May 13 2019UE4 Automation Tool

1 minute read.

Quick tips for using Unreal Engine Automation Tool (RunUAT).

Jan 11 2019Deploying a POCO REST API Server to AWS EC2

4 minute read.

In Multiplayer Net Adventures I deployed a POCO based WebSocket server to Digital Ocean [3].

Now I need to deploy a POCO-based [4] RESTful Web Service and I chose to learn about Amazon AWS in the process. Hence, I will be deploying to EC2 and using letsencrypt for SSL encryption …

Dec 20 2018Build Magnum in a Linux Subsystem on Windows

1 minute read.

I recently had the pleasure to finally install an ubuntu subsystem on my Windows 10 PC to compile test some C++ code on GCC.

Aug 12 2018UE4 Automation Testing

9 minute read.

Have you ever had a feature in an Unreal Engine game that you had to come back to again and again, because it was a nest of bugs? This gives you this uneasy feeling of that part being unstable, not really done yet, you can never relax… right?

What if …

Jul 22 2018Magnum Oculus SDK Example

< 1 Minute Read.

Quite a while ago (in 2015) I contributed my first example to Magnum: the Oculus SDK Integration Example.

This example demonstrates how to use the acompanying Oculus SDK Integration, a wrapper around the Oculus Desktop SDK to make rendering for the Oculus Rift easier with Magnum.

I …

Jul 11 2018WebVR Pong

~ 1 Minute Read.

Two blog posts ago I mentioned a WebVR game we were making for the Virtuleap WebXR Competition at Vhite Rabbit.

“WebVR Pong” is a multiplayer game we wrote in C++ with the Magnum Graphics Middleware and compiled it to web assembly using Emscripten. Like the name suggests …

Jul 09 2018Multiplayer Net Adventures

~ 5 Minute Read.

The most challenging project I worked on since quite a while was the WebVR game Vhite Rabbit built for the Virtuleap Competition. With multiplayer being one of the features we wanted to have for it, a whole new set of skills had to be acquired.

I had …

Jul 06 2018SQLite3 in Unreal Engine 4

~ 3.5 Minute Read.

I recently came across a use case for having a small local database to store some statistics in an Unreal Engine 4 project. I found CISQLite3, a plugin by conflict.industries, who unfortunately seem to have gone out of business. The plugin was released under MIT …