Alex Stevens

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Software Engineer/Co-Founder @ The Orphanage

Working on Fossil Diggers VR
#VirtualReality; #UnrealEngine

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- Engineer @ Bondi Labs

LocationBrisbane, Australia

My Serialization Best Practices and Techniques talk from #UnrealFestANZ is up! It covers serialization magic that JustWorks™, versioning, compression, architecture, etc. GitHub sample included!

Also, follow me to hear when my #EnhancedSaveGameSystem plugin for #UnrealEngine is released.

https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/talks-and-demos/4ORW/unreal-engine-serialization-best-practices-and-techniques

Serialization Best Practices and Techniques | Talks and demos

Are you developing a game with a story or persistent progress? Join this session to learn the best practices and techniques for implementing a save game...

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Had a blast talking about serializing save games and seeing many of you last week at Unreal Fest Gold Coast!

Even got in some sneaky climbing at Pages Pinnacle 🧗‍♂️

#GameDev #UnrealEngine

Tasks are as follows:
1. Spawning of 1000 actors distributed over 4 frames
2. Serialisation of 1000 actors over 2 frames

Tasks finish halfway through frame 2090, and we're back to full idle on 2091.

And the results for a few of the frames (straight after a savegame and level load).

Been optimising my save game system in #UE5, and saw an opportunity to abuse a render fence to saturate the idling game thread with tasks *without* hitching.

#UnrealEngine #GameDev

I need some time to reflect on this abuse.

#UEHax #UEDev

Finally got around to open sourcing this little example plugin, which allows you to build viewport tools using Blueprints. Check it out!

https://github.com/MilkyEngineer/ViewportScriptingUtilities

#UnrealEngine #GameDev

GitHub - MilkyEngineer/ViewportScriptingUtilities: Unreal Engine (4.27) Plugin to build viewport extensions using Blueprints.

Unreal Engine (4.27) Plugin to build viewport extensions using Blueprints. - GitHub - MilkyEngineer/ViewportScriptingUtilities: Unreal Engine (4.27) Plugin to build viewport extensions using Bluepr...

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