This is a standalone real-time scene in Unity 6 URP, with no game or Steam page behind it. Sound on. The monster lives inside the URP skybox shader as a 2D signed distance field, a function that tells each sky pixel how far it is from the edge of a shape. Every bone and claw is one of those shapes, merged into one outline that stays sharp at any size. It adds no triangles of its own. The glow is one temperature field run through a blackbody ramp, the colors metal goes through as it heats. A fullscreen ink pass reads the monster's mask to draw the beams and the cut through its arm. The knight and the whole town, cathedral included, are CC models by other artists. The monster and the shaders are mine. Would you have built it as a mesh, or in the sky? Credits. Models: BSP Colossal Gothic Cathedral by NeoKg (CC BY-SA 4.0); The Forgotten Knight by dark_igorek; Medieval house h2 by Annielighta; Medieval house (Generic Textures) by by__Rx; Medieval Houses (3 Pack) by Ajay Gawde; Medieval wooden cart by rakutin (all CC BY 4.0, Sketchfab); Gothic-Like Structures by loafbrr (CC0); Poly Haven (CC0). Moon maps: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio. Sound: Sonniss GDC Game Audio Bundle recordings; BigSoundBank (CC0); OpenGameArt, Ylmir and WuxiaScrub (CC0).   submitted by   /u/Murky-Goose-1291   to   r/IndieDev [link]   [comments]