BattleJuice Alchemist – Base-building patch is stay on Steam!

BATTLEJUICE ALCHEMIST DEVLOG

New Dev Stream

Hey everybody!

I hope you are all doing effectively and looking out ahead to a well-deserved weekend. After becoming Gamescom into our milestone schedule, we have been fairly busy catching up. However don’t be concerned, we’re doing tremendous, and manufacturing is true on observe.

For these of you who comply with us on social media or visited us at Gamescom, you might have seen what we have been engaged on lately, notably a brand new quest location within the recreation. I assumed it was a fantastic alternative to document a brand new developer stream, take a stroll round, and chat a bit about exploration, constructing your tower, and, in fact, the brand new city:

I really get pleasure from making these sorts of streams/movies and would like to do them extra incessantly. Nevertheless, as you’ll be able to think about, discovering the time is not all the time simple.

I hope you loved watching, and as all the time, I would love to listen to your ideas and reply any questions you might have!

Wishing you all a improbable weekend,

Alain

BATTLEJUICE ALCHEMIST DEVLOG

So lovely… what is the catch?

Hey people!

Welcome again to a different develog! This time we delve into the realm of particle techniques. Understanding them is essential for enhancing our hyper-stylized, low-poly look whereas sustaining good efficiency.

For these non-developers amongst you, a particle system is a simulated group of tiny, particular person objects often known as particles. These particles can signify varied parts comparable to fireplace, smoke, sparks, you identify it. Particles are light-weight and dynamic and utilizing them we will add plenty of vividness to our recreation.

However we have now to be cautious… as we proceed our journey, we encounter a formidable adversary: overdraw. It transpires when clear objects stack atop one another, inflicting rendering complexity to extend. The price of rendering transparency intensifies with every overlapping layer, jeopardizing our recreation’s efficiency. Fortunately, Unreal Engine bestows upon us a potent software: Shader Complexity mode.

Inexperienced signifies effectivity, whereas purple warns of rendering extravagance. By taking a look at Complexity mode, we will pinpoint areas the place overdraw festers, permitting us to optimize our particle techniques on the important factors. Our low-poly, hyper-stylized artwork model grants us a boon, sparing us from the complexities of naturalistic rendering. But, transparency, particularly lit transparency, can turn out to be an issue, if we’re not cautious.

Let me finish with two Unreal particular finest practices that I discovered helpful concerning the efficiency of particle techniques:

1. I all the time manually set each particle system to “Use Mounted Relative Bounding Field” to maintain e.g. quick, far-travelling sparks underneath management.

2. I keep away from utilizing the sunshine module in emitters. They’re tempting however hit efficiency fairly exhausting in my expertise.

That is all for at present, thanks for studying! Till subsequent time, joyful enjoying / designing / coding

Alain