new version of godot minimal theme is out! it has redesigned tabs and a lot of small fixes ✨ github.com/passivestar/...

3day weekend trip to Oslo, Norway It’s pride week here 🏳️‍🌈

Curved flexible platforms 🌱 #godotengine #gamedev #indiegame

The sleeper must awaken, but not today. (No shaders/gamedev for a few days, just catchup on rest and play video game for mental health break)

Playing dune awakening all weekend really resonates with my real life preferences. Avoiding the sun trying to kill me, I want to be in the shade, it’s always too hot outside, nighttime is cozy. Better to be nestled in mountains/canyon/indoors, where the sandstorms and sandworms can’t get me :)

the end goal of this obsession with productivity is to enable anyone (with a paid subscription) to ""create"" games at the press of a button I think pro GenAI ppl would genuinely consider this a good thing I see it removing humanity and meaning from creative work

*Y-up right handed finger gun* ;)

a procedural texture arealight translucency experiment thing. no rules stylized rendering, doing pixel crimes it makes pretty colors, thats all I care about some days #gamedev #shaders #godotengine

early prototype of adding arealights with texturing+shaderfx in vanilla #godotengine #gamedev #wip #shaders

fighting the NaN monsters today get outta my shaders >:(

testing light shape rendering (512 lights) put em in a grid, but I need to add variation and color + want motion, and get accidental cool rainbow crt type grid thing

experimental line/ellipsoid 'ish light shapes and weird stylized lighting model. shiny!

I think my cat needs a reboot

procedural swirl warp function used as a dynamic animating 'normal map' vector to adjust the uv coordinate used for fetching SCREEN_TEXTURE for a distortion shader. every shader no matter how small, can be an ingredient remixed into another shader #shaders

A favorite bit to add when making #shaders is to have an auto animating screenspace-wipe slider effect to see 2 versions of a shader without having to add +manipulate a slider in the inspector, edit code/move cam instead screenshot and code snippet in alt text in followup post #godotengine #gamedev

no line lights in the engine? I guess we prototype adding our own. I must have them! my stylized transparent barriers catch a bit of the lighting + creates an interesting visualization when you look thru the glass free stylized feature, not bug ! #gamedev #godotengine #wip

pixel crime experiment : what if we did an outline using derivatives in the shader light() function based on the shader builtin ATTENUATION. It almost works but there's not enough data. And it falls apart at a zoomed out distance... :( we'd need shadowmap data access to do our own xtra sampling

doing more pixel crimes today in the name of non photorealistic rendering

blursed stylised direction shadows #wip I wanted stylized shadow filtering, but custom shadow sampling isnt supported in #godotengine , + shader system doesnt expose lights being processed, nor is there a builtin way to know if im in shadow pass, but this led me to some trickery 🧵 #gamedev #techart

time to make some vortex AoE's with some of the recently made shader bits the colorful ones I like, but the black+white one has a nice ominous feel to it.

using some of my new filter shaders as volumes to visually conceal connected room areas that are inaccessible as stylized black and white regions

Custom volume decal shader for targeting / AoE markers. Decided to go with a bright outline and then inverted black and white interior for the AoE zone, for contrast against the saturated colored environment. #godotengine #gamedev #vfx #rtvfx #wip #shaders

She’s helping today

A new filter shader today, 'inverted vaporwave' I like the film negative effect on the shadowed area parts. Added alittle animated spatial floor grid and depth fogging for this one when you look thru it. #glitchart #shaders

one shader advice from me, that I think some people need to hear more: first make a shader for the use case you have right now, don't try to make one that works under all environment and light/shadow conditions. The more stylized and flashy a shader is, the less general purpose it is, and thats ok.

lens barrier / scanner experiment with stylized blending, alternate visualization of scene details in intersected and shadowed areas when viewed thru the barrier. #wip #godotengine #gamedev #vfx #rtvfx #shaders

vibing with a super saturated and high contrast look today iterate iterate iterate revisiting a mech design + materials. no outline for now, going to try some different things. #wip #gamedev #godotengine

Stylized mat+light tests

Custom destructible materials + tech overlays with anim / fx. Planning to give this a more NPR type look, but this draft came out nice. Starting work on proper tileset bits today. #gamedev #godotengine #wip #shaders #vfx #rtvfx #devlog

This pic was sent to me by my friend watching my cats while I’m away. My cat Saffran patiently waiting for more shaders+vfx to appear onscreen for review. She’s my pair tech artist + programmer

Hacked too much code last night, I got a cool thing to work, but the code is a mess, as it always goes. when you’re stubbornly up too late because you just can’t accept going to bed unless you make the code work. Had the extra pressure of wanting the issue sorted out before I fly back home this eve.

Had some lovely chats with devs today at nordicgame. I get that extra raspy voice by day2 at conferences because I rarely talk much, oops.

Still needs refining, but meshes are vertex displaceable with dissolving and the particles emit from the adjusted displaced+VAT mesh. Works with texture sdf and primitives together. Tricky to optimize for and I’m trying some alternate implementations to profile and compare which scales better.

Working on a minimal repro project (mrp) for some render stuff, but of course they only happen in a full project. A special kind of struggle, distilling down a complex reproduction case into a teeny tiny thing you can send as a bug report. It’s me, making shaders that sometimes crash the editor 🫠

someday someone will make an optimal shaped travel bag that carries a drawing tablet, laptop and my peripheral gear easier. Seemingly always have to deal with the extra scanning stuff at the airport because im bringing a drawing pen display as part of my carryon w/laptop

shaders everyday, just another kind of art sketch book doodling for me. I like the colors on this one, no texture just a bunch of maths and constants hacked together. The motion+color to me is kinda calm but dark and moody. I should be packing for my flight to Nordic Game this afternoon.

new blursed way of making more #glitchart render img. Set world environment background mode to 'Keep' , turn on glow+hdr, add mesh ptx + slowly drag+resize the editor windows. Used a screen recording program to look thru and snip all the crazy random frames *DONT DO THIS if you're photosensitive*

Cat pic time, afternoon sun backlighting, that IRL rim lighting on his fur giving him an almost glowing aura outline Blep captured too

Been thinking about mecha/robot designs more, looking at some old ps1 games. I thought this game ‘’zero divide” was pretty neat when it came out. Low poly designs from this era were an interesting design limitation. The olden times of per poly painters algo+ fixedpt fast drawsort and no zbuffer too

I really need to figure out if its possible to make my own 'maya shelf tools' type buttons into godot engine editor. I would love to have alittle row of them across the top of the viewports window. Some way to 1-click press and create custom composite of primitives/nodes/shortcuts

“I’m working and working out” she said to herself. *Holding Yin Yoga poses while typing dev notes into obsidian on her phone* Funny how the mind gets a flood of problem solving/ideas when you’re at the gym

Astro Aqua Kitty PSN bundle is on sale NOW :D For one nice price you get the enhanced PS5 version plus PS4 and PSVita games. Plus PS4 avatars and dynamic themes! Just pop onto your regional PSN store and search ASTRO AQUA KITTY

Reused gpu memory + uninitialised/uncleared render target pixels are my new fave design inspiration aesthetic. Building a small collection of these for texture decal+fx remixing later. I guess this counts as #procgen too :) #godotengine #gamedev #glitchart

Made a procedural tiled path tool in Godot with some powerful features. This was made for Penguin Festival, but I'm sharing it for free here (meshes not included, bring your own) along with my other addons: github.com/CozyCubeGame... #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Looking forward to attending Nordic Game Conference next week :)

Respectfully. If I see any generative AI in a videogame even if it's just one asset, well acclaimed or just getting kickstarted, then unfortunately no, they're not getting my time or my money. Solidarity with creatives means maintaining that integrity no matter what. Our work is not a freeforall

Hey, my fellow senior engineers? We’re load-bearing and often get to say LOL NO FUCK YOU to those kinds of things despite policies, so make sure you do that and not in a “fuck you got mine” kind of way. Stand with juniors, more “replaceable” crafts and disabled colleagues, thanks

tomorrow's my bday and as such kitsune tails in 25% off only on itch itch.io/s/152818/kit... not only that but if you pay a single extra dollar for the bundle you also get the prequel, kitsune zero!

I'll take that one step further and say this applies even outside of employment, to your relationship with yourself. That value you place on your high efficiency gets internalized, and you'll start to devalue yourself or push yourself too hard when it inevitably dips/decays.