Ran into a really strange situation while having an Xbox controller connected before launching Unreal Editor. This can cause a lock to 170 degrees for the FOV and all attempts to change it in editor revert back to 170. I don’t think this happens fore everyone but it did for me as well as several other people. The solution is to remove the Xbox controller before the editor starts. Plugging the controller in after the editor launches seems to be ok.

This is continuation of work I had explored in a previous post. Given there is no mechanism in the UE4/UE5 editor to compile all blueprints I always figured it would be handy to have a button to do this. Much like the compile/build button you would get in Visual Studio. Behind the scenes it is using a commandlet to do the actual compilation work I’ve put together a demo game for UE4 4.

A few years back at Get Set Games we had the opportunity to work on a port of Duke Nukem 3D. Gearbox Software whom we’ve had a long relationship with had acquired this license some time ago and were looking to put together a launch on Nintendo Switch. Developed on the Build game engine which saw a number of iconic games like Shadow Warrior… at the very least they were iconic for me.

An overview of some of my favorite technical articles from the past week… [How Uber Deals with Large iOS App Size] – Uber’s Engineering team outlining some of the tools and practices they use to keep their iOS bundle size down. Great read for looking at strategies to keep your install size small. How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% – Really interesting deep dive on exploring a commercial games load time without having access to any of the source code.

Githubis used by numerous developers every day. It’s a great site with an incredible number of open source projects available. I love to “star” aka favorite repositories that I find on Github that I can look back to later especially when I likely don’t have time in the moment to dive into the fine details of a project. Github starred repositories I have over 600 starred repositories captured over the span of several years.