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🥳New 30-min video out!
I dive into different ways to rasterize dynamic effects (explosions, attacks, etc.) using Niagara, and show how to apply them to foliage & particles. Check it out!⬇️

YouTube video by People Make Games The Rockstar Workers Fired Before They Could Finish GTA 6

I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct.

That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...

listening to my team in a meeting today

The morphs in Keeper use distance fields as an (implicit) surface representation, which makes it possible to control the distance at which the surface should lie. In other words, it’s easy to deflate or inflate objects, and meshes become easily ‘moldable’.

Trying to get moving on more portfolio work. So started with something small to start building on.

The goal is to make a better executed version of this piece currently in my portfolio. www.artstation.com/artwork/yJwlz5

#GameDev #TechArt #Unreal #UnrealEngine #Houdini

Hey #pitchyagame!

Tower Lab is a physics-based, roguelike tower defense game where the enemies have to be pushed off the level.

Wishlist: s.team/a/3084810

Second I wanted to show a understanding of how textures can store additional information.

The Animations were achieved by packing the movement direction and index into a texture. The movement direction is determined by the rigid body simulation's velocity at the current frame.

Trying to showcase two things.

One is a simple application of procedural modeling and texturing. Which were both accomplished inside of Houdini; first time diving into Copernicus and it was a fantastic experience.

Trying to get moving on more portfolio work. So started with something small to start building on.

The goal is to make a better executed version of this piece currently in my portfolio. www.artstation.com/artwork/yJwlz5

#GameDev #TechArt #Unreal #UnrealEngine #Houdini

🥳 New video is out on my YT!

It’s a 1h20m deep dive into 𝗦𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗙𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱𝘀.

I went a bit more in-depth than most UE tutorials out there — there’s a lot more to this topic than you might think! :D 🧵

A pigeon with a few bald / spiky spots where she’s molted half of her face feathers off over the course of two days. They looked like little bugs when they came off, tiny face feathers are weird.

When she molts real bad she looks so mangy and feral. You’d never suspect she has a dedicated pillow that takes up 1/3rd of my desk, or gets the heater turned on any time she asks.

HAZE - Volumetric Fog & Lighting for URP | Fullscreen & Camera Effects | Unity Asset Store Add depth to your project with HAZE - Volumetric Fog & Lighting for URP asset from Harry Alisavakis. Find this & more VFX options on the Unity Asset Store.

🌫HAZE🌫 is now OUT on the Unity Asset Store!

🎉And it's already 10% off 🎉

It's really easy and fun to use and you can make some really nice atmospheric foggy environments with it!

Heck, I ended up making a bunch of demo scenes for it cause I couldn't stop playing with it 😅

👇👇👇👇GET IT HERE👇👇👇👇

She’s just a girl and really bad at bathing herself. Outright refuses if I don’t help, the water’s too cold, or I try to bathe her in anything other than her emotional support pie dish

Leaned all the way back in my chair, it’s raining outside, pigeon on my shoulder, crocheting. Sometimes it’s the simple things.

I’m so happy summer is over and it can be cozy fall season

By baking data directly into a texture, through different channels, you can drive position, scale, and rotation of other elements, unlocking flexible, procedural control for unique effects with optimized performance #UnrealEngine #GameDev #VFX #RealtimeVFX

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A pigeon sitting on a towel on a desk nuzzled up against my hand. Certified baby girl moment.

Work desk must have soft places for the baby to sit. #pigeon

Decided to try Position-Based Fluids for a first go at realtime fluids. I think I got the algorithm wrong, I've got weird boundary behavior. Meh, I suck at maths, it's an infinite pain to go through academic papers :(

A highly stylized drawing of a pink and purple pickle jar labeled: “clowosen, kosher dill halves” with a cute blushy face

No I will not explain

Nesting insert meshes feels illegal 🚓
100% exportable geometry
#normalMagic #b3d #geometrynodes

Texturing in blender with ucupaint What is ucupaint? Ucupaint is a free and open-source layering and baking addon for blender. It abstracts away the shader graph into a layer stack to allow texturing with layers rather than nodes: The ...

Sharing all of my blender texturing secrets in this in-depth ucupaint guide, hope it helps 🙂

Seattle Indies Expo 2025 SIX is the biggest annual celebration of indie games and game creators from the Pacific Northwest and this year is no different.

In celebration of the inaugural SLICE and 15 years of SIX we are running a Steam event all week showcasing games from SIX 2020-2025 plus a few extras from the Seattle Indies community store.steampowered.com/curator/3011...

Wooden church door and cut stone doorframe inside and out and iron lock and door handle

Wooden church door and cut stone doorframe inside and out and iron lock and door handle

Wooden church door and cut stone doorframe inside and out and iron lock and door handle

Wooden church door and cut stone doorframe inside and out and iron lock and door handle

All Saints Churchyard
Church Road Beccles, NR34

Wooden church door and cut stone doorframe inside and out and iron lock and door handle

#reference #buildingreference #materialreference

Pencil drawing of four feral pigeons in different colours and half eaten food and seeds

✨Street treasure✨

Join us at SLICE for a live Q&A with Ria Hu, Alden Kroll, and Erik Peterson of Valve corporation as they answer all of your questions (that they can get to in 45 minutes) about Steam. Go to seattleslice.org for tickets and more info.

Feels different when there are no seams! 😄

Just playing with MeshBlend today.
#ue5 #gamedev

🎉🎉🎉HERDLING is OUT!🎉🎉🎉

This is your chance to guide some extremely fluffy and cuddly beasts and pet them to your heart's content ✨

Trying out Niagara's Dynamic Mesh interface to generate procedural grass on the GPU🧐

This is a single mesh with no vertex shader. Quadratic curves are animated and vertices are positioned along them to best face the camera, ribbon-style. Landscape is sampled for Z projection.

Building contraptions by combining towers is a key part of our physics-based tower defense game, so we've added the ability to move towers between waves to encourage experimentation🔧⚙️

#gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Sometimes the music just fits a little too well... 💫

#indiedev #indiegame #gamedev