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My level editor for Unreal Engine called Scythe just got a new major update! Here's what's in it: 🧵 (1/)

Infinite Bloom
#Nodevember #Nodevember2025 #GeometryNodes

normalMagic 1.1 shaping up nicely — hopefully it will be ready next week!
Lots of improvements, bugfixes and three new tools.
#b3d #normalMagic

🥳 New Video Alert!
In this 15-min deep dive, I walk through an experimental scriptable tool I built that fetches textures in material light functions to paint light dynamically, all in-editor. Check it out! 🔥

A low poly head with custom hard edges, fully smooth edges, and auto hardened edges

Yup! Automatic smoothing and auto hardening don't provide definition where it's needed, so it's important to custom pick them

-offkey- Etila Treeborn she's got it going on~
#art #nsfw #pinup #warhammer
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The place where ships go to rot into nonexistence.

Another sdf-related tool. Nothing too fancy, this one bakes a 2D distance field for actors containing spline component(s). Might come in handy for shorelines etc.
I'll do a breakdown of the scriptable tool BP in my upcoming video.

normalMagic now available on Superhive! 🐝
Link in thread 👇
#b3d #normalMagic

Every time I try to generate a material via BP/Python, I hit dead ends😩. Was hoping to generate a volumetric material asset, but apparently, you can't connect anything to the Extinction material property...
Doing that in CPP isn't worth investing the time for my particular case.

New update to Scythe, my Source 2 Hammer inspired level editor for Unreal Engine 5!

New features below! 🧵(1/6)

Archival footage like this of a place that no longer exists is the kind of ref you should just let wash over you and watch it when it suddenly appears in your recommendation like this just did for me. A Space is not just how it looks but its how its used and the people that do so and their history.

Continuing with my Niagara/Grass experiments... Here, a regular grass clump mesh is instanced about 64 times and each card is injected into a buffer to be individually simulated. I still need to fix plenty of issues & write to velocity buffer to fix TAA artifacts but it's a start

What are your predictions for the next 10 years?

New Fomoria sketches coming to Patreon tomorrow!

www.patreon.com/Fomoria

#fomoria

12 landscape/scenery digital painting thumbnails.

Still have a few openings in my fall schedule if you need a book cover or something 🗓️

🥳New video just dropped on YouTube! 🎥

A 40-minute deep dive into building a Niagara-based swarm VFX — featuring particle-particle overlap solving, avoidance systems (particles, pawns, obstacles), surface projection, slope handling, GPU↔CPU↔GPU particle swapping, and more.
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Substance graphs look so pristine when they are organised. It's such a same I get way too into making the material and forget about it until it's too late...

🥳 New video is live!
I walk through building a lightweight custom state machine in Niagara to drive Vertex Animation Textures in Unreal Engine.

Part 1 of a short (probably 2-part) series on Niagara state machines. 🧵

MeshBlend is finally here! 🥳

So proud to finally release what I've been working on for 16 months!

MeshBlend brings next generation blending to Unreal. Easy to use, fast and great quality!

Available on Fab for #UE5 now!
#gamedev #unrealengine

#UE5 #vfx Making use of my Bone Animation Textures baker :) GPU Niagara Swarm with custom AI + nearby obstacle/particle avoidance and the ability to pull particles out of the sim to convert them to CPU AI agents, and push them back to the GPU sim. Still a few quirks to solve.

You are my hero! Can't wait to have a deep dive with it!

YouTube video by Ghislain Girardot GameTools Blender Extension - Introduction

#UE #Blender #UnrealEngine #tech #gamedev
🥳My 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 addon is finally complete and officially available as a Blender Extension!

I spent way too much time coding it + writing a 150-page manual and over 2 hours of video tutorials. 😅

youtube.com/watch?v=hC2_...

More detail in the🧵

normalMagic for Blender [Early Access] ⚠️ Early AccessThis product is in early access with a full release planned for August 2025. Early access means: Documentation/videos are not available yet. Options have tooltips but there is currently...

Stealth releasing normalMagic in early access 🤫

For those eager to have a play with it:
spaghetmenot.gumroad.com/l/normalmagic

Full release is planned for August, documentation and videos will be ready then 🗓️
#normalMagic #b3d #geometrynodes

Looks beautiful! I'm always keen to get a glimpse at how you work, but I am also happy to simply enjoy the results

Not enough chicken salt...

Happy Monday! Here is Ganon!

I loved working on this version of Ganon. Especially being able to push the visual fidelity to something that hasn't been done in the Zelda series.

#artdirection #conceptart #gamedev #concept #gamedev #gameart #art #3d #characterart #characterdesign #personalproject

I've been inspired by great greek painters I saw last week. So here's PBR made out of watercolor paintings. And of course, the normals were handpainted as usual. Made in a pretty modified version of UE5.

#GameArt #UnrealEngine #UE5 #WaterColor

concrete ❤️

YouTube video by Tore Lervik MeshBlend - Weather, nanite, displacement and more!

For the eventual tutorials/guides/etc on MeshBlend I need to get better at recording videos and talking on camera.

So here is my first test where I showcase some of that MeshBlend "black magic" in action!

youtu.be/J6YUfWJWBwg

#indiedev #gamedev #unrealengine #ue5 #trailertuesday