A Game Design Document will Focus your Work

Introduction Have you tried to create a large game project and got lost in the weeds? It is very easy to do.  If you were working for a AAA game development company (like Epic Games), that probably would not be a problem, because the company would have a YUGE staff for all phases of game… Continue reading A Game Design Document will Focus your Work

Exporting the Mannequin Skeleton from Unreal Engine 4 to Blender and Re-importing

(Reprinted from Unreal Wiki) Overview Searching online, I see many (like me) have wanted to work on characters in Blender by exporting the Mannequin skeleton provided by Epic, but there are problems with doing this. The older versions of Unreal Engine 4 it just doesn’t work, apparently, but the later versions, I got it to… Continue reading Exporting the Mannequin Skeleton from Unreal Engine 4 to Blender and Re-importing

A Vagrant Data Science Virtual Ubuntu 18.04 Box

This post is not about game programming, but about setting up a Linux virtual box loaded with data science tools.  The repository can be found here on Github.  Below is from the README on Github for this box. Quick Start Download the free VirtualBox virtual machine player. download and install the appropriate Vagrant package for… Continue reading A Vagrant Data Science Virtual Ubuntu 18.04 Box