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[NinthPower]

looks great for sure.

[JobLeonard]

Oh man that is sexy. So are you planning to somehow make it possible to guess the type of track based on the planet the shader generates?

[Canned Turkey]

How would someone go about generating planets as snazzy as yours?

[Rilem]

It's just a sphere with a custom shader, built in shaderforge.
Basically it comes down to a few image maps + some color operations, and a custom lighting setup that posterizes the shadows.

You won't have to do any guesswork, because when you select a planet you'll also get a preview thumb of what the racetrack looks like.

[crusty]

It's just a sphere with a custom shader, built in shaderforge.
Basically it comes down to a few image maps + some color operations, and a custom lighting setup that posterizes the shadows.

You won't have to do any guesswork, because when you select a planet you'll also get a preview thumb of what the racetrack looks like.

Cool!  Everything I've seen on shaderforge seems to map the textures to something 3D.  Do you know if shaderforge plays nicely with unity 2D?  Does it just spit out material + shader or is it more complicated than that?  Also do you know if it supports grab passes (taking the already rendered pixels under the geometry and using them as the input texture)?

[Rilem]

Yeah it works with Unity2d, it even comes with a sprite template shader. When you select a sprite in unity you can still change the material to whatever, so you can make a custom sprite material.

I built this https://twitter.com/rilemtwit/status/651295678220607488 guy on top of that and we now use it for flame trails.

I think it does support grab passes, haven't tried anything that uses that so not 100% sure on that. It does support distorting 'underlying' geometry out of the box though.

[crusty]

Yeah it works with Unity2d, it even comes with a sprite template shader. When you select a sprite in unity you can still change the material to whatever, so you can make a custom sprite material.

I built this https://twitter.com/rilemtwit/status/651295678220607488 guy on top of that and we now use it for flame trails.

I think it does support grab passes, haven't tried anything that uses that so not 100% sure on that. It does support distorting 'underlying' geometry out of the box though.

Cool!  I know what I want for Christmas.

[Rilem]

A character concept.



Intergalactic Race Wars will have all kinds of weird playable characters.

[stringkiller]

The flames you made with shaderforge are great. I really want to learn how to make those kinda pixel art shaders, have you got any recommended reads? We managed to do some procedural blood and flames that looked somehow similar in the past but only in hd stuff.

[Rilem]

The flames you made with shaderforge are great. I really want to learn how to make those kinda pixel art shaders, have you got any recommended reads? We managed to do some procedural blood and flames that looked somehow similar in the past but only in hd stuff.

The trick I used for the flames actually extends beyond shaderforge. Because getting the desired 'pixel art' look can be difficult with shaderforge alone. I have a seperate effects layer which gets pixelated using a seperate shader. The flames and most other effects just exist on that layer.

[Rilem]

Also, our first video devlog just went live!

[JobLeonard]

  Motörhead

[stringkiller]

Thanks for the tip Rilem! and great video! good luck with the project 

[Xonatron]

I saw this game on #screenshotsaturday on Twitter.

I love this capture:

Such a sense of speed and excitement.

[grayhaze]

This is looking awesome so far, but that name... Every time I see this thread pop up, all I see is the words "race war". I'm not sure that's the sort of baggage you want to drop on the game as it builds momentum - just do a Google search for the words to see what I mean. Maybe a small change to something like Intergalactic Race Warriors might work better?

[Rilem]

Intergalactic Race Warriors does sound pretty badass! How could we not see that? Thanks for the suggestion!

My dev partner is gone for a few days but I'll change the working title for now.

[marcgfx]

I like the look of the prototype! the name change is really a good thing
will you be able to do front/back-flips and gain some kind of bonus?

[JobLeonard]

Would Racing Warriors be even less ambiguous? Or is that incorrect English?

[ANtY]

*following* 

[Rilem]

Yeah we've discussed some kind of boost meter + flip tricks mechanic. It's something we still need to play with.


And Racing Warriors sounds a bit less cool. :/ Race Warriors is good for now.
I've never even heard of a Race Warrior in ethnic context, so I think we're good. :p