Mirza Beig

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✨ Interested in changing the world for the better. Exploring ~realtime simulations, sci-tech, education, etc. #Unity3D, After Effects, and Technical Art/#VFX.

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Collision geometry holds index into level palette -> animate tint to target. Polygons are broadly coloured to match expected/apparent realtime scene lighting. Figured it out, directly from the actual game. 🎉 No more conjecture, only certainty :) ~5 years later.

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I used to be immersed in the world and story of this game. I remember being in Traverse Town, thinking about how they did things, and how the game was made, years before being involved with game development myself. It's incredible, that years after, I can just see the data/information of the simulation <- the systems, actually behind the gameplay and mechanics. 👀🧠

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I started using After Effects ~18 years ago. I started game dev. a couple of years after. Today, I release my first (+FREE) AE plugin: 🟠🟢🔵 Advanced Radial Blur 🔴 ^ Which combines a bit of both skills. 🙂 🔗

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Attaching an active portal to a rigidbody, ...and then going through it. 🤯

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Trying to get that anime-feel. 🏙️ With multiple passes; shaders. > It's running on my phone!

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Interactive gravitational lensing, 🔎 w/ 4D space-time recording.

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Ray/pathtracing-like glass for Unity URP. > (without actually doing all of that--).

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✍️ I wrote an article on programming blur shaders for beginners. You do not need to be adept at either math or programming to understand how it works :) Going from the most basic/straightforward type of blur, to what you see below, and more! Lots of pretty pictures, media, and interactive code to learn from. -- Box blur, with clipping and radial weighting. (So, no longer really a box blur...?) 🔍 #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d

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Are these the best realtime shadows for Unity URP? I've not seen better, but if you have, then I'd like to see, too! Perhaps I might be inspired. 🕯️

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Gravitational field layers/fabric visualization.

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👀 Ever see a 3D sci-fi energy shield like this? Realtime, interactive (per-tile), procedurally animated, and has layers of shaders with particle effects - I wanted to make something unique and "technically advanced", but also modular for performance scaling. It's straightforward to address individual tiles and hook in your own effects and calls with custom events. I'll be posting this very soon (for Unity URP).

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🌧️ Heavy rain. More testing my generic/robust custom renderer feature in Unity URP. I'm using a fast 1/4th resolution 'rain buffer' accumulating multiple, transparent particle systems.

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$Dirty, hollow, refracting, glass monkey. 🧊🐵$

Dirty, hollow, refracting, glass monkey. 🧊🐵

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$✅ Refracted animated caustics in Unity. I remember when I didn't know what a "shader" was. ✨✨✨ It's been a journey! #unity3d #gamedev #realtimevfx$

✅ Refracted animated caustics in Unity. I remember when I didn't know what a "shader" was. ✨✨✨ It's been a journey! #unity3d #gamedev #realtimevfx

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😶‍🌫️ Late night experiment: high-resolution, volumetric cloud rendering in Unity URP. Doing R&D for my fog, too. Lighting is rather basic, ~I just started on this one.

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What do I call this— 'chromatic portal gel'? Tide Pod bubble shield? 🔴🟠🔵🟢

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$PRISM's refraction depth masking. > It works as a water shader, too. 🍸$

PRISM's refraction depth masking. > It works as a water shader, too. 🍸

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Colourful, SUPER VIVID post-processing in Unity. Chromatic radial blur, vibrance, etc... 🔴🟢🔵🟣🟡

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One line of code is the difference between a working shader and breaking out of the Matrix. 😎

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$URP glass (and frost or resin) shader with chromatic dispersion, distortion/refraction, blur, and fresnel.$

URP glass (and frost or resin) shader with chromatic dispersion, distortion/refraction, blur, and fresnel.

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Collision geometry holds index into level palette -> animate tint to target. Polygons are broadly coloured to match expected/apparent realtime scene lighting. Figured it out, directly from the actual game. 🎉 No more conjecture, only certainty :) ~5 years later.

I started using After Effects ~18 years ago. I started game dev. a couple of years after. Today, I release my first (+FREE) AE plugin: 🟠🟢🔵 Advanced Radial Blur 🔴 ^ Which combines a bit of both skills. 🙂 🔗

Attaching an active portal to a rigidbody, ...and then going through it. 🤯

Trying to get that anime-feel. 🏙️ With multiple passes; shaders. &gt; It's running on my phone!

Interactive gravitational lensing, 🔎 w/ 4D space-time recording.

Ray/pathtracing-like glass for Unity URP. &gt; (without *actually* doing all of that--).

Are these the best realtime shadows for Unity URP? I've not seen better, but if you have, then I'd like to see, too! Perhaps I might be inspired. 🕯️

Gravitational field layers/fabric visualization.

🌧️ Heavy rain. More testing my generic/robust custom renderer feature in Unity URP. I'm using a fast 1/4th resolution 'rain buffer' accumulating multiple, transparent particle systems.

Dirty, hollow, refracting, glass monkey. 🧊🐵

✅ Refracted animated caustics in Unity. I remember when I didn't know what a "shader" was. ✨✨✨ It's been a journey! #unity3d #gamedev #realtimevfx

😶‍🌫️ Late night experiment: high-resolution, volumetric cloud rendering in Unity URP. Doing R&amp;D for my fog, too. Lighting is rather basic, ~I just started on this one.

What do I call this— 'chromatic portal gel'? Tide Pod bubble shield? 🔴🟠🔵🟢

PRISM's refraction depth masking. &gt; It works as a water shader, too. 🍸

Colourful, SUPER VIVID post-processing in Unity. Chromatic radial blur, vibrance, etc... 🔴🟢🔵🟣🟡

One line of code is the difference between a working shader and breaking out of the Matrix. 😎

URP glass (and frost or resin) shader with chromatic dispersion, distortion/refraction, blur, and fresnel.

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Kingdom Hearts had incredible tech. > On the PS2, around ~2002! Even *the* most basic enemy, a shadow 'heartless', had complex rendering and behaviour [for the time]. Flatten, render -> top-down texture, duplicate intersecting polygons, *then* sample the texture on that geom.

"Perfect" reflections, via duplicated geometry. &gt; from Kingdom Hearts (PS2). Pooh's world.

Chromatic blur plugin/asset. Where the screenshot is from. 🔴🟢🔵 mobile phone test.

Advanced radial blur shaders (with chromatic smear) are now working as a plugin in AE. ✨🎇

Censorship cube (pixelated blur).

Accidentally spawned overlapping portals, creating a flipped mirror universe (going through turns you around).

Halo: Simple graphics -&gt; better readability.

💖 Cosmic water shader, ++ particles in Unity. 🔵✨

🌀 Noise (especially with derived curling; 'curl noise') -&gt; organic, "life"-like evolution/motion for particles.

🧊 Frosty glass, w/ condensation + air bubbles. 🫧 -- Unity URP, volumetric lighting and GI.

Deus EX: MD's frosted glass panels. Playing for... research/reference. 🙂🤗 This game is ~10 years old! I love the masking effects, but you can see it's *not* rendering multiple layers of transparency. Most likely, they have a single blurred texture which they blend.

🌀 3D/spherical black hole simulation. + Lensing and bright accretion particles. #gamedev #unity3d #vfx

Glass with bubble particles, Unity URP. 🫧 ++ refraction, dispersion, scattering...

Volumetric fog (AERO) + GPU wave simulation. -- Interactive in Unity 6, URP. ✨ Already possible, you just need the texture.

float2 n,q,u=float2(i.uv-.5); float d = dot(u,u),s=9,t=_Time.y,o,j; for (float2x2 m=RM2D(5);j++&lt;16;) { u = mul(m,u);n = mul(m,n); q = u*s+t*4+sin(t*4-d*6)*0.8+j+n; o += dot(cos(q)/s, float2(2,2)); n -= sin(q); s *= 1.2; } return o; #Unity3D #GLSL #VFXFriday

I made a 'perfect' glass shader for Unity. ✅ +a full, written tutorial about it! It's for absolute beginners. 🧊 w/ Lots of pretty videos and pictures. #unity3d #gamedev #glsl

Unity URP glass - convincing results. -- (this is recorded from the editor).

Unity can read *.blend files with Blender installed. I can tweak values in Geometry Nodes and see updates "live" without having to export/import anything. #unity3d #gamedev #b3d #geometrynodes

Dynamic frosted glass and blur for Unity (URP). &gt; Similar to Doom and Deus Ex: MD (2016).

Trying to get that anime-feel. 🏙️ With multiple passes; shaders. > It's running on my phone!

Ray/pathtracing-like glass for Unity URP. > (without actually doing all of that--).

😶‍🌫️ Late night experiment: high-resolution, volumetric cloud rendering in Unity URP. Doing R&D for my fog, too. Lighting is rather basic, ~I just started on this one.

PRISM's refraction depth masking. > It works as a water shader, too. 🍸

Kingdom Hearts had incredible tech. > On the PS2, around ~2002! Even the most basic enemy, a shadow 'heartless', had complex rendering and behaviour [for the time]. Flatten, render -> top-down texture, duplicate intersecting polygons, then sample the texture on that geom.

"Perfect" reflections, via duplicated geometry. > from Kingdom Hearts (PS2). Pooh's world.

Halo: Simple graphics -> better readability.

🌀 Noise (especially with derived curling; 'curl noise') -> organic, "life"-like evolution/motion for particles.

Deus EX: MD's frosted glass panels. Playing for... research/reference. 🙂🤗 This game is ~10 years old! I love the masking effects, but you can see it's not rendering multiple layers of transparency. Most likely, they have a single blurred texture which they blend.

float2 n,q,u=float2(i.uv-.5); float d = dot(u,u),s=9,t=_Time.y,o,j; for (float2x2 m=RM2D(5);j++<16;) { u = mul(m,u);n = mul(m,n); q = us+t4+sin(t4-d6)0.8+j+n; o += dot(cos(q)/s, float2(2,2)); n -= sin(q); s = 1.2; } return o; #Unity3D #GLSL #VFXFriday

Dynamic frosted glass and blur for Unity (URP). > Similar to Doom and Deus Ex: MD (2016).