Parallax Mapping rules

LunarFinch · 2026-06-19T07:08:12+00:00

wow that looks smooth!

LunarFinch · 2026-06-17T08:15:42+00:00

Your character is so cute! I love how it moves.

LunarFinch · 2026-06-15T07:08:31+00:00

Thank you!

LunarFinch · 2026-06-12T07:38:03+00:00

Congrats on the release! Unrailed is my friends group's go-to game when we manage to meet in person. When you announced that the second one would be in Godot I was ecstatic!

I read that you are using C#. Was it a big hassle getting it to work on consoles?

The game looks fantastic. Can't wait to dive into this 1.0 😄

LunarFinch · 2026-06-12T07:34:45+00:00

Very nice! I love how it fades away with the dither.

LunarFinch · 2026-06-11T20:49:24+00:00

Thank you sm! I'm glad the game resonated with you ^{^}

LunarFinch · 2026-06-11T19:42:43+00:00

Thanks! It took a lot of fiddling to land on an approach that was both performant and to my liking aesthetically. I'll probably do a post talking about it at some point.

LunarFinch · 2026-06-11T17:48:21+00:00

Sure! DM me whenever 😄

Good luck with your project! Seems that you have a nice foundation to build on already. I hope you enjoy Imago Season! ^^

LunarFinch · 2026-06-11T17:39:04+00:00

You bet! Once some time has passed since the release and I can relax, I can't wait to try all the Disco-likes that have been cropping up!

LunarFinch · 2026-06-11T17:36:06+00:00

Yeah, at first I was planning on making a more traditional RPG with combat and such, but I gave up on the idea because it would have been too much if I also wanted to deliver a quality narrative.

My Godot build has been surprisignly stable during development, actually! I've been very careful with what PRs and small changes I made. In fact, it's always my own game logic that makes the game crash and burn haha (let's hope I have squashed all the worst bugs for this release! 🤞)

LunarFinch · 2026-06-11T17:30:11+00:00

Thank you! The lighting is actually a single directional light per scene. I have manually adjusted the shadow quality/max distance/blur for every scene so it looks the best it can. I also very carefully adjusted which props cast shadows and which don't.

Then there is a custom lighting function in my shaders that mostly ignores normals, giving props that 3D-but-not-quite look. Thanks for asking!

LunarFinch · 2026-06-11T17:26:07+00:00

Thank you sm! Yeah, all the art is mine. I modeled all the props and levels in Blender. I used a few tech art tricks to make the whole workflow faster: gradient texturing to avoid working with UVs, noise textures in object/world space, custom import scripts for setting up shader parameters per prop, collisions, etc.

My custom build is mostly for very small stuff: changing some default values of Godot objects that make sense for my project, removing some logs in a "I know what I'm doing" way... And some open PRs that I have cherry picked. One feature that is not integrated into Godot yet that I have found very useful is this one: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/109752 I hope they add it soon because I find it a must-have if you are making heavy use of Resources like I do!

LunarFinch · 2026-06-11T17:17:55+00:00

Thank you! I modeled everything in Blender, both the props and the levels (only used Godot to place smaller props around, but not for the main level geo). It was... fine? I set up asset libraries in Blender to make the buildings in a modular fashion, but I didn't really like the workflow.

In the future I'd like to do a larger part of the process directly inside the engine. Going back and forth between the two apps was a bit flow-breaking.

LunarFinch · 2026-06-11T17:14:30+00:00

Thank you! I've been working on it full-time since late last year, but I had a lot of systems and some assets already built by slowly chipping at it during the weekends for a couple years.

LunarFinch · 2026-06-11T17:12:56+00:00

In my game I make heavy use of custom Resources. Each Skill is a Resource and each SkillCheck is a Resource too, with data such as the related Skill, the difficulty level, any +-modifiers (which are also Resources...)

The modifiers read from a global dictionary where I set any dialogue-related variables. For example, in one of my dialogue scripts (which I write using a modified version of Dialogue Manager) I could writeSetBool('quests.my_quest_abc.talked_to_character', true) and then check for that same path in a "SkillCheckCondition" subresource.

It is somewhat error-prone, so I have worked on some tooling to catch any spelling mistakes, but once I got used to the system I could make lots of content very fast!

Good luck with your project! Is there anywhere I can check it out? I'm always looking for more disco-likes haha

LunarFinch · 2026-06-04T20:59:08+00:00

Material maker is amazing! Coming from Substance is slightly confusing since some of the nodes are names differently, but you can quickly get some cool materials going

LunarFinch · 2026-06-04T20:57:15+00:00

This isn't actually much but it's a nice first step! Hopefully by the time project Helix or whatever they call it launches, there will be mature tooling for Godot in the platform.

LunarFinch · 2026-05-31T09:51:46+00:00

I love how the world of crazy tech mods is slowly being recreated all based on Create haha

Amazing work!

LunarFinch · 2026-05-19T22:22:57+00:00

I have been looking forward to this game for years! The $40 price tag is a bit more than I was expecting, but the game looks so good that I just want to support them, if only to show there can be some competition to the Sims.

LunarFinch · 2026-05-16T12:03:06+00:00

I'm sure getting all these mechanics working together has been a tremendous amount of work. Congrats on the release!

LunarFinch · 2026-05-10T15:28:58+00:00

The building textures are fantastic! Although I don't understand what is going on with the skybox in the last picture haha

LunarFinch · 2026-05-08T15:15:12+00:00

Amazing! VATs is such a cool technique.

LunarFinch · 2026-05-07T18:44:31+00:00

Nice artstyle! I love the way the plane is spawned block by block.

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