According to my YouTube algorithm I'm scheduled to place the order this weekend.

Self-affirmations I do when I wake up every morning:

"You’re doing great work. Don’t buy that new camera."

"Look at how far you’ve come. You don’t need a new camera."

"All this work will pay off. Do not buy the fucking camera."

Another month in the books for the rileyb3d site. Asset and adddon downloads up almost 600% from last month! Thanks for using my stuff. I haven't even finished the Blender → Godot pipeline tools I think will be most impactful.

Donate to Support for Heart Emergency Abroad, organized by Danika Harrod On Tuesday, March 10th, my mom got on a flight bound for Florence, Italy with her bes… Danika Harrod needs your support for Support for Heart Emergency Abroad

mom suffered hemorrhagic shock after major internal bleeding and is now in sub-intensive care, but doctors are having a hard time treating the clot in her heart with the ongoing risk of internal bleeding. still no word on discharge. any shares appreciated ❤️ www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

Your English is better than my Spanish!

I’m here for just under another week. I’ll send you a message to see if we’re close and if you want to meet to talk shop!

I'll miss this country. It's been inspiring and I've had a really memorable time.

It's a special day because you get a free upgrade to a free library. Today I'm adding a rileyb3d extension to get my growing asset library directly in Blender.

It'll go live on the site sometime in the next hour. #b3d

I've decided to drastically expand my site with a language dropdown. This will continue to expand and refine. I'm lucky to natively speak a very popular language, but I'd love my site to be accessible to more people.

Some base mesh models of some characters in the game. Modeled by my friend
Bhushan Jagtap (available for freelance I believe).

Who can take a wild guess at which film these outfits are paying homage to?

This one time I quit my job but accidentally left a $20 texture subscription running on the company card. The next month they were super pissed to lose $20.

$80 Billion is unfathomable.

Also, side note: I can't tell, but if that's supposed to be the Sagrada Família, that's

Well said

Maxing out fidelity (DLSS5) is of 0 interest to me.

I’ll take intentional pixels any day.

It’s never been about needing more fidelity. Those who stand atop the future of this industry aren’t going to be the ones shitting out uninteresting frames. It’ll be the intentional games worth playing.

We're only halfway through the month, but am already seeing a massive increase in free asset and tool downloads on my site. I hope you're using them in cool projects! Happy to see it.

github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/108219

Area lights in Godot 🙃

My Approach to Interior Lighting in Godot (with switches in Blender) I found an approach to interior lighting I like in Godot. I don't love real time GI (too expensive in game) or light baking (too expensive in production) so I'm going with a technique using multiple l...

A bit more in-depth about my interior lighting approach in Godot: rileyb3d.com/devlog/3211d...

I found an approach to interior light in #godot. I don't love real time GI or light baking so I fake bounce with multiple lights.

For switches I ID the switch object in Blender and organize all lights associated with that switch under a parent node in Godot. My script looks for this hierarchy. #b3d

EasyHotspot | rileyb3d A quick & dirty hotspot mapping tool

rileyb3d.com/tools/31f1da...

I've been a fan of DreamUV for a long time, but unfortunately I'm not smart enough to use all of it's features. I only ever use hotspot mapping. So I created a simple "Easy Hotspot" mapping Blender addon based on the same workflow. You can go download for free on my site. #b3d

With the crew in Barcelona this month, visiting my wife's old home. Beautiful and inspiring city.

First month of the new site is in the books! Over 230 free 3D assets added. Just getting started. Thank you!

Artist spotlight! Edward Lim. Someone I've had the pleasure to work with on projects over the last while. Check out his work!
rileyb3d.com/devlog/3121d...

Artist spotlight! Bhushan Jagtap. rileyb3d.com/devlog/3111d...

I Created This NPC Dialog System From Scratch YouTube video by rileyb3d

New DevLog 🙃 It’s underperforming but I’m pretty happy with it 🤫
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BtL...

My site was down for a bit because I did a major overhaul. It's now totally transparent. Track my monthly donation earnings, earnings history, downloads, courses watched. It's all free.

This will put my own Patreon out of business but that's ok. The world is better this way.

Dinner's ready

Am I way out in crazyville with this take?

I'll take people's money all day if it means making this game a reality. I don't really care for the whole "shame on you for not working for free, like me" culture. Toxic.

All or nothing mentality can hurt your progress. You're not a great IndieDev or a terrible IndieDev. You're not either successful or a failure. Sometimes you're in transition and it takes time to build and learn.

Keep at it because I can't wait to see what you make.

Remember to give yourself credit for how far you've come. A year ago I was in a mentorship learning how to do basic functionality like player crouching. Last night I wrote an entire item spawning system complete with randomization, spawning in specific zones, and UI for it all.

Initial work on a tower in my game tonight

I'm adding a new game mechanic. Specific apartments on specific floors request trash pickup each day (randomly generated). If you can get to their level, collect the goodies!

Higher floors pay you for your trouble. Use your earnings to upgrade your gear