Author: Adam

Daniel Hi Everybody! Since last week I was surprised by Adam with the functionality to combine skinned meshes, which allows me to build characters from pieces instead in-game instead of having to have one mesh per permutation or some other dirty dirty solution to modularity in character visuals; I began...

Daniel Greetings! This week I've spent with shoestring budget mo-cap. In other words, from now on I will be able to ambulate just like you humans and my infiltration attempt will be successful. Also, it means that we now have a bucket load of emotive animations to help out with...

Daniel Hello! This week I've been working on particle effects. Particles systems are one of the fields in game graphics that are relatively separate from the rest. They exist in the same world as everything else but compared to how a model and its animation have a symbiotic relationship particles...

Daniel Hi Everybody! This week I've spent making small objects to populate the world with. You'd probably be surprised by how adding a bunch of every day objects helps tie a room together, you know, unless you're an interior decorator by trade or just an enthusiastic hobbyist. A prime example...

Daniel Hi Everybody! (Hi Dr. Nick!) This week I've worked on the graphics for more social sections. It struck me that we had an abundance of really useful super practical areas, like reactors and command and sleeping quarters. However, what we lacked was somewhere for the crew to spend their...

Daniel Hi everybody! (Hi Dr. Nick!) This week I've spent making the assets to go with the system I discussed in the last weeks dev update. This involves making different hair styles, enabling some customization of colors, making different body types (pictured below) and many more things. Meaning I got...