Triple Eh? Ltd Development Blog

Lumo Journal 5.12.2023 Always fancied doing a sorta Uridium thing; a horizontal scrolling shooter, over a dreadnought, with plenty of explosions.

Lumo Journal 28.11.2023 Took the build to a mate’s at the weekend, for a show and tell curry.

Lumo Journal 20.11.2023 Setup Preist’s Hole 2 and 3.

Lumo Journal 13.11.2023 Still working on The Hall.

Lumo Journal 06.11.2023 Started making a Paint collectable for the zone.

Lumo Journal 30.10.2023 I’ve got a cold.

Lumo Journal 23.10.2023 It’s my birthday, and as is right and proper, I did zero work.

Lumo Journal 16.10.2023 Ah.

Lumo Journal 09.10.2023 What a weekend.

Lumo Journal 03.10.2023 One thing UE’s missing is a way to add a bunch of actors – selected in the scene, or from the outliner – to an array in the details pane.

Lumo Journal 25.09.2023 Today was all about the Paint Collectables; the Red Green and Blue collectables that I want to scatter around the game.

Lumo Journal 18.09.2023 Added code to transition between maps [levels], and hooked it up so you can walk through the teleporter in the Hub, appear in the Moonbase, then teleport back to the HUB.

Lumo Journal 11.09.2023 Engine upgrade day!

Lumo Journal 04.09.2023 Slight change of tack: This week’s focus is on the Switch build, and actually getting it working.

Lumo Journal 30.08.2023 Very quickly blocked out the Captain’s Chair, and general area of The Observatory.

Lumo Journal 21.08.2023 Ok today’s the day.

Lumo Journal 14.08.2023 Added a post process material that renders the character’s silhouette if it’s occluded.

Lumo Journal 07.08.2023 Just got back from Finland.

Lumo Journal 24.07.2023 Painted my new office.

Lumo Journal 17.07.2023 Added a second room.

Lumo Journal 11.07.2023 I started designing the Moon Base and working out what I'm going to ste^H^H^H pay homage to.

Lumo Journal 26.06.2023 Few bits and pieces, today: I added a "Reset Camera" input, so when you press both shoulder buttons, the camera will lerp to a pre-defined ‘default’ position for the room.

Lumo Journal 19.06.2023 Fixed the problem with FOV on Ultrawide Monitors.

Lumo Journal 12.06.2023 I try and self-host as many services as I can, including my Source Control.

Lumo Journal 05.06.2023 Ah, so, one thing I didn't consider when I made the character bigger: the number of animations needs to increase.

Lumo Journal 30.05.2023 The long weekend happened at a good time; it let me come back with fresh eyes.

Lumo Journal 22.05.2023 Started working on the player character.

Lumo Journal 15.05.2023 Started setting up my dev environment for the Switch.

Lumo Journal 01.05.2024 Not gonna lie, sometimes the simplest things bite you on the arse.

Lumo Journal 25.04.2023 Added a camera manager and the scaffold that allows the camera to rotate around the player.

Lumo Journal 14.04.2023 Went to London to meet Martin and discuss Lumo 2.

One thing that's not entirely obvious when starting with Unreal (well, to me, at least) is the difference between hard and soft object pointers.

Epic released UE5.1 t'other week, so I thought I'd do a quick branch to test how painful the move would be.

Eagle-eyed readers—all two of you—will have noticed that it's rare for me to work five days a week on Maenhir.

Monday 26.09.2022 Not quite over the covids, but I decided to ease back in and see how I get on.

It's finally happened.

Monday 12.09.2022 My Steam Deck “order window” opened, and after much umming and ahhing, I decided to buy one.

Tuesday 06.09.2022 I’m going back to SUL this week, to tie-up the loose ends from my first pass.

Monday 22.08.2022 I ended last week having given the build the first proper test it’d had in a while.

Monday 15.08.2022 This first of this week’s “I’d forgotten I did that”: I added a multicast delegate to NPC Dialog Responders so actors in the world could register, and be alerted, when conversations ended.

Tuesday 09.08.2022 First day back from holiday and I feel like I need a few days off...

Hello, dear reader!

Monday 04.07.2022 I came up with some good ideas for charms, last week, so decided to jump in and start making them.

Monday 27.06.2022 Wasn’t quite sure what to make a start on, this week, so today was all over the place.

Monday 20.06.2022 Accounts, confirmation statement, invoicing and loads of boring chores.

Monday 13.06.2022 Spent 13 earth hours on this vlog...

Monday 06.06.2022 I’ve not sat down and properly played the game in a few weeks, so I spent a couple of hours over the weekend going through, start-to-finish...

30-05-2022 You can probably tell from the screenshots; the area I’m working in atm is dark and de-saturated.

23.05.2022 Push blocks.

16.05.2022 Back at it!