Most common / Bread & Butter Shaders and Materials "techniques"?

Hey, Torbach!

I really liked these orbs at first glance, but I was working on some other stuff at that time and didn’t want to derail myself from that.
But now the time has come!

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I specially like these 3 - loved the motion around the core!

General questions:

Are they spheres or billboards?


How do you get these cloudy blobs? Is it some trickery with Fresnel + Noises?

…more or less similar to this?

Now an specific question about the spinning element inside this orb:


Is it just a billboard rotating and spawning in random orientations?


What about the yellow elements inside this one? The way they behave seems fitting for some unstable energy or shockwave feels :star_struck:

Do you have any idea on how to make these dark red slashes that move really quick around the orb?

I’ve been working for 2 days on the anticipation of the orb explosion I made for the Sketch #50 and…still couldn’t make something cool. Everything I made looked waaaay “flat” and dead - looking like a sticker floating on the void :weary:

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