Echoes of Somewhere

Category: Season 01 Episode 01

Maglev train – an animated location

March 27, 2023

For the in-game overworld map I decided to create a maglev station. This would be a nice and simple location to create some nice animations in!
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Advanced animated neon lights material

March 25, 2023

This week, I decided to continue along the lines of the flickering screens. But this time I would tackle complex neon sign / light animations.
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Cadence

March 16, 2023

The walk animations for the characters have been pretty wonky for long enough! It was finally time to address the issues – or try to.
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From image to probes

March 11, 2023

Maybe instead of matching the ambient lighting and adding multiple spotlights, there was a way to turn the actual AI generated image into lighting probe data. That would make the realtime 3D meshes match the environments absolutely perfectly!
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Depth of field

February 23, 2023

I got a comment at work about the characters not matching perfectly with the slightly blurry backgrounds. I thought if some depth of field was at all possible as the backgrounds are not really 3D and might have some blur baked in.
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Very experimental grass system

February 19, 2023

For scenes that have fluffy grass, I felt that the grass could be extra fluffy. Some sort of “fur” setup. It was not that easy.
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AI Assisted Gamedev: Adding reflections

February 11, 2023

With the pipeline I currently had set up, it is easy to add 3D characters on top of 2D images with shadows and interactive lighting. But what about reflective surfaces? Let’s go!
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Adding life to a simple 2D scene

February 4, 2023

The 2D locations can feel pretty static. Especially when there are no other characters around. But I want these scenes to be full of movement and life. Luckily the cyberpunk setting allows me to add all sorts of secondary movement into the frame!
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AI assisted 3D modeling: a cyborg

February 2, 2023

For a character that is “user facing” I wanted to make an over the top female robot. Someone that would have replaced waiters, clerks and all service professions in general.
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Modeling a robot with some added difficulty

January 25, 2023

After doing the first model, I wanted to make a robot. As there would be many robotic characters in the game’s story.
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