https://emmetotoole.com/home daily 1.0 2022-08-31 https://emmetotoole.com/pagecv daily 0.75 2022-08-31 https://emmetotoole.com/personal daily 0.75 2022-09-01 https://emmetotoole.com/personal/isomesh monthly 0.5 2021-06-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c6466fa87b19347abe3bb4/6aef9853-af88-4a9b-bf8e-94695766ba60/manipulating-signed-distance-fields.gif Personal - IsoMesh Ultimately IsoMesh is a tool for manipulating signed distance fields and then generating meshes from the result. These SDFs can be primitive shapes like spheres or cubes, or sampled meshes. They can even have different material properties. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c6466fa87b19347abe3bb4/d3dc0261-1158-4c5d-b55c-d82b2c7fa6bf/sdf_subsurface_scattering.png Personal - IsoMesh Subsurface scattering makes everything look so cool. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c6466fa87b19347abe3bb4/28e8c846-f1bb-4db0-8de7-e6d2ed86ea4d/physics-interaction-with-sdf.gif Personal - IsoMesh When static, SDFs can also be used with Unity physics. I do this in an efficient manner by only generate a small amount of geometry around normal physics objects. This is done asynchronously so it doesn't impact the main thread. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c6466fa87b19347abe3bb4/747f8976-a6b4-4efe-be05-8da4d8808496/elongating-signed-distance-field-space.gif Personal - IsoMesh You can do some pretty freaky stuff by transforming the space! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c6466fa87b19347abe3bb4/4b6f9e28-fc23-4d0c-aafd-040be9557b41/blobbyBricks0.gif Personal - IsoMesh They can even have UVs. https://emmetotoole.com/personal/hdrp-grass monthly 0.5 2022-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c6466fa87b19347abe3bb4/a4410ca4-2182-4dbf-bdc3-37ca5aa30eb7/hdrpGrass.gif Personal - HDRPGrass There are tons of customization options, and the grass works with multiple light sources, cast shadows, and can multiple spheres displacing it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c6466fa87b19347abe3bb4/507a8ae8-9ae3-46de-ab28-44d51c8a2e38/hdrp-grass-lod-system.gif Personal - HDRPGrass The grass can have multiple LODs! Check out this trippy debug view. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c6466fa87b19347abe3bb4/f82fcdaf-e060-4322-b43b-f0ef73089984/placing-compute-shader-hdrp-grass.gif Personal - HDRPGrass The grass can be baked into static meshes and then placed as prefabs on Unity terrain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c6466fa87b19347abe3bb4/25346414-1a3c-459c-a067-92f51a573930/hdrp-grass-material-inspector.png Personal - HDRPGrass The material has a swanky inspector in the style of other HDRP materials! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c6466fa87b19347abe3bb4/6956b916-2370-4974-9f96-b327ad65b7d5/grass0.gif Personal - HDRPGrass I can see use cases for this as a weird fur thing or music visualizer, too. :P https://emmetotoole.com/personal/raincoat monthly 0.5 2022-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c6466fa87b19347abe3bb4/b2c7fc1f-9bb1-4db7-8c18-ddd3b6ee52ff/gravJump2.gif Personal - Raincoat (3D Platformer) Any object can be a gravity source. Here you also have a great view of the first level in the background. The custom camera easily adjusts to the new up direction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c6466fa87b19347abe3bb4/bb5a18a9-79c0-4558-80b6-b4de34d1dc61/grab0.gif Personal - Raincoat (3D Platformer) Environmental interaction! Any object with a Rigidbody can be pushed, pulled, or rolled around. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c6466fa87b19347abe3bb4/0d1d8ed2-6db9-43bc-b81d-37652dabd50c/jump2.gif Personal - Raincoat (3D Platformer) What 3D platformer would be complete without walljumping? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c6466fa87b19347abe3bb4/5b010df4-bf11-4f1a-b81d-06fb3dd3c419/pickup1.gif Personal - Raincoat (3D Platformer) A closeup of the really fun blobby pickups scattered around the world. I made this with raymarching shader magic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c6466fa87b19347abe3bb4/b2e6abea-9723-4ec0-b16d-2f9054f4fc7c/raincoat-shield-attack.gif Personal - Raincoat (3D Platformer) Raincoat is followed everywhere by a little orb companion. He can use it to project energy structured like this shield. This is all also done with raymarching, while the orb itself is a bunch of chunks animated via code. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c6466fa87b19347abe3bb4/1a874f85-f6df-4500-8a74-2bb81e5f8f92/eyeBlink0.gif Personal - Raincoat (3D Platformer) Raincoats eyes are the window to his soul. Done totally with ShaderGraph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c6466fa87b19347abe3bb4/4e861a70-99b0-42e2-8067-083731d66ba6/jumpPreview.gif Personal - Raincoat (3D Platformer) I went really overboard with the tools and gizmos. Since the game is so focused on tight platforming, we have tools that allow our designer to customize them by speed, height, airtime, and distance. This visualization is created with the help of Shapes, by Freya Holmér. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c6466fa87b19347abe3bb4/aa8de4a9-5cc8-4c0c-ad43-214da6edc216/raincoat-character-controller-scriptable-object-preview.png Personal - Raincoat (3D Platformer) I love giving designers tons and tons of flexibility. Here's a peek at the options menu for the character controller. https://emmetotoole.com/personal/ricercar monthly 0.5 2022-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c6466fa87b19347abe3bb4/a833a65c-f568-43f4-9da5-b616271930c3/GRAVITYMAP.gif Personal - Ricercar (Gravity Platformer + GPU Particle System) Convert any sprite into a "gravity map" which encodes a 2D vector towards the "mass" of the sprite. This allows for weird gravitational surfaces which would be too expensive to compute at runtime. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c6466fa87b19347abe3bb4/3a66a099-c746-42e3-8000-37a67a207125/GRAVITYGIF.gif Personal - Ricercar (Gravity Platformer + GPU Particle System) Maps can easily be sampled, both on the CPU and GPU side. The gravity is even extrapolated outside the edge of the map. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c6466fa87b19347abe3bb4/e23aad81-483a-464d-aa20-75b053e5d15d/GRAVITYPARTICLES.gif Personal - Ricercar (Gravity Platformer + GPU Particle System) You can create some pretty cool visuals with this. In this gif there are up to 200,000 particles with no lag. All the gravity sources and particle sources can be modified and moved around live, it's very fun. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c6466fa87b19347abe3bb4/a0c4e7a9-a486-44ca-82c9-73fed5799e16/gravity2.gif Personal - Ricercar (Gravity Platformer + GPU Particle System) Also very fun to just jump around in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c6466fa87b19347abe3bb4/3f07a312-db80-4081-a27e-ccf29664ae9b/gravity1.gif Personal - Ricercar (Gravity Platformer + GPU Particle System) This project ended up spawning two others which are also here on my GitHub - an SDF based line drawing tool (LineDrawer) and a tool for sorting large arrays on the GPU. (BufferSorter) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c6466fa87b19347abe3bb4/524accbb-707c-44ad-a469-d9ebed50900a/gravity3.gif Personal - Ricercar (Gravity Platformer + GPU Particle System) The particles can either collide and disappear or bounce with rudimentary physics. https://emmetotoole.com/professional daily 0.75 2022-08-31 https://emmetotoole.com/professional/loot-river monthly 0.5 2022-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c6466fa87b19347abe3bb4/b8efcb07-945a-4c7a-a043-e8fd21434264/settings.png Professional - Loot River Hey look, it's the settings screen I did! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c6466fa87b19347abe3bb4/d2265f15-84e6-420d-b026-936db81c0fa4/analisis-loot-river-2691295.png Professional - Loot River In the game, you navigate a series of waterlogged dungeons by sliding around these tetronimo-esque rafts. The rafts present you with satisfying "mini-puzzles" which punctuate the combat. There are some tough boss fights! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c6466fa87b19347abe3bb4/dd7744b6-eeed-4441-9fd9-34b3e3005a6e/Loot-River-Review-3.jpg Professional - Loot River Did I mention it's gorgeous? https://emmetotoole.com/professional/actionrpg monthly 0.5 2021-08-21 https://emmetotoole.com/professional/paranoia monthly 0.5 2022-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c6466fa87b19347abe3bb4/ba9fe601-9541-40f6-9daa-ee80ee072160/Paranoia.jpg Professional - Paranoia: Happiness is Mandatory Before and after each mission you'd meet with Friend Computer. who'd inevitably chastise and occasionally vaporize your teammates. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c6466fa87b19347abe3bb4/c8fc1dcb-be7e-4cf4-bbe0-d233960cea30/Paranoia-IL2.jpg Professional - Paranoia: Happiness is Mandatory The central hub area has lots of NPCs walking around, interacting with one another and objects in their environment. Many of these NPCs weren't scripted: they would choose random nearby objects and would even form queues with one another. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c6466fa87b19347abe3bb4/aae540b7-3040-41e2-a7c6-9fbc31194dbd/Paranoia_Happiness_Is_Mandatory_06132019_03.png Professional - Paranoia: Happiness is Mandatory A mid-combat screenshot showcasing the squad based combat with active pause. I implemented lots of the UI visible here. https://emmetotoole.com/professional/bbdz monthly 0.5 2021-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c6466fa87b19347abe3bb4/28dc1822-287f-4ec0-aff4-efc90094533e/bbdz_0.jpg Professional - Blood Bowl: Death Zone You play by giving your team members orders, either individually or in groups. You can win either by traditional american football means, or simply by eliminating the opposing team! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c6466fa87b19347abe3bb4/821aeac5-0eab-47c8-8323-b59cdb7a03c1/bbdz_1.png Professional - Blood Bowl: Death Zone I worked on a feature where you could build your own teams for use in online multiplayer games. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c6466fa87b19347abe3bb4/410b9182-ab4a-4328-9422-87e11ec20932/bbdz_2.png Professional - Blood Bowl: Death Zone The ice attack visible here was one of the first things I ever got to work on. :')