Echoes of Somewhere

Tag: Art

Using AI as inspiration for UI design

August 28, 2023

All throughout the project, I have been slightly tweaking the UI from time to time. Now that I have a better understanding of the functionality of the UI, a more polished look and feel begun to creep into my mind.
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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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PDA part 1 – interface

July 3, 2023

Adventure creator has support for objective lists and documents. I figured why not integrate them into the game as well? The player could be able to receive some text messages like in Cyberpunk 2077 and have a list of to-do’s for keeping the objective clear.
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Maglev transit system

June 26, 2023

Way back when I did the maglev scene, it was just a scene void of any connection to anything in the game. I just knew I needed one so I made it. Now I returned to the scene to add the transit functionality to it that it required.
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Upgrading the main character

June 5, 2023

I had planned to keep the characters far away from the camera, as they were not the best quality. But as I have been working on these scenes the main character creeps closer and closer. So I needed to make him look better.
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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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Pixel art test: Photoshop (beta) AI tools

May 24, 2023

A new beta version of photoshop was recently released with generative ai tools (adobe firefly) natively supported directly in the app. I tried it with a simple pixel art scene.
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Home location – part 1: Adobe Firefly

May 24, 2023

Sometimes we need to have different spaces link together. This calls for a very accurate reconstruction of the locations. Here is my journey on connecting multiple AI generated rooms together.
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The labyrinth – part 1

May 17, 2023

The later part of the game features a classic labyrinth puzzle. This post is a step by step walkthrough how I used Midjourney and Stable diffusion to achieve the location and the compromises we needed to make along the way.
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