Theo Droulez: Sketch #25 DOT ( DONE )

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So here is my entry for this month RTVFX sketch

for this sketch, I choose DOT effect.
Here is my final result
https://youtu.be/6QiU8HbO5s8

Here are my initial sketch for the effect.

I deccided to go for the dusty poisonous effect, wich i think will probably be the toughest for me considering my actual confort zone

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Get out of that confort zone! Let’s see how this develops :alien:

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Thank you :slight_smile:
For now I need to find a good way to make cool smoke and clouds

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UPDATE :
This morning I quicly made a placeholder FX to begin working on timming, colors and shapes. I will gradually add more complex shaders and textures to make the FX really cool looking and more fonctionnal
Here is my result :

I worked a little bit on the poisonous ground, it is looking good at this state but I will probably try to improve it in the future.

For now I am not using very fancy shaders, it’s basically just two textures with diferents panning speed multipied by each others with a lerp on the colors to add some nice colors variations.

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UPDATE :
Here is what I managed to do today

I worked on clouds/smoke today using a 4 channels TGA texture
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The red channel is for the emmisive color, the green for the disolve, the blue is for the UV distortion and the alpha is for the mask to have a nice round shape.
Nothing really fancy here but here is my graph :

I also started to create an explosion that release the poison. Here I am just reusing somes of my previous shader from the project, I just created 2 textures and a mesh for the shockwave

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Do you intend to use the same technique with the skull shape? As if it would be shaped out of the smoke.
Nice work!

UPDATE :
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I work a vit on optimisation, trying to reduce the number of overdraw and the number of particles not to make a to heavy effect
I added somes few new things here.
I tried added multiplied scrolling textures to create a miasma effect but it’s not looking as good as I wanted, so I will need to work more on it.
I added some liquid poison splash on the begining using these texturestxt2
again this need to be polished.
I also used the same UV distortion technique used on the smoke on the skull but my character is masking it :slight_smile:
I added the character to give a clean view about the proportion of the FX and to work on a poisonous inner glow.
I have a lot of things to improve and tweak now, I may have added to much unpolished stuff here so I need to tweak everything now.

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Très cool Theo :wink: Keep up the good work!
My personal advice: you should add some Depth Fade on the cloud shader, to avoid the hard visual intersection with the ground :slight_smile:

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I am actually trying to add a depth fade, thank you for your advice :slight_smile:
I am having some hard time understanding and making the depth fade work with shader graph as I am lacking some knowledge here

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Thank you for sharing.

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UPDATE :
It’s tweaking time :slight_smile:

I polished a lot of things here. I changed the timming of the poisonous explosion to give it more energy.
I changed the texture of the liquid projection for this one.
poisonSplashes

I tweak the colors to have a better separation of the ground effect and the smoke effects. The smoke is more yellow and now draw a little more attention while making the floor effect more
understandable
I added some extra motion with small distorded clouds around the character to emphasize the miasma effect.

here I separated the effect into pieces to see how each piece work alone.

On the poisonous explosion I can see now that the smoke is quitte slow and off timming compared to the rest.
I tried to add depth fade to have a more natural smoke fading with the floor but from now I still can’t manage to make the depth fade work properly ( if someone have somes clues for me it would be very appreciated )

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you’re welcome :slight_smile:

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Yes, it’s a bit technical and there’s no out-of-the-box node in shadergraph yet to do that indeed, I thought maybe you where using Amplify or Shaderforge.
But, there’s this tutorial by Olexiy Zhukov https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbySMSh6Ip0 which shows a way of having depth intersection in your shadergraph, which would totally work (you just have to invert the result).

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I post here what i’ve found about Soft Particles trying to help Theo :

About Unity 2017 :

About Shadergraph : LWRP Mode

  1. Create a project with LWRP template
  2. Create a new Scene
  3. Create a cube and a Particle System
  4. Enable Depth Texture in the Render Pipeline asset
  5. Create a Material using LWRP/Particles/Unlit shader, set the Rendering Mode to Transparent and enable Soft Particles
  6. Set the Particle System to use the created material
  7. Enter Play mode

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SPSSSoftParticles

The Shader in the picture must be linked into the Alpha Channel.
If someone can help to find the answer to this problem, add more informations !

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UPDATE :slight_smile:
Well thank very much @MrBrouchet and @JoanP. Thanks to you I finally managed to used the Depth fading properly.
Here is the result :

Also here the set up of the depth fade. The result is multiplied by my final opacity and plug into the opacity chanel.

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Today is the last UPDATE

I tweaked some very little things and added the liquid splash on the floor that disapearfrom the latest version for no reasons

here is my final version of this effect
https://youtu.be/6QiU8HbO5s8

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Tres bien Theo! :sparkles:

It feels really toxic. If you allow me for some feedback, I like the fact that you made the character glow in a higher value than the rest of the effect, and those yellowish tones.

I’d say that the dissipance of the effect feels a bit abrupt, but that is up to your taste obviously! Also, I might be noticing some mirroring in the character UV seams, but that could just be my imagination.

Good job!

Thank you very much :slight_smile:

Also thank you for your feedbacks. I will work on that to improve the FX.
About the mirroring you are totally right, I took a crappy model from unity base project and I completely forgot to add a better model. I need to find a proper 3D for my FX

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