bretgamedev
LightNews LightNews
banner
kromenoi.bsky.social
bretgamedev
@kromenoi.bsky.social
110 followers 36 following 32 posts
Unreal Engine tech & character artist, philosophy grad. Creator of PERISH, a mythologic shooter: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1016360/PERISH/

Working on DEFICIT, an action imsim sci-fi.
Posts Replies Media Videos
kromenoi.bsky.social
Some cool things I've been working on for @item42.bsky.social in our game DEFICIT, plus a bonus toad that loves to hang out in my garden in the evening hours.
#indiedev #gaming #unrealengine
A scientist stands in a cluttered mechanical room in a full body white and black sealed labsuit, flanked in the background by two more labsuit characters. His face is lit up from below by a small internal light inside the helmet. Two brightly lit arcade machines in a mechanical room, one of which is being played by a fully suited red officer character. An orange-lit two-tiered assembly room with a shallow staircase leading to a series of 3D printer devices. A toad sitting on a plastic plant tray.
May 3, 2025 at 10:59 AM
kromenoi.bsky.social
UE5 tech art tip 1.

You need a cool light gradient for that "off into the distance" effect.

Welcome to "Decal Gradients"!

Subtract Actor Pos from World Pos to anchor the effect to your Decal Actor.

Place the Decal, treat it like a volume. Voila - cheap lighting great with Lumen!

#ue5 #techart
Cheap decal gradient for lighting large spaces. Use Decal Actors as a volume to light up whole static or dynamic actors that are enabled to receive decals. This a node graph showing the logic behind the decal gradient material. Note that Decal Actors require a material to be set to Decal material domain and either Translucent or Alpha Composite blend mode. Turn off "Tangent Space Normals" in the global settings of your material to reduce shader instructions. Too dark, needs a cool gradient! This pipe area is looking moody but it's pitch black below, not very exciting. This decal gradient effect could be tweaked for ages because it's highly versatile, and if you extend the material's usage, you could even convert the Component Mask into a Parameter to work on all 3 axes. A claustrophobic L-shaped pipe corridor lit underneath in an orange glow with two vents on the walls emanating yellow fog light.
November 18, 2024 at 11:47 AM
kromenoi.bsky.social
I draw crazy comic illustrations for our metal/mathcore band ZILF. Warning: the toxic colour palette may sear its way through your retinas.

#comic #illustration #photoshop #art #futurama
Album artwork titled ZILF - Reanimated. Comic illustration of glowing needles, sharp points pressed into a stretched and torn three-eyed face festooned with a morass of teeth, lips and eyeballs. Album cover titled ZILF. Comic illustration of a city embroiled in chaos at night. 50s-era saucer ships abduct pedestrians fleeing their vehicles as warplanes fly between the narrow buildings, firing missiles wantonly. Multiple fires burn from high-rise windows. An impossibly large tarantula scales a building.
November 17, 2024 at 9:39 AM
kromenoi.bsky.social
More screenshots of PERISH, our gold-stained classical FPS on PC and consoles.

This was our first proper game and the gilded antiquity automaton aesthetic is probably something I'd like to return to in another game someday.
November 7, 2024 at 6:40 PM
kromenoi.bsky.social
Today of all days seems like an excellent time to join the conversation here.

I'm an indie game dev based in Brighton, UK. I made PERISH on PC and Console with my brother at our 2-person studio, ITEM42.

Character art, environment art, props, weapons, story, music - it's a lot but I do it anyway!
A hulking Cyclops in Centurion-inspired plated armour wields a cannon as a first person perspective shows a shotgun pointed at the Cyclops. A sphere of ammunition inset into the top of the shotgun is detailed with Atlas holding the ammo clip. A greenlit corridor fades into a murky red, on which small snakelike humanoid creatures run towards a first person perspective character wielding a bow and arrow. Amidst the creatures is a taller, marble-like revenant with two enormous horns on its head. Two golden automatons run across a river of fire as Furies flap their wings in the distance. One is wielding two curved moonblades while the other is holding a sword and shield. The first person perspective shows a gilded sniper rifle pointed at one of the automatons.
November 6, 2024 at 9:01 AM