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Barney (Powerhoof)

3 years

Pinned update We're working on: The Drifter () Acid Knife () Previously: Crawl () Regular Human Basketball () Free Games () Tshirts ()

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

3 years

The gate to his own mind is a small shoddy one, so he has to scamper through instead of the big fancy one :)

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@Powerhoof

6 years

Also working on a title/menu screen... most of my time has been trying to learn how to program the menu, sound component etc, but also lots of fun fiddling with shaders and stuff :) The audio is a bit crummy, but it's THERE haha so my sound setup at least functions!

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1 year

Since I should really share something animated, here is dispatching a beastie, healing damaged knife in its blood, and eating its heart :)

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@Powerhoof

2 years

When you're summoning dark gods but also slashing prices

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4 years

In the void gate, out the head all hooked up now :) still a bunch more fx work to get it just right, but I'm stoked the basic concept is working!

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@Powerhoof

3 years

I added an animation for the gate, and I have these spinning wireframe thingies to indicate how many dungeon attempts you have left... tried to sow you're "spending one" to enter the dungeon

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@Powerhoof

5 years

Thanks so much to @Squidcor for hooking me up with your great HCL color space code for improved demoscene vibes :)

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@Powerhoof

7 years

Why didn't someone tell me earlier about this 2017 pixel market crash? hehe

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@Powerhoof

3 years

More work on the boss door, got the anim done for player opening, going through :)

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@Powerhoof

7 years

Crawl 1.0 live now on Steam! Full launch trailer: Store page: Thanks so much everyone! :)

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@Powerhoof

5 years

This project is at least 50% just demoscene-style noodling haha

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@Powerhoof

5 years

"I'll just quickly put doors in"... 2 days later I'm still implementing endless new systems just to make doors work... added the B button above actionable props, scripted player anims, line up position with prop, animated light effect, player depth sorting system, hud transitio

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

5 years

Back working on The Drifter again, our new adventure game :)

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

2 years

Same here. It took me 3 hours to refine my google image search to get these exact results. The Keanu Reeves, the perfect visible feet. It was a joy to achieve results I couldn't have previously.

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2 years

There's no doubt in my mind that making AI art is real art. I spent about 1.5 hours tweaking things to produce these visuals. The hair, perfect red lipstick color, focus, eyes, wrinkles, theme, reflections, clothes. It was a joy to achieve a result I couldn't have previously.

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@Powerhoof

5 years

Okay final tweet on this, I've got it all finished up woo! Going in the door, loading scene, and coming out the door on the other end :) I tried to subtly disappear/reappear the item in your hand, so it hopefully looks okay carrying something through... Now I'm done :D

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@Powerhoof

5 years

A little more art for the adventure game :) we're rushing to get things done before pax aus in 5 weeks, so no time to detail the train and do all the secondary animation details... yet!

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@Powerhoof

3 years

Sequence for generating a new dungeon

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@Powerhoof

1 year

Lots of environments under construction for The Drifter, lots still to go! I think it's gonna be a fun little thriller when it's ready :)

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@Powerhoof

7 years

Here's our new launch trailer for CRAWL on Switch, this time playing in the Twitter window hehe woo! All 100% family friendly now, and definitely no horrific cosmic nightmares...

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

4 years

Okay, I have the basics set up for using the closeup for scene transition- still a bunch of work i want to do on the effects etc

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@Powerhoof

4 months

Hi skull/goblin enjoyers! I'm making a little action game that's HOPING to feel a bit like Mario Souls with a dash of Valheim :)

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

3 years

I am working on gameplay loop I PROMISE... but couldn't resist making a castle entrance...

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

2 years

A closer look at the potion bottle/blood refill stuff :) Trying to show how it's not a scripted aniamtion, you have analog control of the bottle (and all other items) to collect the blood, or pour it out or drink it etc

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@Powerhoof

3 years

Fairly happy with my idea for "minimum viable tutorial" which is an area you can experiment while it shows the controls and highlights what actions you're triggering

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@Powerhoof

7 years

Hey people, we have a launch date for Crawl on Switch!

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@Powerhoof

1 year

Yay my button-powered platform works! Not super exciting, but they're an important ingredient- especially in the early biome for teaching basic item grabbing/dropping stuff :)

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@Powerhoof

3 years

Lots of little edge cases and mistakes tracked down... it's starting to feel pretty robust :)

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@Powerhoof

4 years

Working on making all the weapons play/feel differently :) This is the 2 handed sword- now requiring a hold/charge to strike... release early or tap to hit with the hilt and bump enemies back, or release at the exact moment for a critical strike... a little like active reload

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

3 years

Okay I wanted to fiddle the title text to have it overlapping the scene transition moving into the dungeon, which was kinda fiddly and really not what i should be pumping time into haha

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

7 years

Getting some real hot business tips on the email these days :)

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@Powerhoof

7 years

I've been learning about shaders and trying to make a melting darkness effect. This is my little test to see how it works lighting an enemy :)

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

6 years

Regular Human Basketball is 100% OUT and I have a completely stupid new trailer... and it has online multiplayer! Choose your store: No giant mechanical death machines here!

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@Powerhoof

5 years

putting in a very simple "starting enemy" who just walks at you and soaks up hits :) working on getting a good core set of enemies in to make combat scenarios for pax aus in a fe weeks!

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

1 year

New trailer for The Drifter! Went full cheezy grindhouse for this one which made it so much fun to make :D Check replies for link to the game, etc!

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@Powerhoof

5 years

working on a blood sploosh contact effect... a lot more work to do but it's starting to look liquidy :)

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

6 years

Pixels are getting real messy in this dungeon right now :)

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

3 years

Okay cooking basics are in, I can now brew a healing potion :) Now to set up all the different recipes etc, then various feedback fx work... THEN onto enviro gen!

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@Powerhoof

5 years

Close to having full gameplay loop :) Enemies activate on timers... They hang around in the darkness, being pulled more into the light as it gets closer to spawn time, then a small indicator above the head to show "just about to spawn" Kill em to collect gems to unlock doors

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

1 year

It's a pretty common technique, but if anyone is curious about the blood on that last tweet, here's what the shader does to get it disolving nicely

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@Powerhoof

1 year

Working on new enemies for the start of the game :)

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@Powerhoof

4 years

Got my little fake liquid setup working woo! This will be a little healing fountain thing when it's finished :) First time building a plane from code and directly manipulating the verts- wound up simpler than I expected yay!

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

4 years

Got an anim in for turning the thing on :)

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

2 years

Working on the boss for the first biome in Acid Knife :) Currently just stomps and plays Scissort Paper Rock (or FIre Water Leaf) but I've got a few more move to add

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

4 years

I've got enemies now feeding on player items to replenish their health... they can also suck them right in for a kind of powerup :)

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@Powerhoof

4 years

Did some work on a new creature... I guess an NPC for now, will probably be an enemy too

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

9 years

adding some monsters for next crawl update- I've wanted to animate this for ages :) I guess I am a massive nerd haha http://t.co/mAmPdZ6ILB

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

5 years

Our upcoming pulp adventure thriller The Drifter now has a steam page for your wishlisting needs!

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@Powerhoof

5 years

More environment work for our new adventure game :)

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

7 years

Soon...

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

6 years

Testing out my centipede segments. Pretty happy in general, but still need to animate the skull, make the "vulnerable point" segment variant, and come up with some kind of cool stinger or something for the end segment :)

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

4 years

Okay halberd is in- you can hold it out defensively like a shield, and walk around with it held out, or tap the button to stab :)

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@Powerhoof

6 years

Back to art noodling for this thing- nailing down my technique for drawing props to fit the style... a couple of trees and a caravan, no parallax atm

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@Powerhoof

4 years

Added a little rough wobble animation to the head closeup, to make it feel a bit more alive... I wanted it to look kinda like timelapse footage :)

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@Powerhoof

5 years

I'm prototyping a mechanic for stacking these little tvs to summon items :)

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@Powerhoof

5 years

Starting to get the water going- got it detecting distance to floor, placing a little sploosh at the bottom, and scaling/positioning based on angle of bucket... I still need to make it a bit wobbly and make it stretch to meet the ground over time, not just instantly etc

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

5 years

Finally got enough of my base mechanics in to start testing out some basic combat scenarios- wooo! Sorry about the shaky camera, was a bit of a rush job to capture something hehe

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

4 years

Okay all reacting nicer with dampening- I can really mess him up and it looks okay :) The "flying in" animation is just a position lerp, but the legs and the body flop do a lot of basic animation for me- adding a tiny bit of simple keyframe on the top should be pretty simple :)

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

5 years

Had to capture some footage for our PAX Aus booth, so may as well share some skeleton-worm b-roll :) Still a little way off being able to fight these guys for real, but all the pieces are in place, just need to add their flying movement behavior to my base enemy class :)

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

5 years

Death Stranding impressions

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

8 years

more doodling... pretty rough, still trying to figure out the right technique and look for this

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

6 years

Just messing around now

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

3 years

1-on-1 knife fight against a fully powered-up skull :)

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

3 years

Okay I've got the basics in for build-bench type props, combining items into other items etc :) Closer and closer to playing through a full dungeon loop

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

6 years

Continuing experiments with this style. Particular focus on how things become more and less warped/clear/visible as they move in and out of light, using generally 3 colors. The neon exit sign was a random idea, but I don't think it really worked out. Otherwise quite happy tho!

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

4 years

Wasted the whole day yesterday getting nowhere on an active effect for this void gate... but today I realized I already made the perfect effect, just needed a little repurposing :D

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

8 years

working on death anim for statue boss... still work-in-progress :)

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

8 years

It's starting to come together, almost half way through animating :)

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

3 years

Okay anim is done for reviving back from triangle form :) planning to add some kind of dust-puff fx at some point, but the whole system is done for now- woo!!!!

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

5 years

I have it loading the target scene correctly :) To keep the smoke up I had to convert the rendertexture to texture2d on the frame before loading, so it doesn't get wiped on scene change, then back to render texture when new scene is in... that hitch is the new scene loading :)

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

9 years

I'm mostly done with this now woo! Going to tweak some minor stuff on implementing but pretty much complete :)

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

3 years

Potions updated for analog control :) Drink to heal yourself, pour it on items to heal them, or hold it out in front to catch liquids and refill :)

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

6 years

10 years ago now @duzzondrums & I were working on our first attempt at an original IP together- Shelton 5! It got canned when the company went out of business, but I still have this little clip from my old demo reel :)

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

3 years

Lots of random physics fixes for the branch carrying :) Getting the huge branch over the wall feels like a struggle in the right ways, and yanking the branch is all feeling pretty intuitive

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

3 years

Slowly getting this sequence all working... Death -> become a wirefame triangle thingy and float around -> Exit the room -> kicked out of dungeon Next up animating the body reforming around the triangle :)

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

3 years

Made a little loot chest over the weekend... still a little more work to go but I like the system :)

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

5 years

Lots of these systems in and interacting nicely :) haven't got the water actually cooling the hot blade yet, onto that next!

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@Powerhoof

3 years

Things are getting a little more lumberjacky than I planned...

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@Powerhoof

8 years

Almost done with the scene, just have to animate the minotaur in the back :)

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@Powerhoof

4 years

Made a fairly cheesy dark souls bonfire inspired spawn point :)

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

3 years

I got this little idiot eating snacks now :)

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

1 year

Couldn't resist a little more interface :)

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

3 years

Okay I'm just about done with trees! Tweaked the code to get the mass->log translation a little more accurate :) Just some vfx THEN I CAN FINALLY MOVE ON FROM MY TREE PHYSICS PRISON!!!

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

2 years

The design is finally solidifying on Acid Knife! May as wells share this new way to refill your healing potion :) I really should update the steam page now I have a clear idea what the game is going to be- that thing is all waaaaaay out of date!

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

4 years

Finished on the "flop" component to give the body parts some weight, made some tweaks to the procedural legs... next is a little "twitch" component to get the moth twitching around and moving a little while he's idle.. another rote animation job I'm hoping to replace with code :)

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

4 years

Okay, I'm calling him done :) before I mess everything up trying to add details!

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@Powerhoof

5 years

And a closeup on the friendly little guy

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

6 years

Alrighty! Another game from us- Build a colossal date for a lonely monster in KAIJU SUPER DATETECH! Solo/co-op/verses for up to 10 players. Free/PWYW. Out now!

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

6 years

Mocking up some sprites for a silly little roguelike-ish idea I'm prototyping :)

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@Powerhoof

4 years

The special glue arrived so I've pieced him back together and done a little more detailing :)

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@Powerhoof

4 years

Starting to get some feedback on the perfect strikes- 2x damage, trigger effect at the tip of the sword, special contact effect and extra blood :)

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

4 years

doodling a closeup for a weird mechanic idea I'm tinkering with :)

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@Powerhoof

5 years

Store page for Acid Knife is finally up- woo!

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4 years

Using my new UV bending skills to make vines and all kinds of growable animated hazards :)

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@Powerhoof

5 years

Holy crap, my weird hacked fake projectile physics actually work?!?!? Even spawning them half-inside objects is coming out right? I did not expect that haha... I had so much time allocated to redo this like 20 times woo!

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Barney (Powerhoof)

@Powerhoof

3 years

Back on Acid Knife crafting :) slow going as always, but another tiny step closer to a basic gameplay loop!

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@Powerhoof

5 years

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4 years

For anyone interested, this is how I animate the blood splooshes- they also have some shader stuff to warp them and make them drip down, but mostly just a few gradients with an alpha threshold so I can animate the thresh value to make them warp from big blob down to droplets

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