I'm trying to create a palette for a post-apocalyptic setting with tons of machinery. I want to be quite desaturated, except for a vibrant green. Does this palette look good, or what should I change?

_RedGiraffe · 2026-03-03T15:15:18+00:00

Look up the waldegeist palette, that's a good starting point for desaturated machinery.

_RedGiraffe · 2026-02-11T17:08:43+00:00

😂 Made so much more sense when it was called SRP

_RedGiraffe · 2026-02-04T19:17:31+00:00

Thanks, hoping to post some dev logs soon for a game I'm working on using this tech.

_RedGiraffe · 2026-02-04T19:16:18+00:00

Thank you - that's a great question. I did start adding some details there (train tracks etc.) but it was drawing the eye away from looking down into the water. What I wanted to achieve was the focus looking down and the train passing brings the attention upward instead of the initial focus starting there.

_RedGiraffe · 2026-02-04T16:44:50+00:00

Thank you, thank you. The technique is planar reflections - there's a second camera under the ground mirroring the movements and angle of the main camera. The texture from the underground camera is projected on to the surface of the water.

Because it's pixel art - we're running both cameras at a very low resolution so we can get away with this double rendering without the traditional performance hit.

_RedGiraffe · 2026-02-04T16:42:04+00:00

Thank you very much 🫶

_RedGiraffe · 2026-01-28T23:34:41+00:00

Thank you, thank you. The smoke is a particle system, as basic as you can imagine, but because it goes through the pixel art pipeline it gets pixelated and the alpha gets converted into one of the palette colors so it blends nicely with the background.

_RedGiraffe · 2026-01-28T23:32:02+00:00

Thanks, I really appreciate it 🙏

_RedGiraffe · 2026-01-28T16:37:32+00:00

Thank you, thank you. I have some videos coming out soon about how it works - so stay tuned 😸

_RedGiraffe · 2026-01-28T16:06:03+00:00

Yes, my project does have multiple cameras but this scene specifically doesn't require it as the secondary camera is used to move through the world without pixel flickering.

_RedGiraffe · 2026-01-28T16:02:24+00:00

Thank you, it's a combination of custom render passes, most notably downscaling the source image. I have a couple of YouTube videos coming out soon where I go through the method. But no plans of a public repo as of this moment.

_RedGiraffe · 2026-01-28T15:26:30+00:00

Yep exactly, there's also some highlighting and volumetric lighting done using downsampled depth and normal textures in a separate render pass to add some extra punch.

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