reel of unfinished works

udk: edge detection shader

A few months ago I made a post process effect for UDK that uses the scene depth to detect edges. It might be overly complex but the results are pretty good.

It needs to be tweaked for any level it's applied to in order to adjust for scale, fog, and desired level of detail. This version was adapted to VCTF-Sandstorm, one of the maps that comes with UDK.





I used the shader provided in this post as the basis for mine, and this post helped as well. This is another example I found more recently.


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It's also possible to use the alpha component of the scene texture node instead of the scene depth node (the scaling values must be changed too).

hand eye social

I'm in the back there somewhere
On Thursday I was in Toronto to see Capybara and Superbrothers present their games Heartbeat and Sword and Sworcery. It was the first Hand Eye social of 2010. I didn't get to see much of the presentation because the place was packed and I could hardly see over the crowd, but it was still pretty exciting. Both games look (and sound) very cool. I'm interested in getting more involved in Toronto's indie game scene, so I was very happy to be there and I look forward to the next one.

Read this for more info about the event.

udk

This semester I am working on a major project using UDK. I'll be documenting some of my work here. The project is a complete playable level which will hopefully be available for download once it's done. I'm part of a team of two and my primary role is to do the scripting that's required to customize the engine.

Some of the features I'll be talking about:

• custom vehicle
• custom weapons
• custom character
• animated materials

pulse+

This is a little game I made for school in second year. The menus were made in Flash but the rest is pure ActionScript. It could probably use a timer and the audio should be replaced, since it is not original.

new year, new template

I'm going to attempt to revive this blog over the next few months by posting more of my work, documenting the two major projects I'm working on at school, and maybe writing some tutorials. I expect to be pretty busy though, so whether or not I'll have time for all that remains to be seen. 2009 was mostly crap with a few highlights; hopefully this one will be better for me. 2010 is cooler to say at least.

The new template is a modified version of this. The colours and the header image may be subject to change.