Christian Sparks
@hippowombat.bsky.social
He/Him
Opinions are my own
Senior Tech Artist at Heart Machine on #HyperLightBreaker & #Possessors
Prev Senior Tech Artist at Bad Robot Games
Unfinished project enthusiast
Anti A/I Anti N/F/T
https://linktr.ee/hippowombat
Opinions are my own
Senior Tech Artist at Heart Machine on #HyperLightBreaker & #Possessors
Prev Senior Tech Artist at Bad Robot Games
Unfinished project enthusiast
Anti A/I Anti N/F/T
https://linktr.ee/hippowombat
NEW VINYL
NEW VINYL
NEW VINYL
Courtesy of my lovely wife who isn't on Bluesky
NEW VINYL
NEW VINYL
Courtesy of my lovely wife who isn't on Bluesky
November 20, 2025 at 2:34 AM
NEW VINYL
NEW VINYL
NEW VINYL
Courtesy of my lovely wife who isn't on Bluesky
NEW VINYL
NEW VINYL
Courtesy of my lovely wife who isn't on Bluesky
back on my bullshit
November 18, 2025 at 8:31 AM
back on my bullshit
Can confirm anecdotally it works in Unreal as well. Also your raccoon is so cute!!!
November 17, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Can confirm anecdotally it works in Unreal as well. Also your raccoon is so cute!!!
Confirmed! Thanks so much!
November 16, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Confirmed! Thanks so much!
Blender anim question - the mesh is skinned to a set of deformer bones, but I'm using non-deforming bones w/ custom shapes to constraint-transform my deformer bones, do I have to key the transforms of both the controllers & the deformers if I'm exporting the animations with Ony Deform Bones checked?
November 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Blender anim question - the mesh is skinned to a set of deformer bones, but I'm using non-deforming bones w/ custom shapes to constraint-transform my deformer bones, do I have to key the transforms of both the controllers & the deformers if I'm exporting the animations with Ony Deform Bones checked?
They let me put stuff in a game that's available on a console. Insane. What were they thinking?!
November 13, 2025 at 7:25 AM
They let me put stuff in a game that's available on a console. Insane. What were they thinking?!
Update: it's pretty good
October 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Update: it's pretty good
Adventures in cooking: our friend group is getting together to carve/paint pumpkins tonight & everyone's bringing food. I don't know how to cook much but I'm trying out making a brown sugar honey glazed ham. Following a tutorial, I made a glaze, ham is cooking now, final pictures once it's done:
October 18, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Adventures in cooking: our friend group is getting together to carve/paint pumpkins tonight & everyone's bringing food. I don't know how to cook much but I'm trying out making a brown sugar honey glazed ham. Following a tutorial, I made a glaze, ham is cooking now, final pictures once it's done:
Couple more finds courtesy of my rad wife who is not on Bluesky
October 1, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Couple more finds courtesy of my rad wife who is not on Bluesky
"What goes on under your desk Christian?" I am SO glad you asked!
September 26, 2025 at 2:28 AM
"What goes on under your desk Christian?" I am SO glad you asked!
Found some river generation junk I forgot to share. Starts at the highest point on the map, then marches down looking for steepest declines. If it falls into a pit before reaching the ocean, it'll fill-search radial points until it finds the next lowest point out of the pit, then resumes path march.
August 25, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Found some river generation junk I forgot to share. Starts at the highest point on the map, then marches down looking for steepest declines. If it falls into a pit before reaching the ocean, it'll fill-search radial points until it finds the next lowest point out of the pit, then resumes path march.
made a gross lil symbiote/parasite thingy
August 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
made a gross lil symbiote/parasite thingy
new ink new ink new ink
August 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
new ink new ink new ink
...batched on separate threads & then returned. Gonna try & combine this with the quadtree terrain stuff I've been playing with, I think this is the missing ingredient, especially with component collision/physics updates being practically instantaneous!
August 14, 2025 at 7:46 AM
...batched on separate threads & then returned. Gonna try & combine this with the quadtree terrain stuff I've been playing with, I think this is the missing ingredient, especially with component collision/physics updates being practically instantaneous!
Update - turns out UDynamicMesh is largely a UObject wrapper for FDynamicMesh3 - a data structure, which can be manipulated off of the game thread. Offloading geo buffer generation & FDynamicMesh3 construction to separate threads, then just passing the data back to UDynamicMesh, is very fast!
August 14, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Update - turns out UDynamicMesh is largely a UObject wrapper for FDynamicMesh3 - a data structure, which can be manipulated off of the game thread. Offloading geo buffer generation & FDynamicMesh3 construction to separate threads, then just passing the data back to UDynamicMesh, is very fast!
#GMTK #gamejam progress night 3 -
- You can now place probes onto the planet, which will reveal raw material deposits. Still need to animate the probe's travel.
- UI tells you what resources you have, what a probe/lander flight path will cost.
Gonna go to sleep & try for a big push tomorrow.
- You can now place probes onto the planet, which will reveal raw material deposits. Still need to animate the probe's travel.
- UI tells you what resources you have, what a probe/lander flight path will cost.
Gonna go to sleep & try for a big push tomorrow.
August 2, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Def fits in with the overall flow I had in mind!
August 1, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Def fits in with the overall flow I had in mind!
#GMTK #gamejam progress night 2
- Can put pins on the planet that will move with the surface rotation
- Can get a preview of your shuttle crew's flight path down to the planet
- Improved planet shadows
- Stubbed some UI in
All the math for this is awful and fake, I have no idea what I'm doing lmao
- Can put pins on the planet that will move with the surface rotation
- Can get a preview of your shuttle crew's flight path down to the planet
- Improved planet shadows
- Stubbed some UI in
All the math for this is awful and fake, I have no idea what I'm doing lmao
August 1, 2025 at 7:04 AM