Visual Solutions

Substance

Substance Painter Shader

Shaders

Shaders & VFX

Lighting

Lighting Tools


Substance

Substance, Maya, & In-Game Editor Views
Substance Painter Debug Modes

Substance Painter Shader

  • Stylized modern comic shader
  • All versions (Substance, Maya, & In-Game) of shader written in GLSL (using shared includes to minimize code duplication)
  • Consistent view across Substance Painter, Maya & In-Game Editor (uses game renderer)
  • Debug modes in Substance Painter allow artist to view all elements of shader while painting

Shaders

Animated Sign Shader

  • Animated neon sign
  • HLSL Shader
  • All animation in shader

Poxels” Shader

  • Unity Cg Shader & particles
  • Body part mask
  • Interior geo fill
  • Edge fade mask

Water Shore Shader

  • Custom engine GLSL shader
  • Sine wave/random overlaid waves with one layer of geometry
  • Foam fading and seamless blend with ocean shader

Modern Comic Shader

  • Custom engine GLSL shader
  • Viewable in Substance Painter, Maya & In-Game/Editor
  • Variant shader with separate body part colorization
  • Colorization is full gradient LUT for full range of color
Console Mud Shader
Unity Stylized Shader

Shader Range From Realistic To Stylized

Mud Shader

  • Console Cg shader for realistic sports game (Midway’s NFL Blitz 2)
  • Mud accumulates on body localized to where the player fell in the mud

Stylized Terrain Shader

  • Unity Cg Shader
  • Water brush strokes to match concept art

VFX Tech

  • VFX tech implemented in Unity
  • VFX beam that tracks from the source to the target (integrated with Actor System)
Unity VFX Beam

Lighting

Early Prototype Sims 4 Lighting
Unity Light Probes
High Quality Rendering In Maya

Lighting In Various Game Engines

  • Early development HLSL Sims 4 environment & building shader in custom game engine
  • Unity light probes for 3D character lighting to match prerendered backgrounds
  • Prerendered backgrounds in Maya, including full EXR render pipeline & processing export tool for one touch – render to in game in custom game engine

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