Staggart Creations

UE5's PCG framework and Houdini both have the same functionality, so I'm positive some of the kinks can be worked out! 🤔

Trying my hand at creating isoline splines from a terrain, using marching squares to trace the heightfield. Getting crude but promising results ✨

Picture this: automatic shoreline tracing for lakes and beaches, or simply cool terrain visualization! 🤯 #gamedev #unity3d

For the next 24 hours only you can get the Spline Mesher asset for 70% off! #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d

🔗 u3d.as/3fWU?aid=101...

Put together a component to create a set of new splines running parallel to another one! So far extremely useful for side objects along rivers and paths #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d

The Spline Spawner asset is nearing the end of its beta! Masking is the last major feature added, a powerful way to prevent objects from spawning near or within other splines. #unity3d #madewithunity #indiedev #gamedev

This is also based on a floating Box Collider, which then gets used for paddle collisions.

Set up Rage Run Games's new Kayak Controller to work with Stylized Water 3 🏄 #indiedev #unity3d

Transformed Unity's "Karting Microgame" project into a jetski playground 🏄 In the most unorthodox way... by driving on an invisible floating plane 😄 #indiedev #gamedev #vfx

The Underwater Rendering extension for Stylized Water 3 is now available! Reworked completely for Unity 6, with some welcome new features and effects, including mobile VR support! 🤿

🔗 u3d.as/3ypg

#unity3d #gamedev #indiedev #vfx

Getting around to testing Underwater Rendering v3 on mobile VR. Performance has significantly improved thanks to a better technical approach 🚀

It will be available to dive into on the Unity Asset Store soon! 🤿

#gamedev #unity3d #vr #digitalart

And I haven't seen anyone use it for waterfalls as creatively as you have! 😊👍

Underwater Rendering for Stylized Water 3 is nearing completion! A collection of bubble effects are being added, for ambience or character breathing/movement. #vfx #gamedev #unity3d

Spline Mesher v1.2.3 now includes assets and examples for vertex-animated bunting. This shader graph demonstrates how the baked-in gradients can be used for masking.

🔗 u3d.as/3fWU

Each slice of the texture array is then cycled through in a simple shader, which gets piped into a "Custom Render Texture".

The result is an animated texture that can be dragged and dropped into any water material 🚀

This is how Ubisoft renders their caustics in shallow water it seems.

I've been using Substance Designer to create caustics, and figured I could use the Unity plugin to export an animated sequence to a texture array!

Tried out a different way to render water caustics by using an animated flipbook of pre-rendered caustics. Looks a lot more lifelike! #gamedev #unity3d #indiegamedev

Terrains only accept textures, so finetuning colors becomes a hassle! I've created a little utility that converts a Color into a usable Terrain Layer!

Makes for quick prototyping! #gamedev #unity3d #indiegamedev

🔗 https://gist.github.com/staggartcreations/9756530d4521b46be14eb3acbcd3b707

This series is incredibly insightful! But the screenshots are indeed rather dark, making them indiscernible😅

Reworked my spline-based prefab spawner to work with Unity's native spline tool! Got to flesh out plenty of new ideas, it now does just about everything! 🚀

🔗A download to a preview version is available on Discord if you're already a user of the "Spline Mesher" asset

#gamedev #unity3d #indiegamedev

Pleased to annouce that Stylized Water 3 for Unity 6 is now available! 😊

All the deets and more👇

u3d.as/3j7n?aid=1011l…

The new World Building roadmap for Unity is looking great!

Terrain is a particular aspect that's been drenched in, and restricted by, legacy tech for well over a decade.

By extension vegetation rendering will finally be modernized 🥳

🎮 PSA: FPS is often used to gauge a game's runtime performance, but can be a completely misleading metric!

This ancient, but ever relevant, article by Robert Dunlop is still a must read!
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mvps.org/directx/articl…

Well, so long Unity forums 🥲 A decade of community discussions wiped from the web and morphed into an 𝔦𝔪𝔭𝔯𝔬𝔳𝔢𝔡 𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔪𝔞𝔱 😬

Will I ever see a line of BBCode again in my life? 🧓

It's 2024, and 6 new-years resolutions later. I think I can finally accept that I just won't ever learn to use Houdini 😅🧙‍♂️

I'd love to see what you're working, share feature previews, gauge opinions and gather feature requests.

But most of all, consolidate all of that into a neat package😊

Henceforth, support for all of my assets will move into a Discord server!

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discord.gg/GNjEaJc8gw

Can I use this spline tool in Unity 2021.3?

This question comes around regularly. The answer is yes!

Though the "Splines" package won't appear in the Package Manager in this version, but you can install it manually like so:

Off to #Unite2023! Armed with dozens of asset store vouchers I'm destined to pass in conversation 😊 Packed day ahead, looking forward to it!

The quest for raytraced shadows in URP inches forward! Got temporal filtering working to some extend, but only halfway there. TIL denoising is a whole field of research, and I'm only skimming the surface 😆 #unity3d

pCube1, polySurface1, default, lambert1.

The four horseman of the organizational apocalypse.

Getting around to processing some branch scans captured last fall around Vancouver, which are turning out quite well! #gameart