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Spirit Lords - FX dump - (mobile)

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:wave: I wanted to share with polycount the latest release 'Spirit Lords' [discontinued] nearly two years at Kabam and showcasing the work.

playlist - https://youtu.be/rqWattfSMXc?list=PLlJ07Rirjk9GAUySNQbGIIUI_emiatnt5


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- I was responsible for all in-game FX, native inside Unity (no 3rd party asset store/plugins nor particle middleware)
- assets are traditional animation sprites within Shuriken emitters to get a blended style; hand-drawn feel + randomness
- 2D work is Photoshop and Flash
- predominately all spells are handled with just 1 simple blended-Additive Shader

three small examples

Chain Lightning
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https://torbach78.sites.google.com/site/torbach78/unity/chainlightning

Flame Hands
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https://torbach78.sites.google.com/site/torbach78/unity/flaminghands

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  • Ged
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    Ged interpolator
    really good work! congrats! did you use any cool tricks eg custom shaders or a bespoke particle system or some wierd awesome texture sheet script? Did you come up against any really complex problems that you had to solve? Im making quite a bit of unity vfx lately.
  • PeteHawk
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    PeteHawk polycounter lvl 12
    Such a cute game, looks great well done, I'm interested.
    I'm also interested in your vfx pipeline a little more, as I'm researching to do this sort of stuff for a game I'm working with. Maya to Unity, would be great if you could show more :)
  • Zoid
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    Zoid polycounter lvl 14
    (outside of asset creation) it's native, no 3rd party creation or scripts drive the visuals and most use the same shader.

    Shuriken handles 95% of spells, sometimes mechanim when necessary

    event triggers are handled through front-end and most of the challenge the magnitude - memory, draw calls, overdraw/LOD system

    visual challenges from what I recall
    • accuracy of a swirling black hole/vortex
    • vortex of flying crows
    • drool that stretches and swings from a monsters lips.
    • destructible objects to feel like they physically shatter without any collision nor dismantling of the model
    • 2D traditional Sword/swooshes matching imported character animation arcs
    • hits/splashes that can cover large monster but also tiny monsters without clipping the ground :poly127:

    having a 2D traditional animation on a surface without a shader was handled though mechanim; just key the UV's

    there were two front-end system tools I loved

    1) modifier that passes size so a producer can alter spells per component; a ring size 5 become 6 without a new prefab or my help :thumbup:
    2) making spells loop by default infinitely and using a grace period to fade them off, rather than a hard deactivation - absolutely crucial as it cut the number of prefabs and multiplied the amount of spell variations possible
    PeteHawk wrote: »
    I'm also interested in your vfx pipeline a little more,
    I did have a small tutorial I was meaning to post i'll keep it brief to just images and you can work out the rest

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  • jenioss
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    jenioss polycounter lvl 3
    Wait! hold on.. All these vfx are made with Shuriken? o_o sick job man
    I expecially like the chain lighting effect! I always love cartoon vfx styles :D
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