This came to me in a vision

Golden Ray 🌱 #pixelart

i'm still here, still working on my game full-time, but took a much-needed vacation with my wife last week, and been a lot less online in general lately. Went to the zoo, went camping and saw a gorgeous moonbow, went to the model train museum, and had a really chill week at home.

Up late simulating orbits here what up!!

we have truly become a joyless society

Quick tip for people just learning Unreal Engine - if you see someone confidently giving advice that's a little too vague and nonspecific, rather than chase that rabbit hole, check their post history. If you see them melting down when people push back on their ideas, just ignore all their advice.

needed a lens flare sort of effect for my distant terrain wind turbines. spent some time looking at refs and stuff but then realized I could just draw one in CSP and almost anything roughly shaped right would look good cuz it just needs to add a little "pop" from >2 km away

Thinking about the things that stock the shelves of the Willamette Mall in Dead Rising (2006)

Power is coming along! Got the basics of displaying power usage and switching modules on/off

so i guess complex collision shapes in UE are just kinda-fucked unless you're running CCD, huh?

you're not a real touhou fan, you've probably played all the games

Spent the morning modeling air ducts and a rooftop HVAC unit because I realized the walls in my game's store were too thin to plausibly provide enough air flow to cool a heavily-windowed sales floor *and* a walk-in cooler.

if you hate fishing games you are my enemy

AI art has never helped people with disabilities create art. It lets people flood websites with stylistic counterfeits of popular artists and pretend it's theirs. I always defined art as "a person using their skill and imagination to express anything." AI art still manages to fall outside of that.

Super low-poly wind turbines to act as a background prop for my game Anza (matched more or less to their real-world locations), only one mask texture for the red lights, rest is just a flat base color. All animation done in a basic WPO shader using per-instance randomness. #Anza #Gamedev #indiedev

i'm delighted that the fuji x100 I got for like $300 off the something awful SA Mart subforum in like 2010 is still going strong and capable of shooting stuff that outdoes my iphone most of the time a full 15 years later

went out and saw some plants this weekend

my guy washizu is a magician. Had a great week of mahjong starting with this awesome machine. More chapters to come of other things as well.

shitposts for nobody anyway really loving DCSS's forgecraft magic school. It's super fun and dynamic, super-powerful too. Esp on some of the weirder species like Gnoll or Mountain Dwarf that can take advantage of a lot of its' unique mechanics like AC-based spell damage or the multi-school spells

Had some Desert Fun this weekend. Always gorgeous after the rain. Cholla all vibrant and happy, coyote gourds all plump, and bright red chuparosa hosting a lot of happy-looking bees and monarch butterflies. Good times along the wash.

At the concerted hall, straight up “condurcting it.” And by “it,” haha, well let’s just say. My pianist

Fresh piza

Preliminary version, kinda half assing it

set up a thing where if you tip a tray full of food over or bang it around too much it'll spill the shitty little nuggets all over #Anza #gamedev #indiedev

Well well well, here's the quick version, still a lot to do to fully integrate it but this works. I had to mess with the inverse kinematics a bunch since I redesigned the arm and all the angles were out of whack. I've wanted this for a long time!

Anthology of the Killer fan art

hot chocolate single occupancy

how well i get along with someone basically comes down to A: are they nice to me B: do they like talking about cooking or hiking with me C: gay? and if you can check at least two of those boxes we're golden

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this is peak web design, no notes

Had to update a lot of modules, but I can make big stations again. Also added some visuals to make it easier to see where docking ports are.

Had a really nice time stargazing last night. Cloudless night, super-clear, no moon, and a great view of the milky way.

great morning at the zoo today

Darktable is so much fun! I've been taking a lot more photos than I normally would just so I have a few dozen to work on over coffee or when I wanna just have something to work on for 10 minutes.

Went on a twilight adventure last night with @silveralicorn.online

Still overhauling the assembly buildings, making some progress. Big difference is the showcase camera & other stuff are part of the launch vehicle, not the scene, so they can be custom to each vehicle. Lots of other stuff to do though!

Needed to find a better way to organize/proofread my dialog system outside of Unreal, and it turns out that Twine is actually really good for that! My custom system is so similar to twine's I only had to make minor changes to the dialog data table processing to accept raw twine output.

Going to the zoo with my wife next week........ thinking about red pandas...

had a really wonderful hike this morning took a few pics with my ~15 year old fuji x100 now that I got a working battery for it again :)

Came to a realization about why I hate GIMP In 25 years of experience with GIMP, I built mastery of GIMP's irregular UI that transfer to basically nothing else. In just a few years with CSP I'm actually growing as an artist, building skills that transfer across not just programs but mediums.

Got the blinds physics prebakes done for all three sets of blinds, programmed actors for all of them, along with a home controller for setting up the state of the home for different scenes or based on save game or w/e. I made the blinds to use the same textures as the house siding :) #gamedev #Anza

I can't sit on this any longer! Honestly I'm not that good at thinking about drums. I tried my best. Hope you like the song as a whole~ youtu.be/0T-k-Wqgq40

fun little morning hike

ok, NOW they're perfect #Anza #gamedev

many people don't realize that n-scale trains can cross the blood-brain barrier

finally got around to getting those baked-physics blinds put together for my game #Anza

quick #touhou shitpost over coffee, because I'm procrastinating