JB2A - v0.6.1 Release (Patreon)

Dear patrons!

The quest to tame Unreal Engine has begun... once more.
This month, we indulged in buying a couple of asset packs to draw inspiration from, change some textures, timings...etc
More importantly, the goal was to focus more on experimenting with the rendering side of things, which has been a long journey, to say the least. 😅
After many days and sometimes nights experimenting with the alpha channel (which doesn't include some of the post-processing like the bloom),
which has been our main culprit, alongside color management and anti-aliasing, we think we're pretty much as close as we're going to get it.
We're pretty satisfied with the results now and the workflow is, for the most part, in place.
We made some blueprints (very simplified coding available as nodes in a UI) to facilitate the workflow
from creating the meshes in Blender, the textures in Substance Designer and/or Photoshop, creating the Niagara particle effects in Unreal Engine,
to rendering the image Sequences, importing them into After Effects and finally rendering it with Media Encoder... 😴
Still some subtleties to figure out, namely how to easily swap colours, batch rendering from the Blueprints in Unreal, but we're getting there!
You'll notice that we did not yet create different colours for many of these new assets in this release.
Anyways, a huge thanks to all of you and we hope you'll enjoy these! ❤️

- Contents of the release -

Template Line - Piercing

What we had in mind for those were a kind of a "psychic lance" to be displayed above the targeted token, in a cinematic fashion, like shown in the video included in this post.
The macro we used will be posted in our Discord in the next couple of days, if someone is interested. 🙂

New "cast" animations, impacts and muzzle-flash

A front view and side view for these casting animations, some impacts and muzzle-flash.




Map is created with texture assets from "Forgotten Adventures"
Tokens are also created by "Forgotten Adventures". See their Patreon page for more !

Template Lines of Ice and Lava

Ranges of 15ft, 30ft and 60ft.
We could render the splashes separately if needed, so that the lava is under the token and the splashes above.
Let us know if you'd like us to include them.



Map is created by "Stained Karbon Maps" and animated by yours truly!
See their Patreon page for more !

Requests

The wind-up for the ice breath weapon as a 360° "cast" animation was requested, as well as the individual shapes from "cast-shapes".

As always, you can check all the new assets by browsing through our Asset Viewer or read our Patchnotes.

Link to the Master Post

Link to the Token Animator Download Post (Epic and above only !)

Additional links

• Patchnotes
• Website
• Asset Library Preview
• Discord Server
• Map Animator - For Epic tier Patrons and above only
• Hall of Fame
• Youtube Channel
• Music Puzzle - It's a free module but requires assets from the Patreon pack

Thank you again! ❤️
Jules&Ben 🖖