Three Unreal Engine 5.8 settings that cost frame time without anyone choosing them - a stray Lighting Scenario checkbox, a Nanite landscape that is still ray traced, and the Epic anti-aliasing preset - with measurements and the fix for each.
Read MoreThe Small Print
In Unreal Engine 5.8, a Level Sequence leaves its skeletal meshes animating every frame while they're off screen, and pausing or stopping it doesn't help - how to spot it, what it costs, and a workaround.
Read MoreRunning in the Dark
An Unreal Engine 5.8 regression in the navigation system that crashes after level streaming, or quietly leaves the world with no navmesh at all - how to spot it, and how to fix it.
Read MoreWaiting for Navmesh
Tracking down a rare Unreal Engine 5.8 crash in AI path following after level streaming, caused by stuck-detection samples that garbage collection can't see - plus a workaround you can ship today.
Read MoreThe Floor That Wasn't There
An opinion piece arguing for the benefits of remote working as a solution to solve many of the current problems of the video game industry
Read MoreIs Remote Working The Future?
How I used ChatGPT to build me some code that was way, way out of my comfort zone, using libraries that I'd never used before - and solving, in a day, a problem that others had struggled with for months/years...
Read MoreUsing ChatGPT to Learn New Tricks
Hunting for bugs and optimization targets with static code analysis.
Read MoreStatic Code Analysis - Part One