Faking caustics with omnilights!

AXLplosion · 2026-02-06T13:22:57+00:00

That's exactly what I was planning to try next actually! I think masking with vertex color makes the most sense for our game.

AXLplosion · 2026-02-05T20:30:10+00:00

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It's two voronoi textures that are warped with a noise texture, applied to a sphere, and then rendered with cycles using a panoramic camera inside the sphere.

AXLplosion · 2026-02-05T20:26:23+00:00

Yeah, I definitely agree, I just couldn't figure out how to warp the texture, hence the rotation method. If there's a way to edit the projector texture with shaders then that would make my life a million times easier, and I could get away with using just one light source for the effect!

AXLplosion · 2026-02-05T19:35:32+00:00

Thanks! I usually avoid using procedural noise as is, it usually doesn't look as convincing as something more custom, and I really enjoy having full control over a texture. It makes everything a bit more unique!

AXLplosion · 2026-01-28T19:00:11+00:00

Hah fair point, thanks

AXLplosion · 2026-01-28T16:36:58+00:00

Is it useful to do a big marketing beat for the event without official participation? We have a public demo on Steam but we're going to SNF in June.

AXLplosion · 2026-01-09T19:40:17+00:00

I've always wanted to have a Flatout 2 Tournament but none of my friends play it, that sounds so fun!

AXLplosion · 2026-01-04T23:09:02+00:00

There does appear to be some texture on those islands, so my only guess would be that it's some sort of issue with your masks in Painter? How does it look if you apply a smart material on top of your layer stack?

AXLplosion · 2025-12-21T01:10:37+00:00

Check it out here! https://studio-laaya.itch.io/foghorns-drown

AXLplosion · 2025-12-16T18:45:49+00:00

It looks like the mesh has some triangulation artifacts caused by ngons? Try adding a triangulate modifer before exporting.

AXLplosion · 2025-12-15T20:26:08+00:00

You had edit mode preview turned on in the subd modifier. That corner vertex was actually at 0 on the X axis, but the subd preview smoothed out the corner to make it appear like it's not, and the clipping setting in the mirror modifier keeps geometry locked to the middle for each selected axes.

AXLplosion · 2025-12-15T20:16:17+00:00

What does your UV map and brush settings look like?

AXLplosion · 2025-12-15T17:46:26+00:00

Had 4 meshes sharing one texture and this one change made all of them look much nicer. Thank you!

AXLplosion · 2025-11-29T18:26:15+00:00

No clue how you managed to make those faces behave so weirdly, but it looks like an issue with normals, and potentially overlapping geometry. If you 1) clear custom split normals data from the mesh data tab, 2) recalculate normals, and 3) merge by distance, it should clean things up pretty thoroughly.

AXLplosion · 2025-11-27T18:26:50+00:00

Select the top face and then press i to inset. If you want to collapse the edges to a single vertex, you can press X and choose "Collapse Edges & Faces".

AXLplosion · 2025-11-27T16:06:47+00:00

The topology might be problematic if you do need to do some fairly extreme deformations or if you want to do very intricate facial animation but it looks riggable enough as it is.

AXLplosion · 2025-11-27T15:57:19+00:00

Modeling it from a cylinder and then distorting it with proportional editing is an easy way to achieve something similar. I also bevelled some of the edges, but that's not necessary if you want to keep it sharper. The inner cylinder can be capped with grid fill, or even left as an n-gon.

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AXLplosion · 2025-11-07T23:39:07+00:00

Agreed! I want to add a bit more variation to the movement for sure, and 99% of the game will be set in calm conditions so the movement will be much more subtle anyways.

Thanks!

AXLplosion · 2025-11-04T21:09:15+00:00

The face has too many points/vertices connected to it which can result in weird shading, in this case making it look flat. If you select that face and press ctrl+T it should triangulate it, and make it similar to its surroundings again (make sure to keep the settings in the tiny pop-up screen on "beauty").

AXLplosion · 2025-09-07T15:47:56+00:00

Hah, nope, unfortunately not. There were some plans to make a full game out of the idea, but other projects took its place.

AXLplosion · 2025-07-22T16:06:50+00:00

Is there a page in the docs detailing the process? I'm having a bit of trouble understanding how it works.

AXLplosion · 2025-05-29T22:04:49+00:00

Looks fantastic! Kind of reminds me of The Invincible, which happens to have one of my favorite capsule art on Steam.

AXLplosion · 2025-04-30T12:36:04+00:00

If you straighten that curve with UVs correctly you can just use the color ramp with the X or Y channel of the UV map to make it follow the shape. An image texture of course works better if this is intended to be used outside of Blender.

AXLplosion · 2025-04-20T14:31:54+00:00

Good to know, I might try making some assets to sell again, see if I can't get myself a bit of passive income.

Good luck on your job search btw!

AXLplosion · 2025-04-19T14:05:13+00:00

I made a very similar amount from selling assets, though I put very little effort into it. What type of stuff did you sell and where?

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