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Leslie Apland

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Picking up the correct canter gait in Wind's Heartbeat

In this article I'm discussing how Wind picks up the correct canter gait from the trot, depending on the configuration of her feet in the animation.

Basic Horse Gaits in Wind's Heartbeat

In this article I'll go in depth about how the horse gaits in the upcoming game Wind's Heartbeat are designed to mimic real-world horse movement.

UPanelSlots in UMG

This article is designed to teach a bit more about how Unreal Engine works under the hood; there's nothing truly actionable here. The goal is to help you use Unreal Engine better by understanding how it really works.

Open World Slasher

In January of 2023 I used a UE5 game dev course as a base to build a variety of systems into a basic open world game where the user, armed with a sword, killed mobs, collected materials, could sell and purchase things from a merchant, could loot POIs, and was led through a simple tutorial to kill the boss.