The last part of the HLSL controls the fade, so you can mess with that to hold off updating it (Freezing it), clearing it, and fading it.

oh man

This is good feedback :) I've fought against this for awhile trying not to go full daw, but the more things go the more I have thought of cool ways it "could" be integrated. So I agree that note editing needs another pass!

Yes, but likely would have to take the next step and make it based on player location and fade out at the edges depending on how big the landscape is. Essentially like a draw distance.

Yea it should! I just need to update the gumroad page image.

@shawnvstaden Hey thanks!

Ahaha thank you!

@Achyles hey thanks! If you get a chance leaving a review goes a long way too! Right now you can use a mod for VR but i don't really have plans to support it. In the future it's possible if i had more people, but its just me atm so i have to make sure to not overscope too far.

@@chriszuko Definatly will leave a review! Awesome! I will look for the mod. You are doing everything right. Dont burn yourself out of passion by doinng too much. One step after the other. I am curious on how this project developes in the future.

​@@Achyles Appreciated! And yep I've got a decent balance going now so I think I am good! I think this is the mod that others have used. github.com/praydog/UEVR

Yep, metasound has a waveplayer you can use as well, this was a test to see how far I could push just making everything from scratch.

Hey thank you so much! I am super appreciative of all of this!

Thank you! Glad to inspire!!

Thanks! :)

Around 27:51 in the vid I show the results a bit for the setup here. You can expect maybe 1000 items to be closer to 1-2ms .. most of the cost is sending the data to niagara and not the niagara itself so if you find a way to get the data to niagara faster (maybe data channels.. ) Then it can probably support quite a bit more without going over 1ms

For a 128x128 with 200 locations it shouldn't be anything super heavy at all. My guess would be close to 0.2ms or so.

I imagine you could do simple shapes either with math or just.. based on the grid values offset from the point location's grid values. There might be a way to sample the particle's actual value as well .. this gets a bit more complex.. imo, the easiest way would be to use multiple locations to create a shape close to what you need

@Foxr- Thanks! Yea i get that for sure! now that creative mode is wrapping up and is mostly going to be content additions, you will start to see more explore mode type changes to the game which will involve some amount of unlocking and discovering new mixes, sounds and elements to play with.

No u :)

Thanks! I would wager that there is no lazy way... even if you go simpler.. gamedev is hard man.

Thank you so much! I am glad you agree! Been thinking about this for a long time and finally doing it haha!

Thank you! I believe in it and it's ability to blow up in the future!

thx kirk!

Mix Universe. On steam pc / mac early access. Has a demo you can try to see if you like it :)

@@chriszuko I will try it

@@icecubecraft1224 Hope you dig it! :)

@DogBilIy Thank you! Every update it gets better too!

Thank you! Much appreciated :)

Appreciated!! Oh yea definitely! The gears get turning real fast for the potential!!

Thanks! There's been a ton of new stuff since then if you didn't know :) (This was 3 years ago)

hahaha first I heard someone call it that :P

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Thank you! and yep :) lot's of fun tech in it!

@@chriszuko is it on App Store because I want to play it

@@suhendradjiwandono2101This map screen isn't in yet, but the game is on steam early access :) called Mix Universe!

@@chriszuko but I don’t have a computer and a laptop. I’m seven years old.

​@@suhendradjiwandono2101 dang ;-; that's ok, hopefully one day then :)

It might be render targets? I'm very curious of what it is.

​ @TOMAvatars Haha yea this will be the the newer way to actually browse mixes, but also allow me to kind of add some cool exploratory elements to that part of the game. Each planet is a mix, can click on it to see it's details, change them, load em etc.

@@chriszuko that's super cool

@@TOMAvatars thanks!! Heres hoping!

@jackbolton5194 Thank you! Its been a long journey each update i like to think it gets better and better!

This is just a conversion function to easily get the intended grid cell coordinates when it's executing the logic. Every time the logic is ran, it runs with a different execution index, one for each of the cells in the grid. Execution index is 0 1 2 3 4 etc for each of the grid cells. Grid index is the X and Y coordinates for the grid. (0,0) (1,0) (2,0) (3,0) etc Hope that helps :)

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Would be neat yea!

haha true! Thank you!

@MrBoponpa Every node is periodically checking by using an aabb tree which is a fast way to handle 1000s of distance checks based entirely on a bounding box. The aabb tree is something found in voxel core. Super handy! github.com/VoxelPlugin/VoxelCore

Which part is this referring to?

@@chriszuko at 18:38 I was trying to do a basic setup for interactable foliage and terrain, using Grid2D instead of drawing to a RT from material (BTW thanks for the video in that regard), and I ended up using a ParameterSetFor for writing every item in the array to the Grid2D, is there a reason for using custom code instead of niagara's own loop?

@@MatrakenKEN ah ok cool, typically the HLSL code will run faster and be easier to manage in the long run than the node equivalents as things get complicated. That being said, if parameterSetFor works instead of having the HLSL node at all, then that's not a terrible alternative so long as it doesn't get too too complex and you feel like you can manage it.

@@chriszuko all good! I'll keep the native loop at least for iterating until I get the final result.

wish?

I think hes talking bout the Disney movie, dunno never watched it though​@@chriszuko

@@pedronobre4454 Oh Thank you! Yea that is probably it then!

Should be able to just multiply delta time going into the HLSL function to control how fast the fade is. 27:45

@@chriszukoThank you! I also wanted to ask you if you knew of any hlsl resources for unreal that were particularly helpful for if I wanted to get better at this

@@myrontruesdale7506 For sure! I do not unfortunately. In my case I leaned heavily on other scripting languages I knew and focused in on just this one section of code.

Maybe tomorrow! Be strong! haha

crystal caverns are sick!

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A fishing game? Huh interesting haha And yay!