Olly (Graphics Mage)

I make games and do tech art. Programming | Coffee | Cats | @Caps_Collective graphics guy

[Olly (Graphics Mage) @SwiggiesDev]

and finally i've been working on some procedural geometry tools for @FlaxEngine

[Olly (Graphics Mage) @SwiggiesDev]

huh. decided to check this account for the first time in months and i can't even see anyone's posts. hi though! i've been busy working on stuff. finishing some stuff up on FTRM to get that port out.

[Olly (Graphics Mage) @SwiggiesDev]

also working on some cool shader stuff in unreal (and some other stuff)

[Olly (Graphics Mage) @SwiggiesDev]

One very annoying thing about Unreal is that things randomly seem deprecated? I'm just trying to add a component in the constructor but it just doesn't seem to work right no matter what I do and every post I can find is from varying years with random ways of doing it

[Olly (Graphics Mage) @SwiggiesDev]

@evelyn_schwab The Unreal docs mention this is for RPG's and MOBAs but from the sounds of it you could also use it for some abilities in any other kind of game? If that's the case I might have to change some things...

[Olly (Graphics Mage) @SwiggiesDev]

googling anything about it only brings up things related to the unreal matrix demo too. how annoying

[Olly (Graphics Mage) @SwiggiesDev]

what is it with game engines and not letting me use matrices in their material graphs it's so tiring

[Olly (Graphics Mage) @SwiggiesDev]

why are you so scared of me having so much power?

[Olly (Graphics Mage) @SwiggiesDev]

@evelyn_schwab Thank you so much but unfortunately it all doesn't quite work exactly how I'd like and has almost not blending so it looks quite bad on hard surfaces :(

[Olly (Graphics Mage) @SwiggiesDev]

My #UE5 update

Now that I've kind of got a nice workflow I'm actually kind of enjoying using it. Null errors crashing the editor still annoy me and the seemingly random naming of things that are standard across the rest of game engines is frustrating as hell but, it's been fun

[Olly (Graphics Mage) @SwiggiesDev]

@evelyn_schwab Ah thank you very much! I noticed that there's LocalAlignedTexture but no LocalAlignedNormal which is more what I need, does that exist?

[Olly (Graphics Mage) @SwiggiesDev]

Playing around some more with Unreal and distance fields are super cool

#gamedev

[Olly (Graphics Mage) @SwiggiesDev]

Okay, giving UE5 a good shot and uh, this live coding thing? Kinda awesome. Way better than it was in UE4

[Olly (Graphics Mage) @SwiggiesDev]

been working on making our UI look a bit more animated. really happy with how it looks so far 😊

#madewithunity

[Olly (Graphics Mage) @SwiggiesDev]

@cratesmith @unitygames Yeah I'm about in the same boat. I love Unity but at this point it's really hard to look at other engines and seeing all the cool things they get and all the love they get and looking back at Unity and seeing there's a new UI system for the 4th time

[Olly (Graphics Mage) @SwiggiesDev]

@evelyn_schwab It would 100% have been remembered as fondly as it is now. It was this incredibly scary demo that came out of nowhere that had Kojima attached somehow. Not to mention the whole secret finding around getting the real ending was insane

[Olly (Graphics Mage) @SwiggiesDev]

Like the new physics system is super cool it's just that... it doesn't really work with how I need it to without telling physics objects to wake up every frame which is super not ideal

[Olly (Graphics Mage) @SwiggiesDev]

I think when I'm done with my current load of FTRM stuff I'll migrate my lil side project over to UE5 now that I know I can fix the physics bugs by not using their dumb new physics system

[Cyan ✨ @Cyanilux]

Been experimenting with Gerstner Waves, very happy with the result!✨
Water shaders are the best~ 🌊🛟
#unity3D #madewithunity #shaders #vfx