Progress was been at a snails pace but I have landed on an overall style I'm happy with. Also got depth based rim lighting working correctly. Just her arms and tail to finish off (hence why it's using the old shader). #gamedev #indiedev #unity #blender

Was wrapping work last week so not much progress to show... Though I was playing Digimon Time Strangers and I loved how bold their edge highlighting was. Was inspired to dial mine up and I really like how it turns out. Also makes it easier to see from a distance. #indiedev #gamedev #unity #gamedev

Finished the head textures and put together a quick shader test. Pretty happy with this so far. The specular highlights are masked by a texture to help give a stylised look. Just the rest of her body to go... #blender #unity #gamedev #indiedev

Started work on the face texture. The slits came out quite well. Switched a geometry node setup for the outline that uses vertex paint to control the thinkness. The eye is a good show case of this as the outline gets thinner so that it doesn't interfere with the texture. #blender #indiedev #gamedev

Bakes came out quite nicely. Tomorrow I will begin the process of cleanup and refinement. Very much looking forward to when I will be able to work on her shader. #gamedev #indiedev #blender

Has been many months... maybe even a year since I last properly UV unwrapped a model. Went with 4 maps in the end. Head, body, limbs and hair. Now to bake the and begin the texturing process. #indiedev #blender #gamedev

it was a real battle but i got root motion working with the unity nav mesh agent finally. now the big problem is that without attacks, sounds, or any move anims other than a little shuffle, the enemy is Too Cute

Quite happy with how the mesh turned out. Forgot I also needed to update the mesh for the sword and shield, so took a bit longer. Now on to texturing... which now that I say it feels daunting... #blender #indiedev #gamedev

Body mesh finally finished. Next is her hair and I can then finally get to texturing... #blender #indiedev

Finished her legs and also redid most of the weight painting so that her hips deform much more nicely. I also removed the little v slits from her torso. Little side by side of with and without texture to show off the details. Just her arms, hair and accessories left to go. #blender #indiedev

Between work and Silksong... didn't find much time to work on Eris. However I'm back at it again. Finished her torso and shins retopo. Thighs are up next. I was also toying with two ideas to add more color. 1. exposing more light between her plating and 2. Tattoo like markings. #blender #indiedev

Wasted some time trying to go with a high-poly sub-divided mesh, but soon realised that trying to do that for every eventual model would be crazy. So now I'm focusing on an LOD0 mesh. On the left is the WIP retopo & on the right is the old hack together. Getting there. #blender #indiedev #gamedev

Slow start, but face plate is coming along. #blender #gamedev #indiedev

Picked up the SexyIce Mantis figure. I do have a soft spot for insectoid like monster designs...

I've been working fulltime on another project again, hence my lack of energy to code on my project lately... I think I need to shift gears and tinker with visuals again. Time to get working on refining Eris's mesh. #blender #indiedev

Finished all exit/entry animations and added some IK. Still some bits to do, but moving on to crouch as I would like to add some "exit into crouch" checks. #indiedev #unity #gamedev

Upper exit check and animation done. Just Upper entry, lower exit, leaping and IK to go... onwards! #indiedev #unity #gamedev

Did a rework of the climbing logic to prioritse being able to move over uneven surfaces. Need to prep some animations for jump related climbing logic but i'm nearly able to wrap this feature up. #indiedev #unity #gamedev

I've not had much energy to work on code, but finally got the core logic for free climbing working. Need refine entry/exit conditions and logic, but happy with how it is working so far. I've also been working on finalising Eris's design, so might side track with the mesh work soon. #indiedev #unity

The freelance gig is finally over, so now I can get back to Project Eris... I've switched to a new IK plugin by Flm and it works so much better than what I had with the added bonus of procedural foot movement when turning on the spot. #indiedev #unity

Been a be silent on here, but I'm not dead! Just been busy working on contract work lately. In the meantime I have be slowly improving the camera lockon. To allow you to spin around the target, but keep the Eris in view when occlusion occurs. #indiedev #unity

Finally moved my backlog to Trello. Not an exhaustive list and is missing things like assets/animations that need making, but a starting point. #gamedev #indiedev

Was digging through an old dialogue experiment from 3 years ago where I wanted to replicate non voice based dialogue boxes like Ace Attorney (which the sounds were borrowed from for testing purposes). Think I will dust it off and port it once I finish off the combat. #indiedev #gamedev

Injury/Damage logic is done. Took a bit of time to get the animations ready and logic to prevent other actions from activating. Needs a bit of finetuning and FX, but as intended! #gamedev #indiedev

Been having the temptation to replay Xenogears lately, to the point where I have also been doodled a rough orthographic concept... might model this between coding sessions #ゼノギアス #xenogears #mecha

Was going down memory lane, digging through some of my old models and found one I never finished. This is Harmor, and OG character I never got round to using. The concept art is by @tomycase.bsky.social who I commisioned 10+ years ago... Geez time flies by. #blender #mecha

Took a short break from combat to quickly add IK to the legs. Quite satisfying to see it work out of the box for the most part. #gamedev #indiedev

Fixed the root motion bugs and refined the input logic so you can chain commands. Also added some placeholder VFX just to get a feel of it. Feels a tad too flashy imo, but will do for now. Now I need to plan how to properly handle the hit box logic. #indiedev #gamedev

Finished the draft input to combo logic. Also switched the controller to use root motion from the animation. Need to side track to fix some root motion related bugs with strafing, but works much better! #indiedev #gamedev

Calm down Eris, The sphere can't hurt you... yet... #indiedev #gamedev

‪Finished the 3 ground slash animations and set up a dirty test of of them chaining. Need to tweak the transition moments, but works quite well. Now to code the logic... #blender #indiedev #gamedev

When you give a gymnast a sword... Or in my case, you just use auto curves... whoops. #blender #indiedev

Next up is combat... so here's a WIP slash. I would like to make the combo system a bit diverse, like mixing in slashes with shield bashes, like Slash -> Bash -> Slash -> Slash . Will see how it goes... #blender #indiedev #gamedev

I am "almost" finished with the ladder logic... Just finished the entry/exit from above animation. Needed to adjust my animation rig for this, but really happy with how it came out. Just need need to refine some entry/exit condition logic and will then be able to move on. #indiedev #gamedev

Been working on a few iterations of the ladder logic. Got the core of it finished. The pole to pole jumping still feels wonky, but will refine that once I have the animations in place. #unity #indiedev

Whilst I tinker away on readding functionality, I thought I'd share an old climbing prototype from last year. Inspired by Shadow of the Colossus, it's something I'd like to integrate into my game. Still a bit glitchy, but works for the most part. #indiedev #unity

Just got Frint Mission 4 and 5 added to my collection. Just need 2 to complete the set. Annoyingly I seem to have misplaced 1st's case.... #FrontMission

Updated the sheathing animations to use her sub arms. Works quite well. The scabbard has doors that will eventually open and close to match, but thats a seperate rig to control. #unity #indiedev #blender

Quick test to see of the animations and hair/tail physics. Everything seems to be in working order. #unity #indiedev

Took a bit of work, but finished the updated mesh and rig. The new back claws now also carry her weapons when not in use. Here is a preview with a simple shader applied. Will hold off on final texturing for now so I can focus on code and animations (finally). #indiedev #unity #blender

A few snaps from a trip to #Tintagel. Been a while since I last went and it didn't disappoint.

So I fell into a pit of hate with Eris. I "thought" I liked what I had, but the small tweaks were like putting bandaids on a larger problem. So I decided to start again from the ground up, fixing the proporitions and mismatching elements. Gone more insectoid with small arms/claws. #blender #indiedev

I had hit a bit of an art block the past few weeks. The more I stared at Eris's limbs, the more I hated what I saw... until recently! I decided to add segmentation to her arms and legs so that they match her back and hips more. Just need to finish a few bits and back on to texturing! #blender #unity

Finished the rest of the body detail textures and finished her shader. Took a while to paint just that of her, but pretty satisfied with the outcome. #blender #indiedev #unity

Nearly finished the main body line texture. On the left is what the 1st draft projection looked like and on the right, the refined final version. Need to finish the inner chest and then on to her limbs... #blender #indiedev

One more projection texture test with a placeholder background. I think I found a style I like! Now to start the proper texturing and shader process... #blender #indiedev #unity

I might have cranked the post processing too high.... #indiedev #unity

Tinkering with shaders now and trying to go for a clean toon look. I think I am getting there, but still early days. Need to prep additional textures for highlights and shadows. #blender #indiedev #unity

So as I have been slowly working on Eris's texture... I've been tempted to change her legs to be footless... ZoE style... Here are some shots of with and without feet. Leaning to without feet... Thoughts? #indiedev #blender

This video shows how I test my mesh without commiting to a length texturing process. I have a set of cameras that match my orthographic concept art and I projection map on to the mesh. I will eventually bake this to an clean unwrap for the final texturing pass. #blender #indiedev