Dev Vlog: Tech Art & Optimisation with Ben!

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Can’t wait for the water to be added in the future we’ve been waiting for a bit now 😂

I think Ben does the work that lets Satisfactory exist. Please tell a bit about material for belts and items on them.

I NOTICED all the hypertube stuff. Your ideas are awesome Ben

Looks like an FPS version of Factorio with Pat from SNL.

The first time I built a hypertube I spent like 10 minutes approaching and backing away just watching the iris open and close

I've noticed

BEN I WANT YOUR JOB!!

The worst thing about waterfall graphics is the vertical speed at the top is the same as the bottom. Look at the bottom of the waterfall, the water looks SO slow, because you expect it to be accelerated as it falls.

i need that LOD update. did it come out with update 4 ?

So I can now destroy the environment in Satisfactory and my excuse will be: I do it for the framerate! :-)

Lowest LOD Building be like: "LOOK AT MEEEEEE..... I'm a prince, kiss meeeeee!" :-)

Кроме водопада ничего интересного.

I can't wait for the world update. Satisfactory already looks very good and then it will look even better

ben is liked and appreciated

Where's Sanctum 3?

As some one that is learning character art this was really cool to see .

Totally noticed the shuttering of the hyper tubes. It's cool!

Thanks for the technical explanations, inspiring!

Waterfalls.

Me: We need fish!

I noticed both of those things

Coffee Stain: Powered by the Dutch. I'm proud of you guys and girls! :)

THIS GAME IS SO AMAZING!! It's so fun seeing these dev vlogs about the development and design.

Jo Ben, could you take a look at the blade runners? They are behaving... weird.

i want the giant hypertube entrance as a door for trucks and trains to drive through

"we have people that build 300 refineries"
laughs in kibitz those are rookie numbers

awesome vid. My Request is I wanna see a breakdown of your conveyor belt mesh and code. You guys have one of the best 3d belt systems I would really love a deep dive on your belt system to show what you are doing. Is it mostly material vertex shifting or si it literally rotating / lerping with actors attached? Teach me master I am ready to learn.

Dear developers of this wonderful game, why can't you make a circle out of rails? Writes a too sharp turn, but 3/4 of the circle is calmly placed, but you cannot connect the fourth part of the circle !!!!!! Please fix this problem !!!

Achievements <3

ARK players would play this if it had pvp.

Any chance we could get water-wheels now that we have easily configurable water-speed controls?

I want the river flow rate to be very high so we can use rivers as an alternative to hypertube cannons

Please
light sources and lanterns, light poles for our factories.

A thing about the object limit. . . .
Just because you put a thing in the OPTIONS menu for game settings, does not mean you officially "support" it. It's an "option" that gamers can use or leave alone, like so many of the other settings in software.
All you have to do is exactly what you did in the video. You leave a warning that if the person increases the max object number and their hardware can't support it, there may be crashes or save file corruptions. So back up your save and use at your own risk.
To curb people trying to lie to you to cover their own stupidity, (and maybe you're already doing this) just include the maxObjectNumber in the crash debug file so you can see if they changed it and and see if that is what is causing the problems for them.

as someone who has had the wind taken out of their sails while playing due to performance issues with large factories, it was actually really cool to hear about the work going into optimizing the game :)

That was awesome dudes, thanks for the insight!

What size roughly do you make your map size on ue4?

Are you going to make the Conveyor Wall Wholes work the same way HyperTube Hole & Pipe Wall Holes work?!

I really hope so now you've shown it can be done now with HyperTubes, we want off center single holes, staggered triples and all sorts we can do with the current method.

If you replace the Wall Panels with holes with just a single Window you can add a hole too I think it add oh so much!

Pretty please. :)

P.S. Thanks for the great work so far, games already epic. :D

Awesome job. I envy your skills Ben.

I am stoked about what the "imposter meshes" optimizations will bring in terms of performance increases! Very interesting and I look forward to these updates. :-)

i noticed both things

I loved the video and Ben explained everything really well <3

Ben - yes, i noticed!

This was awesome.

My 1994 waterfalls were offended by the "crappy 2004 waterfalls" comment.