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• Blender Reference

  Feb 13, 2023

  Blender cheat sheet for my own personal reference.

• Procedural Water

  Nov 29, 2022

  How to generate pseudo-3D water with a noise texture and some color ramps

• Ghost AI for Vapor Trails

  Sep 23, 2022

  Fast, reactive AI with a short training time

• Designing Space for Violence

  Jul 27, 2022

  How to make a good Trouble in Terrorist Town level

• Hammer Modeling

  Jul 26, 2022

  This is not about how to use Hammer itself. This is about how to efficiently model levels.

• Racing Season in a Beach Town

  Sep 10, 2021

  You look at the ocean differently than I do. I’m not sure when our perceptions diverged, maybe it was the same time we did. I still remember being stunned for the first time when you couldn’t come over after school.

• Jelly Dreams

  Sep 1, 2021

  There was something on my mind a moment ago, but the thought has vanished.

• Practical Shaders: Wind-blown Leaves

  Jan 10, 2021

  In this post, we’ll write a fragment shader to animate leaves in Unity. I’m assuming familiarity with light vector math.

• Basic Skeletal Animation in Unity

  Jan 8, 2021

  I’m very lazy and dislike hand-animating. This is a problem in game development, so I have a workaround.

• THE JUICE

  Jan 25, 2020

  Ok so we’ve got this punch. Arm goes out, arm comes back in. Basic punch. Looks bad! How do we fix it?