Seth - VirtusH

C# Programmer, Unity Jack of All Trades and Unreal/C++ Padawan
Programmer @PrehistoricK
Co-Founder @NobleVertex

[Prehistoric Kingdom @PrehistoricK]

July's Dev Diary is out now! 🌟

Learn about the new partner animations coming alongside a support patch and get an early look at some of the things coming to Update 18 later this year.

➡️Latest Dev Diary: https://t.co/0NKgsbGNdj
📝Patreon: https://t.co/Em5znwC3g4

[faemoose @Faemoose]

16 years old.
Fully paid off Costco hotdog.
It's not "parents money".
It's not luck.
It's consistency.
It's discipline.
I grind EVERYDAY to live this lifestyle.

[Prehistoric Kingdom @PrehistoricK]

A new patch is now available for Update 17! 🦕

This release addresses a number of bugs, fixes tutorials and improves animal behavior with babies running behind parents and more.

📝 Patch Notes: https://t.co/PHAXfXkobZ

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Happy birthday, America.

May your next 250 years be even brighter than your first.

[Prehistoric Kingdom @PrehistoricK]

Update 17 is now LIVE on Steam and Epic! 🦕

Discover 3 new fan-favorites: Allosaurus, Pachycephalosaurus and Stegosaurus!

Prepare to fight with dynamic combat, explore new environments and strategize with overhauled management mechanics.

🗒️Patch Notes: https://t.co/LuBub4ZFSe

[Seth - VirtusH @virtushda]

@kiaran_ritchie We partially do this (combined with FABRIK-ish) in @PrehistoricK, and for limbs this helps quite a bit.
For dynamic head/neck IK (much less core motion) with all the variables we have at play, we had to rely much more on a robust FABRIK/pdb-style solve, especially for long necks!

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

40% of fatherhood is walking around the house, turning off lights.

[Seth - VirtusH @virtushda]

@lucasmeijer The generational GC coming with the CoreCLR may make a significant difference.

[Seth - VirtusH @virtushda]

@ZeiSpace @PeterDiamandis Do you have measurements for per million miles driven?

Per capita doesn't account for how much people in each country actually drive.

[Seth - VirtusH @virtushda]

@SicklyTheNinJa I miss these games, the stories were so good, they inspired a love of history in me as a kid.
Anyone who enjoyed the history in the AC2 trilogy should watch 'Medici' as well.

[Seth - VirtusH @virtushda]

@noahkaufmanmd @KaufCare @JoinCrowdHealth My one concern after doing research is the lack of a contractual agreement that they must pay eligible bills.

I understand they cannot do that without becoming "insurance", and inheriting all the implicit constraints, but it still gives me great pause...

[Seth - VirtusH @virtushda]

@noahkaufmanmd I love this.

Transparent reasonable pricing, more time with an actual doctor vs time spent with a billing dept, and better services than urgent care.

Recent ER experience.. the chaos, the surprise bills, was SUCH a nightmare.

I hope to see others take inspiration from this.

[Noble Vertex Studio @NobleVertex]

Check out the first preview of Ares Colony, our new space-themed puzzle game we're building on the weekends! https://t.co/0dqHDwHrMR

[Seth - VirtusH @virtushda]

@pierceboggan @SrEdm00 Any chance we could see fresh benchmarks?

[Seth - VirtusH @virtushda]

As a long-time Unity dev trying to get into Unreal, C++ in UE is quite a PITA.

The upside is avoiding a whole range of pitfalls in UE.

Just off the top of my head:
- Long C++ compilation times
- Brittle rules of C++ compilation (great example: IDE says zero errors, compilation can fail.. This feels ridiculous coming from C#!)
- Extremely brittle linkages between C++ and Blueprint (just renaming a class requires a whole headache of redirection and resaving of assets)
- C++ is overkill for most simple game code
- C++ as a language has a bunch of sharp edges and annoyances that slow things down (easy to crash, .h files, very verbose, strict declaration ordering, name collisions, etc)

Honestly, from a Unity/C# developers perspective, I can totally see why they did this.
C++ in Unreal honestly feels straight-up archaic.

[Seth - VirtusH @virtushda]

A very welcome surprise!

[80 LEVEL @80Level]

Unity gave a first look at upcoming tech and engine features in a pre-GDC session.

Watch now for updates on graphics, CoreCLR, IAP, and more: https://t.co/4QBv6EfEhp

[Seth - VirtusH @virtushda]

@pierceboggan @mkurman88 @code How would premium requests work when using different models for subagents?

[Seth - VirtusH @virtushda]

@jetbrains BYOK seems to be limited to the AI Assistant?
Junie is mentioned in this post, but still has hardcoded model selection in the settings.

[Prehistoric Kingdom @PrehistoricK]

4 days until Update 14! With seamless growth coming to over 50 species, some of the young ones may surprise you. 🐊

[Seth - VirtusH @virtushda]

@elefantopia @thomaspetersen No please, you are joking.