#Unlucky game

[krissiefox]

How (older) Skyboxes work!

My wife was asking what skyboxes are, so I thought it would be fun to make a post showing examples of how Skyboxes can be done in Unreal 2.0 and 3.0 games. For demonstration, I'm using Killing Floor 1 (Unreal Engine 2.5) and Killing Floor 2 (Unreal Engine 3.0).

Killing Floor 1 Skyboxes (Unreal Engine2.5)

In Unreal Engine 2.5, a common way of making skyboxes was to actually create the sky scene in a separate room that can't be seen from within the playable level. You'd You would then apply a setting to the walls of the "box" around any out-door parts of the level. In-game, these walls will displayed as a "view portal" into the skybox room, thus creating the illusion of a massive surrounding environment, thus making the world feel much larger and immersive.

Visual examples below!

Using my "Zombie estate" map as an example, this is how the sky of the level looks in the editor. The walls are all set to be portals into the skybox.

Here's the skybox room. The half sphere makes the initial cloudy sky, then there's a gradient black ring to give it some more darkness. The little question mark block tells the game engine where to have the skies center perspective from.

The in-game result - Your map has has a nice, massive looking sky to make the world feel bigger and more alive!

Killing Floor 2 Skyboxes (Unreal Engine 3.0)

Possibly due to the increases in both engine power and average computer specs by 2015, making a skybox in Killing Floor 2 is a more straightforward process. The base game includes many "skybox" type models, including a simple massive sphere that you can place over the level you built. Much like in the first game, you can customize the sky area in many different ways, such as adding lighting, fog, distant trees, mountains, buildings, etc.

Visual examples below!

I'll show a few examples of skies in KF2. Here's the sky from Nuked, which is quite massive! The lighting is dark and moody to reflect the aftermath of the nuclear explosion. It's also got some nice mountains, which unlike in KF1, are to scale with everything else.

The skies in the Outpost map are quite pretty, featuring mountains, northern lights and a cold snowy winds. In this clip you can see that the mountains and sky are objects you can click on individually in order to move, scale, rotate or change their texture.

Here is my map Zombie High School, showing a smaller skybox, as only certain portions of the map are outdoors. You can see that I used flat "facade" textures to decorate the background, which look obvious and fake from the high above angle inside the editor...

..But in-game, the background looks more natural and like part of the world!

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Unlucky is being Develop in Unreal Engine 5.0, and I'm still learning how skyboxes work in this one. The third-person plat former game template comes with a nice looking built in sky that has animated clouds, and I have tested making Killing Floor 2 style sky spheres, which seems doable as well. I'm looking forward to learning more about how skies function in this version of the engine. :) -KrissieFox

[anzuhan]

[khaopybara]

❝I'm being led on by an oblivious straight girl.❞

KATO SHIHO as AYAKA and MORI KANNA as HIROKO episode 1 of AYAKA IS IN LOVE WITH HIROKO

[ellies-knife]

I have played this game many, many, many times and have only had this interaction twice so posting for all those who are as unlucky as me in case you missed it

[Video ID: clip of The Last of Us Part 2 with Ellie and Dina on a horse called Shimmer

Dina: What? What's that Shimmer? Huh you don't say!

Ellie: Ugh no

Dina: Ellie, Shimmer says we should find a bakery

Ellie: *sighs* Why?

Dina: So she can buy some thorough-bread

Ellie: *sighs* I've created a monster

Dina: You only have yourself to blame]

[starving-mimi]

i havent played dst in awhile what is that thing

new thing from the halloween update! They're called void masques i'm not sure if it's just for halloween or if it's a permanent feature actually but i think it's here to stay

basically it's those mask things! they spawn when rifts are activated in a world around nightmare fissure if i understood correctly? But basically those things will possess mobs and can even possess you the player if you die!

and apparently the characters have quotes for seeing their own possessed corpse, maxwell's says "Jack? Wait, no." ( thank you plushee for giving everyone the quotes when the wiki isn't updated yetttt )

[loveshickk]

[lameow-l]

GAMING IS MY SON AND IF ANYTHING HAPPENS TO HIM IM GONNA KILL EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM AND THEN MYSELF!!

LOOK AT HIM HES SO CUTE

i still have hope in getting the other boys too

its ok they can be a band or smth.. at least then gaming wouldn’t have to be so disappointed in people not hiring him bc he’s just having fun with his boys…

[cyhaino]

"There is another thing I should thank you for. For trusting me all the way till the very end."

[front-facing-pokemon]

[lumeha]

You are carrying a future too heavy for you. And yet, despite it all, you are still here. Maybe it is rotten luck.

T.S. Elliot - The Waste Land // Fire Emblem The Sacred Stones // Florence + The Machine - Queen of Peace // Wikipedia - Three of Swords // Fire Emblem Heroes // Pink Floyd - Sorrow // Cormac McCarthy - No Country for Old Men

[ivysos2001]

Thinking about how much snow probably would’ve hated district 12s first victor no matter who it was (bc let’s be honest he was probably holding that grudge against Lucy gray hoping no one from 12 would ever win again) and haymitch winning in the rebellious/stick it to the capitol way that he did probably just made him an even bigger target for snow

Also thinking about how haymitch (growing up a lot closer to Lucy grays time and might’ve known about what went down with her games/her and snow/etc) would’ve probably been inherently a lot more suspicious of snow/the games/district 12s disadvantages and how it’ll be interesting to see how much of all of that he’s aware of and hear his pov on it

Bc even katniss comments on how district 12s tributes are inherently at a disadvantage (bc they have virtually no opportunities to learn any survival skills and don’t even start mining until they’re past reaping age) tho the way she says it she doesn’t seem to think of it as deliberate sabotage to the district (bc why would she- she’s obviously not aware of Lucy gray or snows history with 12) but haymitch might not see it that way, especially if he knows about anything about Lucy gray

I’m just so excited to see what panem/district 12/haymitch are like at this point in time now that we’ve had a glimpse at everything a generation before and after this

[krissiefox]

(watch with sound!) I tried some more tutorials and made my first seamless ambient loop from a recording I made in my backyard! I decided the funnest way to show it off would be alongside an old quick scene I made in Blender to show off some of the games art assets.

[bengiyo]

Hello. Hope you're having a good day so far.

for the Asian QL Ask Game - 17 please. Thanks Rose💜

17. What Asian ql would you like to see adapted by another country, and which country?

I kinda wanna see Thailand tackle Two People Who Can't Fall in Love, aka Koisenu Futari.

I'd like to see Japan tackle Light On Me

I'd like to see the Philippines tackle I Told Sunset About You

I'd like to see Korea do Mr. Unlucky Has No Choice But To Kiss!

Since they have marriage equality now, I'd like to see a Thai take on Papa & Daddy.

I'd like to see Taiwan tackle Jack o' Frost.

For the Asian QL Ask Game

[ashvalentine16]

She was even the voice of Kainé from NieR since 2010... So, now I'm going to cry even hard when I finish the JP playthrough and reach ending D.

Azur Lane is gonna have to recast for HMS Hood and KMS Tirpitz if there's going to be any future skins for them.

Aug 20th is just not a good day for me now. 2nd reason for me to be depressed. I also wonder if this is why the Azur Lane discord hasn't posted anything all day.

[adiduck]

WIP Game Snippet

Ooooooooooookay here we go. The notorious @frostbitebakery has seen the snip. Welcome to TUO, the fic. I needed to hit 103 sentences and I definitely achieved that.

Warnings for: blood, gore, violence, the fact that I refused to name any clones other than the obvious ones for now, the fact that this is so, so, so rough oh my god, and death. Don't worry though, Ponds gets better. Aurra Sing doesn't, but we can't have everything.

Teaser below. Body under a cut because WOWZA.

Ponds

Ponds looks his littlest oldest brother in the eye, watches his hands shake on a blaster--he cannot remember the last time a blaster shook in his own hands.

(A lie, a lie. Ponds remembers everything. Every time. Every shake. They all do--that’s not even the Curse. It’s just your normal, run-of-the-mill curse born of standard genetic engineering. 

Ponds was 3. He was aiming at Bly.)

[hanzajesthanza]

also i realize i'm saying all these noble and beautiful things about the channel from the purest depths of my heart. but actually i'm also just doing this because i fucking love the witcher books and it pisses me off that people don't know about them that much in english and i can only go for so long (seven years) with people not knowing that there are books. or that the witcher is from the 90s. or polish.