3D 3DForge BLUEPRINTS

Hi everyone,

I am very excited to announce that this is going to be the home of Premium BLUEPRINTS for existing and future 3DForge packages.

Premium BLUEPRINTS are new, easy to use, handcrafted prefabs that expands your collection of available scene building art assets.

It is a cool, exciting and productive way to expand creativity and help you save time and simultaneously get your hands on Custom Handcrafted designs straight from me, the asset developer. It will almost be like having me in your studio

I will share thoughts, mini tutorials, with tips and tricks that will enrich your scene building experience and hopefully have us all learn some new things from each other. Come and be part of this by sharing your creative thoughts and provide constructive feedback.
Post requests and suggestions either here in this forum or you could email me direct at info@3dforge.co.za I try my best to accommodate everyone.

Bookmark and follow this thread to get all the latest news, screenshots and release information as it becomes available.

*** I have it here in the Work In Progress section for it will be growing and receive regular updates.



FAQ:
This will be updated over time so please ask questions in the thread to help expand the information.

What are Premium BLUEPRINTS ?
- They are easy, ready to use, out the box, handcrafted designs or recipes for new prefabs.

How are Premium BLUEPRINTS made ?
- They are created using existing prefabs from Unity Asset Store packages that you already to own.

How difficult are Premium BLUEPRINT to install and use ?
- Very easy. They are prefabs like any other prefab. Just drag and drop them into your scene.

What is included in a typical Premium BLUEPRINT package ?
- ONLY prefab data. No mesh of texture data is included.

What is NOT included in a Premium BLUEPRINT package ?
- The base package(s) that the prefabs obtain their mesh and texture data from.

What do I need to be able to use Premium BLUEPRINTS ?
- A BLUEPRINT package will have specific package requirements stated in the package description to let you know what art package(s) you would need installed first, to be able to use the BLUEPRINTS as prefabs.
- The Premium BLUEPRINTS grab Mesh and Texture data from these specified packages.
- You need to own the base package(s) as indicated on the Premium BLUEPRINT package product page description, decompressed and already installed in your project space.
- As example, you would need to own the latest Village Interiors Kit installed to have excess to an Adventure Bundle with a collection of Interior scenes.

Is there a way for users to first test this cool new thing risk free ?
- Yes, I have a FREE Premium BLUEPRINT package available right now, that have 46 X 5 STAR ratings and many very happy written reviews expressing the ease of use and happiness with the example.
- Please be sure to first have the Village Interiors Kit & Village Exteriors Kit installed.
- Then grab the FREE BP Sword & Shield Inn and test for yourself.

What will they cost ?
- These Premium BLUEPRINTS will be inexpensive, paid for packages mostly in the form of thematic Adventure or Quest Bundles.
- a collection of Interior scenes that you would need to flesh out from small to large quest/story events.
- a collection of a certain style of Exterior houses, shops, and other buildings for villages with included village layouts.
- a collection of Farm Homestead layouts to scatted along the countryside.
- a collection of Sewer layouts
- and much more ...

How can I help influence the packages that will become available ?
- Engage me here in this forum or email me at info@3dforge.co.za and share your ideas, they very likely can become part of a bundle.

Integration with other Asset Store packages ?
- Premium BLUEPRINT packages that for instance have Village Exteriors Kit contents would be integrated with other packages like Gaia, GeNa or other Procedural World products that with further enhance their usability.

There will be a:
- Dungeon Pack *Village Interiors Kit required
- Adventure Pack *Village Interiors Kit required * Mix of all you need for mini to larger adventures
- Outposts & Forts Pack *Village Exteriors Kit required
- Farmland Pack *Village Exteriors Kit required
- Swamp & Fishing Village Pack *Village Interiors Kit & Village Exteriors Kit
- Village Pack *Village Interiors Kit & Village Exteriors Kit required *Houses, Shops, Town Halls, Church, including several Village layouts ...

Cheers
Cobus

*** The reserved posts below will be where the new released packages are announced.
I have done this so that these announcements does not get lost in the many pages of discussion that might follow.

 

Hi everyone,

I very am proud to announce the first Premium BLUEPRINT Farmlands1 is Available Now !!!

Farmlands 1
Exteriors Only & Interiors & Exteriors Combo versions both included
So if you only have the Village Exteriors Kit, you can still have full use of all those BLUEPRINTS that has Exteriors only
- 14 x Farmhouses
- 10 x Farm Yards
- 10 x Homesteads
- 2 x Farm Villages
- 4 x Windmills
- 17 x Barn Outbuildings

Homestead example



Farm Village Example






Farmyard Example



Showing that buildings also comes with Interiors



The Medieval Adventure 1 Premium BLUEPRINTS package is live

This package includes both Interiors & Exteriors
So you will need to have bot the Village Interiors Kit as well as the Village Exteriors Kits installed and in your project before opening these
Included BLUEPRINTS:
- 1 x Auction House
- 2 x Blacksmiths
- 1 x Butchery
- 2 x Chapels
- 4 x Churches
- 4 x General Stores
- 1 X Hunting Lodge
- 2 x Inns (+ 2 Inns with Stables added)
- 1 x Jail House
- 2 x Magic Shops
- 10 x Market Stalls
- 5 x Markets
- 3 x Taverns (+ 3 Taverns with Stables added)

Here are screenshots from only some of the large list of included assets











Cheers
Cobus

 

Outpost & Trade Stations Premium BLUEPRINTS is LIVE !!!

This is a collection of handcrafted medieval Outposts and Trade Stations blueprint layouts.

BLUEPRINTS provides you with ready to use layouts that have been carefully crafted by logically adding assets that will have you end up with attractive points of interest that will look lived in and natural, adding to your project's level of professionalism.

*IMPORTANT REQUIREMENTS*
The Village Exteriors Kit is required to open these blueprints.
*NO texture or mesh data included !!!

Included BLUEPRINTS:
- 20 Outposts
- 11 Outpost Houses
- 12 Ramp Elements
- 12 Embankment Elements
- 4 Outpost Towers










Cheers
Cobus

 

Medieval Villages Premium BLUEPRINTS is LIVE !!!

This is a collection of handcrafted Medieval Villages, Village Houses, Village Blocks, Village Markets and Village Shop blueprint layouts.

BLUEPRINTS provides you with ready to use layouts that have been carefully crafted by logically adding assets in a manner that will have you end up with attractive points of interest that will look lived in and natural, adding to your project's level of professionalism.

*IMPORTANT REQUIREMENTS*
The Village Exteriors Kit is required to open these blueprints.
*No texture or mesh data included !!!

Included BLUEPRINTS:
- 13 Medieval Villages
- 12 Village Houses
- 21 Village Blocks
- 7 Medieval Shops
- 6 Village Markets
- Scene files for easy Gaia/GENA integration








Hey Everyone,

It is that time again
Fish Villages Premium BLUEPRINTS is LIVE and right available now !!!

Included BLUEPRINTS:
- 20 Fish Houses with Interiors & Exteriors
- 17 Fish Houses with Wooden Decks
- 32 Wooden Deck sets
- 12 Fish Markets
- 10 Fishing Villages

42 New FREE BONUS meshes & models:
- 11 Boat meshes & models
- 23 Fish Farm meshes & models
- 8 Fish Rack meshes & models

* If you do get it, please would you STAR rate and possibly review at your soonest convenience

















Now for the next one
It already far and well advanced and not far from being done.

Medieval Adventure 1 Premium BLUEPRINTS
A collection of Non-House Village Buildings
- General Stores
- Magic Shops
- Butcheries
- Markets
- Inns & Taverns
- Churches
- Town Halls
- Small Keep
- Stables
- Jails
...

See you soon

Cheers
Cobus

 

@S4G4N ,

Love this idea. Castles, whole castles, and on a bigger scale city and town walls with gates, bridges, portcullis etc. Merchant houses. More inns! Stables. Shops... The list is of course endless...

 

I wonder how long it'll be before some of the blueprints are nearly complete and there's a sudden realisation that some mesh pieces are missing and thus there's also an update needed to the parent asset pack as well?

 

I know, I made a full sci-fi city using the medieval interior and medieval exterior packs, only to discover that all my pieces were missing.

 

HAHAHA, luckily you know me well enough to post this very good and valid question

@smada-luap & @Whippets , I have anticipated that I would get this question so I have a very good and welcome answer for the two of you

Lets first of all not label them as "missing", but rather as "Parts that would also be great to have"
The Village Interiors Kit comes with 25 DEMO scenes. When I put them together I discovered many things that would be cool to also have. Now I am not going to go nuts and add more full sections with HUGE contents, but do see the potential for small contents additions along the way. It makes sense, since when you play with the assets more you will obviously come across new and fun usage cases that would warrant these kind of addition via contents updates.

So yes, these Premium BLUEPRINTS would understandably require you to always have the latest updated version of the packages that are required to use them as described in there respective pages when they get released.

Hope that answers the question

 

So.... what..... next week then?

 

Now you pushing it

 

really cool idea, i love it.
top down, jails, graveyards, death valley, creepy dark villages, deserty(and dark) villages.
hmmmm in simpler terms, edgy dark stuff, i love these stuff
though, i am especially excited for mini tutorials, tips and tricks, and thoughts. super excited for these

 

I'd like to see some blueprints related to dungeons and catacombs from the interiors kit. You could make a series of larger modular dungeon segments that all snap together. So a variety of rooms and corridors that can be used to quickly create a large dungeon or catacomb.

 

Glad you like the idea, everyone that have used BLUEPRINTS and seen how easy they are to use, want more.

Some great thoughts, basically some small and larger dungeon parts that can then by adding several together make very large dungeons and undead catacombs. that is a great way to build even more very easily.

Thanks for the feedback

Cheers
Cobus

 

@S4G4N ,

I think some larger scale stuff is a must, within which we can place other smaller blueprint and other prefabs...

 

Awesome!

 

Awesome!

 

Will there be blueprints for the Sewer Kit as well?

 

@milan8888 , Absolutely

There will be Premium BLUEPRINTS for the Tile A Dungeon - Sewer Kit
There will be other future Tile A Dungeon themed packages as well.
The whole method of building Layout super-fast without having to drop 1000's of tiles has been well received and everyone that have used it can agree and love it.

All packages that will receive Premium BLUEPRINTS will carry the logo on the package page on the Unity Asset Store


Cheers
Cobus

 

I enjoyed using the free blueprints and I am really looking forward to this release Cobus!

 

Can't wait!!! These will be great additions.

 

Any plans of blueprints for interior kits dungeons?

 

Oh Yes, that is at least 50% of all the current BLUEPRINTS that I am working on

 

@S4G4N ,

Where do I find Premier Blueprints?

 

Hi,

Right now, there is one FREE package, PB Sword & Shield Inn, and I am busy and soon releasing paid for bundles for Village Interiors Kit, Village Exteriors Kit and others

 

@S4G4N ,

Great. Have long since downloaded the free premium blueprint and looking forward to the others now... Even paid.

[Edit] don't overlook perhaps integrations for premier blueprints... For Dungeon Architect and (extension) for GAIA...?

 

Can't wait to see! XD

 

Great idea! I would love to see a blueprint for a library - perhaps different sizes from a small village library to a large one in the capital city!

 

Already in the selection
Also the same library with an old "lost" version so lots of spider webs, fallen over shelves and such with some secret areas to discover

 

first new images of items that will be used in the upcoming BLUEPRINTS
https://forum.unity.com/threads/3dforge-exteriors.316736/page-68

 

Hi everyone,

Great News !!!

I am waiting for the Village Exteriors Kit v1.3 to GO LIVE and you know what that means
Working on and completing the first few the Paid for Premium BLUEPRINTS packages.
They are going to be handcrafted, ready to use prefabs to either use in your games, or use them as base start designs and customize to your specific requirements, or to learn from.

There will be a:
- Castles & Keeps *Village Exteriors Kit required
- Dungeon Packs *Village Interiors Kit required
- Adventure Packs *Village Interiors Kit required * Mix of all you need for mini to larger adventures
- Outposts & Forts Packs *Village Exteriors Kit required
- Farmland Packs *Village Exteriors Kit required
- Village Packs *Village Interiors Kit & Village Exteriors Kit required *Houses, Shops, Town Halls, Church, including several Village layouts ...

Please come post ideas of packages that you might want to see as well.
Specifically concerning Combo, Interiors & Exteriors Kits Premium BLUEPRINT packages.

Cheers
Cobus

 

Are they done yet?

 

Hey @Teila
Glad to see the excitement, I am too

I am busy with them.
So nice to play with my own "LEGO" set of assets and seeing how well the modular system works over and over.
I want to make sure that the contents provided in these handcrafted Premium BLUEPRINT packages to be of the right selection so that they will be a useful addition to whoever buys them.

Stay tuned

 

@S4G4N Can't wait!

 

Spoke to Adam today and the plan is to add Gaia as well as Gena integration to the new
Premium BLUEPRINTS

 

That's the best news ever, especially Gena integration

 

Excellent news!

 

Can't wait to be working with Cobus on this.

We have some cool new tech coming that will be perfect with this!!

 

Hey everyone,

If you do not know it yet then here is some good news
The Royal Quarters Model & Texture Add-on package for the Village Exteriors Kit has gone live a few days ago.
The package was launched with -25% 7 Day Launch SPECIAL > Only 4 days left

Key Features:
- 6 NEW Wall Textures (Tiles Left to Right)
- 311 NEW Meshes
- 311 NEW Prefabs
- Easy Material Drag & Drop Texture Swop
- 20 Included Premium BLUEPRINTS
- NEW Roman/Oriental Roof Tile Texture
- 3 NEW Style Sets of Roof Elements
- Large selection or Oriental/Eastern Styles Decorative Elements
- ALT2 BONUS Texture Sheet and Material

Next up and not far from complete, Thematic Premium BLUEPRINT packages

















Cheers
Cobus

 

Hi everyone,
A Great time limited COMBO Offer !!!
Add both to your cart for a total of $59,98 and save

Village Exteriors Kit + Royal Quarters Add-on Packages



Cheers
Cobus

 

Hey, Just a suggestion, but are there any plans of adding interior to these blueprints? Would be great, if possible.

 

That question gets a " BIG definite YES "
All Exteriors Premium BLUEPRINTS would not get all just them, for many might then feel that they do not want to pay for the extra work and they do not want or need that.
Adding them to ALL Premium BLUEPRINT packages also would mean that I will for obvious reasons add the Village Interiors Kit as a requirement, and then possibly reduce sales of such packages.
I am not far from done with the first Interiors only Premium BLUEPRINT packs, that will not be built with Exteriors in mind, like dungeon and large Epic libraries and similar cool destinations.

 

I have been waiting for your new blueprints. Love all your assets. You thinking about some bigger building blueprints in the future after the interriors ones?? looking foward to your future blueprints and am buying this one As always great stuff..

 

I like the way you thinking

I was thinking of a package for Interiors and another one for Exteriors that would have larger end results
For Interiors, like a "5 Wonders of the World"
- Epic Ancient Library
- Ancient Dungeon
- . . .
- . . .
- . . .

Same kind of thing for the Exteriors.

Please do add suggestions here for me to look at and possibly do.

Cheers
Cobus

 

@S4G4N ,

I would like to see blueprints based on Internal and External Kits together with moving doors, some particles thrown in (lights, torches, fireplaces, smoke etc ) so you can go in and out of buildings?

 

Definitely dungeon segments that join together and follow a grid system so they can be used with something like DunGen: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/utilities/dungen-15682

 

Yes or Dungeon Architect or indeed Gaia / Gena2.

 

I don't know if you have ever seen it Cobus but the DunGen asset has an example project and web demo using the interiors kit: https://forum.unity.com/threads/dungen-procedural-dungeon-generation.232839/page-10#post-2041392

 

Yes, in fact I worked with the developer to produce it.
He still commented that the Village Interiors Kit working so very well, perfect pivot points and easily understandable , well crafted modular system.
That is why he wanted to use it. It makes his Plug-in "sing" and hy, it makes mine lokk good and display those mentioned features

 

In the Dungeons BLUEPRINTS package you will get
- small, medium and large dungeons
- many pre-done rooms that then can be used with tools such as DUNGEN that can auto generate whatever you need within it's functionality

 

Keep in mind segments like corridoors, stairs, T-junctions and 90 degree corner segments for creating a maze.