[CLOSED] Shader Commission

[mortal fiber]

Are you still looking for someone?

[tame thunder]

Yup still looking

[acoustic river]

how much are you offering for the shader?

[tame thunder]

Whatever your hourly rate is usually.. I don't have a set amount.. less than $100 tho I'd say...

[surreal bay]

is this xenogears

[tame thunder]

job still available as no one so far can figure out how it's done

[rustic salmon]

I got the effect but the animation not really

[sand laurel]

@tame thunder Is this what you're looking for? Check your DMs.

[rotund lodge]

Amazing job, hope you get a response

[tame thunder]

It's pretty close! Thanks for responses so far

[tame thunder]

[DONE] Shader Commission

[tame thunder]

[PAID] Shader Commission

Still looking, need more experienced shader programmer / visual artist who can recreate the effect... ideally someone who knows Godot well and can setup the shader to be tested easily.

[surreal bay]

wait, was candle's not good enough?

[tame thunder]

still not close enough yeah.. tho more need someone who can set up the shader to be tested easily in Godot too

have figured out more of the original effect tho, it uses a mesh and isn't just screen distortion

the mesh might not be necessary to achieve the effect but I can't have the pixels stretching out a ton, need the image to stretch instead

[sand laurel]

For reference, this is my "not good enough" attempt next to the original. Best of luck to anyone willing to attempt this.

[surreal bay]

that's really unfair

you could put it up on godotshaders if it doesn't have a use for you though

looks super useful for a lot of games

[sand laurel]

Don't worry, I got compensated for my time. But I don't think 95% the way there is sufficient for OP unfortunately

[rotund lodge]

I wanted to give it a try then saw your attempt , might still try to replicate it as a learning exercise tho

[sand laurel]

Quick tip: You can get the corners of the bubble look more "compressed" and spherical if you make your sine wave have a step like this

[rotund lodge]

Will take note, thanks for the tip

[tame thunder]

it's not quite 95%, working with the shader - mainly need help setting up the shader now to work in godot for quick testing.. but open to anyone who thinks they could replicate the effect closer

[rotund lodge]

Just curious, in the video that Candleviz shared, both effects looks almost identical, in your perception whats missing ?

[tame thunder]

when the effect pushes in, it pulls the sides of the image out and stretches the image, not just the pixels on the edge.. that's main problem having with his shader atm

that and I can't tell if I can get the shader any closer to the original since it wasn't setup to work within Godot at all

he did get it pretty close, it just doesn't stretch the image out in a similar way with similar timing

@rotund lodge if you watch the two videos he posted, in the original video you can see the bubble effect drop in 3 times, each one more intense. His version only really get 1 bubble effect before its done..

also I believe the effect being simulated and not tied to a physical mesh is causing too many timing issues between the variables

[sand laurel]

I handed you a shader like you requested plus instructions on how to activate it and parametrize it. Setting up scripts that tie-in into your game's events is not part of your requests' scope. Despite that, I still took time to help you setup your game scripts. Saying it "wasn't setup to work within Godot at all" is disingenuous.

[tame thunder]

sorry I've come to expect that from shader commissions here in Godot discord.. it makes testing the shader a lot more difficult unless you know how to set that all up, especially when you didn't design the shader

I don't think its too much to ask that shaders for godot applications come with a way to test and tweak their settings by default.. I'll be more clear in my next posts.

[rotund lodge]

I understand were you coming from, tbh shaders are quite complex beasts, they tap into the rendering engine and unless you know the basis of how godot does rendering of both 3d objects and post processing its going to be hard to integrate them

[tame thunder]

aye I'm not a programmer, that's why I hire them instead..

[rotund lodge]

Nonetheless Candleviz did an amazing job shader-code wise, Maybe a bit more communication would have been useful

[tame thunder]

we're communicating, I'm just interested in getting the effect to work.. if someone knows how to do it or can improve on it, I'm open

honestly wish I could moderate my own posts.. as I didn't want this to become an open discussion...only interest from anyone that can actually do the effect