It's been a while since I posted. Things have been getting busy! But without getting into too much detail, here's what I've been up to. So I figured out what was causing the weird lighting. It was because of how the normal map was being calculated in my triplanar projection material, because triplanar projection naturally…
The basic mechanics of that Witcher technique are really cool. I've used the same/similar approaches for various ID related things in a few games - the huge benefit is that it's not subject to filtering and compression artefacting in the same way that texture based masking is. There are some considerations though if you're…
Hey, I'm creating a game in UE5 for myself in the evenings. An action horror in the future. I'm currently working on mounting weapons on the heroine's body. Anyone know of a good tutorial on how to embrace weapon straps by simulation? ?
Thanks a lot for the detailed feedback, really appreciate you taking the time. @fredriklars That’s fair criticism on the blockout. I did move a bit fast through this phase because I was eager to start exploring the main structure, but I agree that pushing the composition and framing more now will save me trouble later. I…
If you press the spacebar on the 2d preview in designer it shows you the tiling. In this case the material simply doesn't tile well and you're not going to be able to fix that properly with sneaky shader tricks etc. Particularly on something so structured. Making interesting textures that tile well takes a huge amount of…
As mentioned you can vert paint nanite meshes, but you have to "apply" the vert paint which will make every instance of the mesh in the scene take that exact vert paint (any different vertex data breaks nanite instancing between meshes, ie be careful with spline meshes as each segment is not instanced and so on), so if…
Hey everyone, I’m starting a WIP thread for a hero environment prop I’m building for my MA Game Art “Developing Skills” unit and my portfolio. 🔧 Project goal I’m basing this on the “Blast Furnace and Blacksmithing Equipment” concept from Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Creative Uncut link):…
I like the earthy tones you had in the original... being wood and all I would expect it to be brown. A nice warm brown with metal accents would make it "pop" so to speak. Great start!
While I still see no real alternative. Just wonder if it's only my impression. For years I see only cosmetic improvements . Node bypass been best of them IMO yet took decades of users prays . Coming to Blender nodes feel so much like breath of fresh air . Any custom node saved in a library could be done local to the file…