I need a perforce tier between free for 5 users and $40 a month for 50 users. Gimme like $20 a month for 10 users or something, please.

My heart is heavy & I might have more to say on that later, but I've got news today that my time at Heart Machine will come to an end after POSSESSOR(S) ships. I'm honestly too busy... literally shipping the game to start actively looking for work, but I'll be looking for my next gig in December. 🥲

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Swamp time

More lmao

Making spreadsheets, kill me

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Update: it's pretty good

Adventures in cooking: our friend group is getting together to carve/paint pumpkins tonight & everyone's bringing food. I don't know how to cook much but I'm trying out making a brown sugar honey glazed ham. Following a tutorial, I made a glaze, ham is cooking now, final pictures once it's done:

I've reposted many posts made by folks who were recently laid off from Heart Machine, but here is a thread that highlights them all. I am also including folks who were previously laid off & are still looking for work. I will be linking their Bsky posts, as well as LinkedIn. Please, share this. 🖤

I've done three "Hire X HIRE X" posts recently, but genuinely I'd like to ask that anyone looking for staff right now please look at the posts here or on LinkedIn from folks that are being laid off from HM, these people are SO talented and SO amazing and I'm heartbroken to lose them as coworkers.

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It's that time again, folks. I have been told I will be let go from Heart Machine next week. The people there have been amazing friends and coworkers and anyone else who has been affected deserves all the love and support. I will be updating my portfolio soon; any Env Art leads would be appreciated

[waking up]: oh, fuck off

Just watched Scream for (somehow) the first time. HILARIOUS.

Couple more finds courtesy of my rad wife who is not on Bluesky

Can't believe I'm saying this again so soon, but I've been laid off from Heart Machine. Please check out Possessor(s) on Nov 11th, I'm incredibly excited for you all to experience what I've been working so hard on the past year. Gonna just keep on moving forward and makin art mattgraczykart.com

Matt is an IMMENSE talent and a super sweet & cool person. Any team looking for an environment artist should scoop him up quick.

Hey I got to touch some stuff for this

"What goes on under your desk Christian?" I am SO glad you asked!

The talk I co-delivered at #EverythingProcecduralConference earlier this year is up on YouTube, lots of neato details on the stuff we did for #procgen in #HyperLightBreaker at @heartmachine.bsky.social youtu.be/AWzepoestQ4?...

Had a period of intense non-productivity and exhaustion basically all of last week, then randomly got insanely motivated and stayed up until 5am working on stuff last night. Chat are we so back or am I about to nosedive into brutal burnout?

gamers wear glasses so rose-tinted they only see red

I've just released version 1.1.0 of my #UE5 SDF Plugin. Now featuring some extra material functions, some basic materials and this nifty interactive explainer / examples / tutorial window Windows binaries for 5.4, 5.5 and 5.6 up in github github.com/rtm223/RTMSDF #gamedev #UnrealEngine

Been very caught up in trying to program things "the right way" when writing systems lately and I find I'm so much more focused on *how* I'm executing something that I wind up slowing myself down *a lot* Shit is seriously sucking the joy out of making games.

Looking to pick up a bit more work—if you're looking for stylistic, atmospheric art direction I'd be happy to chat!

Found fellow goofball on #skate this evening

Yesterday I ate: - One sugar free protein coffee - Spaghetti Despite only having one solid meal, I actually took in more calories yesterday than the day before, though still ultimately at a big deficit from my maintenance calorie amount. Also walked a mile at the end of the day.

New #skate is super fun

Today I ate: - Egg on toast x2 - 1 cheese stick - 9 oz. of chicken - 50 oz. of water I walked one mile & spent about an (elapsed) hour of my day using my standing desk. Shot a little too low on calorie intake, which wasn't intentional. Gonna try & go for something less punishing tomorrow.

Lots to learn, but it's fun. #blender #3D #animation

You get heartburn and take a tums. I wake up coughing up stomach acid at 3am and wash down a pantoprazole with pepto. We are not the same.

Update on this - there's a bug in 5.5 related to User Scene Textures not following viewport scale changes properly, had nothing to do with mixing standard Scene Texture usage. Fixed in 5.6, backporting is simple using this commit if you're not ready to move up yet though! github.com/EpicGames/Un...

Has anyone in my network used the new User Scene Texture workflow for multi-pass post process effects in #UE5 5.5+? In my first pass in my stack I'm trying to sample Scene Textures like BaseColor & WorldNormal but it's doing the dumb clamp+stretch thing regardless of which Blendable Location I use.

This article just reminded me of this old tweet

I don't have the proper words to say more than this now but I was just laid off. My role at Giant Squid is being eliminated. If your studio is looking for an environment artist, please let me know ASAP. I have 5+ years of experience. thank you

Found some river generation junk I forgot to share. Starts at the highest point on the map, then marches down looking for steepest declines. If it falls into a pit before reaching the ocean, it'll fill-search radial points until it finds the next lowest point out of the pit, then resumes path march.

made a gross lil symbiote/parasite thingy

new ink new ink new ink

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Parallelized some stuff & deferred some other stuff, got tile seams/cracks removed. 200KM² active area, 100-140KM view range, fully procedural. Beeeg Terrain. youtu.be/XnGXDAsI0ho?...

Update - turns out UDynamicMesh is largely a UObject wrapper for FDynamicMesh3 - a data structure, which can be manipulated off of the game thread. Offloading geo buffer generation & FDynamicMesh3 construction to separate threads, then just passing the data back to UDynamicMesh, is very fast!

@phyronnaz.bsky.social @mr4goosey.bsky.social Hey there, sorry if this is a silly question, but does the Voxel Core plugin on GitHub have code for generating meshes on screen? I kinda briefly skimmed through & found a ton of rad data mgmt stuff but wasn't sure if there's mesh draw/collision stuff?

Not holding my breath but - does anyone know if it's possible to multithread updating dynamic meshes in #UE5? They have render & collision resources that get updated when calling like AppendBuffersToMesh() so I'm guessing the answer is no, but I'd LOVE to be wrong 👀

Revisited perspective-relative terrain gen in Unreal Engine, this time using a moveable quadtree to manage tiles. To test it out, I set up an auto-running character and let them run at the default third person template movement speed, and sent them on a 100KM jog! www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7pO...

All-nighters as a kid: super fun, no big deal All-nighters in my twenties: happens accidentally sometimes, but survivable All-nighters in my thirties: