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I wanted to see if I could modify the unreal engine bloom effect following my article on making custom lens-flare. This is because the default one can sometimes look disapointing and doesn't always...

This article shows how to modify the default Unreal Engine lens-flare post-process, from code to shaders. I always wanted to change the default Unreal Engine 4 lens-flares because it never felt good...

If you are a user of UE4, especially recent versions, you may have stumbled upon an issue regarding its lens-flare post-process: you cannot tweak the flare colors properly and they have no effect....

I spent quite a bit of time working with Render Targets in Unreal Engine 4. Mostly to do some effects for my UI. One of the main example is the use of a Jump Flood algorithm to render a Distance...

In this article I cover how to create Portals in Unreal Engine 4. As I did not find any write-up that would provide enough details to explain how to create such system (viewing but also crossing the...

For a long time I wanted to be able to generate Distance Field textures on the fly to create various visual effects. Lately I needed this effect to replicate the Photoshop "glow" filter that you can...

This guide explains how to setup a Perforce server on a Synology NAS via Docker to be used with Unreal Engine 4. That’s something I wanted to do for a while and I finally took the time for it. I’m...

I decided to share the method I use in my current project to handle my true first person camera. There is little to no documentation on this specific type of first person view, so after looking into...

As I recently moved from a two screens to three screens setup for my desktop computer I met a little annoyance in the way the Unreal Engine 4 create its game window (everything is fine with the...

The goal of this blog post is to describe how to modify the UE4 default bloom shape. This is possible with a specific console command but also by modifying the source of the engine. Usually a bloom...

Old article starts below. I admit, that title is a bit misleading. Too many time I see people using the "if()" node in UDK/UE4 for some specific use case while there are other way to avoid the if()...

As a long time user of Maya 2013 it pains me to see that while Maya 2015 (but also 2016/2017) looks great on the feature list, it is bothered with a lot of little lags or big slowdowns. One of the...

I wanted to share my method for painting somewhat realistic skin in Substance Painter. It’s far from perfect but it gives good result when rendered in Real-time with the Unreal Engine 4. Following is...

The following breakdown is based on my own guesses and how I understand the game from the textures and meshes I have watched. I can’t tell you exactly if I’m right or wrong since I’m not a developer...

I have been more busy that I would have thought in the first place. I’m a bit sad that my blog is so slow currently, I always enjoyed posting my current progress. Anyway, this post today will present...

I did several changes in the UE4 engine, mostly personal changes. Some choices made by Epic doesn’t always fit my needs. I believe some people would also be interested those. Also this post will be...

A bit of time passed since my last dev-blog post (I feel like I’m coming back from the graveyard, my last dev-blog was one year ago). It’s not that I didn’t wanted to give more updates, unfortunately...

Dev-blog of April, it will be short unfortunately (next month will probably be a small update too), mostly because of the FBX bug I meet these last days. It slowed down a lot my "production". If you...

Some people ask me often how I released this effect : I use a inherited class from kActors to achieve this. Then inside a custom tick you simply push a props with a gravity effect. That’s why in the...

Here we go, dev-blog of March ! What’s new since February ? I’m starting to have a lot of gameplay features and a time will come when I will have to make an introduction inside the game. I have a...

A new month means an new dev-blog. So what is new since January ? (A lot of chat and not many images this time, sorry.) A spend a bit of time cleaning and rewriting some code of the core gameplay....

Six month already passed since the previous blog-post, it’s time to talk again a bit about EXIl. The major change since the previous blog-post is the addition of a true character. I finally did a...

I’m a big fan of the game Shadow of the Colossus. It’s an important influence for my own projects today. I’m still amazed about how they were able to handle so impressive Colossi and environments on...

The last days I spent quite of time playing to Batman AC made by Rocksteady. It’s a really good game and I was intrigued sometimes on how they managed to create the content of the game. So the...

I’m still working on my game for the moment. After fixing a lot a bugs/strange behaviors in the player movements (not everything is clean, but it’s better) I’m testing some new thing for making a...

So, I just found how to enable the force feedback on an xbox controller. I’m surprised that by default it’s not enabled with the UDK. The solution works in 2 times : your config file and the call of...

Here is a little batch file that I use to make a copy of my current work with the UDK. Nothing special but i’m sure that some people would find this usefull. This script copy your data in two...

Part 3, yeah ! I have finally managed how to stuck the player while he is climbing a ledge to move them together. It took me a while to figure out how to solve a teleport problem when I was trying...

Second dev-blog, back to you with some news. Environment test for the climbing Yeah, I will talk again about the physics on the colossus. I have made on new discover on the physics in UDK,...

I will try to make updates of my project more often now. Here the first "true" dev-blog post on the project. I will try to talk about my design, problems, and solutions. This time I’m working on the...

Okay, I don’t have worked a lot on EXIL these last days because I have token some time to learn and test zBrush. So, zBrush is a big and very famous high poly sculpting program. I used a lot Mudbox...

These last days I have created the code which allow the player to climb ledges. Currently it’s not finished of course, I need to tweak a little more the code and improve the animations (but I will do...

Since a few days I’m working on the main character of my game EXIL. Her name is "Lena". I have already done a long time ago a first version of the character, but it was not very good and not adapted...

Today we gonna discuss about the walljump function that I used in my project. First, I’m not the original creator of this code, I found it on the official UDK forum, here :...

Hello ! I want to share with you some code that I have founded/coded by myself. It’s the best way for me to share and keep alive my different tests. So with unrealscript in the UDK I have managed how...

Hello again ! Since a long time now, I develop my own game which is called "EXIL". It’s an acrobatic game in the way of Prince of Persia, Tomb Raider and Mirror’s Edge. I plan a fight system like in...