Not sure if I'm happy with this. at the point of just poking at sliders and probably just making things worse if I look too closely at it.

Andromeda galaxy M31, LRGB (L 60sx53, R/G/B 120sx20)

The Cygnus Wall of the North American Nebula NGC 7000 in SHO, captured last night
#astrophotograhpy

It's coming right for us!!

Haven't had much luck in processing LRGB images yet, but I shall keep trying.

For the past year I've been building up an astrophotography rig.
Clear nights are few and far between here, but I managed to get a full session in last night for the first time and had a first go a processing the images.

This is the Pacman Nebula (NGC 281), in the Hubble palette.

I'm off for 2 weeks, so time to replace one spooky Irish house with another

No Man's Sky might be running out of names. Planet Frank.

Whilst I'm the eternally anxious sort that will never be happy that the games we make are in a state to release, I'm proud of what the team has managed to put together with the resources available.

Hopefully we'll have many more development adventures to come.

Being something I was tinkering with on and off, I managed to get this all working by Nov '24... eventually.

I solved this by rendering the character off screen then applying that render to a sprite, which can sort with the scene.
From that render I also pull the real-time normals from the character and use that for the 2D lights shading.

Not advisable for your first 3D project? 😅

In June '24 I experimented with 3D characters. There were some... teething issues.

Doing 3D in a 2D world presented some sorting issues. Also 3D models don't work with unity's 2D lights, which we were using with sprite normal maps for directional shading.

At first we tried 2D animations, in Feb '24.
Character animations rendered out to sprites, for 8 directions (although we just did 5 and flipped horizontally).

Being a '2D studio' this is what we were most comfortable with, but it'd be a massive asset headache to deal with and not very sustainable.

By Dec '23 we decided to try out free moving players within room sections, which was an obvious improvement. But this would require animations that we weren't initially planning on.

We started out with static characters, just teleporting from section to section. Very tabletop.

Because that's how we started prototyping, in Tabletop Simulator. Here's a shot from back in June '23, using Mansions of Madness room tiles.

We're releasing Eyes of Hellfire in early access this week.

To quiet the internal screaming of "OMGITSNOTREADYTHEBUGSTHEBUGS!!" I've been looking back at the progress of development. Here's the first video of a playable prototype I have saved, from Oct '23.

A lot has changed but the core is there

I think Slack purposely put the dumb AI button next to the close thread button so you are more likely to click it by mistake

GMail put this in the spam folder. Even it know this is trash