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Updated as of 2023/06/17 Welcome! If you’ve found your way to this post, it’s likely you’re captivated by the beautiful blend of art and technology that is game development, and are considering stepping into the alluring world of technical artistry. In the gaming industry, a Technical Artist (TA) is a rare breed of hybrid professionals, where left-brain logic meets right-brain creativity. It’s an exciting, ever-evolving field that offers a rich landscape of opportunities for those who can’t help but look at games and wonder, “How did they do that?...

You have a Perforce server and an on-going project. For communicating with your team you’re using Discord, but there’s not much visibility into the changelists being submitted. Discord’s built in webhooks are a great way to get automated messages and updates sent to a text channel in your server. I’ll go over how we can setup Perforce triggers and Discord webhooks to add some visibility into chagelist submits. Enabling Discord Webhooks Before we get started with setting up Perforce triggers, we need to enable Discord webhooks in a text channel that will receive the updates....

Want to develop a game with friends or a community? Have a spare computer you aren’t using, or have a current home lab server with some extra resources? Most guides show you how to host Perforce on your main PC, but this reduces the available resources of your workstation. Perforce is a excellent tool for version control. It supports large filesize and it the current choice for source control of a lot of studios....