This is 100% baked lighting—no real-time lights and no mixed lighting. It's all done on the shader level where dynamic objects use baked spherical harmonics for seamless lighting without the performance hit. Perfect for fast, smooth VR action.

This was a blast to build!

One of the best parts of making games is seeing a comment like this that reminds you why you’re building in the first place. Easy to get wrapped up in fixes, planning, and juggling life, but stuff like this is a nice reminder of the simple joys of development!

Some days I wake up thinking about how the Romans built a steam engine and then humanity sat on the idea for 1,600 years. Makes me wonder what else is hiding in plain sight or if the internet fixes that.

What ever happened to Unity MCP's? They popped off in the beginning of the year with lots of promise but haven't seen anything big recently.

Been heads down working on @gymclass lately and I’m thrilled to finally share one of the big things we’ve been building! A new lighting system that pushes visuals and performance to a whole new level! More VR dev goodness coming soon 👀

VR high performance volumetric fog is looking great! Rock solid at 90+ fps. The shader reuses SH coefficients from the baked lighting volumes, so there’s negligible memory increase and supports any number of baked lights in the volume. Lots of potential with this effect!

My first crack at baked volumetric fog for VR. Still some artifacts to work out but it's starting to come together! It samples the same SH coefficients that the dynamic objects use so there's no big memory increase or additional setup, just one shader for the volume.

Weapon interaction has been improved based on your feedback! Interaction zones have been tweaked and guns support chambering, manual round ejection, recoil, and more. #vr #vrgaming

One of the scariest things I developed, especially when you're in the headset!

Any LAV-25s in VR yet? Saw this beast and instantly pictured a CE version. Either friendly or hostile 👀

Thank you for all the support on the overhaul devlog! Crunch Element started as something I just wanted to play with friends in college but it didn’t exist. Seeing it grow with a real community behind it is surreal. VR isn’t an easy space to survive in without big funding, but I’m committed to pushing this forward and documenting the ride as I go!

The Crunch Element Overhaul Update Devlog is here! After over a year of focused development, Crunch Element has been completely overhauled from core systems and visuals to gameplay and progression. 🔹 Contract & Stage System: Missions are now structured with story-driven contracts and multiple playable stages. 🔹 Enemy AI Rework: Smarter, more coordinated enemies that flank, search, and react with emergent tactics. 🔹 Progression & Loadouts: Earn XP, unlock gear and attachments, and customize your loadout from anywhere. 🔹 New Objectives & Interactables: Keycards, hacking, defense tasks, optional objectives, and modular puzzles. 🔹 Visual & Performance Upgrade: Every asset reworked, with full precomputed lighting for VR-optimized performance. 🔹 Expanded Hideout: A social cantina, new tutorial, and immersive hangar experience for mission flow. 🔹 New Gear & Items: Force fields, deployable shields, scanners, breaching rounds, and the Sentinel turret. 🔹 Improved Weapon Handling: Ammo types, chamber checks, charging handles, and realistic behavior across the board. Thanks for your patience and support! Join the community on Discord, follow on X for behind-the-scenes dev posts, and enjoy the new build! 🎮 Steam Page: store.steampowered.com/app/1… 💬 Discord: discordapp.com/invite/vutD5y… 📣 Crunch Element X: @CrunchElementVR

New videos dropping soon! An update recap showing all the new CE features as well as some behind the scenes devlog deep dives.

Happy 4th of July 🇺🇸