Parallax Occlusion Mapping stronk

Lil mesh slicing thing I developped today, working pretty smoothly on the steam deck.
TIL real-time mesh editing is inconsitent between editor and build because the editor uses the "source" mesh, while the built splits edges at UV seams, it took me a WHILE to figure out why it looked wrong in build

Finally... spooky day

My Silent Hill f technical art study is FINISHED!
Making the environment transform around the player as they enter the overworld was a fun challenge!

Artstation post with breakdowns: www.artstation.com/artwork/oJeRqz
Hope you like it, reposts appreciated!!

#techart #gamedev #vfx

Not much in terms of exciting updates these days, I've just been slowly grinding minor visual improvements. This week I've mostly focused on the character model, eyebrows, uniform, skin texture, tiny hairs on her cheeks and what not, tiny things that bothered me a little (left is old, right is new)

This weekend's exciting progress: spent a day and a half just making this shadow less noisy for this one shot.
Yet another situation where each shadow method/setting has its pros and cons so I had to brute force the quality a little bit

I was in rendering purgatory bc tell me how it took me THREE DAYS just to fix this small artefact around her hair.
Every single fix I tried had its own issue until I just said heck it, made 1 render without character, 1 render with her and manually masked the problematic areas just for this scene