The improved SSR in godot 4.6

Light beam shader in godot So I was noclipping through d1_canals_08 in HL2 as one normally does on a saturday night when I saw this: A nice sharp volumetric light that does a lot for the mood of the scene. Half Life 2 was relea...

How to make a light beam shader in godot + download

A small, shiny octopus sculpture made from polymer clay and carefully painted to depict the species Larger Pacific Striped Octopus. The octopus is sitting on top of a shell and holding a small Swarovski crystal. The shell rests on a few beachy rocks. Photographed on a solid black background.

🌊 Zephyr the Larger Pacific Striped Octopus 🐙 Hand sculpted from clay 🎨

#ArtYear #ArtGallery #Art #BlueskyArtshow #BSNM #MarineLife #Sculpture #Octopus 🦑🐡

Male Costa’s Hummingbird

Parting shot of this rock star from last week… Costa’s Hummingbird on cholla skeleton 🪶☀️🌵 (sunrise reflection in bird’s eye)

godot 4.6 may get native support for gltf gpu instancing

this will allow instantly importing tens of thousands of meshes into godot multimeshes via binary format

What if I make lightmap texel scale of an object inversely dependent on its size with a customizable curve? 🤔

Then lightmaps will just work for big background mountains without the need for manual labelling for importer

Add support for Customizable/Scriptable Render Pipelines · Issue #644 · godotengine/godot-proposals Describe the project you are working on: Top-down 2D game that needs a custom rendering pipeline to permit the wanted visual effects. Describe the problem or limitation you are having in your proje...

seems like godot will need something like this to allow custom AO, GI or SSR, or even film grain that works with TAA/FSR

Slasher
'God Of War'
PlayStation 2

A robin made a nest in one of my plant pots right outside my studio. The baby birds are hatching today.

The demo for Life Below is out on Steam Next Fest now!

It's an underwater city builder, but instead of buildings you build Corals! So it's a coral reef builder!
store.steampowered.com/app/3757330/...

#SteamNextFest

Pachy Wins
'Warpath: Jurassic Park'
PlayStation

A digital painting of a huge giant made of moss. She looks like an elderly woman with a walking stick, but is purely green, and has a cloak that looks like patches of different moss species. She walks through a lush forest full of rainbow birds, in front of a blue sky with white clouds.

Moss Giant 🍀

1bit pixel art shark - the Sand Tiger Shark

NEW SHARK SPOTTED - Sand Tiger Shark

#pixelart

A merfolk swimming undersea with his beast companion, a mix of a crocodile, dinosaur and lobster mount!

I'm finally done with the piece I've done for @abigbat.bsky.social's illustration mentorship! I've loved every second of it and feel so much better about my art and process now 🐟

A frog wizard and his faithful familiar on this international bat day

These two will be the leads on my next frog book (whenever I finally get to it)

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (2004)

🍏🦀

The best videogames are the ones that let you collect orbs. I can’t get enough of them orbs yummy yummy yummy

A dinosaur with gold and grey feathers, and a very owl-like face.

It’s #SuperbOwl time again.
Illustration from the book“Novosaurs 2”.

Illustration of an orange Opossum burning under the sweltering Desert sun. The opossum has three eyes and gapes it's mouth open in exhaust.

Hotter Than July
#art

Spicy slug 🌶️

Mammoths

Thief Interview - Artist Daniel Thron Insight from the foundational stealth game's Cutscene Director and Artist

I've posted my full interview with Thief's artist and cutscene director @dthron.bsky.social on substack. I referenced this interview a lot in my deep dive on Thief's aesthetics and once again, I'd like to thank Daniel for taking the time to answer my questions.

open.substack.com/pub/pc2000s/...

alternate social media series i did a while ago. gonna start reposting work on here

Knight of the void

A digital portrait of Corythoraptor: a feathered dinosaur with a parrot-like beak and large boney crest atop its head. Its feathers are shades of browns and white, with some brighter pink and purple coloured skin around the bright yellow eyes.

Corythoraptor.
I posted a WIP of this ludicrous animal a couple of days ago. I’m calling it finished for now. #SciArt

Happy Half-Life 2

Diagram of game architecture layers. Visual Layer — Scripted game engine components. A Unity MonoBehavior attached to a game object, a Godot Node script class, etc. GameLogic Layer — the meat and potatoes of your game, itself broken into two "sublayers": Visual Game Logic Layer — state machines, behavior trees, or other stateful mechanisms that drive a single game engine component's state. Pure Game Logic Layer — repository classes that perform game logic that's not specific to any single visual component. Data Layer — Various client classes for "lower level" interactions, such as networking and persistent storage.

we always talk about separating game logic from visualization. here's how i like to think of the different architecture layers in a game #gamedev #Indiedev #godot

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2003)

Game Developers when they import 3D assets: