Florian Smolka

Some more content from the lecture.
A nice little energetic aura charge vfx =)
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Ha I did something similar recently. With reduced shapes and material =)
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I'm currently holding a lecture at the university of applied sciences Darmstadt. So I thought why not post some of the effects I created for this.
Task: Create an effect only made out of cubes and a basic material. Inspired by this amazing cubes study artstation.com/artwork/zP8Vdq
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Absolutely! I just goes against intuition when you just think of it as "getting rid of the whole number".

Another "unexpected" behavior for this #VFXFriday
If frac() just leaves the fractional part of the number why is the result not this mirrored gradient that we'd expect?
Because what is happening under the hood is x -floor(x)!
So for example frac(-0.1) is -0.1 - (-1) = 0.9 🤯
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There are a couple different ways to get the expected result. The clamp approach dosen't work if max<min though.
My Remap Range (Safe) material function is basically what UE uses in Niagara.

Why this is happening is pretty straight forward. Because the input range isn't clamped to the desired old range it gives you values outside that range.

The Remap Value Range node in UEs material editor is lying to you!!!
Well - at least it can give you results you might not expect.
So whats going on here and how to "fix" it?
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Haha true!

Finally got around to create some breakdowns of some cool vfx i did for #MotherMachine just in time for #VfxFriday!
Head on over for more details:
www.artstation.com/artwork/ZlzlWX

I'm olschool I do distance(texcoord, (0.5,0.5)) *2 =D

Trailer for the game i've been working on for the past year just dropped!
Hopefully i get around to throw together a small vfx reel of the game =)

Woahhh * _ * love your interpretation!

Ohhh this might help with Niagara recompile when you scrub a value too!

Today I Learned:

You can enable "Determinism" on your emitters to let you scrub your FX backwards in Niagara.

Just be sure to turn it back off when your done so your FX still has random seeds at the end!

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Nice one! The animation is baked tho or am I mistaken?

They also come in big walls that willll zap you real good ⚡💀⚡

Time to be more active on this platform 🙌
Some Electric Beam vfx I worked on for the upcoming Mother Machine from @maschimensch.bsky.social

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It might need MOAR CHAINZ!

The dot product has a special place in my heart. So versatile! Really love the channel selection/mixer "trick". Wanna select channels of a texture dynamically for example? Just dot(tex sample, float4 parameter)<3

Also christmas cookie backing has some strong uv island packing vibes =D

Showreel 2023 (+post credit scene) Showreel 2023 but with a little extra after the end card =)

Also updated me reel accordingly =P
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Yuki & Kuma from Shadow Tactics are back! Play the new Shadow Gambit DLCs "Yuki's Wish" and "Zagan's Ritual" – OUT NOW on PC and consoles.Hoist the Red Marle... Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew - Yuki & Zagan DLC Trailer

So that's it. Last content i'll ever do for Mimimi 😥
Very glad i was able to revist one of my favorit chars - Yuki.
Fantastic work on this last update. Super proud of everyone past+present at Mimimi in general. Will miss these crazy passionate humans <3
youtu.be/LlJ6gVAkZNs?...

Selected works from projects i worked on over the last decade.Music: Risky Destiny by Amaksi Showreel 2023

Finally got around to create a showreel of some of the beautiful things i got to work on over the last decade. Enjoy =) #VFXFriday
youtu.be/nNN1NBVlKak?...

I honestly think the older you get the less you care. There is not really a whole lot less confusion just more fuck it attitude =D hope the being lost gets better for you though. I always found it claiming to just let yourself drift but I know for others it's very uncomfortable.

Schweiz braucht man tatsächlich auch nur einen perso. Den es auch für Kinder gibt aber macht wenig Sinn wenn der Reisepass mehr bringt 🤷

Abgesehen davon braucht man immer ein gültiges ausweisdokument. Auch in EU Ländern. Als Erwachsene Person hat man dann eben die Wahl ob perso oder Reisepass. Da ein Kind aber noch kein perso hat braucht es automatisch einen Reisepass egal wohin die grenzüberschreitende Reise geht.

Gibt auch genug Länder wo man einen Pass braucht ohne fliegen zu müssen (allein die Schweiz). Und ein guter Grund sind familienbesuche imo. Heutzutage sind Familien oft sehr viel weiter verstreut als früher.

Say hello to the Broken and her groupies, fashionably late for the #zombieskulltober
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I love looking at some setup I did a while back that felt relatively straight forward while developing it and then being like: "holy shit that looks complicated who did this!?"