Working on a unreal plugin

[Julio Jerez]

I decided to put some effort on a plugin that maybe can reach some people.
I was torn between unreal and unity.
Unity is certainty a lot easier to work with than unreal, by a great deal, but there is not denning that unreal has far bigger reach audience, plus it is native C++, while Unity imposes an incredibly huge burden on third party libraries written on no c-sharp languages.
I may eventually try Unity in the future, but I will start with Unreal 5.

It turned out unreal is not really a friendly software library to develop a complex plugin,
it is full of quirk behavior, and the most annoying part of the it breaks the rules of object-oriented programing with C++. It is also a really blooded library, and there are still more issues, the list is long.
Therefore, the programmer has to spend a lot of time either figuring out how thing works or sometime just finding a work arounds the shortcomings.

Having said that, Unreal is a great engine. It has anything you want and the rendering is second to none. The benefits far out weights the limitations.

anyway, here is a premade video to show the progress.
https://youtu.be/PofJE4u9e78

[Julio Jerez]

here is the video track of the next tutorial for the channel.
https://youtu.be/R7NX3bLkdoI


I have to write the audio script, and add the soundtrack,
I never though in a million years that, video editing was going to be such a hard thing.
I have a new kind of respect for all those YouTubes and social media influencers.

This is in fact a hard task that I am finding more difficult and time consuming than writing the plugin itself. I am open to suggestion.
anyway, I keep going.

[Julio Jerez]

I now published part A video for authoring collision in an unreal level.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GPYftDziVA



over the weekend, I will complete part B, which is how to optimize compound shapes for a level and population a complex level with props.

[Julio Jerez]

here is the unedited and without sound video part tow of the collision video.
https://youtu.be/QsPrHz8vZZ4

[Julio Jerez]

here is the edited video
https://youtu.be/dRSHmRrhu6o

[Julio Jerez]

this is the un edited video for this week. The rigid bodies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3wp1spBghA

[Julio Jerez]

I published the rigid body demo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFpg7Uqr940

I cut the part that show bodies with asymmetrical inertia to make about 5 minutes.
later I will make a supplement with the rattleback and a tippetop demo.

edit: added the simulation of object with asymmetrical inertia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADL2THkGIYw

[Julio Jerez]

here is the first practical demo, using the unreal plugin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_uAmWTwpXE


still lot or work to do, but now it does not seem so far fetch.

[Lax]

Nice, that looks great! Good job.

[Julio Jerez]

Thanks man.

[Julio Jerez]

I uploaded the pick object form the scene using ray cast and kinematic joint
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wz_yB-UmKQ

[Julio Jerez]

wow, I never expected that editing videos was such a challenging task.
I try to narrate this with my voice, but no matter what I do, I can get rid of all the noises.
I need to get a better microphone and somehow soundproof the room.
I have no idea where the noise come from, I do not really hear them, by the microphone picks them

anyway here is the first joint videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHU718ppeQk