Echoes of Somewhere

Tag: Animation

Simple camera controller+

June 4, 2024

I had created a very simple camera controller for the city hall interior scene. But it was not very usable in other scenes. So I rewrote the code and made it universal and a lot easier to use!
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Animated hotspot icons

January 11, 2024

I was working on the Steam Deck compatibility of the game this week and the main pain point was the hotspots. As I was fixing the code, I decided to try to make the hotspots animated!
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City hall scene exterior 3D modeling (city hall part 4)

November 11, 2023

This scene is a bit different from your basic scene, as it has a lot of traffic and a functional maglev system. So this is actually a replacement scene for the maglev station when you travel to the city hall.
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Cloth Sim

October 9, 2023

It was always my goal to use cloth sim on the character. The hair, the small pouch and the jacket just screamed to be made dynamic.
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Building a Puzzle

September 11, 2023

Building Adventure Game Puzzles is fun. This is a very complete breakdown of creating a bathroom scene with its puzzle in under 2 days! (Spoiler alert!)
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Rendering custom shadows with URP shader graph & apartment ext location

August 21, 2023

As I upgraded the render pipeline for the game, I noticed that my custom shadow rendering shaders turned pink. It was time to transition from custom HLSL shading for the environments to a more modern shader graph based approach.
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Additional effects for the apartment scene

August 14, 2023

I have been working on the apartment for absolutely forever! I have begun to approach this room as a vertical slice for the game. This post is about some of the features I added this week: simulated cool air mist and fluorescent light flicker.
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Home location – part 2: combining the scenes

May 29, 2023

In part 1, we used Midjourney and Photoshop to create the 2D locations, Now it is time to merge them together – in 3D.
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AI generated, animated logo

April 11, 2023

Naturally the project also needed an AI generated animated logo! I used Midjourney to create the logo and After Effects to add in the text and handle the animation.
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AI powered fluid simulations

April 6, 2023

I took an upcoming AI powered fluid simulation tool for a test dive to see if it would allow me to add realistic, interactive smoke to the game.
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