Nostr notes by Cyril M.

Also of note in context, my favourite Zelda game, Link's ...

2025-01-17T14:49:52Z

In reply to nevent1q…fns4
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Also of note in context, my favourite Zelda game, Link's Awakening, got some inspiration from Twin Peaks. I had no idea when I first played it, as I'd barely even heard about Twin Peaks then, but when I read about it years later in an interview with Takashi Tezuka, I thought yeah, I can see that now. Weird ass characters in a small town, eery atmosphere all around... that checks out. These are some of the things I like about it too so I'm grateful for that.

(I mean it's obviously not the saddest or most important ...

2025-01-16T19:41:41Z

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(I mean it's obviously not the saddest or most important thing about his passing, just... ya know)

We will never get another weird ass console commercial from David ...

2025-01-16T19:40:16Z

We will never get another weird ass console commercial from David Lynch and I think this makes the world just a little more sad. All console commercials should be weird af.

https://youtu.be/Laf9vpJMDjA?feature=shared

Started working on the new "I swear this time it's ...

2024-12-22T19:47:17Z

Started working on the new "I swear this time it's smaller" project, so of course as soon as I hit the more complex (to me) stuff, I started working on one of the characters. He wanted to make a good first impression so he thought he'd wear his best suit (he doesn't actually own one).

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Smol progress update, rendered via Cycles. Just a frame though, ...

2024-12-11T18:11:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…4shl
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Smol progress update, rendered via Cycles. Just a frame though, would take too long to render a whole animation and that's not what I need anyway. Just a few tweaks but at least I got something done today (kudos if you can read the sign in the background).

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No one will notice I'm sure 🤓 (I didn't make the sign ...

2024-12-11T17:28:01Z

In reply to nevent1q…4shl
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No one will notice I'm sure 🤓

(I didn't make the sign though, found it on Sketchfab, I just added the text)

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Oh! And this is being rendered through Eevee for this short clip, ...

2024-12-04T17:31:57Z

In reply to nevent1q…d3zg
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Oh! And this is being rendered through Eevee for this short clip, but it looks better through Cycles obviously.

If I wanted to be "accurate" I'd render at something ...

2024-12-04T17:28:45Z

In reply to nevent1q…4shl
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If I wanted to be "accurate" I'd render at something like 640x480, but I don't want it to be 4/3 and tbh 480 feels really low. I didn't like how the test renders looked, plus it'll be zoomed in a bit during actual gameplay. That said it'll go through a low-res render texture in Unity anyway, so. We'll see.

Been working on a different aspect of the project for a while and ...

2024-12-04T17:14:06Z

In reply to nevent1q…xys6
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Been working on a different aspect of the project for a while and went back to pre-rendered backgrounds. I'd tried to get them to work in #Unity for a previous project, which went ok, but the scenes I'd made back then were very simple, just to see if I could do it. So I wanted to try and make something just a bit more elaborate for this, but I'd forgotten how much work that was. Not sure yet what resolution to render at when it's done. Here's a wip from #Blender

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Aww thank you so much!! It's a terrain plane and yes, I'm ...

2024-11-30T04:41:09Z

In reply to nevent1q…56sj
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Aww thank you so much!! It's a terrain plane and yes, I'm using a vertex displacement shader to bend it along 2 axes. It's still all temporary assets, but that's the general vibe at least, I like it too so that means a lot 👏😌

The gems really do look pretty like this! Especially against the ...

2024-11-26T23:27:35Z

In reply to nevent1q…d393
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The gems really do look pretty like this! Especially against the background 😌👌🏻

If I'd planted as many trees irl than I have (so far) for the ...

2024-11-19T18:30:03Z

If I'd planted as many trees irl than I have (so far) for the current project, I'd have saved the planet already. I don't know whether to laugh or to cry
😂 🥲

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Improved the airship a bit! Instead of temporary basic shapes, ...

2024-10-30T16:41:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…m5x2
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Improved the airship a bit! Instead of temporary basic shapes, now it's a temporary slightly less basic mesh with animations.

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I'm glad I made an airship early though, last night while I ...

2024-10-29T13:12:41Z

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I'm glad I made an airship early though, last night while I was testing out the new model & animations, it allowed me to see I'd forgotten to remake the mountains on an entire continent a couple weeks ago 🥲

Present Me to 2 Weeks Ago Me: "Hope you enjoyed bragging ...

2024-10-25T17:16:22Z

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Present Me to 2 Weeks Ago Me: "Hope you enjoyed bragging about getting the bike animations working on the first try, because that is NOT happening with the new airship 🥲"

Silly me, I honestly thought that one would be easier. Oh well.

I've been working on another thingy these past few days, but ...

2024-10-22T17:03:42Z

In reply to nevent1q…68r9
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I've been working on another thingy these past few days, but the bike's movement and animations are a bit more smooth now. Also, I've finally managed to sorta fix the colours on the character (vertex colours tend to appear washed out in URP).

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Was working on making animation transitions more smooth and ...

2024-10-15T17:03:51Z

In reply to nevent1q…79am
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Was working on making animation transitions more smooth and suddenly realised spinning the wheel like that on a monobike probably wasn't even physically possible 😅 (not that such a bike actually exists, but still) Oh well, I thought it'd be fun anyway 😌

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I made a new character and a bike! Took me ages to model, rig and ...

2024-10-10T15:42:47Z

In reply to nevent1q…jcgc
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I made a new character and a bike! Took me ages to model, rig and animate tbh, but I'm pretty happy with the result. For now. Gotta fix colours and lighting at some point I think.

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Tfw you set-up new animations for a new rig on a new model and ...

2024-10-09T15:50:55Z

Tfw you set-up new animations for a new rig on a new model and it's all right on the first try. Feels like cheating a lil' bit.

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Not what I'd originally intended, but I like the idea of ...

2024-09-13T15:56:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…kthf
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Not what I'd originally intended, but I like the idea of being able to hike above the clouds ☁️
(also, making mountains "good" is hard)
(also also, sneak peek (on a peak) at another vehicle (temp assets, of course))

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Toe beans #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #Unity #lowpoly #Blender ...

2024-09-02T19:13:52Z

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Toe beans

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Been keeping myself busy doing other stuff on the project since ...

2024-08-29T16:56:41Z

In reply to nevent1q…k2zu
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Been keeping myself busy doing other stuff on the project since finding a good workflow for these dang forests was a bit of a pain, but I've reached a point where I'm more efficient. Simple as they are I thought this would be, well, simpler. There's probably a better way to do this, but the way I'm making them in Blender and then importing to Unity, I have to keep them simple & small, no concave bits in the base outline. But it works out!

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I've been delaying modelling large forests because I ...

2024-08-17T16:41:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…2dn6
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I've been delaying modelling large forests because I couldn't figure out a good workflow. It's getting there, but scale/proportions still need work 😅 Smol forest included for reference, ideally it should be a little lower than that, with the tree trunks part at the same height (vertex displacement seems ok, as long as the object isn't too large and it's got enough vertices).

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NewHomerSimpsonMeme.gif #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #lowpoly ...

2024-08-15T19:03:26Z

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NewHomerSimpsonMeme.gif

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I'm still tweaking the terrain shader until I get something ...

2024-08-15T18:46:35Z

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I'm still tweaking the terrain shader until I get something closer to what I need, but in the meantime I started making simple placeholder assets to use on the world map, to indicate towns and other areas. They also have to use vertex displacement, or else they'd be hovering above the terrain and getting higher as the Player moves away. Like the elderly dude's house from Up. Sounds fun, bit impractical.

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I knew the 2 were in conflict, I knew why, but I didn't know ...

2024-08-07T21:35:43Z

In reply to nevent1q…ddlm
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I knew the 2 were in conflict, I knew why, but I didn't know how to fix it, so I got REALLY good at delaying and finding other things to work on instead 🤡 After a while, I kept tweaking and trying and I couldn't understand why simply setting a position node to pre-displacement wouldn't work. In the end, I found a solution that did work for me and life was (almost) good again.

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So! When I started the project, I quickly made the shader I ...

2024-08-07T21:18:52Z

In reply to nevent1q…48su
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So! When I started the project, I quickly made the shader I needed for the terrain, to see if I could do it. I needed it to mainly do 2 things: vertex displacement (to make the world appear curved) and triplanar mapping (to avoid having to paint textures). Both things worked well enough, but not together. Because of the displacement, the mapping was getting the wrong vertex positions (duh) which resulted in textures sliding up and down.

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After struggling with it for days, I just solved a shader problem ...

2024-08-07T12:57:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…et8e
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After struggling with it for days, I just solved a shader problem that'd been plaguing me since I started the project (I'm not all that shader savvy ya know). I'll try to share a bit more about it later, but right now: *SIGH OF RELIEF*

Welp. Fading the cloud plane near the edges didn't turn out ...

2024-07-31T00:33:43Z

In reply to nevent1q…mq8z
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Welp. Fading the cloud plane near the edges didn't turn out great and tiling noise was a pain, so pre-made seamless noise texture it is (for now). Not perfect, but does the job!
(Also, new temp airship since apparently the previous one looked like 🍆)

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I wanted to try some "PS1-style" animated textures, but I ...

2024-07-30T15:25:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…yqjq
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I wanted to try some "PS1-style" animated textures, but I couldn't make it look good. Went with some Voronoi noise instead. Voronoi. Voronoise o_o Still temporary I guess, but good enough for now.
Also, I added a cloud layer, again using a noise texture. Simple, but that's what I wanted for this. Now I just have to make it work with the wrap-around effect. Not sure how to tile it seamlessly so I'll probably make it fade close to the edges.

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