Starlit Snow
@starlitsnow.bsky.social
💻 Unreal Engine || 🎨Technical Artist || 👷Indie Dev
Microsoft failing in SPECTACULAR fashion to read the freaking room. Guess I’m switching to Linux!
March 29, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Microsoft failing in SPECTACULAR fashion to read the freaking room. Guess I’m switching to Linux!
Introduce yourself with four video games 🎮
March 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Introduce yourself with four video games 🎮
Me, back home, feeling pumped to get some @unrealengine.bsky.social work done...
UE Editor: "LOL NOT TODAY, CHUMP!"
UE Editor: "LOL NOT TODAY, CHUMP!"
March 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Me, back home, feeling pumped to get some @unrealengine.bsky.social work done...
UE Editor: "LOL NOT TODAY, CHUMP!"
UE Editor: "LOL NOT TODAY, CHUMP!"
Me, about to go on a smol morning adventure to get coffee cream.
My car, Blanche Devereaux, channeling her inner @samhulick.bsky.social:
My car, Blanche Devereaux, channeling her inner @samhulick.bsky.social:
March 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Me, about to go on a smol morning adventure to get coffee cream.
My car, Blanche Devereaux, channeling her inner @samhulick.bsky.social:
My car, Blanche Devereaux, channeling her inner @samhulick.bsky.social:
Test in UE5 to see how things are going; trying to establish mood and such.
March 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Test in UE5 to see how things are going; trying to establish mood and such.
Didn't *quite* scale the cabled mid-section above the indicator ball *quite* right, but I think I did okay...
March 4, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Didn't *quite* scale the cabled mid-section above the indicator ball *quite* right, but I think I did okay...
Found some free time, so work continues~~
March 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Found some free time, so work continues~~
Work continues. Finished the back wall behind the Stargate. Just need to make door meshes for the frames, but I'll do that at a later time.
February 17, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Work continues. Finished the back wall behind the Stargate. Just need to make door meshes for the frames, but I'll do that at a later time.
Gate Room is coming along better than I'd even hoped! ^_^ Did a quick Blender preview-rt render test too, for fun.
February 15, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Gate Room is coming along better than I'd even hoped! ^_^ Did a quick Blender preview-rt render test too, for fun.
Ending the night with progress on the back of the room, where the main ingress is, and the ludicrously-steep staircase. :)
February 12, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Ending the night with progress on the back of the room, where the main ingress is, and the ludicrously-steep staircase. :)
The work continues~~
February 12, 2025 at 2:56 AM
The work continues~~
Continuing on with the Gate Room of the Destiny, where the Stargate lives. :D
February 11, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Continuing on with the Gate Room of the Destiny, where the Stargate lives. :D
Better picture, as seen in Unreal Engine:
February 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Better picture, as seen in Unreal Engine:
Had some time, so I worked on optimizing my Stargate. I've baked down the modeled details in the outer and inner ring sections into the textures, cutting the per-segment faces down from over 100k to 49k. Tradeoff is there's now a strong reliance on texture resolution. But so far, it's ok.
February 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Had some time, so I worked on optimizing my Stargate. I've baked down the modeled details in the outer and inner ring sections into the textures, cutting the per-segment faces down from over 100k to 49k. Tradeoff is there's now a strong reliance on texture resolution. But so far, it's ok.
Began packaging and deploying projects directly from Unreal Engine to Steam Deck! Running both native Linux executables and Windows through Proton. Seeing an impressive 10fps performance improvement in native Linux, though it seems to break Nanite LODs.
January 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Began packaging and deploying projects directly from Unreal Engine to Steam Deck! Running both native Linux executables and Windows through Proton. Seeing an impressive 10fps performance improvement in native Linux, though it seems to break Nanite LODs.
In-engine material testing
January 15, 2025 at 8:15 AM
In-engine material testing
Creating textures for the Destiny Stargate segment by blending and masking smart materials in Substance Painter
January 15, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Creating textures for the Destiny Stargate segment by blending and masking smart materials in Substance Painter
UE5 project integration test. It's all starting to come together!
Now I "just" need to work on UV maps and texturing.
Now I "just" need to work on UV maps and texturing.
January 13, 2025 at 6:28 PM
UE5 project integration test. It's all starting to come together!
Now I "just" need to work on UV maps and texturing.
Now I "just" need to work on UV maps and texturing.
Radial test of the completed Stargate. <3
January 13, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Radial test of the completed Stargate. <3
Another #Stargate segment update. Took most of my day, but I managed to get in some of the patterns. This project *REALLY* makes me wish @blender.org had a radial array function like every other tool I've used...
January 13, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Another #Stargate segment update. Took most of my day, but I managed to get in some of the patterns. This project *REALLY* makes me wish @blender.org had a radial array function like every other tool I've used...
Progress post just before I go for a short work shift:
January 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Progress post just before I go for a short work shift:
Since I'll be waiting a while for my main PC to get a new CPU under RMA, I'm using the ole' reliable Mac to get back to an old project. Started gathering references for the 'modelling phase':
January 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Since I'll be waiting a while for my main PC to get a new CPU under RMA, I'm using the ole' reliable Mac to get back to an old project. Started gathering references for the 'modelling phase':
HUZZAH!! Intel customer support (for my defective 13900KF cpu) winning like a boss.
January 6, 2025 at 7:09 PM
HUZZAH!! Intel customer support (for my defective 13900KF cpu) winning like a boss.
I kind of wanna take a stab at making this game in reality…
January 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I kind of wanna take a stab at making this game in reality…