Steve Streeting

@sinbad3d.bsky.social

Greybeard. Working on MinerMancers, a game about silly wizards going mining together. Made engines (Ogre3D), devtools (Sourcetree, Git LFS), now games, Unreal Engine tools & plugins. Code: https://github.com/sinbad Blog: https://www.stevestreeting.com

A red robed wizard wearing a jester hat with gold diamond shapes on it, sporting a blonde beard with gold rings

Screenshot of a pink wizard in a top-down cave, with veins of bright crystal

A pink wizard in some sandy caves, surrounded by coral like decorations

A pink wizard throwing an exploding barrel, which destroys some mineable parts of the level

A pink wizard in a test level fires a bouncing barrel into some test dummies, which explodes and sets fire to them

A pink wizard flamethrowers some practice dummies

Wesley Crusher and friend wearing fake headsets in ST:TNG “The Game” while his Mum looks on in the background looking thrilled

3 UE windows in a test level with 3 different coloured wizards in a triangle

Two black and white cats on a blue blanket together

A red HÅG Capisco saddle chair. It has the signature horizontal T shaped back/arm rests

12 bread rolls cooling on a rack. They’re very reddish brown

Man the jibber beams and loose the fore-berks! It's time to set sail.
The course ahead may be treacherous, but by following the navigation
aids in this section—perhaps while reading bits to each other aloud—
you'll soon be in open ocean with a fine wind in your sails.
Welcome to the Punchbowl
The year is 1781. Oceans are battlefields. And battlefields are
rich pickings for the likes of you.
Nowhere is this more true than the Punchbowl of the
Antilles—a tropical archipelago brutalised by colonial powers
and further cursed by the detonation of an occult weapon one
year past.
It is now a vast lagoon—500 miles across and 50 ft below the
level the Atlantic ocean, which is held at bay by some magical
force, forming an encircling wall of seawater.
No one can get out. And only the most desperate and dangerous
people can get in.
People such as yourselves. Each of you a pirate, a criminal
or a scoundrel—each of you already befouled by magical
contamination—each of you almost beyond saving. It is why
you have been commissioned by King George III himself to
go beyond the water wall on a desperate mission to reclaim
the weapon that wrought such devastation there, and trouble
England's enemies all the while.
But this is subterfuge! You are no friend of England! In fact,
you have another agenda entirely. An agenda which is your
only chance at redemption: your only chance to survive the
pirate curse which will claim your soul.

Gene Wilder in Willy Wonka doing the sarcastic "tell me more" pose

$Installing the UE 5.7 Preview in the default C:\Program Files\Epic Games folder causes it to throw an error "Files within the installation folder would exceed t he maximum path length of 250 characters. Please shorten the path"$

Mugshot of the suspect
A black and white cat playing with a kickaroo on the floor

A shelf with 2 copies of Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Mac, Office for Mac and Windows 7 Professional

As of UE 5.6 the FPrimitiveSceneProxy class added a new property bSupportsRuntimeVirtualTexture which needs to be set in order for your procedural mesh to render into an RVT. Add this to the constructor to fix that:

#if ENGINE_MINOR_VERSION >= 6
// UE 5.6 added this, required for rendering to RVT
bSupportsRuntimeVirtualTexture = true;
#endif

Superluminal function statistics view for UWorld::Tick sorted by Start Time ascending instead of the default Duration descending

Superluminal website tagline "From installation to first fix in less than 10 minutes."

Superluminal capture options, with "Enable child process profiling" enabled and underlined

Minermancers screenshot: four silly wizards in a mine from above

Debug nav mesh display showing green default walking areas

A wizard in cyan robes in a cave surrounded by different types of rock, mostly purplish

Picture of a stony surface, the edges of some of the stones catch the light because of the roughness map

A scene from the Men At Work board game with 4 meeples in yellow hard hats in a line along a girder

A red wizard in a mining level. The ground has different texturing and rock detritus in different areas

Two black and white cats camping for tuna

Cursed code that forces a crash by trying to write a value to memory location 0

Unreal auto-import dialog reporting "99 changes to source content files"

A VO wave from in Audacity. Circled is an area on the waveform that is a P-pop ie a P-sound that has caused too much of a spike

Unreal Gameplay Tag selector with VoiceLine.Player.Banter.EnterMission selected

UE import prompt saying that 69 changes were detected. Nice.

[/Script/Engine.RendererSettings]
r.Nanite.ProjectEnabled=False
r.Nanite=0

UE resource usage view showing the Nanite.StreamingManager.ClusterPageData using 4GB VRAM, a full 2/3rds of total game use

Merry the black and white cat fast asleep on a blue blanket

$bool UMinerCommunicateAbility::ShouldActivateAbility(ENetRole Role) const { // The default implementation rejects cases where the actor role is ROLE_SimulatedProxy // but when you're dead you still need to be able to communicate. So allow it return /* Role != ROLE_SimulatedProxy && */ (Role == ROLE_Authority || (NetSecurityPolicy != EGameplayAbilityNetSecurityPolicy::ServerOnly && NetSecurityPolicy != EGameplayAbilityNetSecurityPolicy::ServerOnlyExecution)); // Don't violate security policy if we're not the server }$

An Editor Utility Blueprint that runs at editor startup and sets the console variable `Interchange.FeatureFlags.Import.FBX False`

A positive battery terminal and one gas vent with a little bit of crusted acid leakage

Two Yuasa NP7-12 mobility scooter batteries on a desk

FStreamableManager& Streamable = UAssetManager::GetStreamableManager();
FStreamableDelegate LoadDelegate;
LoadDelegate.BindLambda([this, Sequence, bCentreOnStashBox, PlaybackSettings, OnFinished]
{
PlayLoadedLevelSequence(Sequence.Get(), bCentreOnStashBox, PlaybackSettings, OnFinished);
});
Streamable.RequestAsyncLoad(Sequence.ToSoftObjectPath(), LoadDelegate);

// Preload revival montage so it's ready when we need it
FStreamableManager& Streamable = UAssetManager::GetStreamableManager();
auto Settings = GetDefault<UMinerCharacterSettings>();
if (Settings && !Settings->RevivingMontage.IsNull())
Streamable.RequestAsyncLoad(Settings->RevivingMontage.ToSoftObjectPath());

Rider menu: "Checkout and Rebase onto Master"

Class def for AMageCharacter, which subclasses AMinerCharacterBase, and implements interfaces IMinerAbilityAvatar, IMinerPOIInterface, IMinerVoicedCharacter, and IMinerInteractiveActor

$In your project folder, running: ``` ue-cook.ps1 ``` Saves you from having to type: ``` C:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_5.5\Engine\Build\BatchFiles\RunUAT.bat -ScriptsForProject="E:\Gamedev\YourProject\YourProject.uproject" BuildCookRun -skipbuildeditor -nocompileeditor -nop4 -project="E:\Gamedev\YourProject\YourProject.uproject" -cook -skipstage -nocompile -nocompileuat -unrealexe="C:\Program Files\Epic Games\UE_5.5\Engine\Binaries\Win64\UnrealEditor-Cmd.exe" -platform=Win64 -target=YourProject -utf8output ``` (it auto-detects the UE version for you)$