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Hope you're having a fine day!

Studio Fizbin will most likely close soon. Your chance to hire their talented team!

Updated my cutting torch article because Noam Keasar implemented the technique in Unreal with Niagara.

From time to time I add new entries to my "Textures for VFX" database. This time: Trail Textures by Zoin!

This post does not only show beautiful strand VFX but at the bottom of the page you will also find a nice breakdown of the four elements that make up the effects.

Many effects are shown on this page, but my favorite is this one in the GIF. The timing is sooo satisfying!

Amazing effect of raising water by Arthur Saffo. The page shows of many more effects like lightning strikes and impacts.

The PoE2 VFX are disturbingly good. Here is a page with several of them. But here are way more! They have so much punch. Very impressive!

I love how fluffy and volumetric shaded this portal border is in Last Epoch!

Wojtek offers a math course and if you subscribe to the newsletter, you will get part 1-4 for free. There is also a blog covering many topics like "UE5: Reliable GPU Profiling" or "Lumen vs Ray Tracing. Which is Better?".

Very interesting tool to make broken glass surfaces in Unreal by Zoltán Kovács.

A collection of Unreal Material Functions to generate simple SDF shapes.

An article about the attempt to adapt a specific (lighting) art style into Unreal Engine.

I'm not sure what I'm looking at, but it has Doom. Enough to include it here. :)

A very young developer got a Steam page for his game and would be very happy about some wishlists. If you want to play a demo, there is one on itch! The game is full of heart and the result of someone loving game development, Minecraft, and portals.

Thanks for reading! Have a lovely day/night! 💘
Simon