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I'm looking into software for designing/defining quests for an RPG game. Mostly, I'm hoping for something visual and to avoid writing it as, for example, a JSON or XML file. Ideally I'd like something that can be used easily with Unreal Engine, although it's not a hard requirement. If it's just a process using non-gamedev specific tools I'm still interested in what people are doing and how they like it.

Currently I'm using Articy:draft for defining dialogues. I'm tempted to define quests using that, but I haven't seen much in the way of examples of it so I'm worried it might be a bad idea (the only thing I could find that mentioned it was a 2019 Game Developer blog post that essentially sai

I've been experimenting with learning to use Lumen and Nanite. I have a scene now with unmasked vegetation assets, which is working fairly well, but for some reason I can't get most of the vegetation to contribute to global illumination. I just get a pink surface cache. I've mostly left things at default values from the PCG spawner I created, although things like "Affects Indirect Lighting" are enabled. I tried increasing the number of static mesh cards but no difference. How do I get these meshes included in global illumination?

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Hi there! I'm pretty new to Unreal Engine 5 (coming from a Unity background). I created a metahuman, which is working fine other than this really strange shadow artifact I'm seeing. https://youtu.be/NsDYqGPcZEU

If the video doesn't work, a brief description: Basically, the shadows coming from the hair have a dithering effect that is very unstable and basically it looks like a lot of noise. It kind of reminds me of shadow acne you might see with badly setup shadow mapping, but not quite the same thing.

I tried setting a forced LOD to 1, but that didn't have any effect. Is this common and what can I do to fix it?

Fantasy football has two styles of draft, either the traditional "snake" draft, or an auction draft where players take turns nominating players, and then an auction is held. Almost anyone that's played an auction draft will admit it's way more fun. There's way more opportunity to mess with other people (by bidding up players they want), along with people making mistakes that are way more entertainingly dumb ("you paid HOW much for adrian peterson?")

The NFL draft would be way more fun if it was an auction. Everyone gets the same fictional budget, and whoever spends the most on a player wins. Can you imagine what that would be like in years with players like Andrew Luck?

It would also addr

Hey everybody,

So I have a ~2.9GB Git repository for my Unity project. It's been hosted on bitbucket, and that's worked well for me, but apparently they now have a hard 2GB cap. I don't mind spending money (within reason), or possibly switching version control software (though I would like to avoid it), but does anyone know of a good service for hosting this?

(Things I'd like to avoid: dropbox. I've already used that and it was not great with unity for quite a few reasons [import times on new computers, can't selectively choose what directories to share, etc])

So here's a question: while this subreddit is applying the idea of the red pill to gender relations, I think the broader idea of the "redpill" outside of just that realm is also interesting.

IE, a "redpill" being some piece of knowledge that reveals a truth that can't always be spoken in polite company, at least not directly.

So given those parameters, what are peoples favorite non-/r/theredpill redpills?

Hi fellow game jammers,

I don't know how many of you are planning on using vector art and python, but if you are I updated Martin O'Leary's squirtle svg library with some bug fixes and extra features:

• Support for per-pixel gradients via shaders (note -- shaders might need some tweaking, I've only tested them on my iMac and a laptop)
• Reads the "title" and "description" elements (handy for embedding metadata)
• Fixed issue with reading inkscape SVG files (some command types weren't supported)

Known bugs:

• Ellipses will crash hard (infinite loop). Just convert them to a path and it will work fine though.

Since it's just sitting in a fork right now, I figured it'd be only fair to let

Politics, in america at least, generally involves pandering to the masses. The winner is not the person with the best ideas, it's the person that resonated most strongly with the average person. This sucks, because the average person tends to be sort of dumb. I mean let's be honest, the "average" person also made Nickelback rich and famous, so their judgement is suspect at best. In any case, this pandering results in a dumbing down of politics, to the point where people smart enough to see how awful both candidates are tend to have no recourse other than not participating in the system. In music terms, it's like this: we can either buy a Creed album, or a Nickelback album, or just give up on