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ArjinFerman  Tinfoil Gigachad  24d ago (text post)   282 thread views

Tinker Tuesday for June 2nd, 2026

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.

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Not a lot of tinkering this week, but I started the second approach on reworking the data buffers to optimize the bullet simulation.

How have you been doing @Southkraut?

@FCfromSSC, since you pinged my last week, would you like regular pings as well?

Had a week off, spent most of it parenting, but did get a few hours to myself here and there and, since the weather didn't cooperate with my more outdoorsy plans, I tinkered.

  • Refactored and restructured the worst of the LLM cruft.
  • Made inroads into using the Unreal Insights profiler and resolved the worst performance offenders. In some cases by way of removing the entire offending system.
  • Pulled a lot of wheel-reinventions into more uniform and generic code.
  • Standardized the instantiation of physical entities.
  • Started setting up a handmade framework for NPC behavior, but right now it's still heavily WIP.

I also noticed that I am somewhat offended by how clunky my placeholder NPC models look. To be exact, they're primitive cylinders. I am debating either building something more appealing procedurally, or actually breaking out blender. It needn't be hi-fi; if I can count the polygons on my hand and feet that's fine. First off, I suppose I should do some research into animations - can I do those procedurally, too, or am I finally better of making something by hand?

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