fieldnotes

Notes from the field about specific challenges or inside-baseball discussions.

A screen capture from the UI Material Lab example project in Unreal that shows of several material effects for Unreal Motion Graphics.

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Field Notes: Shaders Are Spells

I done handcuffed lightning. And put thunder in jail.

A blank "create new post" UI within ghost.io for creating new blog posts. I stare at this screen a lot more than I'd like.

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Field Notes: Productivity Tools

How I do what I do.

The navigation console showing various screen effects, including a glassy reflective sheen, a green tint, and a nearly imperceptible curve.

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Field Notes: Making In-World Screens

Making a terminal is trickier than it looks.

A partial excerpt of the Game Instance code in the visual programming language Blueprints in UE5.

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Field Notes: Interfaces And Decoupling

Preventing spaghetti from day one.

An orange outline of the space where an air filter WOULD be, if there were an air filter there, which there is not.

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Field Notes: Call of the Void

Outlines, translucent materials, and buried settings.

A picture of a new blender project, showing the default cube, camera, and light. Something we all learn to instantly delete when starting Blender.

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Field Notes: Modifying Assets

Buy or build is a false dichotomy. Modifying assets is an easy way to get exactly what you need.