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I cut up the animations, and replaced the old spritesheets... I feel ambivalent about the results. I'm not sure how to describe my issue, on one hand it's kinda what I was aiming for, but the old sprites, despite their lower quality somehow felt more defined or something. I'll try to see if adding extra frames to make the animations feel smoother helps, but I'm getting the feeling that this is where the art of sprite creation lies, and it might not be that easy to get what you want with AI slop.
Other than that I fixed the bullet-firing algo a bit, allowing for finer control of RPS fired, and firing multiple rounds in a single frame, which helped to make the flamethrower more dense. I also fixed a pseudo-random number generator in the shader code, because the old one could only return one unique value per frame, and was degrading after a few minutes, always returning the same value. This also improved the flamethrower aesthetics.
How have you been doing @Southkraut?
Removed some more AI-generated code and/or replaced it with my own. This especially includes terrain generation. Did some refactors to replace basic C++ classes with Unreal Objects, and raw pointers with Unreal-managed smart pointers, especially where I want to support serialization (which is just about everywhere). Then upgraded to UE 5.8, which took some doing to get everything to build again.
Then I went on to make some models in Blender. I quickly realized, however, that it would take a bit of a workflow to get those rigged and imported into Unreal. And I am doing very, very primitive low-fi, low-poly models that mostly consist of geometric primitives. So I checked and...I should be able to do that directly in the Unreal Editor. Haven't gotten around to actually trying it yet, but for my use-case that seems like the simplest solution.
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