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Kommander Karl

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Real life NPC. The “reload guy”. 3D & Technical Artist. Award winning photographer, also doing quantum mechanics visualization

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I told y’all I’d do it 🫡

I told y’all I’d do it 🫡

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BF 1 is the best entry in the entire Battlefield series and I will die in this trench. (Video source: banana2963 on YouTube)

BF 1 is the best entry in the entire Battlefield series and I will die in this trench. (Video source: banana2963 on YouTube)

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I was commissioned to make a fake weapon for Mouse P.I. For Hire, which is being released in a few days. Made a mouse trap grenade launcher with a coat hook and rat trap lol. Can’t wait for yall to watch the whole thing 💪

I was commissioned to make a fake weapon for Mouse P.I. For Hire, which is being released in a few days. Made a mouse trap grenade launcher with a coat hook and rat trap lol. Can’t wait for yall to watch the whole thing 💪

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When the waiter says they only have Pepsi products

When the waiter says they only have Pepsi products

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Tactical toilet reload (total fucking brain rot edition)

Tactical toilet reload (total fucking brain rot edition)

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This is my buddy Phelan, he makes a lot of stuff like this and it’s very entertaining. His compositing and After Effects work is very solid!

This is my buddy Phelan, he makes a lot of stuff like this and it’s very entertaining. His compositing and After Effects work is very solid!

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If I ever design my own game it’s going to have ridiculous healing animations too, like having to finish Perfection before the timer is up lol

If I ever design my own game it’s going to have ridiculous healing animations too, like having to finish Perfection before the timer is up lol

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More proning in videogames since the last did so well! Longer version available on YouTube: Proning in videogames

More proning in videogames since the last did so well! Longer version available on YouTube: Proning in videogames

278,488 views

POV you find a 6 inch ledge in a AAA game

POV you find a 6 inch ledge in a AAA game

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No doubt. Parallax shaders in particular are one of my favorites as well. I'm the environment lead on this indie project, built this scene with Blender & Unreal 5. I built a custom landscape shader with 4 unique paintable material types, all using POM for fake 3D. I still remember being blown away by parallax mapping in Elder Scrolls: Oblivion (2004), though a much simpler form of it.

No doubt. Parallax shaders in particular are one of my favorites as well. I'm the environment lead on this indie project, built this scene with Blender & Unreal 5. I built a custom landscape shader with 4 unique paintable material types, all using POM for fake 3D. I still remember being blown away by parallax mapping in Elder Scrolls: Oblivion (2004), though a much simpler form of it.

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This individual is basically asking about how the devs at DICE handled lightmaps in Battlefield 4 (baked global illumination) when it came to dynamic events like buildings collapsing, which is an excellent question! In the video I provided here, you can see lightmaps on the building, particularly the balconies. Essentially, when it’s time for the building to collapse, a dynamic animated version of the building is immediately instantiated in the exact location of the old one. You can actually see this happening too. Before the building collapses, you can see a weird flicker effect. That flicker is the lightmaps disappearing entirely, because a different version of the same building that lightmaps won’t function on replaces the static light mapped building. Really cool stuff!

This individual is basically asking about how the devs at DICE handled lightmaps in Battlefield 4 (baked global illumination) when it came to dynamic events like buildings collapsing, which is an excellent question! In the video I provided here, you can see lightmaps on the building, particularly the balconies. Essentially, when it’s time for the building to collapse, a dynamic animated version of the building is immediately instantiated in the exact location of the old one. You can actually see this happening too. Before the building collapses, you can see a weird flicker effect. That flicker is the lightmaps disappearing entirely, because a different version of the same building that lightmaps won’t function on replaces the static light mapped building. Really cool stuff!

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The only nitpick I have with Halo that made me pause long enough to care saying anything about is this subtle texture artifact on some assets. My guess is a procedural noise texture is feeding the material's roughness input (which controls how glossy or matte the surface appears). The noise texture is sampling world space instead of object space. So as the Covenant canister moves, it "swims" through the noise field, making the roughness pattern slide across the surface instead of staying locked to the mesh. It's a tiny thing most players will never notice but fuck man years of staring at material graphs have permanently damaged my ability to properly enjoy shiny objects.

The only nitpick I have with Halo that made me pause long enough to care saying anything about is this subtle texture artifact on some assets. My guess is a procedural noise texture is feeding the material's roughness input (which controls how glossy or matte the surface appears). The noise texture is sampling world space instead of object space. So as the Covenant canister moves, it "swims" through the noise field, making the roughness pattern slide across the surface instead of staying locked to the mesh. It's a tiny thing most players will never notice but fuck man years of staring at material graphs have permanently damaged my ability to properly enjoy shiny objects.

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Captain Price ❌ Kommander Kost ✅

Captain Price ❌ Kommander Kost ✅

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Bill Nye said putting a hot dog in a flashlight doesn’t do anything. I beg to differ.

Bill Nye said putting a hot dog in a flashlight doesn’t do anything. I beg to differ.

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This thing really had some recoil
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This thing really had some recoil

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2,683,348 views • 2 months ago

Vehicles in Gears of War: E-Day have soft body deformation from explosions, as well as amazing material based surface damage effects. This game continues to amaze me in so many little ways
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Vehicles in Gears of War: E-Day have soft body deformation from explosions, as well as amazing material based surface damage effects. This game continues to amaze me in so many little ways

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138,172 views • 10 days ago

Whoever made this deserves an Oscar
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Whoever made this deserves an Oscar

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5,117,183 views • 2 years ago

GTA 4 RTX with DLSS 5 slop is intriguing to toy around with ngl. IV is the only Rockstar title so far that I can get DLSS 5 working with at the moment. Coupled with the RTX mod, the results are pretty wild
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GTA 4 RTX with DLSS 5 slop is intriguing to toy around with ngl. IV is the only Rockstar title so far that I can get DLSS 5 working with at the moment. Coupled with the RTX mod, the results are pretty wild

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110,619 views • 26 days ago

Pump action polka
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Pump action polka

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355,568 views • 5 months ago

Okay then, let’s see if one of my best reload videos can gain good traction now that I’m no longer verified.
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Okay then, let’s see if one of my best reload videos can gain good traction now that I’m no longer verified.

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2,225,077 views • 3 years ago

This video is without a doubt my biggest impact on the internet. Nothing I’ve done since has come close to the amount of reach this had.
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This video is without a doubt my biggest impact on the internet. Nothing I’ve done since has come close to the amount of reach this had.

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1,701,828 views • 2 years ago

The new Grimace shake from McDonald's it’s amazing!!!
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The new Grimace shake from McDonald's it’s amazing!!!

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1,814,385 views • 3 years ago

Signs you might be an NPC…figured I’d go ahead and post the full video here. Enjoy!
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Signs you might be an NPC…figured I’d go ahead and post the full video here. Enjoy!

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1,984,656 views • 3 years ago

“Traffic laws weren’t invented until 1901” Driving in the 1890s:
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“Traffic laws weren’t invented until 1901” Driving in the 1890s:

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1,382,655 views • 2 years ago

My “Ragdolls in Different Games” series, which I started after my reload shtick. While this wasn’t as successful, it stood on its own pretty well. I should make more of these, it’s just hard on my body.
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My “Ragdolls in Different Games” series, which I started after my reload shtick. While this wasn’t as successful, it stood on its own pretty well. I should make more of these, it’s just hard on my body.

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1,396,098 views • 3 years ago

“you make me smile, heheh”
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“you make me smile, heheh”

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143,080 views • 3 months ago

Hey guys, another banger from my buddy Phelan Davis, if the Halo one didn’t do it for yah, this one should. Let’s blow this man up folks! 🫡
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Hey guys, another banger from my buddy Phelan Davis, if the Halo one didn’t do it for yah, this one should. Let’s blow this man up folks! 🫡

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956,153 views • 2 years ago

A lot of people did not like this video lol
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A lot of people did not like this video lol

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1,412,495 views • 3 years ago

Absolutely fuckin wild playing fully path traced GTA 4. The actual raytracing/PBR injections are running flawlessly in the diner, but as soon as I go outside my Ryzen 5950x is like "wtf is this shit how old is this fucking game"
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Absolutely fuckin wild playing fully path traced GTA 4. The actual raytracing/PBR injections are running flawlessly in the diner, but as soon as I go outside my Ryzen 5950x is like "wtf is this shit how old is this fucking game"

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241,487 views • 8 months ago

didn’t need AI for this, just blender and photoshop
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didn’t need AI for this, just blender and photoshop

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61,094 views • 1 month ago

“Gamedev isn’t that hard” Also gamedev:
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“Gamedev isn’t that hard” Also gamedev:

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947,913 views • 3 years ago

If I could make my own game, I’d call it “Sticks & Stones” 🫡
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If I could make my own game, I’d call it “Sticks & Stones” 🫡

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71,349 views • 2 months ago

Next request was OneShot so i edited it entirely using InShot from my phone because fuck generative slop
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Next request was OneShot so i edited it entirely using InShot from my phone because fuck generative slop

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178,613 views • 7 months ago

More ragdolls for your enjoyment!
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More ragdolls for your enjoyment!

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845,630 views • 3 years ago