Spline Flow Tool
2022+
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Tools & Systems
Description and Responsibilities
Throughout my career as a Senior Technical Designer, I have developed numerous custom tools to streamline workflows for designers and developers. Creating dynamic, "living" environments is a complex challenge in game development. The Spline Flow Tool is a specialized solution designed to populate scenes with moving elements like traffic and pedestrians effortlessly. Managed entirely through a custom Editor Utility Widget, it enables designers to establish continuous loops and flow logic instantly, suitable for both high-end cinematics and optimized real-time gameplay.
Dynamic Traffic & Crowd Logic: Simulates continuous movement along a spline path. Features intuitive sliders for Actor Speed, Amount, and Random Location offsets, allowing designers to break robotic patterns and create organic flow loops easily.
Optimization & VAT Synergy: While functional with standard actors, the system achieves peak performance when paired with my Automated VAT Tool. By driving vertex-animated meshes with this flow logic, developers can simulate living environments - even at a massive city scale - with minimal performance impact.
Usability: Designed for rapid iteration, the clean interface allows designers to tweak movement parameters in real-time without touching code or blueprints, making the process of bringing a level to life instant and accessible.
Adoption: This tool has become a standardized workflow asset and is actively deployed across multiple companies I have worked with.
Softwares and Tools
Unreal Engine 5







