Galactic Metal - 10/17 - Teaser!

Trailer Time!

This month was GCAP and time to get something to show!

So treat yourself to this tasty trailer and rock out!

Introducing the 'Pickup Drone'

A new member to the Galactic Metal family is the Pickup Drone!

This little guy is going to make life just that little more challenging :)

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Galactic Metal - 09/17 - Shields!

Adding to the project this update is some shield effects!

By exposing some options for the shader such as type, distance from ship and HDR colour - this allows for a huge variety of options, all in the same shader!

Also by having these set as exposed properties, we can alter at run-time!
The below video demonstrates one ship protecting others with a generated shield, this shield inherits the colour of the shield generator from the protecting ship.

Pretty cool hey!
Looking forward to creating a bunch of different types!

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