John Emerson
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John Emerson
@jemerson.bsky.social
VFX Artist | Professor | Sometimes I make a cool thing. | Opinions are my own. | MPA and Finance | He/Him

Topics: #visualeffects #vfx #fx #rtvfx #realtimevfx #techart #gamedev #finance #publicpolicy #education

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Now character specific dialogue is in and working. Fixed up a couple issues as well. Still some fine tuning but its working. Lots of writing to come in the future. #gamedev #UI #narrativedesign
August 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Getting a dialogue (narrative?) system up and running was easier than I imagined. Now I gotta come up with the words though. Something like 40 characters and 30 quests? This is gonna take a minute. #gamedev #UI #narrativedesign
August 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Putzing around making my own version of the hologram map based on this video. Not sure yet if I'm going to go down the PCG route or not to bring in holographic buildings. May end up trying out my render target as a height mask to do some offsets. www.youtube.com/live/IBuqoNw...
July 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Apparently gif doesn't just play when uploaded from a phone.
May 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Took a minute to figure out you gotta go down multiple pack/unpack levels to get the individual pieces to scale down on themselves and not the scene origin.
May 8, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Setting up my next scene for a portfolio piece and wondering when I just go ahead and make a FF type game now. Nothing ooh and aah to show (yet) but it feels right so far. Link for non compressed vid. #gamedev #realtimevfx vimeo.com/1068497430/c...
March 23, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Forgot bsky can do video now, so here's some life stream type thing for you.
October 17, 2024 at 1:40 AM