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Asher Zhu

10 months

update on my Slime game💚 You sent your trusty minion into the nearby human city to gather intel. But it's summer.. keeping that slime hydrated is a serious commitment #gamedev #techart #vfx #realtimevfx #UE5

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Asher Zhu

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3 years

update on my Slime game💚 You call it exploring a dungeon. I call it food delivery. #UE5 #gamedev #techart #vfx #realtimevfx

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

4 years

just finished making this all-in-one cloud painter😈 #UE4 #gamedev #techart #vfx #realtimevfx

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

4 years

Packed my fluid simulation and renderer into one single Niagara system, which unlocked so many magic tricks🥦 (60fps playable water) #UE4 #gamedev #techart #vfx #realtimevfx

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

3 months

update on my Slime game💚 I restarted the project from scratch after quitting Epic. Made a new fluid solver that enabled real(?) slime movement and slimeling spawning. Very excited about my plans <3 I've always wanted Splatoon mechanics in dungeons #gamedev #techart #vfx

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

4 years

this technique to render realistic smoke / cloud super FAST is not as well known as I thought so here we go (a thread) #UE4 #gamedev #techart #vfx #realtimevfx

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

2 years

New experiments of #UE5 fluid simulation Available soon! A🧵 #gamedev #techart #vfx #realtimevfx

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

6 years

Made some fully procedural neon wings with #ue4niagara #UE4 #gamedev #vfx #techart

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

5 years

I've been polishing up my volumetric fog-cloud. finally got the fluffy dry ice look <3💨 #UE4 #gamedev #realtimevfx #techart

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

2 years

say my name

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

3 years

Slime simulation prototype I'd been secretly working on last year Probably won't have time for it very soon so might as well let it see the light of day💦 #UE4 #gamedev #techart #vfx #realtimevfx

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

4 years

I made a fluid solver with #UE4 Niagara sim stages and had tremendous fun with it🥦 will talk about this one very soon. stay tuned! #gamedev #techart #vfx #realtimevfx #UE4Niagara

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

3 years

There is a secret Volumetric Painting mode I hid in #UE5 Valley of the Ancient demo You can paint how fog, sand and gravel flows with wind #gamedev #techart #vfx #realtimevfx

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

2 years

I made #EldenRing fanart VFX 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐳𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐅𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐬𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝘐𝘵 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘦. I'll explain how I created this on Wednesday. See🧵 #UE5 #gamedev #techart #vfx #realtimevfx

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

2 years

Revisiting my #UE5 fog painting plugin (game ready) to create some thick fluffy mist when your game is too hard, add soft volumetrics #gamedev #techart #vfx #realtimevfx

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

5 years

It's here! The VFX breakdown of my dry ice volumetric fog Link: #UE4 #gamedev #realtimevfx #techart 🥦

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

5 years

Things I Made

🥦 Art and demos 🥦

Good moments of my creative work, carefully sorted by your attention span.

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

4 years

my fluid sim talk is out🥦 translating it into English has been a lot more work than I anticipated.. hope you enjoy it (see comment for full video) #UE4 #gamedev #techart #vfx #realtimevfx

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

1 year

Yeet your slime using a pan! This idea struck me many moons ago and I had to give it a try. Would you play as the dungeon lord wielding the pan? (each stir grants an attack bonus) #UE5 #gamedev #techart #vfx #realtimevfx

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

5 years

GPU leaves🍀 #UE4Niagara #gamedev #realtimevfx

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

4 years

#techart Tip of the day I learned this super neat trick from @bobacupcake a while ago: Fake volumetric effects using Any 2D texture you want😳 (see thread for material) #UE4 #gamedev #vfx #realtimevfx

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

1 year

when your slime is hit, it suffers both HP damage and Form damage Gather yourself! and get ready for dinner 🥩 #UE5 #gamedev #techart #vfx #realtimevfx

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

2 years

My OC character, Barrelhead is back🌊 Check out my VFX breakdown for the full 3D fluidsim. I talked about all my rendering tricks and sorcery: #UE5 #gamedev #techart #vfx #realtimevfx

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

2 years

Left 4 Dead 2 VR mod is the ultimate zombie killing experience we all dreamed of

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

4 years

tip of the day: you can generate a simple pizza-mask using math and occlude your smoke effects with it, so that the smoke wouldn't penetrate walls #gamedev #techart #vfx #realtimevfx #UE4

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

5 years

an essential UE4 feature that's shockingly overlooked by many professionals

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

6 years

An energy armor shader I've been working on #UE4 #houdini #gamedev #vfx #techart

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

3 years

I came up with a novel method to fake sand simulation, and it looked surprisingly natural🎐 ( #UE5 Ancient demo) #gamedev #techart #vfx #realtimevfx

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

3 years

Hologram VFX I prototyped a while ago for our automotive event it's an urr.. engine, an unreal engine wireframes were drawn as long sprites. can take any static mesh as input. parts marked by vertex color or UV. ya know the good stuff. #UE4 #gamedev #techart #vfx #realtimevfx

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

10 months

how does this look for a sellout thumbnail? HD video: ytb - Artstation (highest video quality, I paid for it) - or follow me here to keep up with latest slime news!

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

4 years

#UE4 Tip of the day We often hook noise into refraction to mimic water waves or energy disturbance. But if you dither the noises, the refracted pixels would accumulate over multiple frames, resulting in a smooth, frosty effect. (thread) #gamedev #techart #vfx #realtimevfx

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

11 months

Tip of the day (or maybe the year. I've been hermitting) Tree leaves too thick and sunlight can't come through at all? It's time for our friend ShadowPassSwitch to lighten up the mood

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

2 years

We will live stream🔴 our first Tech Art Show & Tell on Wednesday! Our guests: @DmawXXX Magical 3D manga panels @phyronnaz Voxel workflow in #UE5 and me talking about ghosts😌 👇Subscribe and hit 'Set Reminder' to get notified!👇 #gamedev #techart #vfx

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

2 years

look at me we houdini now

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@mradfo21

2 years

Unreal Engine 5.0 features real-time 3D fluids in Beta. Time to up your cinematics game. #gamedev #realtimevfx #techart #UE5 #UnrealEngine5 #UnrealEngine #vfx

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

5 years

Anime style death ray and smoke using #ue4niagara Tried to mimic hand drawn elements with exaggerated physics and distance function. Got some pretty unique looks😈

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

3 years

the first Matrix movie shocked me as a kid. the effects was too much 20 years later I've become the code rain master💚 a quick cut of VFX I made for this demo. hope you like my childhood dream #UE5 #gamedev #techart #vfx #realtimevfx

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

4 years

made a small demo to show how to control #UE4 Groom solver at runtime Download here: (details in thread) #gamedev #techart #vfx #realtimevfx

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

5 years

first attempt at making a thicc goo shader💚 #UE4

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

2 years

Dual Rest Position Fields Based Advected Texture Projection #UE5 #gamedev #techart #vfx #realtimevfx #IShitYouNotThatsARealTechnique

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

4 years

tip of the day: want to tweak your shadows just slightly? Shadow Pass Switch, besides sounding like a really cool game name, is a lesser-known node that allows you to deform/mask your mesh, but only for shadow #gamedev #techart #vfx #realtimevfx #UE4

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

5 years

Procedural wave splash generator made with #UE4Niagara and distance field. Pretty happy about it💓 #UE4 #realtimevfx #gamedev

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

6 years

Got some sweet caustics going #UE4 #gamedev #vfx #techart

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

3 years

@Slimecicle SOMEDAY, in my finite human/non-slime lifespan I'll pop out a playable build

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

5 years

Fire spreading effect with #UE4Niagara GPU particles and shaders. One render target draw per explosion.

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

10 months

Many ask when game out. Currently, I'm prototyping for fun and researching - Funny to say this, but the slime is an extremely difficult engineering problem to solve. And designing art for it is like making coffee with.. a list of coffee atoms

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

3 years

bois and grills I just peaked life✨ super hyped to focus on UE more directly and pack video game wizardry directly to your hands😈

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

8 days

#UE5 Tip of the day: while in-game, console command 𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘦 [𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦] can be used to switch view mode on the fly very useful when you want to visualize stuff while actually playing the game (e.g. collision), or take a quick eye-candy break with 𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘦

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

6 months

Can you imagine having this as a loading screen?

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

10 months

@ASharkSoWinsome It bothered me that no one thought to pet the slime. So I made the slime the most pettable thing in the world.

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

4 years

With #UE5 geometry streaming, mesh LOD and normal maps will slowly slip into history. This is how many triangles will be rendered on your PS5 game. You won't need normal maps, because triangles are pixel-sized.

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

5 months

Life Speedrun any% : Yesterday was my last day at Epic. Today I took my flight to London. I've longed to make toys after my own heart. It took a lot of time and planning to switch gears and here I am. Still feeling surreal, and grateful for all the incredible friends I've made

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

5 years

in #UE4 .25 particles will be able to read properties of other particles. with a galaxy brain you could do all kinds of amazing realtime simulations my brain in quarantine:

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

2 years

A rainstorm passed 20 minutes ago, leaving me the coziest stay-at-home sunset ever

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

4 years

bought this kitten animation pack and I'm done

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

3 years

I will talk more about SO many good things that came out of this experiment. Stay tuned! Passing data between fluidsim and CPU with minimal latency is tricky, but super fun to play with once you made it work. So many possibilities

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

10 months

It's hard but also super satisfying, the moment I figured out how to keep the slime's form smooth while jumping, using a combination of surface tension, viscosity and anti-gravity force was pure joy and glory.

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

2 years

Battlefield in Diablo world.. A game I'd log 1000 hours in #aiart

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

3 years

the chromatic refraction shader details are only visible in HD Click this link and experience real video

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

10 months

I'll continue posting my progress, with gamedev tips&tricks along the way. There is no greater joy for a gamedev if you want to follow my journey of gooey discovery🟢

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

4 years

another awesome trick I learned from Mederic Chasse: is to bake out the actual light scattering, from different directions actually that thread is so great! I learned a shit ton from him. but I can't seem to find his twitter after some digging :\

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

4 years

made this game about reflection last year to learn about raytracing and #UE4 Gameplay Abilities System just realized it never saw the light of day give it a sec to load. twitter violated the pixels so hard

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

2 months

#UE5 stock gas simulation supports accurate small model collision (rigid mesh) With some tweaks you can easily do better than the Ghost Rider movie #gamedev #techart #vfx #realtimevfx

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

5 years

I'm in the process of writing an in-depth tutorial about it. feel free to hit that like retweet button so I feel more morally obligated to work harder😈 Performance is good for mainstream hardware. It's basically UE4 Volumetric Fog and flavored with 5 million visual tricks.

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

5 years

Volumetric fog w/ distance functions. Switched to heightmap for larger scale control so I could have cotton candy blowing over mountains

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

2 years

Our simulation pro @dmpvfx has been making really rad tools for us to interact with in-game fluidsim I'm trying to pressure him into posting on twitter more. Follow him to keep updated on our progress (like this breaking wave)

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

1 year

@nealagarwal Edit - turned out I'm just bad at chess!

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

2 years

IF you are using custom facing vector for particle sprites, and have the misfortune to discover that the normal doesn't align correctly, here is a quick fix:

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

3 years

forgot to at least post a video. where are my manners

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Made this lighting design @UnrealEngine following many other fellow lighters @maracrrt #UE4 #Lighting #RTX

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

2 years

got my favorite nixie tube watch today the glow is plasma formed by the passage of electric current through neon and mercury gas

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

4 years

main part of my material looks like this, cheap as you can see🥦 first texture (noise) is used to mess with the UV according to camera view angle second texture is what you want to show. mine is a tiled cloud texture original post

rob!! 🩵🩷💜

@bobacupcake

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@so_good_lin @AlanZucconi @minionsart of course!! it ended up being surprisingly condensed and just like seven lines of code- i got the view direction in tangent space, sampled a noise texture, then sampled it again but this time offsetting the uvs by the tangent space view direction and the first sample value

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

5 years

@pinkharm @SNOWSOS1 for sentimental purposes

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

4 years

happy new year everybody~ it's already 2021 here and it feels pretty futuristic may your work be exciting, life be fun and may you always find new things to enjoy🍀

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

2 months

The entire philosophy of Gameplay Ability System is so beautiful. Everything is abstracted into tags - I needed DoubleJump to be allowed only once until the character touches ground again (naturally). And this rule can be implemented with a simple GameplayEffect using this

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Asher Zhu

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3 years

Tip of the Day: If you are targeting newer hardware, add this in DefaultEngine.ini to get a more reasonable range for shader Complexity View 2000=bright white madness is too harsh for PS5 level. Keep tracking of overdraw budget. Small patches of 4000 aren't the end of world

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

4 years

10 days until the beat drop of #UE5 🔥 also gonna write about #UE5Niagara simulation framework after that, aka how I did this thing that's finally feasible in vidya game history. stay tuned!

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

2 years

the foams are (partially) triplanar projected 2D texture, advected using dual rest fields. kudos to @Deathreycg for teaching me the way of the waves

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#UE5 Realtime fluid, #Niagara powered. #realtimeVFX

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Asher Zhu

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7 months

these are just graphical haikus

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

10 months

The camera work while drifting is pure 🔥 #RocketRacing

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

3 years

so I made a $0 budget Zoom meeting lighting system.. I call it Screen Space Lighting

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

4 years

the new Demon Souls trailer was 🔥🔥 I couldn't get over how good the effects lighting looked and did some experiments in #UE4 turns out you can achieve really nice soft lighting with Unshadowed point light combined with RTAO #gamedev #techart #vfx #realtimevfx

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

3 years

thanks to super powerful lighting artist @Maria_Hime77 for helping me with the scene. looks expensive as fuck

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

4 years

it really upsets a part of my brain that, there's no water around, only shaders and textures for caustics. this fish dry😩

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荒ぶる金魚の動きをテスト。 #ラジコン金魚 #リアルタイムアニメーション #アプリ開発 #進捗 #MadeWithUnity #RealtimeAnimation #3DCG #IndieDev #Inprogress #ScreenshotSaturday

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Asher Zhu

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4 years

technology is not a mistake

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watch slimeat action in 1440p

Sparkle and Spree - Slime Simulation game prototype, Asher Zhu

You call it exploring a dungeon. I call it food delivery. Passing data between fluidsim and CPU with minimal latency is tricky, but super fun to play with once you made it work. So many possibilities...

www.artstation.com

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

4 years

Caustics, foam and volumetrics, heed my call🥦 Ryan Brucks's live stream tomorrow: Fanboying so hard right now!

Ryan Brucks

@ShaderBits

4 years

Testing a method to combine gerstner waves with shallow water simulation. Particles read the waves and feed back into the sim. I'm doing a livestream tomorrow @2pm showing upcoming #UE4 .26 Water tools (waves, caustics, foam etc). Be sure to stop by! #UnrealEngine #GameDev

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feels like we are traveling into another timeline!

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Some cloud experiments continued from #UE5 #PS5 demo; here showing Flowmaps-3D function from 4.26. The Clouds are made from Curve Assets + hand painted density & flowmaps. Paint thunderstorms! Now as twitter video. Examples will be included in 4.26 #UE4 #realtimevfx #cloudscape

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2 years

the "Secondary Emitter" is already available in NiagaraFluid. You can use it to generate foam, or in my case, splash flipbooks they are pushed around by fluid velocity field

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Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

5 months

I always believed that sharing free information leads to a better future for everyone. But at this pace of data theft under the mask of AI, soon my carefully nurtured educational posts on discord / twitter will be scraped, sold against my will and used to do the exact opposite.

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LOL. @StackOverflow mods are experiencing some frustration as several users have been deleting their answers since the announcement with @OpenAI partnership. As a result, they have started suspending accounts that engage in this behavior. It's important to note that the "right to

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3 years

this guy just beat shadertoy

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Ok I guess this is it: Volume Path Tracing on Cloud shader toy: !!! BEWARE BEFORE CLICKING: one of the shader takes >3min to compile and may even fail. !!!

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Yeet your slime using a pan! This idea struck me many moons ago and I had to give it a try. Would you play as the dungeon lord wielding the pan? (each stir grants an attack bonus) #UE5 #gamedev #techart #vfx #realtimevfx

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another juicy data to extract from the simulation - temperature

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@Vuthric

3 years

Tried compositing a scene outside of the window. Moving around the entire world while seeing proper realtime GI is surreal.. #UE5 #lumen #gamedev #lighting

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4 years

youtube link

The Art of Illusion - Niagara Simulation Framework Overview

I gave this talk last month in Unreal Open Day and subbed it in English since you guys and girls seem to like itUpdated water with flowmaps: https://www.yout...

www.youtube.com

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3 years

Super happy to be part of this demo. Besides its showcasing purpose (pure awesomeness) there are tons of not-so-UE5 gems inside too. Get in the train!😈

Unreal Engine 5 is now available in Early Access!

If you’re a game developer who likes to live on the bleeding edge, this UE5 build is for you.

www.unrealengine.com

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@Vuthric

10 months

@denfaminicogame Thank you for loving my slime! Appreciate your well-researched article. Very nicely written ❤️ If anyone has questions, this is the thread I'm monitoring :)

Asher Zhu

@Vuthric

10 months

update on my Slime game💚 You sent your trusty minion into the nearby human city to gather intel. But it's summer.. keeping that slime hydrated is a serious commitment #gamedev #techart #vfx #realtimevfx #UE5

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Lurker surely enjoys his new heater