Star Signal - Antony Robert Wells

"Virtual3D" - A Vulkan 3D/2D engine written in C#/C++/Rust - Net 10

“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”

[Star Signal - Antony Robert Wells @StarSignalDev]

Implemented GTAO and hooked up the SSR post process to render settings. #gamedev #indiedev #virtual3D

[Star Signal - Antony Robert Wells @StarSignalDev]

Spent some time improving the renderer. #gamedev #indiedev #virtual3D

[Star Signal - Antony Robert Wells @StarSignalDev]

Tested a few free SketchFab models with the engine. #gamedev #indiedev #virtual3D -

[Star Signal - Antony Robert Wells @StarSignalDev]

To demonstrate the shield mesh fx, here it is being used ontop of the actual 3D mesh that defines the particle FX. #gamedev #indiedev #virtual3D

[Star Signal - Antony Robert Wells @StarSignalDev]

Here's a quick preview of Virtual3D's documentation. It is built using html, so will be online on our site, and a local version. #gamedev #indiedev #virtual3D

[Star Signal - Antony Robert Wells @StarSignalDev]

You can now import saved 3d particle fxs, and assign them to GameNodes(or derived) properties or just them as ParticleNodes. #gamedev #indiedev #virtual3D

[Star Signal - Antony Robert Wells @StarSignalDev]

Added 'smart' groups for the toolbar, you can expand/contract them and access via a drop down if contracted. #gamedev #indiedev #virtual3D

[Star Signal - Antony Robert Wells @StarSignalDev]

Added ribbon based sparks to finish the effect. #gamedev #indiedev #virtual3D - the impact point will be user definable btw, it's just in the centre for the preview.

[Star Signal - Antony Robert Wells @StarSignalDev]

Now working with the electric bolts and sparks. #gamedev #indiedev #virtual3D

[Star Signal - Antony Robert Wells @StarSignalDev]

Really cool upgrade, the force field particle type can now be based on an arbitary(any shape) mesh, so now you can add shield effects to actual shield models etc. #gamedev #indiedev #virtual3D - here's a test

[Star Signal - Antony Robert Wells @StarSignalDev]

Improved the shield fx more. #gamedev #indiedev #virtual3d - now includes an impact set of 'electric sparks' and random electric bolts running across the shield with the hex pattern.

[Star Signal - Antony Robert Wells @StarSignalDev]

Added fourth unique particle type, this one is for animated shield type effects. It's restricted to spherical shapes at the moment, but I'm looking into it working on arbitary models also. #gamedev #indiedev #virtual3d It has a lot of paramters(See right of the gui).

[Star Signal - Antony Robert Wells @StarSignalDev]

Improved ribbon renderer to now have a proper history per ribbon, improving the final look quite a lot. #gamedev #indiedev #virtual3d

[Star Signal - Antony Robert Wells @StarSignalDev]

Started work on the 3D particle fx editor. It supports billboards, ribbons and lightning particle types so far. #gamedev #indiedev #virtual3D - it will feature loads of templates so you can add + tweak when needed.

[Star Signal - Antony Robert Wells @StarSignalDev]

Been working on the engine's installer. It is a single exe containing everything, that internally uses Virtual3D's own GUI system. #gamedev #indiedev #virtual3D

[Star Signal - Antony Robert Wells @StarSignalDev]

Strange secret NHS Technology? This was peterbury unit, colchester. They never said a word about it, and this was five years ago. No health conditions, just mental health. Is it their 'voices' tech in the flesh? #nhs #voices #mentalhealth

[Star Signal - Antony Robert Wells @StarSignalDev]

Adding quality settings and in-engine smoothing. This is the same terrain height map as previous images, but now all the blockiness is alot less. #gamedev #indiedev #virtual3D

[Star Signal - Antony Robert Wells @StarSignalDev]

Terrains now have a custom CSM directional light shadow system. Point lights use the VSM system still. #gamedev #indiedev #virtual3D - Just one directional light in this scene.

[Star Signal - Antony Robert Wells @StarSignalDev]

Terrain implementation near complete. #gamedev #indiedev #virtual3D

[Star Signal - Antony Robert Wells @StarSignalDev]

Implementing a layer based terrain system, with full editing. Still more to do. #gamedev #indiedev #virtual3d