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Written by The Seven Voyages Of Steve on 2025-01-23 at 16:16

I only just recently noticed that my blog post links weren't generating nice "cards" in Mastodon. I'd set up my Hugo blog to generate Twitter card metadata years ago, and I thought Mastodon pulled that same data, but either it never did and I missed it, or things have changed. It's easy to fix, you just need to include this line in your theme inside the section:

{{ template "_internal/opengraph.html" . }}

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Written by The Seven Voyages Of Steve on 2025-01-23 at 15:46

I added some gifs to demonstrate the kind of problem you can get using a ray from the camera component instead of from the player camera manager, under some simple camera lag settings changes.

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Written by The Seven Voyages Of Steve on 2025-01-23 at 14:59

Most of the advice you'll find online about doing camera calculations like "how do I get a ray from the camera" in #unrealengine are subtly wrong. Here's a simple guide on how to do it right: https://www.stevestreeting.com/2025/01/23/doing-unreal-camera-calculations-right/

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Written by The Seven Voyages Of Steve on 2025-01-23 at 12:38

Come on Pip, my code isn’t THAT bad

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Written by The Seven Voyages Of Steve on 2025-01-23 at 12:06

I generally enjoy biking everywhere, except the rare days when I get horizontal sleet in the face and feel like I’ve had Botox 🥶

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Written by The Seven Voyages Of Steve on 2025-01-23 at 11:41

Yeah. 🙁 Literally the only reason I can do this is that I’m funding it from past successes (non-game in my case). I’m guessing a bunch of previously successful indies will do the same. But after that? 😕

I’m an ageing dude now, I don’t have to worry about a “future” career very much so I’m lucky. If I did, I’d definitely think twice about going all-in on the games industry. I tried when I was young & failed to get hired, & I think that was secretly a blessing

https://peoplemaking.games/@glassbottommeg/113874805772310777

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Written by The Seven Voyages Of Steve on 2025-01-22 at 23:38

I must admit I’m having enormous, timely fun hitting Nazis in the nuts in The Great Circle. There’s a specific animation for it. Nice work, animator who made that one

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Written by The Seven Voyages Of Steve on 2025-01-22 at 16:05

I’d been keeping my abandoned Xitter account live solely to protect against imposters stealing the username, but you know what, I don’t even care anymore. Anyone still using that place should know better, so who gives a toss? Deleted.

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Written by The Seven Voyages Of Steve on 2025-01-22 at 11:36

OK I've turned off Rider's "Full Line local LLM completion" thing. It was useful sometimes, especially when dealing with tedious boilerplate, but it's become too annoying at jumping in when all I want is a variable name completion and Tab makes it spit something more complex in there. Sometimes it's right, but a lot of the time it's not and I'm tired of backspacing over it, on balance I think it's not a net positive. So ends my one use for (local) LLMs

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Written by The Seven Voyages Of Steve on 2025-01-22 at 10:32

I can’t understand people who leave a negative review on a niche little indie game where they kinda liked it but want to make a bunch of snarky points about how it could have been better. You’re not Roger bloody Ebert, and this isn’t a multi million pound company asking sixty plus dollars. Give them a break and just move on, ffs. Didn’t your Mum tell you that if you don’t have anything nice to say, say nothing at all?

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Written by The Seven Voyages Of Steve on 2025-01-21 at 15:53

Updated my blog post on manually positioning Niagara particles because having needed to use the Niagara debugger today, I noticed the setup I previously had would accidentally endlessly grow the number of particles, basically forever, if you re-used the systems. So that's fixed now. #unrealengine https://www.stevestreeting.com/2025/01/09/niagara-particles-setting-positions-manually/

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Written by The Seven Voyages Of Steve on 2025-01-21 at 10:35

Saw some news by accident

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Written by The Seven Voyages Of Steve on 2025-01-20 at 16:56

Its one of those days for (re) realising that the systems you built are like that because you went a really roundabout way to get there, and when you think about it from first principles with the benefit of this hindsight there's a much simpler and better way to do it.

I'm mostly talking about programming. Mostly.

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Written by The Seven Voyages Of Steve on 2025-01-20 at 15:31

Welcome to the stupidest part of the stupidest timeline I guess

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Written by The Seven Voyages Of Steve on 2025-01-19 at 18:24

And this CPU didn’t have a fan, it didn’t even have a heatsink of any kind. Just a flat top open to the air, that was enough back then.

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Written by The Seven Voyages Of Steve on 2025-01-19 at 18:15

Sadly like most people who moved house a lot and didn’t have a lot of money I never kept any of this stuff, it got sold to fund the next thing or simply get it out of the way 🫤

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Written by The Seven Voyages Of Steve on 2025-01-19 at 18:12

On the other side of the room was this beauty; a PAL SNES connected to a CRT TV over SCART with a JP/US converter riser so it could be played at 60Hz (essential for SF2 and others). Hot shit at the time and grey import carts were eye wateringly expensive, but I was working by this time so that’s where the cash went (and on the PC obvs - Roland sounds cards especially)

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Written by The Seven Voyages Of Steve on 2025-01-19 at 18:04

It was a 386 33MHz with a Turbo button to downclock the CPU to 15Mhz so games designed for lesser machines didn’t run unplayably fast 😂

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Written by The Seven Voyages Of Steve on 2025-01-19 at 18:01

Going through old photos to share with my parents and discovered this classic photo of my first PC in about 1991/1992

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Written by The Seven Voyages Of Steve on 2025-01-18 at 16:10

I used to really like playing board and tabletop games where the odds were completely stacked against you, there was a good chance your character would go mad or die before the end, and it was mostly about holding back entropy for a few moments longer before the inevitable collapse, but for some reason I find it hard to find the enthusiasm for them anymore 🤔

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