Victor D. Goossens
@mr4goosey.bsky.social
Sr. Technical Artist at Voxel Plugin.
Previously: Technical Art for Prehistoric Kingdom and Kenshi 2.
Previously: Technical Art for Prehistoric Kingdom and Kenshi 2.
One of the things I'm adding in the upcoming Universal Wind Shader update is a fun math trick which takes your surface-aligned grass, and adjusts the geo to be 'world' up again (instead of local) using WPO.
This stops your grass from floating, without making it look like it's growing sideways!
This stops your grass from floating, without making it look like it's growing sideways!
November 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
One of the things I'm adding in the upcoming Universal Wind Shader update is a fun math trick which takes your surface-aligned grass, and adjusts the geo to be 'world' up again (instead of local) using WPO.
This stops your grass from floating, without making it look like it's growing sideways!
This stops your grass from floating, without making it look like it's growing sideways!
It's also easy to do this just for the current session!
If you press Ctrl-Shift-W, the Widget Reflector will open. That contains a global Application Scale setting as well, which will be discarded after you restart.
If you press Ctrl-Shift-W, the Widget Reflector will open. That contains a global Application Scale setting as well, which will be discarded after you restart.
September 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM
It's also easy to do this just for the current session!
If you press Ctrl-Shift-W, the Widget Reflector will open. That contains a global Application Scale setting as well, which will be discarded after you restart.
If you press Ctrl-Shift-W, the Widget Reflector will open. That contains a global Application Scale setting as well, which will be discarded after you restart.
A 🧵 on Bindless Textures in UE5!
In UE5.5, bindless textures seem to be non-experimental.
But they're still disabled by default, and entirely undocumented.
Enabling them should, in most cases, be a performance gain. Doing so will also let you 'bypass' the limits on unique SRV and samplers. 1/x
In UE5.5, bindless textures seem to be non-experimental.
But they're still disabled by default, and entirely undocumented.
Enabling them should, in most cases, be a performance gain. Doing so will also let you 'bypass' the limits on unique SRV and samplers. 1/x
January 17, 2025 at 11:03 AM
A 🧵 on Bindless Textures in UE5!
In UE5.5, bindless textures seem to be non-experimental.
But they're still disabled by default, and entirely undocumented.
Enabling them should, in most cases, be a performance gain. Doing so will also let you 'bypass' the limits on unique SRV and samplers. 1/x
In UE5.5, bindless textures seem to be non-experimental.
But they're still disabled by default, and entirely undocumented.
Enabling them should, in most cases, be a performance gain. Doing so will also let you 'bypass' the limits on unique SRV and samplers. 1/x
Happy new year! First winter new year's eve here in the north, and there were barely any fireworks. My wife had dozed off a bit before midnight and just snoozed right through it.
Nice and frosty now though!
Nice and frosty now though!
January 1, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Happy new year! First winter new year's eve here in the north, and there were barely any fireworks. My wife had dozed off a bit before midnight and just snoozed right through it.
Nice and frosty now though!
Nice and frosty now though!
Hah, this is fun to see pop up right now!
I've been working on a full-body first person character for my side project the past two weeks. Having a lot of fun with it. I just love how it grounds the character (and by extension, player) in the world. Head is a separate mesh to allow hiding it in FPV.
I've been working on a full-body first person character for my side project the past two weeks. Having a lot of fun with it. I just love how it grounds the character (and by extension, player) in the world. Head is a separate mesh to allow hiding it in FPV.
December 12, 2024 at 10:36 PM
Hah, this is fun to see pop up right now!
I've been working on a full-body first person character for my side project the past two weeks. Having a lot of fun with it. I just love how it grounds the character (and by extension, player) in the world. Head is a separate mesh to allow hiding it in FPV.
I've been working on a full-body first person character for my side project the past two weeks. Having a lot of fun with it. I just love how it grounds the character (and by extension, player) in the world. Head is a separate mesh to allow hiding it in FPV.
LUMEN PSA: if you're seeing weird splotchy jitter artifacts with Lumen on foliage meshes, like in this vid, try increasing
r.Lumen.ScreenProbeGather.Temporal.MaxFramesAccumulated
This will stabilize your screen probes, at the cost of making your Lumen react less quickly to fast lighting changes.
r.Lumen.ScreenProbeGather.Temporal.MaxFramesAccumulated
This will stabilize your screen probes, at the cost of making your Lumen react less quickly to fast lighting changes.
December 5, 2024 at 11:20 AM
LUMEN PSA: if you're seeing weird splotchy jitter artifacts with Lumen on foliage meshes, like in this vid, try increasing
r.Lumen.ScreenProbeGather.Temporal.MaxFramesAccumulated
This will stabilize your screen probes, at the cost of making your Lumen react less quickly to fast lighting changes.
r.Lumen.ScreenProbeGather.Temporal.MaxFramesAccumulated
This will stabilize your screen probes, at the cost of making your Lumen react less quickly to fast lighting changes.
Continuing the work on seasons!
Much more foresty vibes to the entire world now, with spring/summer feeling properly lush. Really feel like it's coming together well.
Much more foresty vibes to the entire world now, with spring/summer feeling properly lush. Really feel like it's coming together well.
December 3, 2024 at 11:03 PM
Continuing the work on seasons!
Much more foresty vibes to the entire world now, with spring/summer feeling properly lush. Really feel like it's coming together well.
Much more foresty vibes to the entire world now, with spring/summer feeling properly lush. Really feel like it's coming together well.
I'm off work, so obviously that means it's time to work on my own #techart stuff!
Having fun playing with seasons, trying really hard to make it work without needing extra assets for the different seasons.
If the project lives, it'll be a survival game in-between Subnautica and The Long Dark 👀
Having fun playing with seasons, trying really hard to make it work without needing extra assets for the different seasons.
If the project lives, it'll be a survival game in-between Subnautica and The Long Dark 👀
December 2, 2024 at 10:00 PM
I'm off work, so obviously that means it's time to work on my own #techart stuff!
Having fun playing with seasons, trying really hard to make it work without needing extra assets for the different seasons.
If the project lives, it'll be a survival game in-between Subnautica and The Long Dark 👀
Having fun playing with seasons, trying really hard to make it work without needing extra assets for the different seasons.
If the project lives, it'll be a survival game in-between Subnautica and The Long Dark 👀
I support this initiative.
November 8, 2024 at 4:37 PM
I support this initiative.