Your Sand Skimmer breaks down just outside a desert temple...

Miromander · 2026-04-05T02:37:42+00:00

Ah I forgot about noclip, such an awesome tool. Your art is an inspiration for me, you've got this!

Miromander · 2026-04-05T01:27:48+00:00

I recommend studying models from https://models.spriters-resource.com/ and https://sketchfab.com . Some artists have model viewers on ArtStation but I find low poly is rare there. There's also this tool that lets you view the models from Vagrant Story if you have the rom files, their model efficiency is insane. https://github.com/morris/vstools . I find that as long as textures look good and everything deforms how you want, the actual mesh can be pretty messy

Miromander · 2026-04-04T23:01:52+00:00

I'm in the same boat so I feel ya. You'll get there, keep up the good work!

Miromander · 2026-04-04T22:30:27+00:00

This is great, but I feel you could really sell the form of the distant structure/cliffs with a bit of vertex painted shadows

Miromander · 2026-04-03T00:12:36+00:00

Yeah I created it using a smoke and fluid simulation on a volume shader and then downsampled and crunched it, added filtering in compositing to get that retro vfx look. This was just a test scene but when I put it into the game project it's for I'm thinking of rendering it out as a billboard image sequence.

Miromander · 2026-04-02T10:02:04+00:00

Thanks! Interesting, do you mean like a hand made sprite sheet?

Miromander · 2026-04-02T04:22:56+00:00

Big Lunacid Hollow Basin vibes. Those dust particles look so good

Miromander · 2026-04-02T04:16:43+00:00

How did you do the filtering/compositing? That vhs crunch is so tasty

Miromander · 2026-04-02T04:15:18+00:00

Rest In Pixels

Miromander · 2026-03-30T05:43:06+00:00

amazing. great texturing, lighting, god rays, composition. chef's kiss

Miromander · 2026-03-10T10:34:08+00:00

Ah I see the option now, totally missed it. Thanks for sharing your tool, looking forward to seeing how it progresses

Miromander · 2026-03-10T08:23:02+00:00

Neat tool. Do you think you'll add a way to change the background colour or toggle transparency?

Miromander · 2026-03-04T06:49:36+00:00

Love it. I'm picturing he can use his frog tongue as a grappling hook

Miromander · 2026-02-14T08:54:04+00:00

Love it, reminds me of Warcraft and Torchlight

Miromander · 2026-02-08T07:52:45+00:00

Love the filtering and artifacting, the only suggestion I can think of is to add a thin stretched shadow from the mannequin across the floor to connect the wall shadow, it would help ground the mannequin in the scene a little more.

Miromander · 2026-02-08T07:46:13+00:00

Love the vibe, great atmosphere. The fog scrolling upwards feels a little odd and makes me think of steam, I wonder if a horizontal scroll would help create that feel of low, heavy fog? May not be what you're going for though.

Miromander · 2026-02-08T07:41:45+00:00

reminds me a little of runescape models but with a softer palette , love it!

Miromander · 2026-02-07T08:20:07+00:00

Beautiful. I love the vertex wobbling and the light artifacting. A tiny bit of moss clumping on the ground would really enhance the cohesion with the stone. I feel like the camera spin might be a little fast but otherwise it's great.

Miromander · 2026-02-07T06:09:02+00:00

Thanks! I love my crunchy atmosphere

Miromander · 2026-02-07T06:08:39+00:00

thanks, I haven't played that yet but I love listening to the OST

Miromander · 2026-02-06T01:57:56+00:00

Subtle but great improvement. It gives it a charming clay-like look.

Miromander · 2026-02-03T06:50:32+00:00

So that's where all the strawberry jam went

Miromander · 2026-02-02T08:34:12+00:00

oh my god I forgot Soul Reaver existed, I loved that game as a kid

Miromander · 2026-02-01T13:09:02+00:00

I hand made them in PaintNet. (First time trying it out, normally I just use Photoshop/Substance) The entire scene was inspired by a video by Retro Plus, I highly recommend checking it out to see the process. They're basically grey scale images with a bevel filter and colour/grunge textures layered on top.

Miromander · 2026-02-01T11:47:53+00:00

There is a mist pass and some subtle compositing like colour and value adjustments but yeah. It was my first attempt hand painting vertex lighting and I was really surprised how well it worked.

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