRD if you didn't notice (on PC anyways). Happy holidays...

Bird Poll (October)

Been ages since we did one of these, so here! Bird poll! Figure out what bird goes into SkateBIRD next. Also, you gotta pick between owls or hawks/falcons this time. May the best predator win!

Dust settling post-SkateBIRD

Alright! We're finally post-launch, and can start to figure out where things sit.

First of all, I picked one of the randomly previously-suggested birds from folks in here, and added a (Americ...

SkateBIRD IS OUT

I think we've gotten around $10k over the 3 years of dev? Is that right? It's something like that, anyways - and that is WAY more than I ever figured we'd get from a Patreon. Just a whole bunch of ...

SkateBIRD delayed to Sept 16

Just a mini-update to say that we're delaying to Sept 16. Sorry!

Why? Usual reasons. Shipping a game is hard. Hit some bugs, SDK stuff  where the old code worked but the new one suddenly...

SkateBIRD demo UP AGAIN

We're putting the  demo live a few days in advance of PAX Online, to give folks more time  to notice it's there, try it, have fun, etc! We've gotten a lot of "wait  the demo was live...

May/June Update

SO YEAH! Some stuff happened. I can finally talk about STUFF.

First - our release date announce hit. On August 12th, for $19.99 US  buckaroos, you can be a skateboarding birb on PC (Stea...

April Stuff

Hiya folks! My posts will be a bit thin for the next few months, because hey, remember that SOON. trailer we put out recently for SkateBIRD? We meant it. We're jockeying for slots in E3 to, you kno...

Bird Poll (March)

Now we're all caught up. Starlings are probably gonna win that last poll. Now then, CHOOSE YOUR BIRB.

Quaker Parrot

2021-03-22 22:06:34 +0000 UTC View Post

Bird Poll (February, come lately)

Yep, missed Feb in all the excitement. So this month we're gonna do TWO polls. Pick your favorite birb!

Quaker parrot

2021-03-17 18:41:51 +0000 UTC View Post

March Stuff

Ok, we're gonna change how the Patreon works for a few months, because I'm really heads-down on shipping the game now. But I got some ideas! So let's start with what I've been doing, then scroll do...

Sometimes the dumb way is best

Kind of a general coding post this month, so everyone gets it, since it's more about general approach. If you want development update stuffs, scroll down.

Let's Get Stupid 2021-02-16 19:13:32 +0000 UTC View Post

There's a SkateBIRD demo up on the Steam Festival

This is TIME LIMITED, so don't wait too long. The event ends Feb 9th at 10am, and the demo gets pulled back down. That's next Tuesday! So you got through this weekend to give it a try.

You'll...

Bird Poll (January Edition) (take 2)

(Patreon is a giant piece of junk, so I had to post this again, it didn't add the poll to the last one because - it's a giant piece of junk)

I've owed y'all a poll for a while, but wanted to ...

Execution Order Woes

So, first we'll do the usual update stuff:

The big news is that I finished ANOTHER level. Office! ...

December Bird Poll

Because it's December, we're only doing Christmas birds, and birds that match a Christmas'y color scheme. PICK A CHRISTMAS BIRB!

Guacamaya. So festive!

2020-12-08 18:42:41 +0000 UTC View Post