Organic looks, fancy dissolves or liquid surfaces. Those looks can be achieved by shader UV distortion. I am going to show you how this is done with the example of a simple caustics projector effect, like this: This is a projector, projecting a distorted map onto the geometry. A perfect way to simulate caustics for example. The jump in the…
Metal music and hell, two things that go pretty well together in Metal: Hellsinger, the new game by the outsiders that was just revealed on IGN Summer of Gaming. We at #portamediastudio are excited to make hell a lot more scary with eyecatching #visualeffects. Check out the announcement trailer: https://www.ign.com/articles/metal-hellsinger-rhythm-fps-details-trailer More information about the game here
In Realtime VFX, randomizing values is usually helping alot to breaking repetetive patterns in textures. You achieve that through setting random values, for example for size, rotation, speed and all kinds of parameters for your effects. One thing i recently stumbled upon in the new Unity3d VFX Graph is randomly flipping UV coordinates on billboards that play a flipbook. I…
Portamedia.studio supports Gaming Minds studios with the creation of the realtime visual effects for their new title “Port Royale 4”. We are happy to be on board. Gaming Minds GmbH develops games for PC and game consoles since 1992. Their team consists of industry veterans and young talented developers who created some of the most popular video games in Germany.…
Update: The game is now finished and not accessible anymore. Thanks for your participation and till next time! Up for free tranditional beer brewery accessoires and local bavarian beer? Then visit https://gewinnspiel.faust.de in the next 7 days. Our fully customizable portamedia.studio developed wheel of fortune online game app is running again, this time for faust bier and lechnerwirt. Have fun…
Portamedia.studio is teaming up once again with The Outsiders, a game studio in the epicenter of the Swedish game dev scene in Stockholm to contribute realtime vfx to their next title. Thanks for the opportunity!
SOPHIA speaks english now! The newly developed trailer for our medical software goes online. The voice is generated by the WaveNet deep neural network. Head over to https://sophia.online to learn more or just watch the trailer here.
We finally found some time to capture a short trailer of one of our VR modules we developed at portamedia.studio. It is a (classical) plankwalk VR game and features RL integration of a wind machine and a vibrating plank (when the time to rescue the puppet runs out). It can be fully customized for different clients. Artwork by Roxana Vasilescu…
For the launch of the next version of SOPHIA, we created a new trailer in german and english language. It follows the general direction of the SOPHIA brand, to provide a modern artificial but still personal experience. This is also the reason why we generated the voice entirely with the help of a deep learning network, WaveNet by DeepMind. Watch…