Love what @andremc.bsky.social did there! I just cant help and wonder what I could do, to add the same feel and satisfaction to the moments when my players discover a new acient structure on the 3D sonar. The game is suposed to be as diagetic as possible so any flashy stuff would feel wired, not?

I’m working on a newspaper-style transition screen. Any fun ideas for what it could feature besides the expedition?

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I refined the interaction UI a bit;
this early 20th-century submarine, built to discover the secrets beneath the North Pole, has lots of gauges.
Do you think the texts will help to see what each gauge is for?

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You can now easily add you own custom vinyl records to my arctic exploration game...
Have I gone too far?! 👀
I guess its up to you ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Spend some time on the Drop-Stack Record Player today, no animations yet, but I already love it ❤️. Assembling playlists physically is just such a vibe!

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Don't mind me, just listening to a🍅tomato song and ✏️drawing my submarine, so I can put the sketches in to my journal later on.

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Just a small update for tonights progress; spend the time modeling and fine tuning the HTP (Hight Test Peroxide) recievers. Can you guess what they might be used for in the submarine? 🤔

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Working hard on setting up all the many gauges, adding labels (with localization) and hoocking them up to display the correct values.
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The Compass will be one of your most important tools, trying to reach the north pole, so happy how it turned out!
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Vintage Submarine diesel engine and generator go brrr

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I have been playing around with procedural edge wear lately, as its a big part of the visual identity for Project North. Will post a System breakdown when it its fully finished but man was this a pain 🥲

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🧵4/4 System breakdown: Sonar VFX
For the full Sonar effect i then also needed to do some rotation by 90°(coordinate transformation). The whole messy bit at the bottom is then for the visuals like distance fade.
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🧵3/4 System breakdown: Sonar VFX (Simplified)
I now use the output from the sub effect graph to displace every point. Also if a point is at its max distance I hide it as it did not "hit" anything on its way.

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🧵1/4 System breakdown: Sonar
By using 5 cameras that all have an FOV of 90° pointed in to each direction (except backwards), we can generate render textures that capture the brightness (and color).

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