Shaders Case Study - Dead Cells' Character Art Pipeline

[@DanMoranGameDev]

From Unity 2018.3 beta release notes: "Animation: Added SkinnedMeshRenderer.forceMatrixRecalculationPerRender. This property should be set in cases where the user would like to manually render a skinned mesh multiple times within a single update, an example of this would be rendering out the results of an animation to a texture" So yeah, just go ahead and ignore the whole editor coroutine thing towards the end of the video ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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[@unity]

Welcome back Dan! Great video as always. - Matt

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[@DanMoranGameDev]

Thanks Matt! ^^

[@nitras.design]

Welcome back. How about a video about: how to move grass and plants on player interaction or world interaction (ori is a very nice example for that) / alternatively a video on how to do fog of war (2D / 3D). These things are very interesting to me, but I still haven't found a good way of implementing it. Not only for my own benefits but I do think these two items are very interesting per default. Cheers

[@zorenzal9976]

Setup animation on grass, add collider2d, add ontriggerenter2d {animation.play()}

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[@DanMoranGameDev]

Thanks man ^^ it's good to be back. Though I'm not saying I'm about to start posting super regularly or anything... but I'm gonna some time to make videos again I think :D

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RIP

[@thatnugget]

You're back! I'd love to see more tech-art pipeline videos like this (even if they are 10 months apart). Few others out there putting together such well thought out and concise videos like these. Always appreciated! Thanks

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I literally juuuuuust checked you channel to see if there was a new video 10 minutes ago. I’m so happy to see another one from you :)

[@SupremeCookieDKat]

Dude, thanks a million for this. It's amazing! I'm working on a game right now, and have been busy with finding a good pipeline for the animations and assets, this video and your implementation comes as a miracle at the right time. Thanks!

[@jascha9033]

7:01 Yes! Please cover more art pipeline/tool-building in Unity!

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Good to see you again man, havent seen anything since before your Debug Log episode

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No joke, I literally had your jingle (the old one) in my head all of yesterday, welcome back, dude!

[@SuperManitu1]

First of all: Great video! Second: I would really love to have videos about art pipelines or similar too. Your channel is simply the best resource when it comes to shaders at the moment, so cool to see you back!

[@lashghost]

Happy to see you back. I think it would be interesting to see how you make tools for artists and animators.

[@thibaultduval7774]

Welcome back!! I love your videos, they always make me discover cool new tricks about shaders. Hope that you are back to continue to enlighten us

[@peche87_gameDev]

Good to see you in action again! I would like to see more videos about the graphic pipeline too :)

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I also found out about your channel pretty recently, it's amazing to see you back creating videos! Your channel is really important to the gamedev scene, it certainly helped/is helping lots of game devs to make prettier games :D

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Yaaaay, Shadey is back! And kicks the doors out when he does it :D Great stuff, would definitely like to see more of this kind of videos.

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Holy shit...this channel is a gold mine!! Need to check out the other videos now

[@noahmccann4438]

Very cool, I would have never thought this was the way Dead Cells accomplishes their style. I’m not a subscriber, but am quite happy this showed up in my recommended tab - probably because I’ve been searching for videos to help get better at Dead Cells. This video won’t make me a better player, but it does help me appreciate the game and the hard work put into it, even if that work “cheats” :) Better to work smart than work hard.

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I will greatly appreciate more content based on pipeline stuff. Great video btw!

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[@MyCarllee]

I thought of this method long ago. Nice to see someone making it work.

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Another Shader Case Study!!!! *grabs popcorn and shakes in excitement*

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Welcome back! Great video as always :)

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Great tutorial! It always amazes me how in depth are your videos...

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Yay! Long time no see, keep em coming!

[@oddixgames6704]

As a Tech Artist myself - YES MOAR TECH PIPELINES PLEASE!!!!

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Thank you for making the Prisoners Awakening as the background music. Incredible soundtrack 👌

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Glad to see you posting again man!

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Welcome back! I'm sooo glad! Now to watch the video

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Pretty cool explanation on how they made it, thanks Bruh !

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that was a long break, glad to see you are back 👍👍👍

[@SheepUndefined]

I've been thinking about this ever since I noticed that Lethal League's characters are actually models without antialiasing. Kinda happy to finally see a way of doing that style. ^^

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[@GWConspiracy]

I would love to see more art Pipeline stuff! This was really cool

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Great video! Would love to hear more about your experience with making tools for artists!

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Happy to see you back!

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Thanks for making great content! I always reference this channel when working on cool shader things or when new videos are posted! Recently started working with Unity's rendering pipeline (in 2018.x). I may end up going through all the tutorials one day and making shader graph versions :P

[@CELLShockXFX]

Yes. Very much interested in tech art pipeline stuff!

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Welcome back.! Nice videos ever

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Welcome back! I've missed you!

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a new episode, and my favorite game, am I dreaming?!

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Yes please, other than graphics, tools are my next favorite thing to do

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Glad to see another case study, you deserve a lot more subs than you have

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Great video, can't wait for the next one. Here's hoping it doesn't take another 10 months.

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Glad you're back, good Video, thanks. :)

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hes back, wonderful

[@Juuhazan_]

I've been interested in converting 3D models to animated sprites ever since I played Iji. It has a far simpler process but the result is, like here, (relatively) smooth animations that contributes to the Another World-like aesthetic.

[@soviut]

Definitely post more about workflow pipelines!

[@ArturoNereu]

Welcome Back Dan!

[@ratmdex]

The art is so amazing in Dead Cells. Motion Twin deserve indie game of the year

[@fuzzblob]

Id love tp watch more tech and tool vids! Great stuff

[@CirbyWeh]

Well explained and shown. Would really like to see a video from you about the use of the new 2D Shader Graph in Unity with the LWRP. Keep up the good work

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Very glad for more content :) Keep it up

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Yeah, a video on writing artists tools would be pretty cool.

[@DanielWayota]

This method was used at my first job a few years ago. We used 3DS MAX for the rendering process and it was quite simple and fun to do stuff. Sadly, the game wasn't popular enough to continue with game dev

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Enjoying your videos! I would love to see a shader case study of Monument Valley!

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I wonder how to create a root on role's fixed positions to add fx like fluttering scarf and fire on face.

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[@carlossenosiain46]

if I try creating new animations and capturing them, i cant put them in the source clip field, why does this happen?

[@jacobg8661]

I have this same isssue. Import fbx from blender, try to select animation, won't change to it.

[@jacobg8661]

Carlos, I think this is a bug introduced with a version of unity. The issue is there is a check when you select the animation that it is a "legacy animation". My animation (and I suspect yours) is not a legacy animation. It's supposed to open a warning box with a prompt, but it doesn't happen on mine and fails silently. I'm not sure why there is this legacy check, I commented out the check and my animation rendered fine. Look in the AnimationCaptureHelperEditor.cs script for the "if (!sourceClip.legacy)" conditional block and comment it out / remove it. If the author sees this, maybe there is a reason for the check and a better way to solve this, but, for me it appears to work this way.

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Definitely interested in tool building!

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Could you make any video showing how to make Sparkling effect ? I saw all your case study videos and tested on my videogame but I still dont know, for example... How to make a sparkling coin. I tried with surface shaders and lights but with this I only achieve light effects. I think that the point is on using _Time variable and maybe a secondary texture for the sparkling effect but dont know how to apply...

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how do i implement the toon lighting shader in the example project? Im trying to figure out how to apply it to my own rig

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5:06 Is that a track from Titan Souls I hear?

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