I made this from nothing and textured it in 20 minutes with the new Scythe 0.10 update. It's called "The Texturing Update" for a reason. More below...

hey what if unreal had a good uv editor

Here's a preview of the huge UV/Texturing update for Scythe coming in 0.10. Scythe gets its own UV editor + more.

Great video on Scythe!

Learnin bout hotspots with Scythe. Just a lil setup and like 20 minutes of extruding faces is enough to start having a workable thing! Real fun to have some good tools to work with right in editor

Finishing up work on a small demo area testing out textures and scythe, a new level design tool by @kronok.bsky.social I've been loving. Excited to share more about the process! #altfire #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #fps #ue5 #screenshotsaturday

A place I have been building with Scythe is beginning to look like anything

mhmm

Using the #Scythe plugin by @kronok.bsky.social for #UnrealEngine, I modeled this sci-fi hall in two evenings. I would rebuild most of it with what I learned, but it was fun to make. #screenshotsaturday

The kind of comments that keep me going

My 2025 talk 'Gyms, Zoos, and Museums: Your documentation should be in-game' is now also available in text format, for those who like to read instead of watch: rystorm.com/blog/gyms-zo... And if you haven't seen it yet, there is an all new video too, with bonus material on the history of Zoos!

Blueprint lovers rejoice

I've just released the newest update to my Unreal Engine level editor called Scythe. Here's what's new... 🧵

Definitely get this if you use Scythe in any manner. The textures it comes with is what you're really after for Scythe: itch.io/s/177285/a-c... It's currently free to claim as of this post.

I'M COOKING This is going really well now, I want to release the first pack of PS1-inspired textures in January. Again they'll be public domain, completely free to use in your projects!

While developing the Scythe Material Browser, I stumbled upon a way to swap out Unreal's thumbnail renderer with my own. So I turned it into a small plugin called Flat Material Thumbnails and released it on Fab today: www.fab.com/listings/778... Also, my patrons get it free! (link in comments)

New #devlog up, going over details about how we did the level design and main environment texturing for CRUSH DEPTH. It's 16 minutes of me blabbing about how much I love @kronok.bsky.social's Scythe editor basically. If that sounds like your jam, check it out! youtu.be/KrCLWtOyvKk

The next version of my Unreal level editor (Scythe 0.8) will have a built-in material browser. No more spheres!

#gamedev Made with Scythe

The first commercial game released with levels made with Scythe before Scythe is even out. The speed of making levels with Scythe!

My level editor for Unreal Engine called Scythe just got a new major update! Here's what's in it: 🧵 (1/)

Saw this and thought I'd make it in Scythe.

What UVing in a good level editor tool is like: Select a face and Alt + RMB on hovered faces to flow it to that face. I can also flow it from the hovered face to the selected faces with Shift + Alt + RMB (coming in Scythe 0.7).

doodled a bit in @kronok.bsky.social's Scythe tool over the last few evenings

New update to Scythe, my Source 2 Hammer inspired level editor for Unreal Engine 5! New features below! 🧵(1/6)

So @kronok.bsky.social’s new Scythe update with the Clipping and Mirroring tools is incredible #gamedev #indiedev #UE5

Property History is out! Quickly see the history of any property in Unreal Engine

I recently launched the scytheeditor.com site. Making it easier to explain what Scythe is to people, but also for helping onboard new users with the Quick Start Guide and have it be a place to learn how to use its many features.

My plugin for #UnrealEngine is almost done! It lets you blend any mesh. Not just landscape, not PDO. This magic lets you blend anything!🤯 #GameArt #UE5 #GameDev

Learning Scythe for Unreal and decided to experiment with roughness maps on some new textures.

I just released Scythe Map Editor v0.5.0 for Unreal Engine 5.5+ New features below... 🧵

Sadly, Scythe wasn't selected for a Megagrant. I thought for sure this is exactly the kind of thing they want for UE.

With Unreal Engine 5.6, my pull request to the engine is live that gives you the option for clicks to pass through back faces in both modeling tools and Scythe. You won't have to be "inside" your rooms when you're building anymore.

Here's a small scene I did in unreal using the Scythe Map Editor for the Scythe PSX Texture Pack: pizzadoggy.itch.io/psx-collecti... It's only 10 bux and the materials are already setup.

Today I released Scythe 0.4.0 which brings Hotspots to Unreal 5.5: 🧵(1/9)

Made another Scythe tutorial where I start with only materials and make an apartment hall: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqSm... (materials included in the description thanks to @pizzadoggy.bsky.social!)

Made a new tutorial for Scythe meant for complete beginners who are just opening Scythe for the first time: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WErL...

One of my favourite new things in @kronok.bsky.social's Scythe plugin is the temp pivot feature! Beautiful curved details in seconds 😍 #UE5 #gamedev

fuckin around in scythe! sorta matrix lobby but half-life 1? fun!

the excellent Scythe level design tool by @kronok.bsky.social continues to kick ass.

Look at what a simple temp pivot + shift drag extrude can do in Unreal Engine now with Scythe (coming in the next version).

The main tools I used are Unreal Engine 5.5, Scythe (@kronok.bsky.social), Houdini HDAs, and Megascan/Fab assets. Here's the graybox vs final using Scythe to block out the level.

Just released Scythe pre-alpha v0.2.0: www.patreon.com/posts/scythe...

Messing around in Scythe again

Thanks to Scythe plugin, we are now able to block out levels in UE quickly. It also helps with texture alignment problems. Huge thanks to @kronok.bsky.social #indiedev #gamedev #unrealengine

Definitely check Joe's new texture browser out if you think UE's material spheres ain't it. I made sure it works great together with Scythe in the next unreleased version (v0.2.0).

been a while since i reminded y'all to buy InFlux Redux, king of games, on steam. being an indie-as-fuck developer is thankless indeed - or is it? you could make it all worth it, right now store.steampowered.com/app/867150/I...

if you make games or art with UE5 you might be interested in my Auto Material Instance Maker, which automagically makes instanced materials for you from a pile of textures (even if some of them are normals/roughness/whatever with your own weird naming scheme) www.joewintergreen.com/auto-materia...

Face Duplication coming in the next version of Scythe

Smoothing an edge corner in Scythe using soft normals (coming in the next version)