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[sublinimal]

Those generative patterns again. I'm aiming to have a small demo to submit to Assembly 2012. Obviously it won't go very far with all the veterans participating, but it's more of a personal goal anyway.

After n iterations, I think I'm starting to hit perfection on the main algorithm. As in, I've got many interesting flower types and colour schemes, much control over the creation process, and "broken" flowers are a non-issue. There's also room for randomized variations in certain steps, but the patterns are based on recursion in a way that one slight tweak might create impossible flowers.

 
   
 
 

[ANtY]

@McMutton: looks amazing in game 

[sublinimal]

Those generative patterns again.

And more. Now I basically have a generator generator, so the results are even more varied. (And anti-aliased!)

[Seiseki]

Found a really neat way to make a spinning cellshade-like box in photoshop.
Perfect for those powerup pick ups and what not.
Too bad I can't really fit it into the game I'm actually supposed to be working on

[brettchalupa]

That looks really awesome! I could see it working in some other places. Would love to hear about the process.

[Franklins Ghost]

Yeah looks great and I'd definitely be interested in hearing about the process too.

[Seiseki]

Was gonna make a quick tutorial but realized I have the Swedish version of photoshop, so I can't take screens of menus and settings.

Basically you use the 3D function where you wrap a texture around a cube, add a blending-effect outline.
Then you use the rotate tool to rotate the cube around one axis(not by free hand, but using number input), making a new layer for each 10 degree increment.
Finally you make it into an animation by saving it as a gif or export->video->export frames to get each frame as a separate image.

It does require a bit of general know-how and lots of photoshop knowledge.
I just started going through the 3D tools one by one this morning and this was the result I came up with

[sublinimal]

I don't think the 3D tools are even necessary here (although they do make the whole process easy). You could achieve something similar by gradually skewing the texture on the side and adding a shadow gradient.

[Seiseki]

I don't think the 3D tools are even necessary here (although they do make the whole process easy). You could achieve something similar by gradually skewing the texture on the side and adding a shadow gradient.

Yeah, definitely.
I've done a bunch of spinning coin animations by hand, but from now on I'll use a 3D guide and draw on top of that. Gives you even spacing between frames and accurate movement.

For this spinning box, the perspective is kinda in-your-face (as someone pointed out to me(thx!)) but luckily I found away to zoom out the camera in photoshop to get a less extreme perspective distortion.

[_Madk]

rewrote the rendering code. I had planned to from the start, just was a little lazy because it involved some significant thought to actually do.

[Mindwedge]

Getting our game approved on multiple portals for digital distribution.

http://www.monsterminis.com/

[Geti]

Those generative patterns again.

This stuff is super duper cool man, keep it up

[_Madk]

got the beginnings of a text field (mostly) working 

[VortexCortex]

@_Madk: Looking great!  I'm really digging the less saturated look.

[Franklins Ghost]

Cross post from the art thread.

Wedding invite design.