www.patreon.com/posts/sprite... Decided to release this Sprite Outline Shader that was converted from a Unity tutorial for free on my patreon. No actual uassets, but images+comments for easy re-creation 2D Projects #gamedev #paperzd #paper2d #unrealengine

So I've been having lots of issues with stuttering in Oblivion Remastered. Turns out Resize Bar wasnt working even if toggled in BIOS. Flashed system bios and VGA BIOS for my MSI 3080. Framepacing is now smooth! #OblivionRemastered #PCGaming #PC

Let's give some appreciation for The Order 1886. It's 10 years old, hands down a lot more realistic & nicer looking than some modern titles. The care, effort, craftmanship put into the visuals is stunning even 10 years later. Thanks DF for the gifs ! Part 1

Considering how freakin well made #KingdomComeDeliverance2 is, maybe we should call these games Warhorse-likes instead of Bethesda-likes. I'm really loving the game, its so awesome. Spent all weekend playing from morning til evening. It was great & just what I needed!

Played some #EternalStrands , 2-3h. Not sure what to say about it to be honest, for some reason it reminds me of Fable but without the charm & mystique. Like...a light action rpg with some weird decisions regarding inventory management. Will keep playing & see what happens!

www.reddit.com/r/JustGuysBe... I think this is my new favorite video on the internet. Video games man. ❤️

So I've been doing some tests using CustomDepth to isolate a post process material to only affect certain characters (cel-shading). But me using CustomDepth also messes up Occlusion Culling for said characters (they dont), anybody got any tips to fix that? #UnrealEngine #UE5

youtu.be/OChjVLHlkVE They don't make em like they used to. These were some great times tbh, 2000s playing video-games (Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2), skateboarding, hanging out with your buddies. Ahh simpler times ^^

So, here it is! The cinematic is ready, I hope you will enjoy :) You can find more on my Artstation, come say hi! www.artstation.com/enrico_labar... #gameart #gamedev #indiedev #unrealengine #ue5 #videogames #digitalart #3d youtu.be/E2eBu85zotA?...

Man Stalker is a long game! Had a funny interaction with a door yesterday as well I was just so surprised how fast it was closing after you get out of its range. It basically slams itself shut and it surprised me XD #Stalker

Really been enjoying Stalker, it's nice to be plating a pretty straight forward game, it's too bad it has some perf issues and missing some AI feature but still though, I'm enjoying it :)

So I've been playing Stalker 2 saturday evening & all day sunday. It's definitely a stalker game which is awesome, the visuals are alright! though overall quite noisy, ie the art content itself. Some of the ground-clutter is just..ultra noise! Having fun though!

Spent 63h in Dragon Age, basically 100% the game. Its a 7/10 game & I don't really agree that its "back to form" for Bioware. It's an OK experience with some frustrating moments (mainly level design & progression) Character art was great and overall world art :) Now onto Stalker! Woop!

Watching the Half-Life 2 Documentary just really makes me realize just how much I miss the focus on physics interactions in games Right now its just all pretty rendering & very little interaction which is not really what games should be doing imo! Breaking crates isn't it xD

I think it's weird that #DragonAgeVeilguard sometimes don't provide all the different personality/attitude options in dialogues. Forcing your character into behaving in ways you don't want. Ie you cant have a stoic or tough character always behaving that way. The game doesn't let you.

I'm making a starter pack for game developers connected to the amazing community around Malmö, Southern Sweden and Game Habitat DevHub. It's still early so please comment if you'd like to be added. go.bsky.app/V44KH8b

I wrote this a while back.. actually it was quite a while back now. www.artstation.com/blogs/chrisr... It's a little guide on how to hide seams on Trees + Branches etc, providing 3 different solutions. Some more optimized than others :P #GameArt

The birds in Dragon Age are the stuff of nightmares xD #DragonAgeVeilguard

When I talk about visual inconsistency in Dragon Age I'm basically talking about this: If you look close at these images, nothing looks like it fits. Texel Density all over the place, noise-level all over the place, stylization, all over the place. Scanned wood create, next to hand-made table.

Dragon Age Veilguard definitely has some visual consistency issues art direction wise (previous posts) since some of the stuff comes from scans and some of it is hand-made. It kinda makes for a mixed-bag visually Here is an example of Megascan usage. #DragonAgeVeilguard #GameArt

This is a little bit funny too. Not sure why one would do that rather than just scale the mesh to a point or something. & also I'm sorry if I'm being overly negative about the game, its a good game its just not the quality I expected in many ways. #DragonAgeVeilguard

#DragonAgeVeilguard has some uneven art direction in some areas & I'm currently on the main path. The noise levels are crazy on some of these assets. Like this normal-noise placed on all the terrain & some of these rocks, contrasted against the cleaner marble. There must be a nicer middle-ground.

If you don't know me on here then Hi! I'm Chris! I'm the art co-founder of @bloomandgloom.bsky.social ! Industry veteran of 14+ years. I do everything environment art & tech art, I sometimes mentor professionally, stream on twitch and generally just live and breath game dev. linktr.ee/chrisradsby

You know in Mass Effect when you had off-time between missions you'd walk around the Normandy & actually have dialogues with your companions? Yeah Dragon Age doesn't have that. They just sit there sometimes talk to you & you dont respond. Makes the game feel a bit stiff =/

Whenever you have dialogues that isn't with forced set companions, the companions never really weigh in with their opinions or say anything when you have dialogues with other people. You just randomly get "this person approves" It's a bit weird tbh #DragonAgeVeilguard

This is such a time-capsule. "Remember what games looked like 8 years ago?" , post that is 10 years old. With a game that at glance just looks photo-realistic + has more physics interaction than most modern games. We are focusing on the wrong things in game dev ^^ #Gamedev #Gaming

I've really been enjoying Rivals of Aether 2, it's seriously a beautiful game, runs really well and is a great platform fighter. The movement is so smooth its crazy. Unlike the first game this one feels more like smash which is pretty cool! The VFX alone are worth the money lol! :D #ROA2

How #UE handles Lit Translucent Materials & their colors vs the Opaque/Masked counter-part is crazy. I don't even know what the hell to think and how anybody can do Vfx and color matching in these conditions! xD These are the same but left is masked, right is translucent.

I've been having fun just making a Stealth Archer prototype in the last few weeks. I usually do this stuff when I'm streaming though lately I've been easing off with game-dev and playing more games to balance my life out a bit! #UE5 #Gamedev #Indiedev

Thanks everybody for the new follows! I'm still very bad at actually remembering to post here. I'm still kinda stuck to twitter lol. but again thank you :)

The walk-up to the lighthouse is getting quite nice! I've always enjoyed doing solo-projects because having full creative freedom is just...gold. The only one I have to please, is me. XD

Super happy to see Starfield Perform at a solid 30. I'd much rather have a smooth 30 than a janky upscaled "60" that stutters all over the place which has been somewhat of a trend lately.

[posting this from twitter] Alrighty! Another day! Yesterday we had quite a successful stream , showed some nice post-processing tricks for making some stylized art (gradient mapping using scene depth) & we managed to get up & running with the snowy biome for my side-project.

Alrighty so I'm getting setup here. This is the first post, man it's weird to start over on a new social media thing.