Curious what others are using for damage numbers. Are you using UI widgets or particles? Please explain. #gamedev #techart

Welcome back .hack! Didn't even know CyberConnect2 was still around. www.cc2.co.jp/hackzero/en/

Having fun adding quantization to post processor shaders and UI shaders to make a game look low resolution arbitrarily. #Shaders #GameDev

Annnnd now I have to go relisten to the phenomenal Yuki Kajiura soundtrack.

Trying to understand why a shader that works fine in one project does not work in another. Same exact setup, same engine version. Just... why?

"share a fight scene made by actual humans" its all of them, movies are made by humans. vfx artists are humans.

One of the reasons I want to develop a Nintendo title someday is for the sweet box art. I mean the eye candy that expands upon what you see in game circa the 1980's/90's, not just a marketing made and approved comp shot. . . Something that adds weight.

Finally finished setting up the project my students will be working in this semester. Feels good to have that done. Now to just finalize blackboard (the educational app that drives me insane).

Torn between setting up a Halo like template project for my students or an ARPG. Right now leaning towards the latter so I don't have to deal with multiplayer replication.

Decided to wrap the explosion work here. There are things I could clean up further, but its OK to call a thing done. #realtimevfx #gamedev youtu.be/mfZKI2FUVbc?...

Watching Sesame Street and can't help but notice Abby and all fairy magic sparkles do not have alpha opacity multiplied. I know nobody probably cares, it does not diminish the show at all and she is my daughter's favorite, but the fx artist in me really wants to fix it.

Explosions gonna explode. Still a little left to do for clean up, but not bad. #realtimevfx #gamedev vimeo.com/1145778298?s...

We have had 3 live action Sonic movies and only 1 Pikachu movie. That ain't right. Pikachu is worth at least a sequel, if not a trilogy.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Tron: Legacy

My only problem with this is the naming. We started with baseball terminology to describe the bigs so why not just keep using that? A (Kei), High A (Midi), AA, and AAA work.

Getting that next level up on my demo project out there. Enjoying stretching myself in non-VFX ways. #UnrealEngine #gamedev youtu.be/sysc1B44VTc

Started making the demo scene today and realized I had worked with a key mesh asset 2.5 times it's imported size so my scale was completely off for the rest of the world. Thankfully it was only 1 day and I can easily correct but... dang.

Reminder for all the USA freelance and business owners. Quarterly tax payments coming due soon. I just spent an hour categorizing 2 months worth that I had back burnered. Don't be like me.

Some basic math today revealed I need around 800 dialogue entries for the demo of my game without considering duplicate use. At a max of 250 characters per entry that is 200,000 keypresses. I better start writing before the carpal tunnel gets me. #gamedev

Unpopular opinion: Akira (1988) is not as good as people want to believe it is, everybody just likes Tron style motorcycles.

Getting a dialogue (narrative?) system up and running was easier than I imagined. Now I gotta come up with the words though. Something like 40 characters and 30 quests? This is gonna take a minute. #gamedev #UI #narrativedesign

It seems to me that CommonUI should be automatically enabled and used by Unreal. Course I'm on 5.3 so maybe it is in 5.6?

I see other parents of young children and can't help but feel so young in comparison. Is this impostor syndrome for parenting?

Wrapping up a contract and am available for work as either contract or FTE in real time VFX. If you need assistance meeting your goals, please reach out. Together we can achieve something great! #gamedev #realtimevfx #vfx #unrealengine johnemerson.artstation.com

Reminder that before 1915 the US Postal Service technically allowed the mailing of your children. Only a few cases are known to have occurred, but it was with trusted (aka well known) carriers. How much do you trust that Waymo and do they have deliver at the same standard as the USPS?

Good times when you get the emote system in your game working. #gamedev

Putzing around making my own version of the hologram map based on this video. Not sure yet if I'm going to go down the PCG route or not to bring in holographic buildings. May end up trying out my render target as a height mask to do some offsets. www.youtube.com/live/IBuqoNw...

This is a nice breakdown of a sci-fi shield effects. Well done. #realtimevfx #gamedev

PLEASE SHARE 🧪‼️ Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. Scientific American has published a guide to the EVIDENCE-BASED vaccine recommendations in place BEFORE ACIP members were removed by the administration. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

Geoff Keighley puts foot in mouth to please financial backers, news at 11. The only people upset by this are dev's and any C-suite with a production or finance staff knows its not true. This has been dragging on for a while gang and it really is much ado about nothing.

Havn't seen it posted here but looks like Unreal will have base coordinate systems updates rolling in the future. Y-up right handed is the future. #gamedev fixupx.com/TimSweeneyEp...

Blasts from the past to make you feel warm and fuzzy after you close your 1000 browser tabs.

Someone put Star Wars Rebel Assault II on the Playstation classics and I am here for it.

🟦 VFX Vault VFX help ✨ 'Sharing some great tips which VFX Vault posted today - to help out very common issues with ribbons and trails in UnrealEngine ✨ Tutorial here: youtu.be/nJBwKF7os8g?... #UnrealEngine #UE #vfx #rtvfx #tutorial

I think my daughter's electronic piano has Chrono Trigger songs built into it. Get 'em started young on that video game music life!

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 🤯 #realtimeVFX #gamedev

Meet your new Pope

Just twiddling away, relearning #Sidefx #Houdini from the ground up because the disjointed haphazard approach I used to date is no longer sufficient. Jordan Allen has put together, in my opinion, the best intro series. It's clicking (finally). @doublejumpacademy.bsky.social

It's amazing what a sphere can do in #realtimevfx

Finally figured out the genre for a game idea I have and it's exciting. A lot easier to talk about it now. Probably still financially unobtainable though. Oh well.

New VFX/Tech Art Newsletter is out! 📃Read online: simonschreibt.de?na=view&id=28 ✋Subscribe: simonschreibt.de/newsletter/ #gamedev #realtimevfx #vfx #techart

Took the plunge and canceled my Maya renewal so I force myself to use Houdini all the time and can't fall back on Maya as a crutch. #SideFX #Houdini

GDC is prohibitively expensive for many folks. Let's relocate the conference to a week at an amazing zoo (thoughts as I walk around an awesome zoo). #SedgwickCountyZoo

Steam basically came into existence because Monica Harrington realized that the piracy protection they implemented for Half-Life gave them direct access to their customers, which was unheard of for a game dev back then. Fascinating history of Valve: medium.com/@monicah428/... #firstpost #indiegames

Setting up my next scene for a portfolio piece and wondering when I just go ahead and make a FF type game now. Nothing ooh and aah to show (yet) but it feels right so far. Link for non compressed vid. #gamedev #realtimevfx vimeo.com/1068497430/c...

Was going to catch up on #Formula1 this weekend some watching DTS (even though I catch highlights regularly), then saw Norris got P1 qual at Melbourne. Hell yeah! Been rooting for him since 2022. Hamilton performing well in New Ferrari so far, and Williams continuing upwards trend! Good year ahead.

Sharing some of the work I did on Poppy Playtime Chapter 4. #GameDev #RealTimeVFX #Yarnaby #PoppyPlaytime www.artstation.com/artwork/ZloyeG

Checking if there are enough of us #Kansas #Gamedev to start a proper feed. Starting my list here. If you want to be on it, and are Kansas based, drop a note. I am including #KCMO #gamedev as well due to the specific nature of KC. bsky.app/profile/did:...

A team of archivists has recreated the pre-Trump CDC website as a live, easy-to-navigate website that should be indexed by Google. The team is hosting it in Europe. Cool project that is sadly necessary: www.404media.co/archivists-r...