No joke, do not come, this is not headline sensationalism. Stuff is bad, and very erratic.

I’m considering giving Unity engine a go, and to solve some issues I’ve got with it coming from Unreal, there are two assets that look like they’ll be invaluable to me: HTrace Ambient Occlusion, and HTrace World-Space Global Illumination. Amazing how Unity gets these advancements and alternatives!

For one night, I had to sleep on a cold park bench alone as a child. It was formative, and not an experience I wish on anyone, but our society seems wants to make it more common and punishes homelessness. I hope that also changes if we wrest away control from the psychopathic right.

My colleague made an interesting piece of software called "shader to human" which is sort of like an imgui for shaders. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eitQ...

I hope my engine is at least half as cool; then there’ll be even more local cool stuff happening.

Back to learning C++ by working on a game engine of some sort. If you hear wimpering echo through the air, don't worry; that's just me getting traumatized by Vulkan. Also I’ve still got this big thicc book “Ray Tracing In One Weekend” that @demofox.bsky.social gifted me ages ago. Hmm…

the engine we use & the games we're making

I’d love to see “someone” update ye olde’ VXGI and RTXGI global illumination / reflection plugins to modern UE5… it was wonderful having options and it’s so unfortunate we have basically Lumen and nothing else for real-time GI. Options are good… especially in today’s hostile / pricey tech climate.

Pretty disappointed in both @humblebundle.com and especially in @girlswhocode.bsky.social. Please teach girls how to code, don't push them into generative AI. That won't build their skills. Prioritize foundational programming skills and awaken their interest. "Tired of long days writing code"???

Blue noise for object placement youtu.be/24EmhUJeIAs?...

Trying to get back in the swing of things again. It’s been suggested a long while back that I can achieve this effect using Niagara (my main tool is Unreal Engine 5) - anyone have a guide on how Niagara can be leveraged for this or something similar I can reverse-engineer? youtu.be/_7qxYtTZZA8?...

I do love me some new lighting stuff

If you wanted to read more on the implementation process for this, or see bonus images/glitches/bugs, I wrote up a dev log here ruby0x1.ca/7dfps-2025-d... - If you'd like more details on anything I can expand in future posts #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #createwithluxe

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Rejoice #UnrealEngine developers, for Unreal Engine 5.7 has been released. PCG and Substrate graduate to prime time, new features like AI Assistant and Procedural Veg, new animation tools and much more. gamefromscratch.com/unreal-engin... #gamedev #indiedev

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how have I never noticed that emit (like emit a signal or event) is time spelled backward ?!

Gigi Version 1.01.5 Released github.com/electronicar... The big items: * Indirect Draw (GPU driven rasterization) * AMD FFX Upscaling /Frame Generation * Variable aliases for shaders (~push constants) If you want to play around with the FSR stuff, there's a "AMD FSR" technique in the Gigi Browser.

Autumn Transitions - Chilliwack, British Columbia 🇨🇦 #autumn #colours #colors #nature #forest #chilliwackbc #explorebc #britishcolumbia #panorama #canada #bluesky #landscapephotography #stunday #scape #travel #mountains #snow #photography #naturephotography

If anyone needs a 3d environment artist, hire Natalie. 👇 awesome art down there

[Game Animation Sample] Replacing hand-placed splines with custom Parkour Navigation Data generated from Navmesh :) #UE5 #UnrealEngine #screenshotsaturday

working on a ucupaint feature to copy layers from the asset library this will give us a good smart layer/mask workflow

Hey #PitchYaGame! My game is called: 'Incoherence: Dark Rooms' 👻 A survival horror room builder with mind-bending puzzles. 🛠️ Upgrade your weapons, skills, and more! 🔫 Fight twisted monsters and unravel the mystery of the endless loop... #GameDev #IndieGame #DarkRooms

Well under way! This cue is SUPER old, like from 2005, so I don't have the original session. I'm having to recreate every synth part by ear, but I'll take some liberties here and there.

I haven’t done much 3D art or game dev in months. I’ve basically given up. Maybe some day I’ll get back, but I’ve fallen out of love with it all, as a tech artist and just in 3D Art. I’ve given up trying to get into it career-wise. I’m sorry if it’s a let-down, for everyone who believed in me.

Alan, dishing truths as usual.

The environment detail in the new Elder Scrolls: Oblivion remake is completely astounding. If only the customized characters shared this trait in common >_>;

⚡ CRESCENT COUNTY IS DOING A KICKSTARTER!! ⚡ 💫 A painterly, witch-tech island to explore 🎁 Make deliveries by day, street race by night 😘 Drama! Motorbrooms! Kissing!!! ⌚ Launching in MAY 👇 SUPPORT INDIE GAMES! FOLLOW OUR KICKSTARTER!! 👇 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ann... #gamedev #indiedev

📢 EEEP!!! MYTHWRECKED is OUT NOW After *3 years* my next indie game (following Röki) is OUT NOW on Steam, Xbox and Nintendo Switch... 🏝️ Explore a secret island ⚡️ Meet the gods of legend 🔎 Uncover the truth, behind the myth

I'm far from my blog's hay day, which largely comes from me not writing as much as I used to, but the most popular article of mine in the traffic that I do get is about interleaved gradient noise as a different type of low discrepancy object. Glad to see it! blog.demofox.org/2022/01/01/i...

New Blog Post! Simulating Dice Rolls With Coin Flips blog.demofox.org/2025/04/05/s... Blog posts have not been coming like they used to. My energy has been going into research papers and Gigi. Lots of cool things to share on both in the future.

The PCG Pathfinding node lets you automatically clear foliage between locations. In this case I'm tracing a path between the front door and the nearest road and clearing any grass or debris between them! #UETips

One of my favourite things to do when making a landscape is to run a Brush Stroke mask texture into a Height Lerp for the blend. This means that the blend will look like each layer is painted into the landscape instead of just linearly interpolated. Takes 30s and adds a lot to the scene! #UETips

A great tutorial on how to add gender info to text so localization can work correctly in languages that require it. https://xabk.net/blog/gender-info-in-strings/ #UnrealEngine

I *really* wish they’d bring the Epic Games store over to Linux. It’d make my transition over the very, very large Windows fence a helluva lot easier, because managing multiple Unreal Engine 5 installs and all the plugins would actually be do-able, then. T__T

Microsoft failing in SPECTACULAR fashion to read the freaking room. Guess I’m switching to Linux!

Hey BSKY, I'm Joppe and I make VFX! Find me online "@joppemin" everywhere. 1️⃣: artstation.com/joppemin 2️⃣: cara.app/joppemin

Found a Niagara tutorial that looks interesting and feature-rich, so really hopeful I can learn what I need from this to start crafting the effects I need, like the Stargate “Kawoosh!” effect.

Introduce yourself with four video games 🎮

The new Digimon game is coming out in 2025! OMG

Has anyone managed to change the play rate of the resulting Turn In Place animations dynamically (at run time) in the Game Animation Sample with Unreal Engine 5? With Motion Matching, I can’t seem to find any way to adjust the animation playback speed (for turning in place quickly in a TP shooter)

Ah, he never disappoints.

Me, back home, feeling pumped to get some @unrealengine.bsky.social work done... UE Editor: "LOL NOT TODAY, CHUMP!"

Me, about to go on a smol morning adventure to get coffee cream. My car, Blanche Devereaux, channeling her inner @samhulick.bsky.social:

You know, I genuinely can’t sing enough praise for Ray Reconstruction in games - especially how it cleans up raytraced reflections in Hogwarts Legacy. I’m extremely impressed. Being saddled with being Nvidia-Only, however, is a huge bummer. I’m really hoping AMD can develop an agnostic variant.

The stream was so much fun and we did a great job covering LD fundamentals. We gave practical advice while making sure everyone got a solid dose of theory. Definitely worth checking out the VoD.

Some of these are… personally familiar. XD

I definitely need to learn how to use Niagara proper… my fiddling around with it so far has not been fruitful

I was playing around with the @gpuopen.com.web.brid.gy Fidelity FX SDK samples this morning, and… I’ve caught the itch to build my own real-time game renderer again. >.<;;