#GAS handles a majority of the replication calls you would need normally. Saved me a lot of time which I spent creating a server/client setup. Also tinkered in Blender; made a wizard hat! Next week: session management and gameplay loop management (waiting, start, progress, end) #GameDev #Unreal

Discourse around NPC behaviors has virtually disappeared since "AI" in video games has come to refer to generative AI. This is frustrating as it is the topic I find most interesting in #gamedev. I think we need a different kind of nomenclature that governs non-player decision making systems.

Refactored everything into separate plugins and got it all in separate repositories. Next week slowly adding replication while expanding GAS implementation #UE5

In my effort to avoid visual scripting as much as possible i figured out how to use Gameplay Abilities and Effects using C++... I'm not sure it was worth it but at least now I understand how #GAS passes around the related instances. #UE5 #UnrealEngine #GameDev

The problem with GetActorsInSelectionRect is the way it uses an actor's extents. Basically it gives you a hitbox at the most extreme ends of ANY components that are attached to that actor. Taking 50% of those extents is more accurate but I'm also looking into filtering components. #UE5 #Unreal

Built marquee selection into my RTS game using a recommended method only to find out that not only does everyone have problems with it, but even the sample RTS project Unreal includes has the exact problems everyone is complaining about. Not sure if box tracing from the camera is a better solution

In the event that @jesawyer.bsky.social is secretly working on Pillars 3, I really hope he plans to let us fight the Concelhaut x Titan of Wael that was unleashed upon Eora by the Watcher (the canon ending to the Forgotten Sanctum, of course).

@wigglewood.bsky.social i wonder if the genie ever found his hat