Jamie Holding

Don't use LogTemp for everything! It is trivial to setup a new log category in C++. First, in a header in your project add a line like so: DECLARE_LOG_CATEGORY_EXTERN(LogMyAwesomeGame,

How to iterate over Actors and other UObjects in Unreal Engine 4. Note: You should be careful using this regularly! You do not want to be iterating over every single object in your

In Unreal Engine 4 you can change the colour of your Content folder directories to make it easy to identify parts of your project. However, by default, this is only stored locally, and

Last year my resolution was to complete something every month. I liked the sound of this resolution because I have a heap of random projects I wanted to get done, and hopefully this

The other week I had to walk up and down the office for 20 minutes so the BBC could get a shot of our studio for the opening titles of the local news.

I found this old project kicking about, and as best I can tell it is from 2012. I remember building this over a weekend when trying to learn how HTML canvases worked. This

Recently I've upgraded a personal project to Unreal 4.23 and found that we had a crash in Shipping-only! So I needed to figure out how to debug this. The error I was

This is a simple method to take screenshots in-game using Unreal Engine 4.23. Execute this code somewhere in your project and it will generate a PNG screenshot at the same resolution your

I am now husband to my amazing wife. I can't want to continue exploring the world and life together with her forever.

This post is designed for Windows builds of Unreal Engine 4 titles made with 4.21. This will likely work with previous versions, and maybe even future versions of the engine. Your mileage

I recently took a day off work to put this thing together. When I was a kid, I had a plastic model set of a Pirate Ship flat ride. I loved this thing.

Last year I published a blog post about bypassing certificate pinning using a tool called Objection. https://blog.jamie.holdings/2018/09/05/bypass-certificate-pinning-on-android/ Since then I have encountered Android research opportunities with

A few months ago I gave a talk at Solent University in Southampton about getting a job in the Games Industry. While I was writing my presentation, I found I was re-treading a

Update: This blog post has gotten a lot more attention than anything else I have written, so I have also written up an advanced guide for more complex SSL pinning bypass techniques: https:

This is a simple example using Promises in a reduce call to execute mkdir commands in sequence. I'm using the util.promisify utility to automatically convert the standard fs functions into Promises. Because

I recently was asked to write a blog post about my job at nDreams, where I'm currently a Senior Programmer. I was asked to not go too deep into the nitty gritty and

Often on a project it's handy to have a "template level" which you can use to start building new maps from. Unreal already comes with a few template levels for you to pick

This was something I wanted to figure out recently, as I don't want to be relying on (dodgy?) third-party sites to grab APKs when researching. Here is how you fetch an APK off

Immersive Theatre Meets TechnologyI love immersive theatre and I work in VR Game Development. So when an immersive theatre production using VR arrived in London, I had to go check it out! Somnai

I'm a rising star! https://www.gamesindustry.biz/top100/2018/i-k (Mirror #1) I was asked a few questions via email, but somebody also appears to have spied on my Twitter and LinkedIn,

Previously I've been using Jekyll for my blog (see https://blog.jamie.holdings/2016/10/15/hello-jekyll/) - however I was finding the publishing and maintenance (oh what, the bundle dependencies have changed

Last December we went to Los Angeles for a few weeks to escape the freezing cold temperatures of the United Kingdom! We checked out the local sights, and popped into all the local

I have long had an obsession with data. Just the idea of having to collect vast amounts of data to plot a graph gets me jumping with excitment. Using data I can potentially

I recently went to New York for the week! I had the pleasure of experiencing the phenomenal Sleep No More and also VoidVR's GhostBusters VR experience. During our stay, we also experienced a

I was recently asked to give my thoughts on lighting in VR, AR, and how I see the overall VR and AR markets developing over the next few years. This paper was compiled