u/TheWanderingWaddler

This is a rock portal I was working on a bit ago! I've moved on from it but just remembered the video I had and figured it was kinda neat enough to share. It uses a script to pickup physical rocks on the ground and makes them swirl in a circle then spawns a portal. When the portal closes the rocks can have physics and collisions enabled to make them fall back to the ground

This one was scrapped for the game because it felt a bit too fantasy and cliche, but I don't think I've seen an implementation quite like this for a rock portal

Should I use this in a game at some point or let it die in the brainstorming graveyard?

I made a Polaroid camera for the game! I'm quite happy with how it turned out, its really fun to mess around with and I got pulled into it a few times while testing trying to get some good shots. This will be used to take photos of plants and animals around the maps for the player's own fun but also for in game documentation and research

Any feedback??

Not even like done done though... I still have some actions to add (like eating) and I still need to create the NPC behavior, but I think this is a pretty good start! This will be for the planty portal game as well as Tundra! It was nice to get an animal that I can use in both games so it's cool whales have such a wide range of travel, Antarctic to Arctic for a lot of them! I might need to do some more tuning on the breach (jump out of water) behavior because it's a massive blue whale, but not sure yet

You like?

Here is the latest revision of my portal as well as some tortoises to keep you company! I tuned the coloring a lot and also added a back face to them. I kinda just stumbled upon a rainbow noise texture then added a distortion shader to it, I think I like how it looks, wormhole type look, but let me know what you think!

Also do you think the tortoise environment is too dark? The trees feel very shadowy or something to me. Definitely have some more tuning to do, but if you look closely I have the map populated all over with torts

I spent a whole lot of time coding and making those tortoises move so I'll be showing them off soon, lots of behavior and scheduling stuff (when to eat, sleep, etc.) and animation tuning... I'm also working on setting up a Steam page to get this game announced soon™!

Just wanted to share one of the other portal variations I worked on! I've since scrapped this one because it felt way too busy and not really clear what was going on. The original idea was to have a door and door frame grow out of plants and open up to the new world, which I think worked but I think there's just too many moving parts... Also the other world door was on backwards which probably doesn't help...

Should I revisit this one? I think the newer versions are a lot better but curious if anyone has feedback

This is my first Tortoise (looks like a Craigory to me) being added to the game with the portals! Working hard to get to an announcement point, but almost done creating my tortoise controller! I've just got a few bugs to fix like the tortoise refusing to move or flying in the air, the usual stuff

This is one of the portal variations I've been working on! I have two more which I'll probably share later but I just got this one done and I like it the best. Might look a bit off because my ocean scene was having some lighting issues and the portal height was too low, but the portal will grow in and out of the world like this. I plan to use the cracked portal in another game, but for this game I was going for a very organic feeling portal which I think this hits

This one is also kinda cool because you can walk through it as its growing in or out if you time it right, which felt like I was walking into Narnia

Any thoughts or feedback?

What are your thoughts on this compared to my last test for this glass portal? I'm working on a different idea that I think will fit this theme better but I still wanted to try cracking this into reality...

I found some cracked_lines.PNG stock photos and imported them in, assigned some glowing shaders and then made a script to spawn them and grow out as loading time goes on. I think it looks ok so far, but it could use some work. There's also no audio and the closing of the portal is still in progress!

I think for the better? I think it looks pretty neat now although it is a completely different vibe. But more professional and fitting the realistic theme of the game so far, kinda a crack in reality to swap scenes. Wasn't too bad to make but consisted of opening Blender to make a custom shaped portal surface then tweaking a lot of materials and shaders and code

Thoughts?!??!

This is how I plan to spawn and respawn my portals that will lead the player to different maps! You have to go up to the sign then you can click a button to spawn in the portal and load the new scene, clicking another button will close the portal and unload the scene. I was hoping to not make it super sci fi or fantasy and to rather fit the garden and realistic theme, but I think this is a decent way to do this?

Also a few bugs and timing issues to fix but this is the idea! I tried adding water splashes and physical water flowing out of the portal but they either didn't look too good or were not very performant, so I might just stick with the minimal portal with nothing going through from either side besides the player

I also added some butterflies to the meadow 🦋

Just testing out some portals for a quick new game I'm working on! To be announced soon!