A hidden orc encampment built within the remnants of ancient ruins, transforming the crumbling stone into a rough but functional base

Ancient Ruins

Gallery

Blockout

Most Assets from various external Kits ran through a color grading process to fit together

Used Assets

An environment art project inspired by the Shadow of War® games

Catch and Chaos is a co-op game where players share a keyboard to control a mother chasing her mischievous child.

Catch And Chaos

The selected characters fading shader was set up in HLSL. So the character seamlessly blends from his silhouette to the rendered character

I implemented the UI to support Keyboard and Controller Controls at the same time while the UI seamlessly switches between the buttons

Character Select Screen

This shader is designed to introduce bold shading effects, characterized by three distinct shading steps.

The shader is used for environment assets in the level to give the game a cartoony look

Toon Shader

The child character can slide through wall vents by pressing a button.

To ensure smooth movement, colliders were briefly disabled, and vector math determined wall orientation

Slide System

A Local Co-op game where a mother chases her mischievous child

A diorama project of a Cyborg Surgeons workplace

Cyborg Surgeon

Modeled in Blender and sculpted in ZBrush

Hero Assets

Progression

Atlas Layering allowing only a single texture for all screen content including animated masks

Additional Dirt And Scratch Textures were overlayed

Screen Material

This is an example of transforming Unreals Motion Matching Sample for players into a system for NPCs

Motion Matching For NPCs

This demo shows the character using motion matching for the lower body while the upper body blends with a procedural aim offset

I used a procedural Aim Offset for increased accuracy in combination with motion matching

Procedural Aim Offset

Procedural Hand IK to lock the characters left hand to the weapon grip to do procedural recoil

I apply IK after motion warping to ensure the location is always accurate in world space, accounting for blending and any offsets.

To stay Fast Path–compatible, I only calculate the left-hand offset from the right, avoiding constant weapon position updates.

I used a control rig to place the characters hand exactly onto the weapon

Left Hand IK

Application Of Unreals Motion Matching System For NPCs

An Outline Shader in HLSL for Unity that scales a mesh and renders its backside flat to create an outline effect.

Outline Shader

An algorithm was developed to smooth normals and store them in the TEXCOORDS of each mesh using the outline system for later shader access.

Pre-rendering and saving normals optimize performance by reducing the need to recalculate them at runtime.

Smoothed Normals

Procedural Outline Shader that used backface rendering for a cheap outline

Recreated my own version of the ShadowStrike from Shadow Of Mordor® using GAS and Niagara

Shadow Strike

Animation

Niagara Particles

Wraith World Shader

Each material that uses the character wraith effet uses this mask

Character Shader

An Shadow Strike Art Project inspired by the Shadow Of War® Games

A first-person shooter with wallrunning, dashing, and grenade crafting to stop a portal.<br> Explore the Unreal Project <link href="https://github.com/ralialiloma/starfire" target="_blank">here</link>.

Project Starfire

Custom ADS System that centers the crosshair in screenspace while still physically being on the weapon sight

An ADS system was designed using Procedural Animation, allowing for smoother transitions between aiming and idle states.

Material logic for calculating Screen Aligned UVs to center the crosshair at all times.

The crosshair remains at the center of the screen regardless of sight rotation, enhancing aim accuracy while keeping it independent from weapon animations like recoil.

Procedural ADS

The animations rely heavily on procedural methods, using only idle and sprint (excluding montages). This reduces the need for additional animations and allows for better adaptation to player input.

Throw Grenade Animation including custom explosion VFX

Custom Rig in Blender using Rigfify and Game Rig Tools For Export To Unreal

First Person Animation

This layered state machine allows the player to be in multiple states simultaneously, each with its own priority and set of features. When a higher-priority state shares a feature with a lower-priority one, the higher-priority version takes precedence. For instance, the system can disable sprinting while the player is aiming, yet allow it in other states where reloading is permitted.

The code for the Hierarchical State Machine (HSM) is available on GitHub - check it out <link href="https://github.com/ralialiloma/starfire/tree/main/Starfire/Source/Starfire/Shared/HSM" target="_blank">here</link>.

Hierarchical Statemachine

A shooter with wallrunning and dashing where players destroy pillars and craft grenades

A linear adventure requiring multiple playthroughs to reach the end. Each run reveals new techniques, improving strategies and progression.

The Unveiling

For the oxygen station, Unity's VFX Graph and Bezier paths guided smoke flipbook particles into its vents, simulating gas absorption.

A custom shader manipulated top vertices to simulate fluid waves in oxygen containers while rendering the back side as the top surface for depth illusion.

Smoke VFX And Fluid Simulation

Fog density dynamically increases over time, creating an evolving atmosphere with special masking functionality.

Unity’s Volumetric Fog ensures realistic 3D representation, while a custom Shadergraph and HLSL shader enables character-focused masking.

Procedural Fog

Implemented HDRP's Volumetric Fog and light proxies to simulate missing walls. Window proxies cast distinctive shadows for added visual depth.

Lighting

A linear adventure where each playthrough reveals new techniques and refines

Lorenz
Zandian Pour

Technical Art

Work