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@actual.monster
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Retro graphics doer, Blenderer, solo dev, the Grim Reaper is literally my boss. I'm also soup. 👍 🍜 💀
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actual.monster
in case you needed to know what kind of individual would personify an evil cauldron of soup
The joke is that I changed my handle to @actual.monster
September 9, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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#3d #blender #lowpoly #horrorgame #psx #ps1 #n64 #b3d #gamedev #indiegame #indiedev #3dart #b3d #horrordev

Some kind of vial. What's in it? I dunno, but it's blue and glowing so that's probably fine. 👍💀
September 5, 2025 at 8:31 AM
actual.monster
#lowpoly #3d #blender #horror #gamedev #solodev #horrordev
#psx #ps1 #texturing #indiegame

More graveyard stuff 👍
Cemetery, tombstone, grave marker, 3D models rendered in blender
September 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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That #leveldesign & #texturing urge to take random pictures of surfaces/materials I find visually interesting 👍🍅
A pile of tomatoes
August 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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There can always be more (Spidermans pointing meme)
August 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Tombstone - 72 tris 📐 - 256x256 texture 🎨
#blender #lowpoly #ps1 #psx #3d #3dart #horrorart #blender3d #b3d #texturing #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #solodev #horrordev #horrorgamedev
August 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM
actual.monster
What kind of "world map" do you prefer for a level-based game (or RPG)? #gamedev

1 Overworld map with free movement (Fallout, FF7)

2 World map with distinct locations (Shovel Knight, SMB3)

3 Hub world/level with portals to other levels (Spyro)

4 Warp room with level selection (Crash 2/3, Quake)
Overworld travel from Fallout. Time passes as you travel in any direction, and random encounters are possible while traveling. World map from Super Mario Bros 3. Some levels and points of interest can be visited in different orders depending on which levels have been completed. Artisans hub level from Spyro. The hub acts as a level of its own with enemies, puzzles, and collectibles, while portals to the rest of the Artisans levels are located all around the level. The Warp Room from Crash 3. An area where the player can save their game is located on a central platform and level selectors for each world stand on their own platforms.
August 25, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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More examples using noise textures and texture painting for the factor mask:
Another example of the method. In this version a noise texture is used to randomly mix the two images together instead, and a third handle has been added to our color ramp for even more control over how we blend the two textures. Another example of the method. In this version a third image texture is used to paint our mask for finer control of the masked areas on a low poly model. In this screenshot the mask image is 1024x1024 and the brush edges were not very soft. In testing this I found an image texture of 256x256 greatly helped in creating soft edges for the two textures to blend smoothly.
August 22, 2025 at 9:03 AM
actual.monster
Simple #texture masking example in #Blender I made for someone recently

#gamedev #indiedev #texturing #3d #b3d #3dart
A shader node tree in blender. The color attribute is run through a color ramp and used as the factor to mix two image textures. The image textures are set to Box Projection and given "Object" texture coordinates to avoid requiring the model to be UV unwrapped first, though using an unwrapped model can yield better results. The handles on the color ramp are used to dial in blending at the edges of the textures. Soft edges between the black and white areas on the color attribute also help with this process. The color attribute layer. It's black and white to be used as a mask to determine which parts of the model display which texture. The textured model showing an example of how this method can be used to blend two textures on a single material.
August 22, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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The things you find when you open official #gameassets made by PROFESSIONAL #gamedev studios to study them.

Never calling these guys Stormtroopers again. They're Stupidtriangles now.

#starwars #blender #b3d #3D #stormtrooper #quake #quake3 #jedi #jediknight #jediacademy #character #gaming #lowpoly
A screenshot from Blender of a Stormtrooper model used in Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy - The model_root tree shows that the official name of the mesh is stupidtriangle
August 9, 2025 at 4:30 AM
actual.monster
Yes, actually. Enough for an elephant as a matter of fact.

DISCLAIMER: THE SOUP IS EVIL, DO NOT FEED ELEPHANTS THE BIG SOUP
Screenshot: Elephant breaking through walls in Resi Outbreak 2
August 7, 2025 at 4:08 AM
actual.monster
Me when I'm trying to do something I do normally all the time but everyone's watching me
PANIC
August 2, 2025 at 1:02 AM
actual.monster
Skull Complete 👍💀
#blender #blenderart #lowpoly #b3d #gamedev #indiedev #horrordev #characterdesign #horrorart #skeleton #oc #wip #characterart #undead #lich #necromancy
4 angles of a low poly skull
August 2, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Test run in #Trenchbroom of the shot I'm doing for my character reveal. EXTREMELY #WIP 😂 just imagine it's a #spooky #graveyard and castle scene under the moonlight, hopefully you can see the vision here. 👍 🪦 ☠️ 🦇

Music by: @acronicta.bsky.social 🔊🎵

#quake #leveldesign #texturing #animation #undead
July 28, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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New textures folder just dropped 😈

Using these for a spooky castle & graveyard scene I'm putting together for when I showcase my new character.

The original textures are from packs made by @screamingbrainstudios.itch.io and @foxh3ad.itch.io that I crunched down to 128x128 and 32 colors each.
The image shows a variety of game textures in a folder. The textures have been reduced to an even further retro style using SLK_img2pixel and converted to a 256-color palette I derived from hue-shifting the famous painting "Washington Crossing The Delaware" (Emanuel Leutze c 1851) to resemble Quake 2's palette.
July 27, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Now THAT'S what I'm talkin' 'bout, WOW! aaaaaaAAAAAAHHHKK

(angrier skull achieved) ☠️😈
#blender #blenderart #lowpoly #b3d #gamedev #indiedev #horrordev #characterdesign #horrorart #skeleton #oc #wip #characterart #undead #lich #necromancy #runescape
July 26, 2025 at 9:32 AM
actual.monster
Now that the skull proportions are all done, time to make it angrier lookin' 💀😈

#blender #blenderart #lowpoly #b3d #gamedev #indiedev #horrordev #characterdesign #horrorart #skeleton #oc #wip #characterart #undead #lich #necromancy #runescape
July 26, 2025 at 8:48 AM
actual.monster
Thank you, Rabbi Sucks Milf Titties Like Cow Udders, but I don't think you're interested in my butter for the right reasons and I'm married anyway.
July 26, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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will smith meme showing all 6 accounts rapidly interacting with this post
July 25, 2025 at 5:24 AM
actual.monster
And yes, I'm well aware of how many SFW queer projects got swept into the bin with everything else, none of this is okay 🥲
andor meme dot gif
July 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
actual.monster
Oooo, I don't know if you're already planning on doing something like this, but in JKA and other Quake engines the sky textures need to be separate squared images named with directional suffixes.

A version with a folder where they're organized something like that would be convenient 😀
An image showing how the bespin skybox is organized to be utilized properly in Jedi Academy, a branch of the Quake 3 engine.
July 21, 2025 at 11:34 PM
actual.monster
Cool sketch! The cubism aspect very much reminds me of what 3D trees look like without transparency enabled.
Two versions of a 3D tree. The one on the left has its shaders disabled to show the full mesh used to display the leaves, the one on the right is the textured version with leaf transparency.
July 2, 2025 at 8:09 PM
actual.monster
#Garden is doing well this year, tomatoes are going strong 👍
A garden bed made of wood and painted black, the bed is full of soil and plants are growing. Tomato plants occupy the left side of the bed.
June 26, 2025 at 1:23 AM
actual.monster
Anyway, here's this guy. I think I'm finally happy with his proportions and how the joints all line up 👍

540 tris (636 with sword) 📐
#GameDev #3D #3DArt #Blender #Blender3D #3DCharacter #PSX #N64 #Retro #LowPoly #SoloDev #IndieDev
June 18, 2025 at 6:42 AM
actual.monster
Strawberry 🍓
` Vertex Colors 🎨
` 42 Triangles 🔺
` 3.12KB 💾

Since I used @kenney.nl's strawberry as a base mesh I guess this one's a demake?

#PSX #N64 #Blender #3D #GameArt
May 28, 2025 at 7:12 AM