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Elbriga, making Ballistic.exe

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🇫🇷 - Senior Technical Artist @kylotonn_games Wishlist Ballistic.exe https://store.steampowered.com/app/3432980/Ballisticexe/ Formerly @MonochromeParis . @tandem_game , Singularity5 VR.

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Elbriga, making Ballistic.exe @elbriga14.bsky.social · Feb 20

Thank you for a quarter of a million views on Ballistic.exe's reveal trailer 😱
#gamedev #UE5

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Elbriga, making Ballistic.exe @elbriga14.bsky.social · 23h

That's so true. Most people wouldn't consider that working in a frozen pizza factory or being a private chef are the same job, and yet "game dev" somehow encompasses an equally great range of experiences 😱

Elbriga, making Ballistic.exe @elbriga14.bsky.social · 1d

That's so funny, reminds me of a mechanic we put in Tandem: a Tale of Shadows back in the day, we had these pink cubes that wanted nothing but eat each other to make platforms ! Love this!

Elbriga, making Ballistic.exe @elbriga14.bsky.social · 4d

Just updated Ballistic.exe's steam page with new screenshots!
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Now is a great time to share the page with your friends! 🙏
#gamedev

Ballistic.exe on Steam

Ballistic.exe is an advanced weapon simulator, with challenging true-to-life aiming mechanics, full weapon manipulation and customization, and highly accurate ballistic calculations.

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Elbriga, making Ballistic.exe @elbriga14.bsky.social · 5d

True gamedevs paint their shadows by hand! 💪
#gamedev #UE5

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Elbriga, making Ballistic.exe @elbriga14.bsky.social · 9d

Hence, some LODs really don't have much polycount difference, but will be displayed differently in the outlines, avoiding noisy / all black detail further in the landscape

Elbriga, making Ballistic.exe @elbriga14.bsky.social · 9d

In Ballistic.exe, LODs are used not so much for performance reasons - but instead to manage the amount of detail present in the outlines.

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Elbriga, making Ballistic.exe @elbriga14.bsky.social · 9d

I have become everything I hate 😭 I... put fucking CRATES in my game
But I'll share an interesting tidbit anyway

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Elbriga, making Ballistic.exe @elbriga14.bsky.social · 9d

Looks like a great choice, I'll give it a go thank you!

Elbriga, making Ballistic.exe @elbriga14.bsky.social · 9d

Anyone with good recommendations for where to find affordable pixel fonts that support *at least* the complete basic latin charset? Ideally also russian, japanese and korean

Elbriga, making Ballistic.exe @elbriga14.bsky.social · 11d

Level blocking for the first complete map of Ballistic.exe 👀
Almost done!
#gamedev

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Elbriga, making Ballistic.exe @elbriga14.bsky.social · 14d

Ring that bell!
First look at the seamless(ish) teleportation effect in Ballistic.exe
#UE5 #TechArt #VFX #indiedev

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Elbriga, making Ballistic.exe @elbriga14.bsky.social · 16d

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Ballistic.exe - The last 9 months in development - Steam News

Since the publication of the Steam page more than 9 months ago, development of Ballistic.exe has been going strong. As a solo dev I can only afford to work on the game part time, but progress is stead...

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Elbriga, making Ballistic.exe @elbriga14.bsky.social · Sep 20

And one last example with the vertex info

Elbriga, making Ballistic.exe @elbriga14.bsky.social · Sep 20

(notice the nice mix of thick edges between different objects, and thin edges within the same object)

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Elbriga, making Ballistic.exe @elbriga14.bsky.social · Sep 20

And of course, the standard kernel sampling of normals and random buffers per object (hashing object position and bounds to generate a random ID in multiple buffers) + depth sampling (mostly useful for terrain)

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Elbriga, making Ballistic.exe @elbriga14.bsky.social · Sep 20

It uses a very simple GeoNode tool to randomize vertex color per mesh island, giving much more information per mesh on where to draw edges

Elbriga, making Ballistic.exe @elbriga14.bsky.social · Sep 20

Another showcase of the latest improvements in Ballistic.exe's edge detection
#indiedev #gamedev #UE5

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Elbriga, making Ballistic.exe @elbriga14.bsky.social · Sep 19

I've often tried to replicate the comic book feel in 3D, and sometimes I feel like Ballistic.exe succeeds in that regard despite not being the goal 🧐
Even has that touch of watercolor feel!

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Elbriga, making Ballistic.exe @elbriga14.bsky.social · Sep 19

It's not a debug screen, it's a PARTYYY
#gamdev #indiedev

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Elbriga, making Ballistic.exe @elbriga14.bsky.social · Sep 13

Snowy day in Ballistic.exe

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Elbriga, making Ballistic.exe @elbriga14.bsky.social · Sep 4

I thought that GTAIV was brillant in its satire, but V was all setup and no punchline

Elbriga, making Ballistic.exe @elbriga14.bsky.social · Sep 4

What's a milksong

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Elbriga, making Ballistic.exe @elbriga14.bsky.social · Sep 2

You're probably not doing anything wrong. UMG is very rigid and gamepad support is notoriously difficult :/ My personal advice would be to use the UINavigation plugin, it's very robust

Sadly my personal approach is to adapt my UI style to the toolset, rather than the opposite :/

Elbriga, making Ballistic.exe @elbriga14.bsky.social · Aug 31

And I had fun putting in smoke from the open bolt after a cartridge has been fired ^^ Short FAQ at the end of the video if you're interested!

Elbriga, making Ballistic.exe @elbriga14.bsky.social · Aug 31

the bolt itself is driven by the cartridge impulse and the spring, there's no skeletal animation here! Even the cartridge ejection force is calculated from bolt velocity

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