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So excited to finally announce SPRAWL zero! We've been working on this in secret for the past couple of years! We're taking a leap forward to the 2000s, inspired by the era of classics like Halo! // Y2K is back //

@Solstice_One_ @SPRAWLfps That's crazy 👀

@SPRAWLfps okay, but what if they were a running tank? what if they could sprint and barge through their enemies, or kick their enemies into (through 🤤) walls?

Unlike agile parkour protagonists, FIVE is designed to feel heavy and grounded like a powerful "walking tank."

@jitspoe @Cdennyblog Does the bsp importer support lightmaps?

@Cdennyblog I also made them align with the texels for an extra retro look.

I've found it's possible to get the ericw-tools to write phong/smooth normals to the extended BSP format, so I've modified my Godot BSP importer to support that. (Scenes from KOOK: store.steampowered.com/app/2329690/KO…) #ScreenshotSaturday #GodotEngine

I've created a new Godot PR! This change adds a Fixed Resolution mode to SubViewportContainer to make it much easier to create low resolution games that handle input passthrough correctly. github.com/godotengine/go…

Citing Halo, FEAR, and Half-Life 2 as inspirations, Sprawl: Zero waves goodbye to boomer shooters and heralds the arrival of the Millennial FPS pcgamer.com/games/fps/citi…

My heart just jumped out of joy!! SPRAWL Zero just got announced and it looks SO GOOD!!! Combat in Sprawl Zero is fast-paced but grounded. Enemy squads will communicate and coordinate to wrestle the advantage. Flanks, covering fire, and grenades will flush you out, creating dynamic firefights inspired by classics like F.E.A.R. and Halo.

@Janelovesbees Nah it's cool. Someone not understanding art doesn't make it more art. Arguably some people not getting it and other people getting it makes it better art.

@_fojcik @magic_chromatic incorrect.

@magic_chromatic stencil buffer

Okay but can someone tell me how it looks 3D but it's actually like..flat...🥹? #vfx #gamedev #HonkaiStarRail #hsr #unity3d

@griefcliff @redaction *C++

@redaction An engine rewrite was done in C#, and I'm glad the devs took the opportunity to make the game look the exact same

If Mojang wasn't terminally retarded Minecraft would look like this out of the box

@Kevs715 We're COOKING 👀

@EMBYRdev Dudette, is there still hope for some new content for SPAWL?

Went off on a little tangent, "Wouldn't this make a cool live wallpaper for my desktop?" Turns out it's not so difficult (to start). Wallpaper Engine, Lively, etc... all seem to use the same method: 🔗 codeproject.com/Articles/85602… On Windows, desktop windows have a hierarchy. It's possible to parent windows to the wallpaper (worker window?), causing them to appear behind icons. This works with Unity applications, where you can self-live-wallpaper-ize your game with C# (using platform invoke). #unitytips #gamedev

@JanOrszulik I think I understand what you're doing with the nonlinear projection but how are you grouping parts of the landscape together to be stabilized here?

Stabilization for lateral movement (const distance). This is sorta tangent as I don't believe global downsampling is part of target stylization, just sorta "since I am here". #gamedev #vfx #rendering

Nonlinear perspective distortion, rest of this topic will become thread under this post over next few days (unless I decide there is no point to it) #gamedev #rendering #vfx

@m_schuetz The world didnt deserve OpenGL 🥲

Just tried OpenGL bindless and it's beautiful 🥹 - Easily drawing all scene nodes with geometry in separate storage buffers in a single draw call. - Vertex shader gets a list of nodes, each node contains pointer to the node's geometry. No vertex buffers, no bindings. 🥹

BRB, updateing my RTX 4090 drivers for Deus Ex's leading-edge technology!

How inter looks at me after 6 hours of picking a font

Urge to make a Mirrors Edge fan game growing...

@Code_LeoJ @prop_haus It's virtual texture paining on a 2nd channel, not actual mesh painting. THis is very useful if you're using low poly models also, not just for nanite since the data isnt tied to vertexes. Mesh paint as a term has been used for both.

@prop_haus @EMBYRdev mesh painting as a concept has been around since ue4 tho as you can see theres a vid here that uses it in 2023, the concept has been around forever it just now works with nanite i assume ?

I created a material shader that allows me to paint damage and dirt using mesh paint onto a second UV channel. However it requires UE5.5. So I am contemplating on upgrading this project or not (Right now it's 5.3) #UE5 #UnrealEngine #WIP

@KotaruComplex @apoc_dev yes.

@apoc_dev Do game developers do this often? take a break from game 2 to work on NEW game 5

Added multiplayer support

@LUXSYS 👍

>>/ im at the lake 👍