Here's a cool transparency effect I've added in, I think it works quite well with the game's art style, and fixes an issue I'd been having for a while on what to do when there's an object blocking the camera from the player.

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Had a lot of fun working on some of these procedural materials, like the water and the moss on the rocks. I want to make one of these test environments for each of the game's areas eventually, helps me get an idea for how the areas will look :D

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It's been an age! I finished my first year at university and want to spend a lot more time over the summer working on this project. Starting with this cool little test environment I'm making for one of the game's areas.

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Hey! Sorry for the lack of posts over the last few weeks, I have been working on uni stuff, which I will be done with in just a few weeks. In the mean time here's a look at a neat procedural water material I've been working on!
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Worked on the ice spell a bit, decided I wanted it to be a flamethrower type thing.
Still far from perfect, and besides fixing the camera and adding in some sideways walking animations I also need to add it to the spell wheel and stuff. Back to work!
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Working on spell no.4: Ice!
I was watching a vid of someone playing Tears of the kingdom and thought 'huh that enemy freeze effect is pretty cool, I wonder if I can recreate that'
you'll also be able to freeze like water and stuff to explore new areas!
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Sorry it's been a while! I've been super busy with uni work. Here's a new feature I've been working on, a (really basic) spell UI that updates when the player unlocks new spells. You can now also cycle through available spells (yay!)
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HOLY FISH IS THAT A THIRD SPELL??!11! This one is a basic explosive spell, it will be used for destroying crumbly walls etc. but also does a lot of damage to enemies, despite being slow. I also dipped my toes into Niagara for this which was awesome!
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2ND SPELL ALERT!! This one spawns the bouncy things I mentioned previously. This is gonna be in place of the typical "double jump" type upgrade in terms of a vertical movement upgrade. They also spawn relative to the face normal they landed on :D
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Here are some funky bounce pad things I added, they launch you away from their forward vector and with an adjustable velocity. I also made it so you can't get ridiculous airtime with the gliding lol
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Here's a super basic lock on system I added in, still working on improving how the player will aim to cast spells, I want it to feel intuitive and not clunky. I also tweaked the basic spell, to make it more loosely home on to enemies!
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I added in this adjustable health system, which allows you to increase/decrease the max number of hearts as well. I was inspired by Hollow knight to create this cool meter that fills up from defeating enemies. Gonna make it look more stylish at some point.
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Happy new year! Realised I haven't been posting any progress on my wizard game for the last couple months, so I'm gonna hit you all with some rapid fire progress posts!

Here's a cool tree that I made for my game. took me a while to get the style for the leaves right (and it's still not perfect). was inspired by the the trees from animal crossing!
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Got this outline postprocessing effect working, it looks super cool! :D
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Hey! Here’s a funky little 3d platformer game project I’ve started working on in my free time.
Not much to show rn but I’m making progress!

Hey! I'm Josh. I'm currently studying Technical Art in London
Here's a funky little wizard I made for a personal project I'm working on at the moment :D

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