Chris Bischoff - Animal Use Protocol

SMELLY APE. RUN RUN RUN RUN RUN.... Wishlist ANIMAL USE PROTOCOL now - and *please* retweet to spread the word! #AUP 🐒🐀

@WadjetEyeGames @Dualnames @CohhCarnage @Ezekiel_III The urge to shout "YOU'RE PLAYING IT WRONG" is huge...

@StasisGame @Dualnames @CohhCarnage @Ezekiel_III I can only watch them live for maybe five minutes. I like popping in to say hi and thanks for playing, but any longer and I start to feel like a writer who is watching over someone's shoulder while they read my novel. Annoying for both of us!

Watching streamers play our games is one of the most nausea inducing stressful things I do. I watch them a lot in the days after a launch, often taking notes - and 9 times out of 10 I have to mute the streams just to clear my brain. If I can watch a recorded stream it’s better, cos I can pause and skip.. It’s a little like hearing a recording of your own voice - but it’s reading your diary out to a crowd of people you went to school with. It takes a while to get over it.., I can watch Stasis streams now. I can sorta watch Beautiful Desolation streams. Bone Totem is still harrowing on my nervous system.

Thanks Mac! Its from a photo I took at the harbor close to us - then I traced out a jagged edge and twisted the ends up at the corners. In retrospect I should have done a version without the jagged edges - or maybe just done one jagged edge and one cleaner - but thats what I get for not planning things!

@StasisGame that rusty plate looks really good

Something that helps me rapidly produce models is making my own simple texture atlas kits. Ill start with a high res kit - and then make an atlas to match it by rendering out the 'top' views. This ensures the textures are matched - and the elements can be easily mixed as needed. And honestly, often I don't even touch the mid poly pieces - building with the cards is very quick, and the meshes are optimized out the gate.

You can also add lots of little details like this - just a card, add in a bit of geometry to deform it a bit - and you got some little holes to dot around as needed.

@Dualnames @CohhCarnage @Ezekiel_III I still watch them - a lot of them - but it’s… it’s hard. I can’t exactly say why. It’s a high to experience it with someone else - but all I see are the things I didn’t do.

@StasisGame Yall are missing out, I've been in countless streams of Primordia and Strangeland, the only ones that were stressful were @CohhCarnage and @Ezekiel_III 's streams cause it was a whole lotta people in those streams, but it was also fun!! Their communities are great and welcoming!

kickstarter.com/projects/dorf/… OK... This looks AMAZING.

@BikeMan It was! I’ve still got my notes - I’ll see if I can scrounge them up.

@StasisGame My Bone Totem stream was awesome… I think?

@futonrevolting We’re old skool. It’s just lots of hairspray.

@StasisGame Will the mullet use TressFX?

Insane tech!

@eleven3s TIs gonna be good!

@StasisGame This is completely unrelated to your post (which I agree with 100%), but seeing "Animal Use Protocol" in your name just reminded me of that banger trailer you released and how psyched I will be to get to play AUP when it comes out

An interesting test for DLSS5 would be to turn off all lighting, and use vertex colours as textures, and see what the output would be. A game engine running with no textures and no lighting - but maintaining the fidelity of a high quality rendered image would be very cool. If you can make your own data set - and use that to ‘rerender’ a much faster frame - well that would be something to be excited about.

Damn… do NOT use Pixel Depth Offset on particles.

@chhopsky It makes sense - I just only clicked now when doing a perf pass that like... this is a lot of data that I know Im just never using.

@StasisGame world model yes (if MP) view model no developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Viewmodel

This may be a stupid question - BUT - if you have a first person view - do you bother with LOD's / MIPS for your Weapon/Hands?

Yeah - I think its the not respecting the original lighting thats a major issue. In a way its only really visible because we KNOW what the original lighting is supposed to be doing - but it would drive me a little mad if I specifically lit something some way, and the filter goes "No... "

@StasisGame Is it just me, or did it give his hair, head, torso, and arms completely separate light sources coming in from random directions?

@jeremylovesyall We don’t fetish same.

nerds who have read the book, why is florence pugh covered in bird shit?

Soft moss/algae is just so hard to make look good, and be practical for the amount of coverage you need.

@1muralist1 The best advice ever is once you’re happy with the lighting, start over. You’ll get it to look better with less. :D

@StasisGame With the map I'm working on, the better it looks the more I'm becoming aware how little I know about lighting.

Not sure if this is a hot take or not… but lighting interiors is WAY more difficult than lighting exteriors by an order of magnitude.