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Here's some UI concepts I've made for latest Small Fish s&box gamejam entry. Probably worth sharing them here. Since this was the very beginning of a gamejam, I also had to make full rendered scenes, so they kind of worked as art direction concepts too. :-D

In early September, I've decided to try making animations, so I did viewmodels for voxel weapons. There are 100 of things that can be improved, but so far I'm satisfied! This was made for a voxel multiplayer s&box game inspired by Ace of Spades, coming... in foreseeable future

Making little rework of Shoot & Build water shader to get rid of material input maps and generate waves & normals at runtime instead. This isn't very necessary for the game visuals, but I love messing with this type of stuff in s&box

Some new amateur animations I've made this month for Small Fish Shoot & Build :-) Animated and implemented these zombie hands a few hours before the playtest yesterday. Surprisingly it seems that it even worked without any issues!

Improved the water shader quite a bit, should be now less noisy and tiled. This is reaching absurd level of unnecessary detail for this game, but at least it is fun. Also water quality can be adjusted via settings now, for both wave iterations and reflections resolution. :0

Twitch Rivals 5! It is always a pleasure to work with Rustoria on this, amount of effort, organization and quality never fails to amaze me. GG!🫡 Here's some of the stuff I've made for it. Shoutout to Luke Sheriff building a great map as always.

Made a short timelapse of building the cathedral for Rust: Kingdoms 2, took only one month to finally compile screenshots together😛 Someday I won't forget to take more screenshots while I'm working on stuff.

Finally got some time to experiment with creating procedural nature assets in Houdini. It was surprisingly easy to figure it out, and you can set up really nice workflow with minimal input and huge variety of output data, from mesh itself to any baked surface data. Nice.

Unfinished bit made ~6 years ago, found this screenshot while scrolling through old files

I've just released "Shaders for Noobs" - website with a collection of beginner-friendly tutorials on s&box shaders. It covers nearly all basic surface shader features. Website is open-source too, so contributions are welcome! shaders.wheatleymf.net github.com/wheatleymf/sha…

Quick vintage PC 3D prop I've made in two evenings, just for fun. :-) Modelled in Blender, baked & textured in Marmoset Toolbag

Experimenting with a custom shading model in s&box, using custom BRDF model with stylized surface-stable dithering, pixelated shadows, and support for subsurface scattering using thickness map. WIP! Has plenty of inaccuracies that I'll need to resolve in the future.

Working on a terrain detailing system for s&box using indirect instanced drawing, with instance data calculated and stored on GPU end.🤠Little preview of a custom sky shader, too! (everything is work in progress)

My s&box water shader tweet got mentioned in 80 LEVEL recent article about Oz's vehicle physics, very nice. :-) It's good to see s&box content receiving more exposure in media. There's a lot more of awesome stuff that deserves attention.

I've been having fun making some 3D art this week. :-) Textured and rendered in Marmoset Toolbag. Got much more stuff to show later!

Old lawnmower that has seen better days (built with very limited set of image references, so I'm sorry if it looks off to lawnmowing enthusiasts)

Making materials with Substance Designer gives me too much joy. Here's a very quick cobblestone material.

This location has to be one of my favorite custom monuments for Rust that I've made in 2024. It's very simple and took only a few days, but I'm really happy with the atmosphere.