Anthony Carmona

Pipe It is finally out! 🎉 After 7 months of work, my Unreal Engine plugin for drawing pipes is live on Fab. Never assemble pipes by hand again! 4 full kits included - it all works at runtime too AND you can make your own kits too! 👀 Compatible from UE 5.4 - 5.8! Big thank you to @phyronnaz for the help bringing this plugin to life! @fab @UnrealEngine #gamedev #plugin #pipes #ue5 Link below 👇

Quick question for you: do you think a plugin like pipe it in unity would be useful to you？ I’m considering porting it :)

Love them pipes!

I’ll be at @gamescomasia until the end of the week! Send me a message if you’d like to meet and chat :)

Hello! Thank you! Send me a DM, we can chat ;)

Thank you for the repost ❤️

The leaf cutting alone is free, UE 5.1 to 5.8. Call it a gift 🎁 Plus (€20, UE 5.7+): foliage-plugin.com/plus Lite (free): fab.com/listings/2107cdea-d0… #UE5 #UnrealEngine #gamedev #techart

Repeated leaf cards are stored once as Nanite assembly parts and drawn many times. One pine on disk: 8.33 MB → 3.17 MB.

Hardest part: reading the tree. Find the trunk and the branches among the pieces of a static mesh, then rebuild a skeleton automatically. That skeleton is what Dynamic Wind bends. Works on trees, bushes, palms, grass.

The cut: each card is cut to the outline of its mask. The outline only grows outwards, so no opaque texel is lost. Sample palm: drawn card area 100% → 59.6%. Cards on the same atlas spot share one outline, so thousands of cards trace a handful.

The cut: each card is cut to the outline of its mask. The outline only grows outwards, so no opaque texel is lost. Sample palm: drawn card area 100% → 59.6%. Cards on the same atlas spot share one outline, so thousands of cards trace a handful.

Why: Procedural Vegetation Editor is great for new trees. But most projects already have a library of static mesh trees. Those use masked cards, and on Nanite the GPU shades every empty pixel of every card. That's a lot of overdraw.

I built a tool that converts static mesh trees into Nanite skeletal trees with Dynamic Wind, in one click, inside Unreal. Foliage Toolkit Plus is out on Fab 🌳🧵

Here's the link to github: github.com/ancarmona/keyston…

I made my own deck system in the browser and you can talk to it! As a 3D TechArt instructor and a lot of my job is to make students understand some complex concepts. Dealing with visual people, I found it is easier to do so through graphs or animations, but using the likes of powerpoint can be VERY tedious. None of the animations look nice, its slow and tired and files get heavy as soon as you start adding images/videos. So I thought why not just make a simple HTML/CSS/JS deck reader directly in my browser? Ive made Keystone, its free and Open Source and here's some of the cool things you can do with it: -You can ask Claude to write and edit your slides directly from the Keystone window -You can give feedback with your voice (using faster-whisper) and by drawing on the screen, Claude gets all the timed info so it knows when you drew and talked at the same time. -There's an easy style template system so you can match and reuse your style or your company art direction. -It comes with a Three.js viewer already built in -There's a neat button to switch language if you need to translate to multiple languages, translations are stored separately from the style, so they can be applied quickly without reloading the whole page. I'm pretty happy with the way it works now, as it sped up my work quite a bit and I can focus on showing concepts in a creative way. I'm curious what you would make with it yourselves :) Link below in the comments 👇

Hell yeah dude ! So happy to see your work finalised !

Virtual texture streaming. It’s purely reactive loading, unreal streams from smallest mip towards highest. You wouldn’t usually see that in game because unreal uses the camera movement to predict which textures to load while moving ;)