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Tinker Tuesday for September 3, 2024

This thread is for anyone working on personal projects to share their progress, and hold themselves somewhat accountable to a group of peers.

Post your project, your progress from last week, and what you hope to accomplish this week.

If you want to be pinged with a reminder asking about your project, let me know, and I'll harass you each week until you cancel the service.


Well, it seems this thread is still not doing too badly relative to the other regular threads, so let's stay on a weekly pace.

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@Southkraut, how's your Unreal Engine thing going along?

Not at all! I was entirely busy with the vacation, spending two days driving back from vacation, taking my kid to the swimming pool several times, getting my car fixed, going on a full-day job interview...

I did manage to crack open the editor and look at what I have so far. What I have is a script that spawns some 3D objects. According to the editor this does work, but I have not so far managed to get the camera to see it happen. It's more than nothing - by a hair's breadth. I'll either have to grapple some more with the editor to move my blueprints into better position, or script it so that the positioning of the spawned objects and the camera is corrected on the fly. The problem might also be that the character controller I expect to be used is actually overriden by some default that's spawned in without my say-so; there might be a setting for that buried in the project settings IIRC.

Baby steps. Please ping me again next week.