James Kelly

100 Diffuse Textures by Luis Guilherme Bento 100 photographed tiled textures and decals

I've made 2 packs with 100 diffuse textures each, they're free to download and use wherever!

Pack 1: epicmcdude.itch.io/100-photo-te...

Pack 2: epicmcdude.itch.io/100-diffuse-...

These are game-ready seamless and horizontally tiled textures, as well as some decals. I used these on my own game.

'I have had some truly wild conversations about AI in a professional context that make me want to walk into the sea'

Ok so… There’s a nice little park on a corner, and a path running directly to one edge of the park. That’s the first image, but there’s 12 other images here. In the second image, there is now a desire path running diagonally across the park. Next image, the path has been blocked by a park bench that the council has put in as a deterrent. Unfazed, in image 4 the path now deftly avoids the park bench. In images 5 and 6 the process is repeated, this time with a strategically placed bin which the desire path also avoids. Presumably in a fit of rage, the council plants an entire hedge to stop people creating new desire paths but eventually this too is defeated and a new path find a way. Finally, the council admits defeat and turns the desire path into a proper paved pathway. After a little while, a new desire path curving off this new paved pathway begins to emerge…

A little comic about desire paths.

ArtStation - Cheap triplanar mapping Cheap triplanar mapping optimized world aligned in unreal

nice extended version of a cheap uv-domain triplanar shader I demonstrated back in 2017!

it's very very cheap as it doesn't result in multiple samples per texture *and* it's reusable due to the nature of how the projection is achieved, unlike traditional triplanar.

pros and cons in reply below:

I heard we're supposed to draw lots of the Taskmaster here on Bluesky dot com, just doing my part

I have a joke about game development, but I'm still waiting on a jira so I can work on the punchline.

I did notice that the processing time appeared to get exponentially longer based on how many assets were being processed and there was some variance to the crash threshold - likely due to referenced textures bloating the memory cost of the action.

In addition to sculpting, Voxel Plugin 2 will have a fully non-destructive stamp-based workflow

In other words: you'll be able to use any mesh you want to shape the terrain, and if you need to move them 6 months later, you can!

Here I'm making a simple cave with 3 meshes

I've had to do this a bunch on previous projects and I always had crashes doing it on more than like 30 materials at a time. I think it's because the action has to load the entire selection, then perfrom the action, rather than loading, performing action, then unloading each asset.

After about 30 mins of small optimizations I have it running fully playable on the deck! :)
~80 Billion Polys, 150 Ray-Traced Lights using MegaLights, Lumen & Substrate all running at 30fps on the SteamDeck.
#UE5 #UnrealEngine #GameDev #SteamDeck #MegaLights #RayTracing

I've also decided to make a starter pack! Please give love to these awesome people ✨

There is no "Unreal Engine" starter pack to follow.

So im creating one here: go.bsky.app/S3U5wKj

If you have any Unreal Engine skills, reply if you want to be added. Repost if you can so other people can be aware too.

#UE5 #UnrealEngine5 #UnrealEngine #Gamedev #Indiedev

Since people have been asking, I've created a "Background Radiation" Games Industry Starter Pack! The goal is a pack that gives you a good horizontal overview of the games industry and its surrounding fields - and the conversations happening there.

go.bsky.app/RxQCsKS

There's a rad feature built into Unreal 5.4 and onwards that allows you to see any other actor with a matching property. Just activate the 'Property Color' Viewmode then Ctrl Click on a property and any actor with a matching property will be highlighted. Great for tracking down issues! #UETips

🪓

I built a portable Xbox.
This isn't a PC handheld, it isn't emulation, this is a real motherboard from a real Xbox. It has a 9” 480p display, pure digital video/audio, 100W USB C charge and play, and I'm currently adding WiFi 6 for wireless Xbox Live functionality.
Yes, really.

did game dev twitter finally move to bsky?

are y'all here hello is this on *mic feedback noises*

Someone on FB just posted this, which was helpful! 😁

Jeff Sharlet: Dartmouth calls in riot cops to forbily arrest my colleague and friend Annelise Orleck, knocking her to the ground Annelise Orleck: Those cops were brtual to me. I promise i did absolutely nothign wrong. I was standing with aline of women faculty in their 60s to 80s trying to protect our students. I have no been banned from the campus where I have taught for 34 years.

They beat up Dartmouth's former chair of Jewish Studies and banned her from campus. To protect the Jews, you see.

A photo of some graffiti reading "if you're a middle class home owner thinking it's not a big deal that the Tories are privatising the NHS, talk with Americans who were once middle class but had to sell everything - including their homes - to pay for medical bills"

Yup.

Brain chip

Bluesky has earned the Mandate of Heaven (users successfully bullied a news organization into fixing a bad headline)

It’s great to work at a studio that practices pay transparency. It’s really helped bring in some very fantastic new hires who could probably command a bigger salary elsewhere. But when you can show someone “this is why we came up with this comp number” it’s very a very powerful way to build trust

Also, my commissions page is up now! Absolutely willing to work for it

one character sheet and I'll be good to go!

ko-fi.com/kingsevil/go...

Some of you have bought this which is very lovely especially in a jobless time. Also I just updated it to fix a small bug!

Buy this tool if you're worried there might be a single big expensive light somewhere in your map that you could delete to get a bunch of perf back!

#ue5

retro gameart screenshot of a medieval village with a massive castle overtop. a bridge crosses through the center of town

thinking more about this meme. i/p continues unabated, and i protested and donated and have nothing else i can do. there's no candidate in the presidential race i actually want to win. capitalism continues to decay around me and i can't do anything besides hold on to what i already have

Input Prompts are now available! Contains 800+ glyphs for common input types, including overlays and generic controls. Includes PNG (64×, 128×) and SVG, plus an overview of all glyphs!

Completely free, public domain: kenney.nl/assets/input...