Water shader I did a few months ago

A surprisingly efficient way to give a lot of personality to each different critter is to add a bit of perlin noise to the movement. Makes it all feel very natural.

Higher noise frequency -> more hectic
Higher noise strength -> more erratic

Here's a comparison of different settings:

An old random experiment I'm very happy with:
I wanted to make critters you cannot "interact" with as a player.

So I made a simple script where the critters idle around a specific area, and if the player gets too close, they go to a hiding spot, and spawn back later if the player is away.

Some old prototype:
You're on an island with a handful of items that can interact with another.

You interact by holding and waving items around with the wasd keys.

It was meant to be a micro crafting/puzzle game with a tightly closed loop of objects. Very inspired by Minit's minimalism.

A simple script for knocking props:
I needed objects to have wobble animations with a "soft" reset if another player knocks the same object.

So it's just a looping "wobble" that can just vary in intensity. Knocking the object just increment the slowly decaying wobble strength.

And with some very creative UV mapping, It also works wonders with little insects and other critters!

Based on the fishes in ABZU, the animation is a set of sines motions and extrusions. It uses the UVs to preset an intensity and offset of the motion (see next post).

It's surprisingly versatile and convincing! On top of being super cheap to make and run :)

Some fishes animated by shaders! Explanation in the thread:
(Models by Spelkraft, @dorianbeaugendre.bsky.social & me)

The clouds are just a layered bubbly noise, mapped on a hemisphere with super stretched uvs (more visible at the end of the video).

Does a great job of giving a sense of the clouds going over the horizon.

Let's start with a pretty skybox :)

This one I wanted to work like AC New Horizons, with big puffy clouds and many controls over light, wind, cloud coverage, etc...
Notable tidbits below: