Graeme Bull

Here it is finally!! In our game you run a pet rescue for people that want to adopt a pet! 0424-1970-3421 We literally did non stop work since they announced these cute little guys and the creature callout. Insane potential for sidekicks in game and we've got so much more to add in the near future for them!

Quite useful. Good job Epic. Crash rate is important on client end, need this info for sure. Lower than .1% here. Nice.

Using the sponsored row is like when Yellow Pages calls me (this is a real story) and asks if I want to advertise with them. I ask if they have analytics on where they serve up these ads and there's silence on the other end and then, "analytics of where and who? what's that?"

Good points made.

9GB unneeded and unwanted. This should be completely optional in an ideal world. I never have and never will play this mode. It should work like a creative map does, just DL it when I want to play it.

This.

now that's a fun trailer, to the point, shows features and ends clean

Summed up well. The top 10 is the most egregious of mistakes Epic has made in discovery. Literally just a money printing row for maps that have been money printing for 3 years or more. Not to say anything about quality or work put in, but this top 10 needs to rotate.

Tim and I are about the same age, grew up with the same tech, same SLOW process of reading magazines and copying out of those to create stuff in the beginning. Then the meetups, LANs, internet on dial up etc etc. He went on to build a massive piece of software (which is amazing) to which I played Unreal Tournament on endlessly (good memories). Now he's at this point of asking computers to do that job while highly educated engineers (himself included) watch on and monitor and guide and probably fix. It's the evolution of the "developer". Hand typing out now like it is the 80's and 90's that started as looking at a magazine and typing it out manually is simply old tech. For lack of a better metaphor, there is no need to copy/paste anymore. I see what he's doing from a different standpoint I think than the younger crowd, kind of like how a carpenter might look at a pneumatic nailer when he started out with just a straight handled hammer. Where it all came from to where it is now is a straight line in my brain and I can appreciate the path. I really respect Kenney and believe the same, make what you want, be creative, have fun, don't let people "bully" you for anything, let alone on the "how" to create. That said, while I definitely advocate to my kids to read books and write "reports" for me to see if they grasped the concepts, I'm very well aware that there are MUCH faster ways to learn. Reading gives a different perspective and an appreciation of time it takes to learn, but when that can be automated and attention can be put elsewhere then I do know it's time to adjust. This will work VERY WELL for many people I think, some will wait and that's ok, but many are moving with the times and it's important to pay attention to the industry for it. There's value in both and always just keep doing what you want to do, stretch yourself when you can, watch the industry and most of all enjoy your time. If you're learning, you're growing and you get to choose the pace, go fast, go slow, just keep going.

You might see some weird error in your project in UEFN 42.40 update like: Supplied candidate api does not match expected api: Differing redirectors. Solve this by right clicking the folder the item is in and selecting "Update Redirector References".

In Adopt A Pet (0424-1970-3421), our players had a pain point of sorting their pets. We have 440 in here! To fix that a complete refactor was needed here to add sorting by type along with the style and adoption time. UI can be flashy or look basic, functionality is king though.

Epic, please get rid of this or give a checkmark to "NEVER EVER EVER SHOW AGAIN" or something like that. Since you guys messed up loading data on pushes and it's weird now, full cooks are necessary to get previous data, verse reloads wipe it @FNCreate

To balance out my complaining this morning, I will say that I'm always impressed that somebody from Epic will always respond to my bug reports. I get that some can't get fixed due to the massive project that Fortnite and UEFN are, but the comms from Epic are incredibly good.

I have been watching closely as many UEFN devs leave the Fortnite ecosystem for Roblox or standalone games or just completely new jobs not in this field. There is a lot of writing on the wall in both directions with UEFN and Fortnite maps and it vividly reminds me of this book: When I was a young lad living in Japan, this book came out called "Who moved my cheese". I was lent the book by a coworker and it changed my life some. It was written to be digested quick and easy at first and encouraged to be reread to take it all in after that first pass. I've always been versatile and ready to move, learn and grow in life, but as time goes on, there is kind of a mental roadblock that grows naturally but is important to fight on a regular basis of "being comfortable where you are". Something I think about often is that growth comes at the expense of comfort, but comfort comes from the reward of growth. So I thought I'd post the online version for all that might find it as good as I did. It's a short read and well written, probably less than an hour, but you might read it twice... ati.dae.gov.in/ati12052021_7…