#ShaderWorld
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syscrusher.bsky.social
First successful test of procedural holes in my prototype level for a side-project game. The landscape is runtime generated, including holes for tunnels and mine elevators. #ShaderWorld plugin for #UE5, with lots of #UnrealPCG to connect hand-modeled rooms with procedural map layout and tunnels.
A third-person character stands just outside a blockhouse-like tunnel entrance with a stairwell descending below the grassy terrain. The tunnel is dimly lit from within, while the landscape and exterior are in daylight. The tunnel entry structure is a blocky prototype covered by a grey checkered test pattern. The third-person character is the standard Unreal Engine mannequin, humanoid proportions but with non-realistic silver-grey skin and no facial features.
June 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM
syscrusher.bsky.social
It was a nontrivial amount of work and some UBT help from the "Dev Hub" team at #UnrealFestOrlando, but I have #ShaderWorld plugin working for runtime and editor on Linux x64 platform. It's fast and versatile, and I'm using it for a project with runtime-procedural terrain. Screenshots are test maps.
A realistic but slightly stylized procedural landscape fills most of the image, with peaceful blue-green water in the foreground. The weather is cloudy with streaks of sunlight, and there is light fog visible toward the more distant parts of the landscape. Lowlands are in the foreground with large hills in the distance, and in the rightmost middle distance an area of reddish clay soil is partially visible. A test mannequin third-person character stands in the foreground, facing the camera, in an exterior test scene in Unreal Engine. The surface of the terrain is colored only with a procedural tan checkboard pattern with one-meter squares. Behind the mannequin is a large gap in the terrain, an irregular but intentionally-created hole to demonstrate the capability of the procedural tool to place holes in terrain allowing cave and tunnel entrances. The scene is partly cloudy weather with generally bright daylight and very thin fog slightly obscuring distant landscape features.
June 14, 2025 at 9:32 PM