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UE5 viewport screengrab showing a pink shiny sphere with very glossy plump purple lips from 3 different angles. It's in one of the test maps with a default generic sky and green grass plane in the background.

Making the pickup mesh for the slime hood and 🤔 I'm tempted to rig and animate this by itself now. Maybe slimeball NPCs?

lol #indiedev #gameart #UE5 #gamedev

The old stuff is mostly for max or maya - but all of the fundamentals will transfer to Blender.

And if you're going for a more stylized texturing look I can write some stuff like this up if you want - bsky.app/profile/feig...

Hope that helps! ✌️

Rigging - I'm not super great with but I use stuff from this dude www.jeremyernst.com/devblog/cate...
and he's got some digital tutors stuff www.pluralsight.com/authors/jere...

or a decent alternative is stuff like www.3dmotive.com/courses/cate...

👋 A lot of it depends on where you're starting and where you want to end up - I'm assuming games since you mentioned low poly stuff?

A good starting point if you don't mind digging is wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Polycount

The downside is there's a lot of old 404'd links there 😭

Oh, completely forgot to mention -- this is super heavily inspired by some of the amazing work from @missdomme.bsky.social !!!

And eventually I'll try to tackle one of the full suit transformations!

UE5 screenshot of a player in a chainmail bikini, leather gloves, and a sword on their back, with a pink slime hood on their head. They're standing in a test level - a plane with a generic repeating grass texture and sort of a gray blue cloudy sky.

Needed a quick break from environment work and made this slime hood. When I get the time I'll connect it into a status effect or cursed item that will trigger from a slime's attack scene.

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UE5 viewport screengrab. Another dimly lit cave. This time there's a rough path, almost stair like ascending in the center of the image. This path is lit by a couple of torches and wooden spikes. The top of the path isn't visible, blocked by a stone pillar but an ominous orange glow leads the player's eye to that goal. A few imps stand in tpose throughout the scene to give a sense of scale.

...and that's the last story critical room I need to light for the next build!

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UE5 viewport screengrab of the same imp cave interior I've been working on for the last few weeks. This room is the kitchen / cooking area for the imps. Along the walls there's a lot of clutter of barrels, crates, tables, wood piles, and different pots and pans. In the center of the room is a lit fire with a cooking pot suspended over it. There are imp cooks in tpose at various points around the scene to give a sense of scale. The whole scene is dimly lit, in oranges and green blue and there's a lot of smoke / fog in the scene.

Even more lighting work!
One of these days I need to do actual models and textures for all the props 😅 and some actual VFX work on the fire too.
Time to light the next room!

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Create nice and feasible volumetric cloud in Unreal Engine 4 | UE4之制作高端霸气的干冰体积雾 Summary 『知乎中文版点这里』 Volumetric Fog small demos 体积雾小demo下载Download Making beautiful and feasible volumetric effects has been a trending topic for game development. Inspired by the Gears 5 tech talk and ...

Oh and the fog sheets - I'm using because they're cheap and easy to use.

But depending on your performance reqs you can also use volumetrics and @vuthric.bsky.social is the master when it comes to those!

asher.gg/create-fast-...

Lighting in Unreal Engine for Beginners, William Faucher This tutorial is for the beginners out there. Lighting is tricky. It's not always the most obvious thing to get right, and Lighting in Unreal poses its own share of challenges on top of that. That's w...

Oh, I also forgot to mention - I'm using exponential height fog and some exposure tweaks in my post process!

And this guys stuff helped me a ton with lighting:
www.artstation.com/artwork/eJqbEY

He's got a ton of videos to dig through.

3 images from the unreal editor. Top image shows the scene with the light and other hidden actors visible. Plus shows one point light selected to show the radius. 2nd image is a completely flat unlit image of the same scene 3rd image is the same scene but this time showing the fog sheet actors placed throughout the scene.

Honestly I'm pretty terrible at lighting so take any advice from me with a grain of salt.

But (in UE5) -
Skylight with realtime capture
Lots of smaller lights and only a few key lights cast shadows
Fogsheets there's some in engine/content/
reference www.artstation.com/artwork/zD8OQZ

trial+error😅

UE5 in game screen grab. A dimly lit cave in oranges and pale blues. The cave is cluttered with barrels, crates, and a few bits of furniture. Imps standing in tpose are scattered throughout the scene to get a sense of scale.

Back to lighting work. I should make dungeons with less rooms - then they'd be faster and easier to light.

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YouTube video by Ben Cloward Post Process Action Lines - Shader Graph Basics - Episode 58

PSA: For anyone doing shader / material stuff - Ben Cloward's stuff might be able to save you some time

www.youtube.com/watch?v=joAU...

This literally would've saved me a few hours 😅 and it was just two nodes that I needed to change.

The more you know 🌈✨

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Relate so hard to this and agree with what Mr. Hands is saying!

But I wanted to quickly add - the shame over a lack of progress is so tricky and can spiral quickly! It's good to remember that not every day has to be super productive. Some days can be for recharging your creative battery.

Oh man, awesome progress on those hit reactions!

UE5 in game screenshot. An imp in the center of the image looks up and to the left at the player character. The are set against a gray checkerbox background. There is a bunch of 2d UI stuff going on. There's a dialogue window along the bottom of the screen that reads "It- it's moving! What's-". There's a dialogue button on the middle right that reads "Continue". Then over the entire screen there's a light faint swirl patter and in the center of the screen in dim lettering it reads "Text Block". lol #hypno

🌀 Yes, yes, don't try to fight it. That's it. You must ~Text Block~ my every command. 🌀

Super early WIP of 2d scene effects. The basics are working, now I just need to make it look good.

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Thanks! I still have so much to do on it. Pretty much everything needs to be optimized and that idle animation 😅 really need to fix that up. Oh, and the UI is abysmal right now. But it works.

Yup, whatever the player wants really. The body types ride the same rig so going from curvy to swole is a slider adjustment. Anatomy pieces I just swap out meshes.

I attached a super compressed and quick video of the character editor just to give a better idea. Everything still needs polish 😅

Oh you know, just uh, animating some stuff.
Mildly suggestive NSFW - very much a WIP

YouTube video by Woodstock 94 20th Nine Inch Nails - Full concert (Live from Woodstock '94)

Mud people

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxRm...

YouTube video by ToolArchive Tool Live Sacramento 1998 [Remastered]

Early morning, coffee, music, and a whole pile of animation work. The indiedev fever dream. Let's go.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSxO...

🪤 😃

Depending on what sort of blueprint expertise you're looking for I might be able to help

For relevant experience I've got 19 years in the games industry including indie solo dev off and on for the last 6'ish
and currently making an open-world rpg sorta like Skyrim in ue5

Hmm, twitter had a bookmark option but I don't think bsky does. Probably your best bet is the old traditional browser based bookmark? or you can also save out the images to your HD.

Omg this looks so good! Love the night sky especially - those colors!

If it's alright if I ask, are you doing anything fancy with the clouds? They look super fluffy and I thought they were volumetrics at first but looking closer it seems like they're part of the sky box?

I couldn't sleep so I figured I'd be productive- at least until the coffee kicks in... but here's a really quick tut. let me know if I missed anything or it something is wonky.

bsky.app/profile/feig...

Oh almost forgot - this mostly just takes you up to the actual painting stage but don't worry there are so many resources for how to paint!

Like this amazing resource from Arne:
www.androidarts.com/art_tut.htm

Lastly, find references from art you like! And spend time enjoying the process!

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I think that's it...? Let me know if I need to touch on anything else or if I missed anything. I know this method has been shown in other places and tutorials before but with search functions being all gunked up with stuff now I figured a quick writeup could help people.

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Super more notes!
In pbr workflows:
Specular highlights you can let the roughness map handle.
Adding normal map overlays of detail textures can help pop those areas.
Material definition is a combo of everything - normals, rough, metal, + diffuse.
Take time to clean up your masks!

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More more notes!
After doing all the gradient work it can be a good idea to then on top of the gradient layer add some extra paint layers. Adding variation, grunge, damage, etc that might need a color that isn't used in the gradient ramp.

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