Let's improve the color restoration effect! | Farewell North Indie Game Devlog # 5

Wishlist on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1432850/Farewell_North/?utm_source=youtube&utm_campaign=devlog5 I'm making a game about restoring color to the world, so that mechanic has to be really perfectly executed. I think the current effect is pretty good, but there's still plenty of room for improvement! In this video I'll show you how I improved a specific scene by making three big changes to really kick it up a notch. First I'll show you how I improved the rune model by modelling a torch and retexturing the rune in Blender. We'll then pop the new model into Unity and add some particle effects and lights to give it a magical fire effect when the color is restored. Next we'll introduce a whole new system of "Memories" which will reveal the story of the game and give weight to the color restoration. This feature was shader heavy, so I'll show you a new shader created in Unity's Shader Graph, an update to the existing HLSL shaders to introduce a world fade effect where the whole world fades to black as the memory plays out, and a vertex displacement shader to animate the memories into the lantern when the animation is complete. Finally I'll show you a change to the game's vegetation to allow runes to influence the color of the grass around them! I hope you enjoy the video, let me know what you think of the improvements the comments, and don't forget to like, subscribe and of course, wishlist the game on Steam! Wishlist on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1432850/Farewell_North/?utm_source=youtube&utm_campaign=devlog5 Twitter: https://twitter.com/kylewbanks Website and Email Newsletter: https://farewell-north.com Farewell North is my personal passion project, an open world adventure game about restoring color to a dark and desolate archipelago where all color and life has left. You play as a collie working alongside your human companion to explore, solve puzzles, and restore color to the islands. #devlog #gaming #videogames #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #unity #unity3d #madewithunity