kubocentrism: an experiment with outlines and occlusion #unity #gamedev

Experimenting with advanced occlusion effects for Linework. Configurable as 'render for X if occluded by Y' Can be used to make enemies see-through for specific parts of the environment only. #gamedev

Recently had the opportunity to build 3 demos to demonstrate the power of game feel!

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Outlines!!

it's a box with a surface shader that behaves like a decal by doing world position reconstruction using depth buffer. @ameye.dev did a pretty good breakdown of how to do it in unity:

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Unbound's joyful, intuitive sculpting experience is now even more powerful with physics. Use collisions, triggers, constraints, physics logic blocks & APIs help you set up complex rigs and behaviors for your game. Try for free: unbound.io #gameDev #physics #madeWithUnbound

Published a free outline shader package for @unity.com It uses a vertex extrusion shader to enlarge the model to create the outline. Basic, but well optimised, tons of configuration options and free! #gamedev #madewithunity #vfx #shaders

🔎 Made a debugging tool which allows you to get a visual peek at the stencil buffer inside of Unity! Grab it here: github.com/alexanderame... #madewithunity #gamedev #unity3d

Published a free outline shader package for @unity.com It uses a vertex extrusion shader to enlarge the model to create the outline. Basic, but well optimised, tons of configuration options and free! #gamedev #madewithunity #vfx #shaders

This is not a texture! Experimenting with cartoon style rendering in #godot All of the lines are drawn by the object's material (not in post this time). All properties are variable. #gamedev #indiedev

These defaults features are incredibly good to see! They are super important for basic prototypes, and are often difficult to get right in engines, so having these available as standards is fantastic.

A simple vertex extrusion outline can be done in Unity with a single shader and no C# code! Looks pretty decent too Tutorial here: ameye.dev/notes/easies... #gamedev

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Nice! Looks like Unity has a new Graph Toolkit. I think Shader Graph 2 uses this. Looking forward to test it out!

Looking for a free water shader for Unity? Check out this one here github.com/MatrixRex/Ub... Some parts of this are based on my tutorial here (ameye.dev/notes/styliz...), so great to see this project!

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Some Spooky Doorway news happening on Monday. Watch out!

Been a while since my last tutorial, but messing around with the relatively new #Godot Compute Shaders gave me inspiration! youtu.be/QjrAJwaUy64

I want to share some insight in how I render outlines in a lot of projects 👇 There are some methods and tricks that have served me well over the years linework.ameye.dev/section-map/

Small shader experiment: watercolor on grainy paper! I love exploring artistic direction through shader algorithm tests..! Oh, and I'm also using a handmade outline 🤫 (wink-wink @ameye.dev 😆) #unity3d #watercolor #shader

Published a surface ID mapping tool for Unity Useful for creating ID maps! github.com/alexanderame... #gamedev #unity

🔎 Made a debugging tool which allows you to get a visual peek at the stencil buffer inside of Unity! Grab it here: github.com/alexanderame... #madewithunity #gamedev #unity3d

SDF outlines: the S stands for smooth 😎

Trying this outline shader which has a gap and is animated a bit

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Experimenting with custom outline effects based on signed distance fields. Lots of possibilities!

Finally managed to put @ameye.dev's Linework plugin to the test in an actual project. It's such a powerful framework, it provides tons of rendering styles and options to customise outlines. Solves a very hard problem in a very good way!

Thanks to @ameye.dev and his plugin Linework I know have beautiful outlines in my level editor ! 🤩🚚 #gamedev #indiedev #madewithUnity @unity.com

Hi! I'm Alex, I make shaders and do tech art. Currently working on a game project 😀 #shaders #gamedev

Testing out a new process for rendering lines

I'm giving a way 3 copies of Linework! This is my outline rendering toolkit for Unity! Working on a cool game in Unity that could use outlines? Let me know! #gamedev

Some animals I saw while biking 👍

Another day working on interactions! This time I added a trigger volume to easily trigger behaviours in the scene Of course with handy debugging tools to see which object exactly is affect by which trigger volume! #gamedev

⚡ Made a little 'relay' utility component that allows me to hook up anything to anything Unlimited power ... I will abuse this a lot #madewithunity #gamedev

⚡ Made a little 'relay' utility component that allows me to hook up anything to anything Unlimited power ... I will abuse this a lot #madewithunity #gamedev

Doing the same with my blog and documentation websites Once it's set up it is so easy to edit content, preview, and push + deploy automatically to see the live change within minutes. Great stuff!

I want to share some insight in how I render outlines in a lot of projects 👇 There are some methods and tricks that have served me well over the years linework.ameye.dev/section-map/

original vs recreation in 3D

Testing this edge detection shader in a scene with fine lines, still needs work!

This pie would make a good shader practice

Need edge detection for your game? I updated my tutorial for Unity 6 + URP Render Graph! Have a look ameye.dev/notes/edge-d...

Experimenting with a method to bake shadows into the scene to get really sharp shadows! Works pretty well for an initial version!

I still use shader graph often for prototyping or basic shaders, but as soon as things get more complex like edge detection/blur shaders, it gets so unwieldy. Every tool has its place.

Working on my outline shader can be tricky with the many rendering steps and stencil masks Soo I made a little viewer that allows me to check intermediate steps and see the stencil values! Very useful to debug rendering effects

Great reference site for Unity beginners unity.huh.how

* Tech tip! * Offset the UVs of your caustics texture to get a cool chromatic aberration effect 🌈 uv1 = uv + (split, split) uv2 = uv + (split, -split) uv3 = uv + (-split, -split)

Sparkly Pokémon card for little Cosmog!