My (Wii Play 'Tanks!' inspired) game finally HAS A TRAILER! And a STEAM PAGE! And a PUBLISHER!.◥◣◥◣◥◣◥◣◥◣◥◣◥◣◥◣◥◣.This is BOMBSHELL BLITZ! 💣

anyway back into UVing hell i gooooooooooooooo

solo game dev is hard man. it's not even the complexity of the work, just the TIME it takes to do it all. Powering through it tho— Blitz will take a while but I'm confident in the QUALITY it'll have. next project i'll be doing *quite* a few things different though I'll just say😅.

man is it bad that the anime horse game is weirdly inspiring for me? idk something about those VIBES i just want to capture in blitz lmao

back to working on Blitz today!.the lil bombshells need attention 😤

and there you have it! very customisable, the approach can work across any model with minor (and a potentially automated) mesh setup, and the only logic needed is to spawn a particle at the hit position!.5/5

i thought for a while what the most efficient way to get radial ripples from hits on the shields would be. To avoid needing to pass excessive data every frame to the shields for hit positions, I just used a very shallow inverse depth test on a scaled sphere particle!.4/5

hit vfx is comprised of some super basic burst emitter particles. flipbook lightning, directional flares etc. - but there's some fancy stuff for the radial pulse/hexagons in the next vid! Most of these can use alpha clip too to cut down on overdraw.3/5

90% of the shield visuals are just driven by basic ol' fresnel plugged into the opacity output! change up the colours, pattern texture, make it wobble however you want and away you go. You could get away with alpha clip transparency for a cheaper version of the shader too.2/5

🧵 breakdown thread of the Halo energy shield vfx!. (there's a couple approaches you could take for this, and a lot of optimisations possible for each part, so take this more as a general 'approach' than a specific step-by-step!). 1/5

gonna do a breakdown tomorrow (u get 10 cookies🍪 if you guess how i did the ripple effect), but in the meantime pls appreciate how close i got the lighting + material style to Infinite :D

massive shoutout and credit to the McCarthy Bros for the great base model (I did have some fun making the custom visor material tho 😉) and making it available for download on sketchfab. Here are their links!.

now that @Halo is being made in @UnrealEngine, it seemed fun to reimagine what Spartan energy shields could look like with a fresh coat of paint — here's my take on some flashy shaders+vfx in engine! ⚡.#vfx #unreal #gamedev #halo

very nice GI outside today ☀️

still cooking on tank game atm, but what tech demo would you most like to see next? 👀.

what pagan ritual must i perform to stop maya, unreal, and AE from crashing when using them in the lightest manner possible 😭.

it's a small detail but Blitz academy is .👏wheelchair accessible👏. (one of our tba bombshells may appreciate this 👀)

my crunchy pixels OBLITERATED by god awful social media video bitrate 😭

getting something of a title screen together! :D.#bombshellblitz #madewithunity #gamedev

alrighty done with Unreal for a bit now - heading back to Unity to work on Blitz! more tech art experiments to come in the future tho.(maybe i'll also actually just PLAY baldur's gate as a treat now too haha).