Christian Sparks

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Doing procedural stuff at Heart Machine
Did Tech Art on Way to the Woods
Unfinished project enthusiast
Loves procedural stuff & chocolate milk
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/hippowombat
Bloghttps://napbound.com
Wishlist Snaccoonhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2001850/Snaccoon/

WIP settlement mgmt/survival game, about a month of nights & weekends

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q6lnCMoQuM

Island Survival/Settlement Management Prototype - UE5

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Stylized island doodle in UE5
Storm visuals in #UE5
Slowly but surely working on procedural terrain stuff, feeling really good about these results composition-wise.

Marching Cubes night one, testing my understanding of the math

Green = planet radius
Yellow = cube centroids
White = cube verts
Purple = cube segments

Rather than march a complete uniform volume, only march cubes w/ centroids < (planet radius * 1.5) away from planet center.

Fear

In my last post, 365 days ago, I said: "I hadn't intended on doing a trailer for Snaccoon for quite a while." There was good reason for that. Prior to agreeing to presenting a trailer for Snaccoon, I was very happy working on it in my off-hours, experimenting with gameplay with the peace of mind that it was on no one's schedule but my own. I could take breaks whenever I wanted, spend more time with family, because despite it having had some eyes on it, there wasn't a lot of expectation. Then Gam

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@Amberrrrrrr Nice work, that's awesome! I also skipped the GBuffer edit haha.
Alrighty, last batch of testing images for now. P happy with how this turned out. #UE5
New shading models and changing the GBuffer | Community tutorial

Implementing a Celshading model directly into UE5.1 source. This celshading use a linear color curve atlas to drive all the values. Learn how to set you...

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@Amberrrrrrr it required some engine modifications to introduce a custom shading model, I used this article to help w/ the nuances there, dunno if it'll work for 4.27 but I skipped the portion that adds an additional GBuffer to tackle Lumen stuff, so I *think* it might work if you do the same?