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[oahda]

That watercolor shader looks great! Is the wobbliness of the edges done in the shader, or is it a combination of the shader and modelling? Excited to see more as well!

Thank you! It's a bit of both. At risk of ruining the magic, here's a comparison of the scene before and after any sort of lighting and postprocessing is applied.





So the model itself is a bit askew already, and its texture already has some watercolour stains in it.

[JobLeonard]

*enhancing the magic

Fixed that for you

I know almost nothing of 3D graphics but I'd say it's smart to divide the effect up into the different "stages" like that!

[oahda]

Very well then, no harm done!

There are usually a bunch of buffers that come together~



Here is a fun example in the form of a breakdown of how stuff like this works in Metal Gear Solid V. My game is less complex but it's the same principle.

[vdapps]

Thumbs up also from me for this water-color. Looks beautiful.

[InfiniteStateMachine]

Whoa @ the water color. That looks amazing!

Also congrats on the hot reloading. Good on you for paying such care to the pipeline/tooling.

[oahda]

Thank you both! I think the hotloading might be what finally made me get around to it, as it was such a hassle before trying to get the shader right when I had to restart the game every time I changed the shader or one of the textures it uses.

[JobLeonard]

Yeah, that checks out. My work as a programmer essentially boils down to being an interface designer on scientific tools, and if there's one thing I've noticed it's that fast iteration cycles are highly underrated as productivity boosts. At least, until you implement them, and then everyone's like "how did I get anything done before I had this?!"

[oahda]

Oh, that sounds interesting! And yeah, really helps getting more tools.

[andos]

Nice! Always cool to see the different layers that make up a post-process.

[oahda]

Thanks! c:

[oahda]

27

Gateway

Modelled up that thing I sketched and concept-painted a while ago! Think it needs some more details but everything that was in the painting is there at least.





Not going to actually be placed diagonally across the checkerboard cobblestones of course but I thought the angle looked nice in this screenshot.

[JobLeonard]

Oh wow, it looks even better with relief in those waves!

[ProgramGamer]

The watercolor shader really does this arch justice!

[ChrisLSound]

It looks so good - I love it!

[oahda]

Thanks, everyone!

Did one tweak that doesn't warrant its own update. Felt the hard-edged light from the lanterns wasn't what I wanted, but I still like the toony ramp in general, so the solution was to do both: softer point lights (like the lanterns) and harder directional lights (like the sun)!





And keep fiddling with the watercolour look in general basically every time I open the game up now.

[vdapps]

Wow, very nice. The gate looks gorgeous. It's immediately raising curiosity, what secret lies inside that settlement?

[Ishi]

I'm super hyped to someday explore the entire town with this art style

I really like the soft glow on the lanterns, that works way better than the hard edge!

[SolS]

Love it!

[oahda]

Thank you all so much! ;v; Desire to explore is the goal!

[oahda]

28

Tree

More graphics! Had some fun today figuring out stylised foliage.





And a GIF this time No wind in the leaves yet!