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How to create an Unreal Engine control rig in 6 easy steps!

After a days long deep dive into the workings of UE's rigging tools, you could consider me an expert. If you, like me, want to animate your characters in-engine rather than deal with the pesky task of exporting and importing animations back and forth forever, follow this neat interactive tutorial I've made to get you started!

(this is not a tutorial)

(this is a bad text adventure I made using cohost's CSS abilities and a generator called ravel)

(you don't need to know anything about 3d or unreal to understand it)

Read the tutorial here!

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Still Here!

Yes, this thing is still here. Hello fellow twitter expats.

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#screenshotsaturday Now titled Ridiculous Rugby! (formerly Maulers) Switching gears now from just development to getting the word out. Starting to get more people to play it and feedback has been fantastic, with some things that really helping to improve the game. So much work these last few weeks to get the game finally working the way I envisioned... Re-worked some of the character art. Collision and physics tuned up and ready to rumble. Added more behaviour and polish to the animation system, with some more coming. Added some more detail to the lighting. Also some tricks to vectorize the original #pixelart to make it cleaner and sharper on HD screens. #gamedev #indiedev #game #games #mobilegame #rugby #football #wrestling #ball #physics

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#fractal #fractals #math #graphics #screenshotsaturday

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#fractal #fractals #math #procgen #screenshotsaturday

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#screenshotsaturday Spent the last few weeks cranking away on the ragdoll physics to get everything sorted out and ready to start tuning and finishing up the character animation. Now the characters crash and bang much more the way I envisioned them and can just focus on making the animation more dynamic and fun to watch. And adding subtle AI details to make them act more human, like having a fearful facial expression and bracing with their hand when their head is about to smack into the ground. Luckily these guys shake it off and just bounce right up. Love both working on this game and playing it (I often[!] get distrated from testing bugs/features and end up just playing, so I'm taking that as a good sign ; ) ). #rugby #football #footballgame #wrestling #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #ragdoll #ragdollphysics

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Built a brand new tackle system that feels and plays much better. Lets you lift up and slam down your opponent to knock the ball free causing more turnovers. Also new control UI, cleaned up tons of animation and physics issues, new cleaner shadows, new crowd and NES inspired city background. #screenshotsaturday #footballgame #footballgames #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #rugby #football #wrestling

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Switch from 2D to 3D camera, and I’m not looking back! Makes the stadium and background look way better with natural perspective parallax, and the sprites still look great. It’s like Super Dodgeball meets Paper Mario meets ragdoll games. Luckily everything was already built with 3D in mind so not much needs to change other than filling in some missing triangles. #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #rugby #football #footballgame #footballgames #ragdoll #physics

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#screenshotsaturday Spent the week improving the physics animation system and super happy with the results. Now the ragdoll rugby players grab the ball and tackle each other as envisioned and the dynamics and feel of the game are feeling great. I can fire up the game on my iPhone and every match plays out so differently, but every time I'm laughing how how oddball and fun it is. 🤣🏉 #gamedev #indiedev #ragdoll #game #games #rugby #tackle #ball #football #footballgame #footballgames

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Write a caption... #screenshotsaturday Playing around with the AR scale of the game with a pair of silly zoom in n out buttons. Life size down to ant size. Ant Man would be proud! iOS 11 ARKit is a ton of fun to play and be silly with. #AR #ARKit #AugmentedReality #VR #virtualreality #gamedev #game #indiedev #surf #surfing

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Just doing some #AR surfing while waiting for the train. Oh, wait it’s here! 🏄🚂 #videogames #games #indiedev #vr #ARKit @endlesswavegame #screenshotsaturday

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Yeap, just surfing in the lobby. No big deal. 😉 Endless Wave running in #AR using #ios11 #ARKit. #gamedev #indiedev #vr #surf #surfing

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Alright Maulers, team practice. Gimme some laps! #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #rugby #pixelart #game #games

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Using slow motion to look for glitches in the procedurally animated ragdolls in my rugby game, Maulers Rugby. But it's so cool seeing all the collisions I'm wondering if I can use slow mo for gameplay too, in addition to repays. #gamedev #indiedev #rugby #screenshotsaturday #game #games

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Heading to downtown Vancouver was a very very tasty idea. Chill chicken rice bowl. One of best rice dishes I've ever had.

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Too nice of a day in Vancouver to not head downtown and work in a coffee shop. Especially after being away for a few weeks.