Gradient Games

I'm making Ghost Scout, a horror game where you identify ghosts using various strange and mundane objects! Use things like old film cameras, water guns, mirrors and dreamcatchers to see invisible ghosts! Try the demo on Steam #horrorgame

@Meelsie143 Cool, I didn't know that. I still think the first Watch_Dogs art direction looks great, even if AAA graphics are obviously better nowadays.

@GradientIndie you play as aiden in the legion dlc

>old games >watch_dogs legion

Would you rather identify ghosts using apple juice, a paint gun or breath mints? #ScreenshotSaturday

I just made the water translucent and used refraction to create the ripples in the "reflection"

Screen space reflections weren't looking good so I used the old "duplicate the reflected meshes" technique, looks great now! #horrorgame

Instead of scripted events the environment can be dynamically affected by the ghosts paranormal activity! Like this knight armor that will fall apart piece by piece #gamedev

Ghost Scout: Identify invisible ghosts using strange objects. Find the Anchor without getting killed, reveal the ghosts true form and attempt to get out alive. store.steampowered.com/app/4157550/Gh…

I finished the wall warping effect! #horrorgame

So glad we won't have to worry about art direction anymore! Thanks for being a leading force in the enslopification of video games, I'm sure the shareholders love it :D

Ghost Scout now supports NVIDIA DLSS 5!

I added some different ways to enter/exit the map to my horror game! Front gate, backyard, basement, and the roof (helicopter!) #horrorgame

@priveeetkakdela Yeah it all depends on your use case, mine is real time game rendering so you really need to find that balance between visual fidelity and performance!

@GradientIndie Any YouTube video tutorial with something similar in blender world suggest have x10 subdivision modifier with displacement 🤦🏻‍♂️ That's impressive how low geometry this effect is

What the geometry of this warping wall effect actually looks like #gamedev

@EldritchDev Yup that's a large part of it, I just sculpted some deformed cloth in Blender, rendered this as a normal map and displacement texture and used those in the material

@GradientIndie Very nifty! Animated materials with texture displacement?

@ScatteraAI Absolutely, in my case I want the effect to be on one part of the wall so a simple mesh with LODs worked perfectly, but tessellation would be better if this was supposed to happen everywhere

@GradientIndie Tessellation is good for these types of effects.

@dethswurl For what I'm trying to do a simple mesh was best, this of course also has LODs so the grid will get less dense further away!

@GradientIndie Is this just using another mesh for displacement, or are you actually calculating some algorithm to make that shape? Super cool looking nonetheless!

Wow this is now my most liked post :D Check out the Ghost Scout demo if you're interested! store.steampowered.com/app/4157550/Gh…

Working on a pretty cool warping effect for my horror game, performance friendly and works on any surface! #screenshotsaturday

Identifying ghosts using a glass sculpture, this one shows off the refraction effects a lot better! #horrorgame

Apologies for the lack of posts lately, I'm still a bit sick but I'm almost better!