Explorable Enviroment

Here is an explorable environment I made. Inspired by the anime Now and Then, Here and There. Webplayer is available on blog. Complete project is available below as an importable Unity package. Thank you for looking.

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Gorgeous.

 

Wow so beautiful, are you making a game based on that map?

 

What an awesome scene, great job I love it!

 

Totally stealing this idea of a map. Love it.

 

Looks really great
Now go, make a game of it!

 

Amazing! Love the style!

 

Great work brianjkd!!
And great porfolio too!
How did you do the mapping on your level? Is it a tile? or an Uvw?
I can't see any "seams" on your textures.

 

wow this is so awesome :O reminds me of kingdom hearts a bit :3

 

very COOL. Web player locked up when I pushed "M" for Menu though.

 

Radical

 

Awesome environment!

 

fun to play with!

 

Thanks for the comments.
@Psyche_RTS, Sorry for delay. The model has overlapping pieces of geometry where the texture seams are with different shader queues and transparent vertex colors to fade between them. Very time consuming for such a large level.

 

it looks impressive! well done.

lars

 

Holy cow this is ridiculously awesome :O

What kind of external tools did you use to make models and textures? How the hell does the animated clouds and stars work? XD

Am seriously in awe of your skills C:

 

I thaught it was Tales of game series japanese game studio behind

Could you give us some detail workflow on level making ?
Do you use modular re usable rocks models or houses ?
How id you done big indoor houses ? Simple modeling and snapping to other models ?
Textures was hand painted or modified photos or toll generated ?
Do you use Unity terrain ? (It seems no ?)
How did you made terrain and roads on terrain ? some knife tools on some meshes ?


You are talented and could indeed work on some game studio , seems you have a future indie winner game

 

Fantastic job...

 

Thanks a lot guys! I am avidly thinking about releasing this unity project because there are some cool things in it. I am pretty busy with school and work but will try to clean up the project file in the next few weeks to post.

 

I really like this style. Please do It gives me a little more guidance to my own art direction

 

Very fun, pretty, and well done!

 

Please do!

This would make for a wonderful fantasy village/city builder game. Great farming potential!

Beautiful work!

 

Submitted to Asset Store. Hopefully it will be available within a week. Here are some more images:

 

Looks great , very nice art

 

Wow - unfortunately, this has been rejected from the asset store. The reason cited was that the level is too high polygon which does not quite make sense considering that in its entirety, it's only about 1.2 million tris divided up into 3000+ mesh chunks which could easily be culled. Hopefully I can get in the store as a convenient way to download, if not I will ftp or post a zip on dropbox.

I mean seriously, how is this too high poly?

 

shame on the asset store!

 

I agree. If it can run in the webplayer there is no reason to restrict it. Mildly annoyed.

 

environment reminds me of shadow of the colossus. love that!

 

this map would be perfect for an RPG!

 

amazing work ,i love everythings on that map ,please found a way to upload it would be useful to learn,thanks

 

Great map, it feels very open and alive. Definitely look forward to seeing more like this.

 

What'd you use to build the map? It's excellent!

 

Fantastic work! Awesome textures and lighting.

 

Jesus, this thing is massive! Awesome work man. One of the only things I thought needed a little work was your clouds on the skybox. Really impressed by the amount of work you have going on here though. Keep it up.

 

What time is this in asset store ?? 1month??1year ??

 

Hi guys thanks for the support. I haven't heard back from the Asset store despite contacting them in 3 different ways so I will probably just post a zip folder within the week just busy with school and work atm. Asset Store would be a nice convenient way for people to download but oh well. I haven't worked on this project in about 1.5 years but rather then let it rot without ever anyone seeing it I am releasing it openly for any use. Stay tuned.

 

I hope you continue, I will be watching your thread!
Good luck

 

A zip folder containing the Unity package of the entire project is now available. License = for any use. There is a lot stuff that went into this project some good some bad but I hope you enjoy taking a closer look at it or maybe using it for something.
Thank you.


I decided to post on gamejolt as a convenient way to download. Downloading the "game" will download the source files.
http://gamejolt.com/games/waterfall-canyon/download-distribution/30513/?os=windows

 

Download Problems fixed, it seems my Mac extracting program was extracting the Unity package after extracting the zip.

 

I just tested the download and it seems to work. It just contains 1 unity package. Let me know if you are still having issues.

 

Looks really good

 

This map is good but, you might as well turn it into a game.

 

Waoooow, the detail, artwork and atmosphere is amazing. This should totally be a cool adventure title. How did you create the terrain.

 

This is so amazing 3D art, reminds me some Tales of games
For Asset Store , i think because it's not a tool or assets to make a map , and because of the size it will take on their servers, they don't want to store each user maps even if they are great maps.

Thanks a lot.

 

very nice!

and thank you very much for you generosity

finally sorry unity asset store didn't approve of it

but it's still really nice and hopefully people will enjoy it

 

So I downloaded, and I have to agree with the Unity people with this one. As much as I love this asset, 3m tris at times isn't very good. It's poorly optimized giving me 12000 drawcalls at some times, it causes my Mac Pro(8 Core, HD 7850) to lag. I'd consider lowering poly count and optimizing the level some more and then try submit. Asset looks amazing, but isn't suitable for games in it's current state.

 

Looks beautiful but that performance. You should try optimizing performance.

 

Totally love the way it looks

But yeah, 12000+ is not a good thing... But of course there are ways to improve/fix this (LOD, Occlusion culling,...)

I'd love to see this become more than just a graphical demo

 

Glad the download worked for you,
However I am not sure how you are getting 12000 draw calls. The actual model without shadows is not bad. Here is a screenshot with shadows turned off in game. Since the lighting is baked in anyway it doesn't make much of a visual difference. The Draw Call count for this ingame screenshot of the entire level is 1623. You can quickly toggle them off in game through the menu. Add occlusion culling, or combine large sections of the level sharing the same material like all the cliff walls, or lower the clipping plane and it could probably run on mobile without much work. The model is broken into 3000 pieces exactly too make it easy for any kind of optimization. Again, the model's geometry, while easy to think a culprit because it's size, can hardly be lower than it is and changing that will really have no impact over the performance.