My basque cheesecake turned out perfect 👌 The giant crack doesn’t matter. Look at the color!!

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Put on the back burner after a role change at work. But like many of my hobbies, it’ll get picked back up eventually

Work, work, and working 😅 (and Threads mostly)

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(I love you 😘)

This is my semi-annual Bluesky check in. 👋

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Still alive, just busy with life. See y’all in another handful of months.

🫠

Thank you, Deven!! 💚 it was pretty good!

Not a lot of progress made on the “Space Game” #UE5 project since last update. World is on fire.

It’s worth a LOT

It’s gonna be rough. We’ll do our best to keep coffee selections available, but there comes a point where the costs will prevent us from keeping things in stock.

We haven’t even adjusted for the last surge in coffee prices, but opted to take the hit and keep our prices the same 🫠

I do a lot of my art through video game dev now, but I also post my pottery and portraits 👋

Small update on the #UE5 project. Haven’t had much time this week to put towards it, but I’m almost finished with this black hole material!

#indiegamedev #gamedev #unrealengine #art #space

The color gradients for the lights! This is beautiful!

Anyone that exports meshes & armatures from #Blender3D to #UnrealEngine, what are your export and import settings?

A screenshot would be fine!

Struggled w/ child bones importing w/ unwanted rotations last night (root bone was fine though). Armature & mesh transformations looked good in blender 🤷🏻‍♂️

Good booshes

Quick asteroid placeholders made in blender and thrown into #UE5. They look pretty good with some random rotation and sizes but they'll look even better with more mesh variations.

#gamedev #unrealengine #space

We're still using cube maps, but with them applied through an ExponentialHeightFog volume we're able to reduce them to just a 2K texture with almost no noticeable loss in quality.

Overall, I'm really happy w/ this look and cant wait to start adding in asteroid fields and celestial bodies!

Making small steps towards building out the background. We scrapped the original skysphere implementation for nebulas. They were far too big and an unnecessary waste because the camera only looks down the -Z axis. #gamedev #unrealengine #UE5 #space

Are there block lists I can subscribe to for accounts with a following over like 200K/300K?

I don’t care where they claim to fall on the political spectrum. I’m tired of seeing them and they almost always exist to profit off your outrage.

Greetings Bluelings! Solo dev here hoping to connect with likeminded. If you like the look of this little medieval 👽 fella and his melee moves give me a follow and I'll keep videos coming as my game progresses. We come in peace! #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame

Adding them to the list! Great idea!

My dev partner (@dasmfta) is fighting illness at the moment so I haven’t had a solid opportunity to work in-engine with him just yet. So nothing here is guaranteed to make it into the game.

(The grid warps under the ship’s mass like the fabric of spacetime btw 🙃)

#UE5 #unrealengine #gamedev #space

Kansas City is closed ⛔️

#blizzard #winterstorm

Here’s another nebula created in #Blender3D for our #UE5 project. Hoping to see how well they work in engine today.

These could work really well as phone wallpapers too 🙂

#gamedev #unrealengine #space

This was my first time working in Blender’s shader editor, but it’s node-based like Unreal Engine’s material editor so it wasn’t too different. (First time rendering too)

Still, I spent most of the day stumbling through it lol. But I have a nice little tool to generate all the nebulas I want now!

Spent all day building a shader in #Blender to create nebula textures for the #UE5 project. First render 😍 8K size

#space #ADHDactivities

Excuse the sloppy cropping & compression

Got the new modular ship modeled, UV’s mapped, and imported into #UE5. Started on a legitimate master material for instancing. I’d like to be able to quickly adjust paint patterns, distressing, and colors. Maybe in-game for the player too?

#gamedev #lowpoly