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Max van der Merwe
@Maxvandm
Previously Senior Technical Artist - Monument Valley 2, Alba: A Wildlife Adventure Now freelancing and prototyping exciting new games
London, EnglandJoined September 2011

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It could probably be used to bake static skybox textures, but it's pretty fast and runs entirely on the gpu, and doing it in real time allows for a lot of cool looks (billboarding sprites) and really really intense zooms (photography games?)
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Been noodling on a tool recently for generating performant 'art direct-able' night skies, something that would could pump out good HDR values but also support a variety of billboarded sprites for more stylised looks. It uses real star data too (check out the Big Dipper!)
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The last 5 games I've played: 1. Chess.com (oh god help) 2. Noita 3. Sekiro 4. Spelunky 2 5. More chess, too much (it's becoming a problem it's eating me help) tag and
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The last 5 games I've played... 1. Inmost 2. Don't Starve Together 3. Assassin's Creed Odyssey 4. Hollow Knight 5. Return of the Obra Dinn Nominating @glebm @charlottehuco @Maxvandm twitter.com/brendanf0rd/st…
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Outstanding shader support for is coming to Rider 20.2 EAP!🦾 Under the hood is the fully-fledged Rider C++ engine that parses and resolves C-like shader files. Hence, lots of features like code completion, rename, formatting, and many more will be there!🔥🔥🔥
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Some after hours FF7r fan art! Character modelling with (by ) is such a joy, everything here built with SDFs and I've honestly not enjoyed the process this much in years. So excited to see how this tool evolves!
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Thanks for the shout-out ! This represents a sizeable chunk of the work we did together on Assemble With Care, so cool to see our thought process and solutions laid out in such detail!
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Ever wondered how we made #AssembleWithCare look the way it does? @Matt_C_Newcombe has written a post about it! link.medium.com/rY02fTuyl1
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It's finally out! Being part of the team that made Assemble With Care was an amazing experience, we put some cool stuff in that game, go check it out! Congratulations !
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A game about mending broken objects and relationships. #AssemblewithCare launches today only on @AppleArcade Check out our launch trailer! youtube.com/watch?v=04i8us
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