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PSO Caching Update: UE5

Let's begin by saying that I didn't really intend this to be a two – or maybe more – part series on this blog. I'd wanted to create a plugin that took the pain out of PSO collection and precompilation and put it on the Epic Store, but that probably won't happen.

PCG Assembly Script in Unreal 5.2

PCG Assembly Script in Unreal 5.2

The Procedural Content Generation (PCG) framework is experimental in Unreal 5.2 and using Packed Level Actors assemblies isn't well-documented.

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Fun with Tech Art

Fun with Tech Art – Pt. 2

We've been cruel to our characters. Now, let's give them the world's softest carpet.

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Fun with Tech Art

Fun with Tech Art – Pt. 1

Join me as I create some tech art in Unreal. In this post, we look at shader that lets us submerge, or dunk, our characters into water.

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AV1 Video Transcoding

AV1 is a relatively recent video codec build by the Alliance for Open Media (AOM) [https://aomedia.org/]. It provides a encoder that beats H264 in file size for a given quality, and is significantly less patent encumbered than H265 – H264's successor. For completeness, AV1 competes quite favourably against H265

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PSO Caching in Unreal Engine

Pipeline State Object (PSO) caching in Unreal Engine 5 for Windows (DirectX 12 SM5/6) and Linux (Vulkan SM5). PSO caching enables developer control over shader precompilation and reduces stutter linked to just-in-time shader compilation.

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CICD in Unreal with Jenkins

Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment is a cornerstone of modern software engineering methodology. In short, the goal is to always have recent builds of the software available to test against. These builds are automated and the build system runs a series of automated tests run against them after a successful build.