Tools & Tech Art Programmer

Job Description

Tech Art / Tools Programmer’s Mandate Requirements :

• Unity knowledge
• Release experience of finished projects from beginning to end

Tools for Game and Level Design :

• Help continue the design of level editing tools (walls, props, level placement)
• Responsible for bridging level editing tools

Work with main programmers to enhance and support them :

• Maintain and support team members that use level editing tools

Troubleshoot, tweak and balance created outcomes when needed.

Tools for Asset Pipeline :

• Responsible for automated Props and Models Processing pipeline
• From source to game
• Tag clean up of source meshes
• Attempt automatic cleanup
• Leave them tagged for manual cleanup to be done by artists
• Generating destruction data
• Support on Destruction Generation Tools development and maintenance
• Part of the processing pipeline above
• Maintaining and validating (likely with tools and scripts) proper assets setup
• Help detect erroneous content that might not be working in-game

Support on VFX Tools and Integration :

• VFX Shader Graph support
• VFX tools for VFX artists

Batch coloring :

• Setup of templates
• Tools that would help start an effect with the proper hierarchy and required components
• Integration support on dynamic and gameplay sensitive effects

Entry points, triggers and feedbacks help.

Support on Gameplay :

• Support of operator abilities
• Creation of editor tooling :
• Everyday workflows for managing gym scene ‘situation and setups’ for testing gameplay cases
• Game ‘gym states’ editor

Helps test gameplay situations from a defined starting point.

Tools for Artists :

• Support on Ground Level / ‘Mega-Texture’ tech
• Bridge between programmers and artists
• Troubleshoot pain points in content creation by said tools

Rendering Tech Knowledge :

• Support on rendering assets integration

Not necessarily low level knowledge :

• Help team members integrate, tweak and balance parameters exposed by rendering features implemented over time

Qualifications :

• Python (for build tools and optionally Unity Editor python driven tools)
• Graphics and Rendering

HLSL knowledge :

• Houdini (if the tech programmer finds it useful for our project)