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Kris

10 months

Next Gen Destruction Toolkit has been RELEASED on the Unreal Marketplace! Looking forward to seeing what y'all do with it. (link in my bio)

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Kris

@lucengame

5 years

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH #gamedev #Houdini #UE4

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@lucengame

4 years

I am very excited to announce that after working hard on it in secret for the past couple of months, the Kickstarter for Lucen will launch on March 29! Put that in your diary! #gamedev #indiedev #kickstarter

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@lucengame

11 months

It's actually unbelievable how dogshit Google search has become. Searching for 'UE5 PCG spline' yielded this embarrassment, over 50% of the top 50 results are scam sites or whatever they are trying to be. This has become a constant problem with basically any search.

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@lucengame

5 years

Procedural ivy generator Currently working on this with #Houdini Engine and #UnrealEngine ! It takes a selection of meshes from the world, bakes them to a paintable mesh, and generates ivy based on the vertex painted areas. #UE4 #indiedev #procedural #indiegame #gamedev

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@lucengame

4 years

Should I release this tree free? 🌳🌳 #UE4 #Houdini

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@lucengame

4 years

It's with great pleasure that I can now share the first trailer for Lucen, as well as the Steam page! I hope you enjoy, RTs very appreciated Wishlist here: #gamedev #Houdini #UE4

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@lucengame

5 years

Made a bunch of new environment assets this week and got started on the environment proper! #gamedev #UE4 #Houdini

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@lucengame

4 years

Cold and wet

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@lucengame

4 years

Here it is! I've dropped the free tree project file! Grab it while it's hot It's for UE 4.26 and contains a bunch of material instances for your tweaking pleasure. PS It's a taster of an upcoming pack I'm working on, so let me know what you think!

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@lucengame

5 years

Cave rockpool #gamedev #UE4 #Houdini

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@lucengame

4 years

Working on a process to stylise @quixeltools Megascans rocks 100% procedurally, using a combination of texturing and shading techniques. #UE4

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@lucengame

4 years

WIP of Lucen's dash. This one represents 'full charge' of Lucen's sword. ALSO, peek the new sword! #gamedev #UE4 #Houdini

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@lucengame

11 months

Another peek at the destruction toolkit.. It's taken longer than anticipated and I have had to deal with a bunch of engine bugs, but it's REALLY CLOSE now

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@lucengame

4 years

Hi #PitchYaGame ! Here's what I'm working on - Lucen is an action-adventure game in which you harness light with your weapons, on a quest to ask the Old Gods for help restoring your darkness-shrouded village. ✨ Wishlist it here: #gamedev , #UE4

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@lucengame

4 years

Tweak everything #UE4 #Houdini

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@lucengame

5 years

The new devlog is up! I talk giant chicken, the cave, and a few other things :) #Houdini #UE4 #gamedev

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@lucengame

5 years

First look at using a bow in Lucen #gamedev #UE4 #Houdini

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@lucengame

5 years

A peek at some work in progress 😋 #gamedev #UE4 #Houdini

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@lucengame

4 years

Ghibli-inspired cloud #UE4 #Houdini

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@lucengame

4 years

No bridge? No problem

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@lucengame

5 years

Made the bigass bird turn her head to look at u #UE4 #Houdini #gamedev

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@lucengame

5 years

Inspired by @simon_houdini , I modified the @sidefxlabs quick tree tool into something to replace my previous fluffy tree setup! Creates variations of performant trees in seconds, along with automatically generating LODs.

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@lucengame

5 years

TIMBERRRRRR #houdini #ue4 #UnrealEngine #indiedev #procedural #indiegame #gamedev

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@lucengame

5 years

Here's a quick breakdown of the fire effect made with #Houdini and #UE4 , with some tweaks and embers added! #gamedev

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@lucengame

4 years

Working on the example scene for the Lucen grass breakdown video I'm making! This version of the grass runs on vanilla UE4 with the default shading model. #gamedev #UE4

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@lucengame

5 years

Stylized tree tutorial is finally here! 1 hour of video covering the step by step creation of stylized trees in #Houdini and #UE4 Source files also available on Patreon and Gumroad #gamedev

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@lucengame

5 years

Thank you so much for the love and support on my recent posts. I've created a Patreon for those who would like to help support the development of Lucen: #gamedev #patreon

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@lucengame

4 years

🔊 Sound up! Here's a peek at the WIP main menu, with a tease of the theme courtesy of the incredible Lukas Piel (the composer for Lucen). I've always liked cursor-based parallax type effects in menus so wanted to try my hand at it. #gamedev #UE4 #Houdini

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@lucengame

4 years

Testing implementing Advanced Locomotion v3 - along with a new character model and rig I've been making. #gamedev #UE4 #Houdini

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@lucengame

3 years

Been busy, but I'm back to share a bit on my settings and experience with Chaos in UE5! This clip is where I got it to, and will pick it back up at some point in the future when I am more confident it won't change much before release. A thread: 1/?

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@lucengame

1 year

Working on a Chaos destruction asset for marketplace. What would you like to see from this kind of project? Current plans- various bespoke prop meshes and material types w/ FX, impacts, easy setup with templates/overrides, etc. *current sounds are for showcase purposes

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@lucengame

4 years

@ShedworksGreg Hiya - this is my game, I'm releasing the trailer -really- soon :)

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@lucengame

4 years

The Ultra Dynamic Sky and weather systems are really cool

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@lucengame

4 years

Been working on improving the grass lately - it's interactive now, though it might be hard to see on Twitter. Grass alpha is courtesy of @KenneyNL #gamedev #UE4 #Houdini

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@lucengame

10 months

My Destruction Toolkit is on the Marketplace Showcase rotation (thank u Epic)! It's also on sale for 15% off for the duration so grab it if you were waiting! PS here's a a look the Sequencer support I'm working on for the next update:

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@lucengame

4 years

Testing some tings for a visual refactor #UE4 #Houdini

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@lucengame

4 years

I'm thrilled to announce that I've been awarded a development grant by Film Victoria for Lucen! I'm eternally grateful to all at Film VIC who believed in me and my project enough to offer this support, and I can't wait to show you all more of what I'm working on! #gamedev

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@lucengame

4 years

The new devlog for Lucen is up now! This is the longest one yet, hope you enjoy #gamedev #UE4 #Houdini

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@lucengame

4 years

A bit of new progress - - Radial 'quick-select' for equippable items - Bow parabola calculated based on where you're shooting, so arrows fly in an arc now - Some basic low-hanging volumetric fog #gamedev #Houdini #UE4

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@lucengame

10 months

Finally, Next Gen Destruction Toolkit has been submitted to the Marketplace and awaits approval. Trailer and tutorials will follow on launch.

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@lucengame

4 years

A bunch of new progress - Made a RoR2 style loot drop, barrage bow attack, lots of combat QoL, debuffs are working (poison in this instance), and a few more things! #Houdini #UE4

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@lucengame

5 years

Breakdown of a method I'm working on to rapidly create consistent cave rock formations for Lucen with #Houdini #substance painter, and #UE4 . It's not too complex of a setup- it takes any input shape and uses SDF noise to shape the rocks. #gamedev

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@lucengame

4 years

Working on a soft lock-on feature for the bow that helps keep the reticle trained on enemies a when using a controller #gamedev #UE4 #Houdini

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@lucengame

1 year

Some slightly OTT hit effects and decals. Metal/Plaster/Wood

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@lucengame

5 years

Had an idea for shader based vine growth, turned out easier than I expected! Everything ultimately gets controlled by 1 'growth' material collection parameter. #Houdini #UE4

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@lucengame

4 years

Resource gathering and quick-crafting #gamedev #UE4

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@lucengame

4 years

Here's how the new model looks in-game #gamedev #UE4 #Houdini

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@lucengame

3 years

Finally happy with Chaos in UE5 after spending many hours tweaking settings to get this unscientific test scene's game thread from a 20ms jittery mess to a stable 4.5-6.5ms, and FPS stable at around 120-135. Convex collisions too. Seems promising now, I prefer the look to Physx

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@lucengame

4 years

Better lighting and composition + some stylized painterly effects. @MrTapa was kind enough to share with me a preview of the awesome stylized rendering plugin he's working on, stoked with the results #UE4 #Houdini

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@lucengame

4 years

Getting started with re-implementing the new bow on the updated Lucen! #gamedev #UE4 #Houdini

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@lucengame

5 years

Made a way for spiders to spawn. The hatching is triggered by proximity to Lucen, with some randomisation on delay and radius. The sims are done in #Houdini , and brought into #UE4 with vertex animation textures. Much, much more in the works I can't wait to share! #gamedev

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@lucengame

4 years

@UnrealEngine @SoulKeeperGame Shared a teaser for the Kickstarter announcement for Lucen yesterday :)

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@lucengame

5 years

Added some pitch features to the dynamic portion of the camera, and tightened up the dashes during combat. #UE4 #gamedev

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@lucengame

4 years

Honoured to have Lucen showcased in the 2020 #Houdini Games reel!! Watch the full reel here: #gamedev

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@lucengame

4 years

The last shot from the trailer for Lucen was my favourite one to do. It helped inform the cinematic direction of the rest of the trailer. #UE4 #gamedev #Houdini

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@lucengame

4 years

Set out to make a shield and inadvertently made a shield generator! All procedural, incl texturing (smart materials) and auto retopo and UV. I love Houdini! #Houdini #Substance

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@lucengame

2 years

Chaos destruction on the ue5-main branch is much-improved compared to 5.0.x. Still a lot of issues and some breaking bugs but it's definitely in a far better place performance-wise.

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@lucengame

5 years

Had to join you guys in trying this out @hippowombat & @HarryAlisavakis ! Thanks so much @matkovskid for sharing your process, it is seriously inspiring and useful! #UE4 #houdini #sidefx #gamedev #shading #indiedev

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@lucengame

4 years

Pre-launch page is live: ---- ---- Hit the button to get an email the second it launches! #gamdev #indiedev #kickstarter

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@lucengame

1 year

Some new explosion VFX 👀 V1 of the marketplace asset is taking a bit longer than planned, but rest assured I am still working hard on it

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@lucengame

5 years

I made a bubble. I don't know why, but I did. #UE4 #gamedev

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@lucengame

4 years

New devlog just dropped!! V-V-V (In the comments) V-V-V

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@lucengame

4 years

One of the big reasons I have been experimenting is to be able to use Epic's SunSky setup for time of day and atmosphere in Lucen. It is deceptively hard getting environments to look seamlessly correct/good at all times of day, but SunSky has made it a bit easier! #UE4 #Houdini

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@lucengame

5 years

🔊 Sound up!! Turned the juice to 11. Got some sounds in too, created by the super talented @RyuSoundworks #gamedev #houdini #UE4

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@lucengame

5 years

I love how intuitive and quick rigging is in #Houdini ! Working on a rig for one of the bosses in Lucen, including head stabilisation and other fun IK stuff. #gamedev

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@lucengame

4 years

Taking a first-pass stab at the HUD for Lucen! Trying to keep it as simple and readable as possible while conveying all the info needed #gamedev #UE4

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@lucengame

4 years

More dynamic time of day and weather integration, with the wind and other params from the weather system hooked into all the materials etc #UE4 #Houdini

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@lucengame

4 years

Been working a lot on the inventory for Lucen lately, and after a bit of pain it now works simultaneously with mouse, keyboard and gamepad 🥳 Got a bit of weapon equipping stuff working now too :^) #gamedev #UE4

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@lucengame

4 years

Gravity #Houdini #megascans

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@lucengame

5 years

Hello #PortfolioDay , my name's Kris! I am a VFX artist turned gamedev. Here's a short selection of some of my work - film stuff, personal stuff, game stuff - in that order. Thanks for checking it out! #art #vfx #gamedev #indiedev #portfolio #houdini #unrealengine #UE4

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@lucengame

5 years

Progress on the sword charge-up mechanic (very WIP fx and anim). Lucen can use his sword to absorb light from the environment, and unleash it with attacks. #houdini #UE4 #gamedev

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@lucengame

4 years

Grass breakdown is up! You can check it out here: And as always the files are available on Patron/Gumroad #gamedev #UE4

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@lucengame

5 years

So excited to share that I will be presenting a talk at Houdini HIVE at GDC! It will be an in-depth breakdown on how I'm using Houdini for all manner of content creation on Lucen. If you're around come say hi! Here's the schedule: #Houdini #gamedev #UE4

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@lucengame

5 years

Started on some fire. Still a few tweaks to make, might post a breakdown tomorrow! #gamedev #UE4 #Houdini

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@lucengame

4 years

Really enjoying working on the new Lucen model. Textured him in Substance and here's how the rigging has been coming along :^) #Houdini #gamedev

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@lucengame

4 years

NO WAY - #1 on r/all right now this is actually unbelievable. I never expected this 😭😭😭

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@lucengame

5 years

Got some rolling and a stationary jump in. Now I need to finish up the running jump anim and get that in too. #houdini #UE4

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@lucengame

4 years

Got some blocking anim from Joe, the animator, and couldn't help myself - had to add a camera move to showcase it. Can't wait to get this combo in game! #gamedev #UE4

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@lucengame

4 years

@dhindes Vertex animation synced with the skeletal animation I reckon! It could have been simulated or animated in a DCC (Maya or Houdini) and then you can bake the vertex data out to texture to read in and manipulate the mesh verts of the shirt at runtime.

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@lucengame

5 years

God damn twitter was brutal with the compression this time. Here's a still frame

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@lucengame

3 years

Putting Lucen on Hold Read:

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@lucengame

5 years

One more in-game time lapse before I'm off for the weekend. Open world performance is going nicely - 1x1km map with dense grass and 10,000~ meshes instanced using Houdini Engine. #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #houdini #UnrealEngine #UE4

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@lucengame

5 years

You will be able to cut down trees in Lucen. Here's a WIP of a tree felling sim made in #Houdini and brought into #UE4 help plant trees in real life: #TeamTrees #UnrealEngine #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev #lookdev #simulation

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@lucengame

11 months

Let's see what gif fidelity is like hmm

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@lucengame

4 years

Devs, what's the biggest problem you run into with gamedev? Working on something cool and need some feedback

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@lucengame

5 years

And here's a screenshot of the feathery foe. I made a fresnel shader for the eyes that makes them always face the camera for maximum spook

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@lucengame

10 months

I've just added the Next Gen Destruction Toolkit to both Artstation and Gumroad! Thank you everyone for the support and great feedback so far, I am working on improvements as we speak and will be pushing an update aimed for the end of this week.

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@lucengame

5 years

Here is a little bts of my spider rig and walk cycle inside #houdini ! #sidefx #indiegamedev #indiedev #gamedev #animation #spider

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@lucengame

5 years

Happy #screenshotsaturday ! Here's some gameplay with new and improved combat #indiedev #indiegamedev #unrealengine #UE4 #sidefx #Houdini #gaming #stylized #shading

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@lucengame

5 years

Sneak peak at some asset lookdev - procedural stone pillars #Houdini #UE4 #UnrealEngine #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #lookdev

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@lucengame

4 years

Did an interview with Escapist Magazine about Lucen! It was a pleasure speaking with you about my journey @DamienLawardorn

The Escapist

@EscapistMag

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A Former Hollywood FX Artist Shares His Journey of Making Lucen, a Beautiful Adventure Game #Interview #VideoGames

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@lucengame

4 years

Comparison gif here. Big shoutout to @StylizedStation for the awesome tutorial on Ghibli/handpainted stuff in Substance Painter

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@lucengame

5 years

Getting started on Lucen's bow and rig #gamedev #houdini #ue4

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@lucengame

4 years

This game is seriously incredible! Beautiful with delightful gameplay, huge props to the Afterburner Studios team!!

Afterburner Studios

@AfterburnerDevs

4 years

We left AAA game development so we could build our dream game: fluid modernized combat ⚔️ + rogue-lite exploration 🗺️ + relationship building 👋 The result is Dreamscaper. Available now on Steam: Help us spread the word by liking & retweeting!

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@lucengame

4 years

The other day Chris suggested trying out forward rendering on Lucen - and it has been a huuuuge performance boost over deferred, with no visual consequences, and I'm now able to use MSAA too which is so much more crisp. This thread is worth a read

Chris Murphy

@HighlySpammable

4 years

Making a game that isn't taking advantage of the Deferred Renderer? Then try out the Forward Renderer! It's not just for VR. It's one checkbox in #UE4 and in the right project is can almost double your framerate plus it has optional MSAA!

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@lucengame

3 years

Still going with Chaos - today I've been working on getting clean collisions in difficult-to-resolve scenarios (stacked clusters in this instance). Happy with how stable it ended up. Will be sharing my findings and settings soon, after some more testing

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@lucengame

4 years

Editing finished for the next devlog! It'll be up later today. It's much longer than usual :^) #gamedev #UE4 #Houdini

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@lucengame

5 years

And yes that is a Cthullhu-ish statue

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@lucengame

5 years

Been working on some procedural shading based on AO and curvature maps + world aligned noise, with parameterised dirt/grime etc. Here is some tweaking on the fly #Houdini #UE4 #UnrealEngine #indiedev #indiegame #lookdev

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