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BioDraconica

Rrah, rrah!

It's been a while since I last posted - I knew it's going to happen as soon as I start getting into programming of my game, as I can't really show how awesome my code is, while visually it's just gray boxes and moving cubes. So I started preparing art-related materials instead, ...

Modular Creature Kits

Rrah-rrah! It's been a while, but that is not because of the lack of work on the project, no-no! You see, I keep digging into programming side of things, and while I have some decent progress, it's nothing I can show (yet). However, I realized that if I keep at the same pace, I'd have leave my be...

New Artstyle (Game Continues)

I have finally figured out the art style for the rebooted game project!

Since I recently acquired a superpower of being able to program on C++, I returned back to Unreal Engine 5. The picture you see has Lumen enabled but no Nanine or Megalights - because my old GPU can't handle all the fe...

Planning How to Expand & Avatar Progress

Rrah-Rrah!
I'm a bit late with the post - I'm considering a lot of ideas which I didn't want to talk about before I was absolutely sure. But now I feel like I found my way that is worth talking about.

Levelling Up

First up, here's a short story about my developmen...

The Node Hell of Progress

Greetings, beloved creatures!

I have been working hard on the Dragonkin model pipeline, its shaders and tools. While the the progress is slower than I'd prefer, I comfort myself that all the work I do will be reused across many VR-avatars and game-characters in the future.

Even if the...

Dragyren

Greetings, Kin!

For the past month I've been tirelessly working on the Dragyren model, without even taking a single break almost for three weeks straight. As per usual, I don't just make a new model: most of the time is spent on developing new art-styles, writing shade...

Improvements are coming!

First of all, happy slit day! One day I'll remember about it in advance, one day make some art for it…

I have been working on the Discord overhaul for the past few weeks - It took me by surprise how much more I needed to plan that wasn't even Discord-related, but still affected by what wa...

Going Public

I'm working on making my art known in the public once again through various methods.

While attending various VR meetups, I met several people who told me "Oh, you're Salireths! You used to make art, I remember favoriting it!". The focus here is on "used to" - despite that I create more than...

Year of the Dragon Rear

First of all, Happy new Year! The best year, the year of the Dragon! (although it technically will start on Jan 29). And may it brings us plenty of Dragon rears to enjoy!

For two weeks, all through the holiday season, instead of celebrating, I was painting this picture in preparation for th...

Going Virtual

I got my PC working back a week ago, I have reinstalled windows, and I'm getting back to the working groove again. It also took a while to finish this post, as I kept re-writing it making sure my plans are clearly explained. Now, let's continue, onwards to two last posts of the planned series! 2023-12-12 11:52:29 +0000 UTC View Post

Technical Explosion

I interrupt this broadcast because... Well, I can't post anything - my PC stopped working.

Over the course of last 2 days, when I promised the next post would go up (I still have two more posts to go!), my PC just shut off, and a couple seconds after I heard a distant explosion outside.

Going Wild

During my break I managed to get myself into VRChat even deeper than before. By this, I have spent 900+ hours in social VR (Neos and VRC combined), I have tried dozens (and made a few) avatars, met so many interesting people, but nothing made me feel anything so special there. But that has change...

Going Forward

I took a long break in-between posts, and while I wish I could be more productive, I also feel I needed this time to gain a fresh perspective and new inspirations.

As of what happened recently: I moved to a different country - unfortunately, the country where I lived has stopped issuing vis...

The Journey

While I told about the "Dragon Internal Cleaning Co" game idea in the previous post - it is something I might start working on with others eventually, for me it's a side-job (and it hasn't begun yet). I will be making designs, models, textures for it. I will port my existing Unreal Engine work to...

Game About Kobolds Washing Dragons... Sensually!

Last month offered me the most crazy, lifechanging experience in recent memory. So much has happened that just flipped my worldviews upside-down. I feel like I have evolved, a new Salireths has emerged with new creative avenues, new connections, new friendships and a handful of new kinks to enjoy...

Character Design with Tentacles!

Recently I started re-introducing myself to gameplay programming - and doing it all by myself now. This might be a surprise for you, but I haven't done any real programming in years, instead I've been working on everything that is related to graphics, but not the actual game's functionality. I wi...

Easter Egg animation

This is the Hopfel's "missing" Easter Egg animation I mentioned earlier! Enjoy!

The hilarious low quality (as if it's 1998 all over again) of the preview above is all because Patreon does not support modern webm or apng formats, so I have to rely on the obs...

Character tools are done!

Greetings! I've been up to a lot of different things lately, stuff that needed to be done for a long time, but something kept getting in the way of me doing them.

Character System

2023-04-13 19:58:39 +0000 UTC View Post

The beginning of Sauria land

After the previous post where I stated that I finally re-started building the world again, I didn't want to just leave environment as it was and move on - I knew I could do better! After all, I achieved very pretty results on the previous version of the engine before.

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