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[JobLeonard]

Oof, thanks for the clarification, hahaha 

[Mark Mayers]

Update 170: 02/19/2022



Bonus DevLog:

In Desolus, black holes have gravitational waves which distort surroundings.

This effect is created with a distortion pass, which draws a vector field in screen-space, used to alter the camera's UVs.

You can see the vectors visualized as colors later in the video! It's pretty neat to look at.

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[oldblood]

I can almost HEAR that video. I hope the SFX will be able to keep up with the incredible visuals you're creating. Will really help take this from 10 to 11. Gorgeous stuff.

[JobLeonard]

 

Damn that looks good

[Mark Mayers]

Update 171: 06/11/2022

New Portal VFX



I've been working on a portal shader which physically breaks a hole in time and space.

The portals can be of any shape, using a signed distance field of that shape passed into the shader.

The destruction mesh is a pre-shattered mesh using a voronoi algorithm but the individual chunk coordinates are baked into the uvs of the mesh, accessible in the shader, which allows for each chunk's vertices to be offset in groups.



This video shows an early work in progress from April, where I'm playing around with material values. It's just me adjusting the material sliders, there were no animations at that time, but it shows off how tweakable this shader is.

As a bonus, 80 level wrote a brief article about the effect!

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[oldblood]

As always, amazing stuff to see!

[Schrompf]

Beautiful! It really looks like a crack in spacetime.

[Alain]

Love the effect, great job!

[JobLeonard]

Woah, looks amazing!

[Prinsessa]

So cool!

[Mark Mayers]

As always, amazing stuff to see!

Beautiful! It really looks like a crack in spacetime.

Love the effect, great job!

Woah, looks amazing!

So cool!

Thank you everyone