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Software engineer and graphics programming enthusiast 🇧🇪 he/him

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@alexanderameye
Alex Ameye
3 years
I'm sharing a free #madewithunity caustics shader today! 🌈☀️ Use it for your games/projects/VFX 👇
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Alex Ameye
3 years
For my birthday today I am making my award-nominated @unity3d water shader FREE! Refraction, caustics, planar reflections, waves ... it has it all 🥳
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Alex Ameye
3 years
Wrote a huge article explaining 5 different techniques to render outlines. Use it for your games/projects/VFX!✨ There is code included 👇
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Alex Ameye
5 years
Wanted to make one of those cool 60 second tutorials. Here's a #shadersdonequick on how to make beautiful toon/stylized water! 🌊🐠 You can get the graph here #unitytips #madewithunity #indiedev #gamedev #tutorial #shaders
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Alex Ameye
2 years
Made a huge tutorial on how to make a water shader in Unity 💦 This took a while to make and I put in almost everything I know about stylized water shaders. #madewithunity
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Alex Ameye
3 years
Re-sharing this in case somebody in vfx/games is in need of rendering outlines! 🖍️ "5 ways to draw an outline" including code + explanations
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Alex Ameye
5 years
Morning train to London. #madewithunity
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Alex Ameye
2 months
Just added this view for seeing stencil mask values in the scene Incredibly useful for debugging shaders! Thanks Freya
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Freya Holmér
2 months
"you can't debug print shaders" oh yeah? well check this shit out that's right, a whole ass view matrix, served directly from the GPU
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Alex Ameye
3 years
Moving to my new website I'm doing a bit of reorganizing. Enjoy these 3 short @unity3d shader tutorials! 😁 #madewithunity #gamedev
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Alex Ameye
5 years
Ever wondered how to do toon shading? I got you covered! Here's a short and sweet 60 second #shadersdonequick tutorial. 🐶 You can get the graph here #unitytips #madewithunity #indiedev #gamedev #tutorial #shaders
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Alex Ameye
2 years
Some goals for 2023 ✨ • more blog posts • more knowledge sharing
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Alex Ameye
2 years
My #madewithunity caustics shader is now available! 🌈☀️ It has an intuitive volume-based placement system and looks great👇
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Alex Ameye
2 years
Revisiting this stylized water shader this weekend
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Alex Ameye
24 days
Hi! I'm Alex, I make shaders and do tech art. Currently working on a game project 😀
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Alex Ameye
5 years
Are you nostalgic for the past? Let's see how you can achieve this cool retro effect in a 60 second #shadersdonequick tutorial! 📺 You can get the graph here #unitytips #madewithunity #indiedev #gamedev #tutorial #shaders
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Alex Ameye
4 years
Caustics test 004 #madewithunity
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Alex Ameye
3 years
Working on my toon shader part 842618
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Alex Ameye
4 years
Real-time fruit slicing effect #madewithunity #unity3d #gamedev
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Alex Ameye
3 years
I'm working on caustics volumes that properly follow the direction of the light and look nice. Getting the camera to be able to enter the volume though... different problem 🙃 #gamedev #vfx #madewithunity
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Alex Ameye
4 years
Procedural brick shader work in progress. #gamedev #shader #unity3d
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Alex Ameye
4 years
Parallax is a very easy way to give your artwork some depth! Here's a micro-tutorial on how to do this. 💬 #madewithunity #vfx #gamedev
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Alex Ameye
1 year
Extending the Unity Editor with a circular menu ⚡️ #gamedev #madewithunity Code below 👇
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Alex Ameye
1 year
Testing the driving mechanics for my game
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Alex Ameye
5 years
For the past few months I've been iterating on a caustics effect for my water shader. Includes a dispersion effect so the light splits into R/G/B and a shadow mask so the caustics don't show up in darker areas. I'm quite pleased :) ☀️ #madewithunity #vfx #gamedev #indiedev
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Alex Ameye
6 years
Games in the @unity3d inspector! I guess we know where Bethesda will be porting Skyrim to next ;) #gamedev #indiedev Created by u/bloboPro!
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Alex Ameye
4 years
I can't believe this day has finally come: dark theme is free in @unity3d 😍😎 bless your eyes
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Alex Ameye
4 years
Splish splosh splash 🌊 #madewithunity #vfx
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Alex Ameye
1 year
Pretty fond of this card shader ✨ it's 1 single shader all icons are SDF's - no textures stencil mask the little balls are 3D (raymarched)
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Nina 🐠🪸
1 year
TECH ARTISTS! Show me your favourite shader you've made!
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Alex Ameye
5 years
Parallax Pokémon card #madewithunity 💫
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Alex Ameye
2 years
I feel like I'm currently working on some great outline rendering tech. Can't wait to share 👀 #madewithunity
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Alex Ameye
4 years
Trying out some new foam effects for my water shader #madewithunity #gamedev #shader
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Alex Ameye
5 years
After months of hard and passionate work, my water shader is now finally availabe. It would mean a lot to me if you'd check it out. You can read all about it here. I hope people will like it!☀️🌊 #madewithunity #gamedev
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Alex Ameye
5 years
For the past few months I've been iterating on a caustics effect for my water shader. Includes a dispersion effect so the light splits into R/G/B and a shadow mask so the caustics don't show up in darker areas. I'm quite pleased :) ☀️ #madewithunity #vfx #gamedev #indiedev
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Alex Ameye
1 month
kubocentrism - experimenting with outline shaders
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Alex Ameye
1 month
outline shader with gaps and varying thickness for hand-drawn look
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Alex Ameye
5 years
I recently made a website with several Unity tutorials. Topics range from ocean waves to toon shading. Be sure to check it out! #madewithunity #unitytips
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Alex Ameye
1 year
The @unitygames redesign we deserve 🥺✨
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Alex Ameye
4 years
I finally released the 1.1.0 update for my water shader. Some new features: foam shadows, buoyancy, new caustics and improved lighting functions! 🌊 #madewithunity @AssetStore You can get it here
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Alex Ameye
4 years
Finally got shadows to work nicely with my transparent water surface! Heavily requested by users and I'll be adding this in the next update 🥳 #madewithunity #gamedev @AssetStore 👉
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Alex Ameye
2 years
using volumes to place caustics is so intuitive! ☀️ #madewithunity
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Alex Ameye
4 years
Very rough sneak peek at what I'm working on👀 #madewithunity #vfx
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Alex Ameye
5 years
Since the start of the new year I've been building up my new website with tutorials/breakdowns of effects and shaders. Very happy with how it's starting to look and I hope it's useful to some. 🦉 #madewithunity #unitytips
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Alex Ameye
2 years
I created a scene-switching toolbar for my #unity projects! 🔍 I feel like this is one of those low-effort, high-impact utilities.⚡️ (code below)
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Alex Ameye
6 years
In Unity 2019.1 alpha, there is a new EditorTools API. I should probably find a good use for this, but for now it works as a de-stressing tool that shows me kittens :) @unity3d #madewithunity #unitytips
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Alex Ameye
4 years
The life of an asset store publisher: people expecting support even when you're in the hospital 🥲🤔
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Alex Ameye
3 years
editor view vs. game view #madewithunity
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Alex Ameye
5 years
Sample depth, normals and color for a neat outline effect. Tutorial here to create this in URP with shader graph! #unity3d #unitytips 💡
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Alex Ameye
5 years
New tutorial on edge detection shaders with @unity3d shadergraph! We customize the Lightweight Rendering Pipeline to generate a DepthNormals Texture that we then use to detect edges. #madewithunity #unitytips
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Alex Ameye
4 years
Was in need of some UI blur so I made this blur pass for URP. It can work either full screen or you can put it on a panel. #gamedev #madewithunity
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Alex Ameye
1 year
Added a rougher looking transition to my stylized shader ✍️
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Alex Ameye
4 years
There's a special place in hell for people uploading pictures with this background, while not actually being transparent
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Alex Ameye
2 years
Updated my website a bit. Looks clean on mobile. More Unity blog posts to come 😊
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Alex Ameye
3 years
A while back I was working on this cool time of day tool with a nice 'timeline' editor. Creating TOD cycles which blend between states. Might revisit in future😁 #madewithunity #gamedev
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Alex Ameye
1 year
Added some debug visualisations for all the forces in the car controller I'm writing #gamedev #madewithunity ➡️⬅️⬆️⬇️
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Alex Ameye
3 years
So many shader assets on the unity asset store are just effects copied from free tutorials😐 why not save a few bucks and check out if these people have something similar first ✅ @HarryAlisavakis @minionsart @Cyanilux @ManuelaXibanya @totallyRonja
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Alex Ameye
27 days
Linework is NOW LIVE on the Asset Store! A practical toolkit for rendering outlines, highlights and fills in Unity 🖍️ Get Linework here >
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Alex Ameye
6 years
Want to create a stylized water shader using @unity3d shadergraph? Here's how you can! #unitytips #madewithunity 🌊
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Alex Ameye
2 years
Comic book print shader
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Alex Ameye
2 years
New hair simulation coming to Unity 2023.1 looks absolutely amazing 😮 Cute lion too
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Alex Ameye
2 years
Halftone is all the rage? Made a realtime version #madewithunity #gamedev #indiedev
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Alex Ameye
1 year
Car controller looking good 👍 #madewithunity
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Alex Ameye
3 years
Wanted to re-create a caustics effect I saw earlier today. The effect gets 'projected' by the main light. Then I added some chromatic aberration 🌈, caustics don't show in shadowed areas and you can set the height/range where they show up! ☀️🌊 #madewithunity #vfx
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Alex Ameye
3 years
Started work on a real-time ocean sim. The shading is still very basic, working on waves first.
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Alex Ameye
1 month
What features would you like/expect from an outline rendering toolkit for Unity? ✏️ I might have something for you.
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Alex Ameye
3 years
Are custom passes in @unity3d URP a mystery to you? I wrote a short post on achieving this cool blur effect! (code included !)✨ #madewithunity #gamedev #vfx
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Alex Ameye
4 years
Dreaming of space ... 🚀 Experimenting with some real-time hand drawn rendering styles in @unity3d #madewithunity #unity3d #gamedev
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Alex Ameye
4 years
I converted this outline shader effect from @bgolus to an URP renderer feature. Would any of you be interested in this? Zelda model was made by theStoff over on sketchfab #madewithunity #gamedev #indiedev
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Alex Ameye
5 years
Use a cone mesh to fake some volumetric lighting #unitytips
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Alex Ameye
4 years
Made an outline system for @unity3d URP. Whole system is super flexible #vfx #madewithunity
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Alex Ameye
4 years
Making some ~S P A R K L Y~ shaders ✨ #madewithunity #nodevember2020
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Alex Ameye
2 years
Made a quick tutorial on how to make this cool halftone print shading effect! #madewithunity 🖨️
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Alex Ameye
1 year
This weekend I experimented with a radial selection menu for the @unity editor. Hooked it up to my debug views. Much faster than selecting from a dropdown list ⚡️
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Alex Ameye
4 years
Added point light support to my water shader 💡 I love how it interacts with the surface and the objects beneath the water! #madewithunity #unity3d #gamedev #vfx
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Alex Ameye
1 year
A year later, still iterating 😴
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Alex Ameye
3 years
Working on my toon shader part 842618
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Alex Ameye
3 years
Added some big rolling waves and subsurface scattering/translucency to my ocean renderer😁More to come! #gamedev #madewithunity
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Alex Ameye
2 years
If you've enjoyed my shaders and other Unity stuff throughout the years, consider following me here. My gamedev adventure continues! 🫡 ✨ 🐘
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Alex Ameye
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Visualization of my outlines technique in Unity ✏️
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Alex Ameye
6 years
Toon shading with @unity3d shader graph? It's possible with custom nodes! I wrote a tutorial here. 🐳🐧 #madewithunity #unitytips
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Alex Ameye
4 years
Realtime outlines test ⚡️ I started this recreation of one of @mellifics 's artworks a few months ago but haven't had the time to work on it since. The goal was to get really clean/consistent linework with minimal manual authoring. #vfx #stylized
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Alex Ameye
1 year
First time writing a car controller from scratch! Doesn't look like much, but at least it's mine 😅
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Alex Ameye
3 years
I think there is something wrong with my new @unity3d logo
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Alex Ameye
1 year
3D line painting tool
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Alex Ameye
3 years
I have written a short blog post about this on my new website. It would mean a lot to me if you could take the time to read it ❤️
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Alex Ameye
3 years
Added subsurface scattering to @Cyanilux 's vegetation shader to make it look like the sun is shining through the translucent leaves ☀️🍃 #madewithunity #gamedev
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Alex Ameye
1 year
old stylized rocks experiment #madewithunity
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Alex Ameye
7 years
Use Editor.OnInteractivePreviewGUI for a 3D model viewer in your custom inspector! @unity3d #unitytips #madewithunity #gamedev #indiedev
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Alex Ameye
4 years
Honestly I'm getting quite burned out on this shader, the update is so close to being finished and I feel like I have to push through ☹️ I'll be focusing on some other cool stuff that brings me more joy after this. Thank you for all the kind words about my work, it helps a lot 🙏
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Alex Ameye
4 years
Caustics test 004 #madewithunity
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Alex Ameye
2 years
Made a stress test scene for my outline shader
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Alex Ameye
2 years
I want to be on this beach #shader
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Alex Ameye
4 years
Back in July I worked on some buoyancy effects. It's basic for sure, but so fun to play around with and see objects interact with the water! The system could easily be used for larger objects like boats ⛵️ #madewithunity #gamedev
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Alex Ameye
5 years
What lurks in the subway ... a big mouse! Testing out my pixelation shader.🐭 #gamedev #madewithunity #unity3d
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Alex Ameye
4 years
Testing out my hand-drawn rendering style! Now I can control outline thickness and color on a per-pixel basis which gives me great artistic control. 🌿 #madewithunity #gamedev #unity3d #shader
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Alex Ameye
3 years
The shader was designed to only work with Unity's Universal Render Pipeline so keep that in mind! You can get it here
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Alex Ameye
2 years
Masking the pokemon to only show up through the window of the card using stencil buffers #madewithunity
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Alex Ameye
5 years
Inspired by @greje656 I now add diagrams, drawings and other visuals to shader code. Great for me since I'm a very visual learner + it's fun to make!
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Alex Ameye
4 years
I wanted to be able to control the wave height for my ocean shader and the best thing I found was using vertex colors to paint the waves on there! Very fun to play with 😅🌊 #madewithunity #gamedev #indiedev
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Alex Ameye
4 years
Working on some very cute lines and selections ☺️ #madewithunity #vfx #gamedev
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Alex Ameye
7 years
Use GUILayout.Toolbar to organize your custom inspector into tabs! You can even add some icons! #unitytips #unity3d @unity3d
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