One of the things I'm adding in the upcoming Universal Wind Shader update is a fun math trick which takes your surface-aligned grass, and adjusts the geo to be 'world' up again (instead of local) using WPO.
This stops your grass from floating, without making it look like it's growing sideways!

I generally avoid posting about politics, but please all, be mindful in your travel plans. The world is a wild place.

My plugin for #UnrealEngine is almost done! It lets you blend any mesh. Not just landscape, not PDO.

This magic lets you blend anything!🤯

#GameArt #UE5 #GameDev

Anyone I know trying to go to Unreal Fest but need a discount? DM me

In Unreal you can make specific nodes Development only with hotkeys.
Go into your editor preferences and search for Nodes. You'll see entries for Enable Nodes (Always) and Enable Nodes (Development). I've set them to ctrl alt A and ctrl alt D. Enjoy! ✨
#Unreal #Blueprint

We're releasing a free demo of Brickadia for Steam's Next Fest! Build your own cars, and then build the entire city around those cars. Place *millions* of bricks and create cool physics contraptions.

Our demo is dropping tomorrow, don't miss out!

Gorka Games just released the first episode for their new Podcast, and I'm the very first guest! 🎉
We talk Voxel Plugin, tech art, and a bit of business on the side.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzNA...

I posted a few days ago the shader ISA code for the atan2() instruction, the size of which appeared to catch people by surprise. This inspired me to write a blog post to discuss the “hidden” cost of shader instructions a bit more. interplayoflight.wordpress.com/2025/01/19/t...

A 🧵 on Bindless Textures in UE5!

In UE5.5, bindless textures seem to be non-experimental.
But they're still disabled by default, and entirely undocumented.
Enabling them should, in most cases, be a performance gain. Doing so will also let you 'bypass' the limits on unique SRV and samplers. 1/x

LUMEN PSA: if you're seeing weird splotchy jitter artifacts with Lumen on foliage meshes, like in this vid, try increasing
r.Lumen.ScreenProbeGather.Temporal.MaxFramesAccumulated
This will stabilize your screen probes, at the cost of making your Lumen react less quickly to fast lighting changes.

Continuing the work on seasons!
Much more foresty vibes to the entire world now, with spring/summer feeling properly lush. Really feel like it's coming together well.

I'm off work, so obviously that means it's time to work on my own #techart stuff!
Having fun playing with seasons, trying really hard to make it work without needing extra assets for the different seasons.

If the project lives, it'll be a survival game in-between Subnautica and The Long Dark 👀

I used to think about moving to (and hiking in) the northern Swedish countryside when I played The Long Dark.

Now I've made that move, and I instead find myself thinking about playing The Long Dark while I hike through the snowy Swedish forests.

I support this initiative.