Basil

Software Engineer
Co-Founder of @oddstrich

10+ years in software & game development

[Basil @oddbasil]

I wish Steve Jobs could have witnessed LLMs

[Ben Aratame @benaratame]

Apple was always ahead of its time.

Introducing Siri on the iPhone 4S, 2011.

[Basil @oddbasil]

Does the fly know

[Odyssey @odysseyml]

We placed the fruit fly brain inside Odyssey-3, a frontier world model.

The lil’ guy is now flying around totally imagined, simulated worlds all by itself 🫶

[Basil @oddbasil]

@theo Did you use Wispr flow to write this I’m genuinely curious

[Basil @oddbasil]

@SepiciFN @GismoMaps Yeah it is

[Basil @oddbasil]

Did @Muse previously expose a Linux desktop you could use or am I mixing memories with Grok @bot

[Basil @oddbasil]

@mschoening I didn’t know it was the first, I was wondering that. It really is so surreal having muse’s machine in my list of devices on the Tailscale console

[Basil @oddbasil]

This thread made me realize @tldraw has a lot of good handling of edge cases I’ve never thought about

[tldraw @tldraw]

heya, this is Andy from tldraw. Here are 10 free bugs I found with @OpenAI's new chatgpt sketch feature. #3 will shock you

1. Vertical and horizontal lines look jagged when resizing them (1/10)

[Basil @oddbasil]

@jmduke Also if you install the Tailscale connector it adds the machine as “hatch”, which means that’s still the actual hostname of Muse’s computer

[Basil @oddbasil]

@MasfewFN Nice! @oddwally did this for our tree chopping game a couple weeks ago inspired by the same game. It adds such a fun feeling.

[Basil @oddbasil]

@liomigRBLX I thoroughly enjoyed seeing these in Build a Gym! Great work. It’s really cool seeing the artist behind something I stopped and observed for a minute in the game.

[Basil @oddbasil]

This is interesting, it seems to be a system for telekinetically grabbing Creative Props, but weirdly not Scene Graph Entities. The first place my brain went is the grabbing while in Creative mode, but this could be crazy in-game.

Closest thing we've had in-game is maybe the Carryable Spawner Device?

[Wally @oddwally]

We really got Unreal Engine 6 before GTA 6

[Basil @oddbasil]

Some really cool experimental features in UEFN 42.0.

The Verse ability system looks like an absolute game changer. A bigger unlock to character behavior than ever before.

More customization of the in-game camera, and more animation updates.

You can now have Control Rigs reflected into the asset digest- the tooltip says "Reflect control rig assets into the asset manifest to be used as skeletal modifier."

Really pumped, gonna get some sleep and check this all out tomorrow.

[Basil @oddbasil]

@SouthieFromSTW1 Hah! I committed changes right before downtime 🙏

[Basil @oddbasil]

I made a spatial rebirth zone for @Oddstrich upcoming game. I'm using `SetPresentableForPlayers` to allow multiple players to walk around the same rebirth tree but only see their own progress.

Such a satisfying feeling getting it done, I wasn't sure it was possible at first.

#UEFN #Fortnite

[Basil @oddbasil]

@FoadZone @kev_marciano @UnrealEngine Constantly inspired by you guys. Congrats on the success so far!

[Basil @oddbasil]

Fun fact, I actually immediately started learning UEFN when I was hit with my first 100+ employee layoff. Me and my brother were working at the same company at the time.

Now we 're genuinely planning on Fortnite and Roblox being our path to financial freedom. My 3 nieces play Roblox and nothing else. I can't possibly see them hop on any game outside of it EXCEPT for Fortnite.

I have 10+ years of experience in Unity, and building in UEFN has gotten me incredibly comfortable in Unreal Engine while also letting me participate in this new games-as-content world.

[Basil @oddbasil]

@tristenrblx @TizzzyRBLX @PhysiGames You snapped

[Basil @oddbasil]

@Coldbe3D I love when tutorials have this cutout effect but I have an ultra wide monitor and so many people don’t consider that when making it. Given the level of polish you added here I bet you have that covered, but just in case, make sure you do!

[Basil @oddbasil]

@K1K000ZL That's INSANE my friend! Well done, that must be such a relief for the team