Had a fun gamescom and met up with old and new friends!
Time to take the train home and lay down for multiple days haha

Decided to check out how water is rendered in Counter-Strike 2.

Given how interactive water in CS2 is, I expected to see some cellular fluid simulation, but turns out they just use a low-resolution off-screen buffer with flat 2D decals used for various aspects of water. Reminds me of HL2 water :)

Crossfire

Rare "non-digital" 3D Art post :)
I 3d printed and painted a delftware porcelain Hatsune Miku figurine that I made based on a friend's (vuktos on insta) sticker design (as a surprise gift for her birthday). #b3d #3dprinting #vocaloid #miku

Bluesky in Windows Longhorn Hillel 2003.

Especially important to highlight is that the Nazis viewed modern art, especially abstract expressionism and openly political art, as "degenerate" because these are the kinds of art that encourage you to think about what the piece of art means

Nazi/far-right art strives for non-meaning

Quite annoyed with Steam now blocking store pages of Games without age-ratings here in Germany.
It annoys me especially cuz it 100% blocks pre-release stuff with pending ratings and is delisting software tools that wouldn't even get any ratings as theyre NOT GAMES

Really hate this aspect of Germany

Another Custom Cinematic Background Map, but for Episode Two now on workshop:
steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/...

(in)stabilitea (predecessor to The Elision Effect)
is playable on the Half-Life 2 workshop now!

A short surreal #liminalspace puzzle game set in an eerie empty office...
#screenshotsaturday

👉 steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/...

With the awesome announcement of the Half-Life 2 Anniversary Update, and the inclusion of official workshop support for Half-Life 2, I will be uploading almost ALL of my maps/mods I ever made (with time) to it!
You can follow, and get them all here:
steamcommunity.com/workshop/fil...

To celebrate the 20th birthday of #Half-Life2

I 've put all (read: most, more soon) my old Half-Life 2 levels on the workshop and created a collection.

steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/...

A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.

I made my account here just a few hours ago and I'm already shocked by how many people here I know already? Feels like I'm home again and that was was formerly "Game Dev Twitter" is back and alive again.

Makes me almost feel like I was the last one to finally hop over ^^

Just finished watching this with a whole group of my friends, genuinely an amazing documentary and great insight into the development of one my favorite games. Seeing some of the ep3 stuff for the first time is wild.
Genuinely a fantastic doc, as expected from the noclip/Secret Tape crew :)

Since Game Dev Twitter completely died a whiiiile ago, I've now decided to move my stuff over here as well. I see everyone else I followed also pretty much moved over here already, so hello again folks :P

For those who don't know me, I'm Kosan, I do 3D Props, Environments, Shaders, et cetera. 👋