BuildR 1.0 - Create buildings within Unity

Hi Rocky,
I'm afraid BuildR doesn't really support roofs like that. You could try the hipped roof but it might not work out the way you want it.

 

Hi Don,
The parapets/gables should have their own texture assignment inside the roof preferences. Gables will fall under roof walls and Parapets should have their own assignment.
I'll look into fixing the colliders covering generated foundations and that the export is not including the building transform position for the interiors!

 

Hi Don,
The parapets/gables should have their own texture assignment inside the roof preferences. Gables will fall under roof walls and Parapets should have their own assignment.
I'll look into fixing the colliders covering generated foundations and that the export is not including the building transform position for the interiors!

 

If you really have no way to create your circular roofs, either export your model and send it to me or let me know exactly what you want, if you'd like me to build it in Max. PM me.

 

Sweet! Was waiting for substance integration that would give even more awesome options.
Jasper, any idea when this will be included in a new version? Or is it already in?
At work so can't check atm but can't wait to get home though ^^

 

It's not in yet but it will be 'soon'.
Sorry I can't be more specific

 

Great to hear. no worries, it's more an extra then an essential. Would give some nice possibilities though.

 

Hi Jasper,

We've just been testing out your runtime sample and have adapted it to take floor plan's from our Mapity asset. We've discovered some issues.

Any suggestions?

 

Hi guys,
New version is well on the way and should be out *SOON*
Basements and stairs are already in.

 

Great, will give it a spin once it's done.

 

Hi Jasper,

new version look great! have you completed Substance integration? what i sent you was working but not completed code.

 

I'm starting on that tomorrow

 

Version 1.1 just gone into submission approval! Yay

ADDED Substance support
ADDED Basements
ADDED Staircase generation
ADDED Custom window mesh placement
ADDED Foundation colliders and textures
ADDED Texture/Facade/Roof design export and import
ADDED Collider generation to support interiors
ADDED Constrain generated building floorplan by area
Also fixed all the bugs on the list - let me know how it goes with those! Email me with details, thanks!
Happy building!

 

Awesome!

 

Totally Wicked.

 

This is now live on the asset store.
Big thanks to atmuc's help getting Substances supported.
Basements and stairs are now featured as requested.
You can also now specify a window mesh to be used in bays which will improve interior generation possibilities. No more using textures only. It will use the mesh bounds to place them so it's really as easy as selecting the mesh.

 

i thank you for making life easier about generating buildings. now it's Allegorithmic's turn to make more window substances

For substance users;

download free substances from https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#publisher/146
set texture design Type substance
expand a substance and drag&drop first child item(material) to Procedural Material Field

To change material features;
expand a substance and select first child item(material)
edit it

you can use the same substance as different materials with different settings.
select substance
click + sign on the top right
it will generate different material
so you can have different sized, colored brick materials from the same substance.

i hope this helps to you.

 

Hi. I think BuildR is very useful asset.
But It seems that Version 1.1 is many bugs somewhat in my PC.
I want these to be fixed.
-export OBJ isn't work.
-export texture's setting is wrong.(texture type is sprite)
-shader setting don't export.(diffuse only)
-staircase generation isn't work.

thank you.

 

I think I'm going to have to do a quick tutorial video about staircases - like doors it's not immediately apparent how to do them.
You need to define a building core in floorplan mode to have a staircase so there is a hole for it to go through. Hope that clears that up.
Export OBJ - it was working when I last checked. I'll have another go at finding bugs but "not working" doesn't give me much to go on.
Not sure what the sprite issue is, could you elaborate?
I'll look into supporting more shaders in model export though!
Jasper

 

Thanks for your quick reply!
And sorry...Now I test export OBJ again,I made a mistake.
When export OBJ with export collider "simple", exported model don't copy into scene.(export FBX is no problem)
there is exported model in exported folder.(but collider mesh isn't exported)

Export texture's setting problem is this.

 

Great work on the new update.

I followed the instructions on how to get the substance working on the Demo Flatiron building.

1. Top of Roof looks great, Side of Roof is tiling too much.
2. Building front ok, side corners are stretching.

Here is a screen shot.

 

Ooh - some UV calculations going bad there. I'll look into it and update you soon.

 

@Zigmarch, I'm not reproducing this behaviour on my side. Everything imports as textures - is there some 2D setting or a texture importer script you're using? Other assets? I can't see how BuildR can affect this, it creates are jpgs and Unity decides how to import them.

 

Thank you for your help jasper!!!!

As you say, I made test project with Default Behavior Mode "2D".
I didn't understand that default import setting is "sprite" in 2D mode.

And I noticed how to use stairs just now.
(I thought that I have only to check "Generate Stairs".)

There are my terrible mistakes!! I'm sorry to trouble you...

 

No worries ZigMarch - glad to tick another bug off the list

 

Can the materials used be changed? Is it possible to generate transparent windows?

This page is empty for me http://support.jasperstocker.com/buildr/buildr-documentation/

 

@SetMaster or Rorschach,
Whoops! Need to amend that empty documentation page - thanks
Transparent windows are do-able - a user posted some images a few pages back with them. The texture setting allows you to set a shader which can be any transparent unity shader. I do plan to add basic material support too as that just makes sense now Substances are supported.

 

Did you have a chance to look at the substance UV issue.

Do you think this is something that might take some time?

 

That's great, hope you implement it soon.

 

Do you plan on adding interior wall support? I think having interiors without walls is pointless. Could you add walls that generate inside and or you can draw in (it needs rooms you can make inside the buildings)? Would also be cool if inside those walls some basic mountpoints would generate where you can easily latch some furniture to mountpoints.

 

+1 Inside walls would be totally Awesome.

 

@rocki, uv issue is fixed, pm/email me with your invoice number and I can send you the fix now - otherwise it'll be a few days in asset store approval...
@cj31387 I have no plans to implement interior walls. Most people think the interior generation isn't pointless (thanks for making me feel like my hard work is pointless!!! ) - it allows you to build your own walls right? Further interior work would likely mean a whole new asset as I'm not willing to increase the price point of BuildR right now. It would be a lot of work creating a usable GUI and system for interior walls and rooms. Sorry.

 

Sorry lol (I thought that sounded kind of harsh). I really like the asset it is really good. I'm just saying it would be nice to at least be able to draw some interior walls in the blueprint mode. What are some workarounds people are using to make interior walls with buildr at the moment? Just export to 3ds max or blender and make them?

 

I guess your options are to export and use an external 3D program, use something like probuilder/gamedraw or just make some walls out of unity cubes...
The wall mode would be per floor as you wouldn't want just one set of walls for all the floors. It would be great though - you never no - I resisted interior gen for about six months until I caved

 

Buildr is really a Great package and it's definitely gotten more powerful and flexible over time.
If it had interior walls, then it would be Hands-Down, the Single Source that all developers will have to go to for all their Procedural Building Needs.
(No interior subcontractors needed)

 

Hey there, did you still intend to add materials? I'm hoping to use non-generic unity materials with buildr quite soon, if possible, so wondered if the ability would be added

 

I'm working on an update for BuildR now that will include this. Hopefully by next week I'll have something for you guys...

 

I've got an update that includes user chosen materials. PM/Email me with invoice number for info

 

This update is now live in the store

 

Hi Jasper,

Your plugin seems very powerful. I am going to buy it soon as I need to populate quickly a lot of city parcels for our driving simulation product. I have some questions :

1/ Do you plan to use facade images for texturing a facade (i.e. Cityengine does it as a basic way) and after that, be able to subdivide it to place windows, doors,...and so on.

2/ Do you plan a feature that let the user assigning a texture directly by drag and drop from the project folder to the concerned building's 3D area (i.e. a window)

3/ I there a way to create openings (doors, window, entriy of a palace,...) that has a specific shape (i.e arabic style with pilars,..see attached screenshot)

4/ Is it possible to get rounded corners for buildings (via the footprint ?) ?


Regards,

Hlx

 

1. Not at the moment. It looks nice though!
2. I'll have a think but I don't know a way you can access that data in Unity as an extension.
3. Not at the moment.
4. I'm afraid not.

So negative :cry:

 

I think your asset is great ...I bet people can make an interior with ProBuilder or any number of "other" modifications.

With Probuilder can even use the "probuilderize" selection to make modifications to existing model/prefab assets that a bought because I needed something extra ..

Thank you for making your asset and for keeping it up to date...don't worry about negative people, its impossible for you to be able to cover everything that people want or need ...its why there are other assets on the store...most of them work quite fine together without errors or very minor ones that take about 2minutes to fix.

 

Aww - thanks BES! You made my day

 

Is this mobile friendly?

Would it be able to generate a small group of buildings with interiors at runtime on, say, an iPhone 4S?

Thanks!

 

Ok. When you say "not at the moment", can it be on your roadmap or is this far away from your dev goals ? And sad to know that rounded corners seem impossible to do.... IMO, it should be a must have feature, most of the architectural styles get such specific touch even it seems tricky to code it. Any chance to get it ? .
However, congrats for the work already done.

Regards,

Hlx

 

i wonder if this can be customized to build old buildings as well, of different eras?

 

For this asset, no (I asked him myself about it)

What I would like to see MAYBE, if it's possible, ways to control a way a building looks in age (so holes in them, roof caving in, broken windows, that sort of stuff)

If this can do modern homes, what would be a nice thing to add, is gutters, to make the home seem more realistic (just a thought). Also, shutters (if you look at some homes, you'll see those shutters outside the window, but i"m not sure if they move or not)

Maybe more roof variety (I was seeing people asking about different style roof-tops) and roof fences could be something, too (like schools will have them, so kids don't fall off the roof when up there)

I'm sure there can be so much you could add

 

Hey Jasper,

I am planning on buying this asset. It is on my wishlist ATM really looking forward to using it.

Is there a demo or trial version available?

I just need to make sure that it fits my needs

 

@eridani - not sure. Don't think that's really a mobile project...
@hlx - i'll translate it to Valve speak - "when it's ready"
I'm not working on these features right now and I don't plan to for a while. I'm just about to move countries and switch from full time dad back to freelance. I have much on my plate right now . However they do sit nagging me on my "wishlist" column in Trello.
@daeuk - I'd say anything post rennaisance and "not too crazy" is doable. More complex bay shapes are required for older styles in general. See my response to hlx.
@VataRaven - yeah - there are loads of things that could be added. It's all essentially scope creep and wishlists and so on. I only have so much time to spend on this and it already does more than I ever initially wanted it to.
@HeadClot88 - there is no trial version, no point in giving out all the code right? Why pay after that. You can find a lot of information on the site here and ask me any questions to fill in the blanks.

 

Just asking but are you able to to walk or destroy buildings like you would in a FPS