Chris Anderson - Vermilion

Unreal: Space Train

As part of ORKA's weekly seminars, I gave a talk about Unreal Engine, making games, and control systems. You can find a link to the talk here and a link to the slides here.

Unreal Engine 5: Nanite and Water

Nanite in Unreal Engine 5 enables far greater geometry density. When using this awesome technology for floor geometry, some of the older techniques for achieving visual effects no longer work. A prime example of this is the use of water puddle shaders. When using normals to fake geometry, layering puddles

Artwork

Rendering Characters in Unannounced Project

Game Design

On Diplomacy in Games

Interactive dialogue is a powerful system with an excellent scope, but from a development perspective, building one is a costly endeavour.

Stats-based Text Generation

[Yeah they're basically guaranteed paper] currency without the need for a PvE server, and then the system shuts itself down. Only happens with PS5 games capped at 30fps (not sure what games that should be) Please name one of the best in the series. The bosses are way too ambitious.

Cybersecurity

Talk: Critical Infrastructure Security

As part of ORCA's weekly seminar, my slides are available here. In this talk, I speak about some of the preceding work for my master's and touch on cybersecurity strategy for Critical Infrastructure.

Cybersecurity

Tips and Tricks: Hashing

Hashing is a common occurrence in digital applications, whether it be for keeping passwords safe or for digital signatures, but what type of algorithm should you use and why?

A Very Silly Phrase

English is a complex and unwieldy language. The impact on learners that that had had had had a knock-on effect of making certain, grammatical sentences completely illegible to them.