RandomStroke: Sketch #27 Ice

Events 27 - Fire vs Ice
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Hey everyone, decided to give it a try…Wanna try some kind of AOE-frosty-spell with several elements in it…with some projectiles in the end…So that’s what i came up with :

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Update: here is a unity project if someone is interested…done in Unity 2018, although i think it’ll work in any other version)

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#2

Alright, made a prewarm template

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#3

Tiny update , spent some time trying various area graphics , maybe will try smth like that…somehow it always comes out in a bit satanic or occult look…( no religious offense or anything like that :slight_smile: )

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#4

ha ha, well satanic or not, it’s looking cool! The overlapping element tests look like they’ll come together nicely

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#5

Thx, glad you liked it) Another small update , kept on trying various compositions…keep on working , hope to get an alpha version of the whole effect soon)

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#6

Added a bit more details)

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#7

That ice geometry looks promising! May I ask about your approach to building particle systems in Unity? Do you use the VFX graph at all or do you just stack particle systems with delays/sub-emitters for the timing of different elements? There’s so much going on that I feel I’d lose track fast!

#8

Thx!) Yeah, there is a bit of an overload, but…there is no better place for experiments then here)))
As for the setup : it’s the most basic. I split the whole effect in phases and then activate it’s gameObjects with a desired delay…this way you can tweak the whole effect and underlying components easily, since everything starts from 0 in each phase)

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Each phase consists of emitters.
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As for shaders…it’s mostly additive with texture scroll , one alpha blend and…a basic additive with some vertex-colors applied to the models it’s used on. I’ll upload the project once it’s done, in case if
someone is interested)

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#9

Added a bit of an upper impact

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#11

Added couple of flares

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#12

Beautiful work, man.

#14

Hey, thx for the comments !) Yeah, bg might be good…was thinking about adding some kind of background…once effect is done) Still wanna to tune it…added some radial shockwave

#15

Alright, added couple of final details and decided to try out some electricity-kind-of-feedback at the end of it…found out that it usually looks ok when some sudden motion takes place…

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#16

You can try do something with this strange shapes. Something like energy poof)

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#17

I actually thought about removing those…it’s probably already overloaded) But thx for suggestion^^
Edit: so, some kind of pre-final version i think…

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#18

Looks wicked, I love it!

#19

Thx man , glad you liked it :slight_smile:

#20

This looks like it should be the cold variation of the Falling Sword crusader skill in Diablo 3…

#21

:love_you_gesture:)))