Fantasy world (wip)

now that was tough mountain to climb


edit: could you please add mesh colliders to these things:


at least temporary, so that we could walk on them?

 

so I spent quite some time climbing around, even got to your local everest, but couldnt find pink tree

edit: this is highest I could get on buildings so far:


edit 2: ok so I made it

 

Wow! This is really breathtaking.

My system (quite strong notebook) is at it's limit though.

 

The rising fog pushed my notebook to its limits as well.

 

Nice to see that you explore the world like that . New webplayer online, with ancestral tree and collisions. Sorry for notebook, if a good programmer can make some stuff for me, I take it
(for example, change unity fog density and color when entering in somes places, with that, maybe I can replace particles fog with unity build-in fog).

the web player :
http://game.irilys.eu/olivier/zone01.html

size +- 11 Meg

 

thanks for collisions, now I could climb smaller building too:

 

I just spent 15min exploring this place... amazing!
(and it turned into a bacejumping simulator in the end)

My FPS count is slightly higher now and never went lower then 70.
If you add some post-processing filters like bloom or small amounts of glow this could feel even more like walking around in a concept art.

Keep it coming.

 

There is post-processing fx in unity free version ???

 

No there's not :? I didn't know you were using the free version.

I used to work with 3D Gamestudio and there post-possessing was very common and you'd have all kinds of prefabs you could implement very easily.

 

I know, I use 3dgs too, you can test my game if you want :
http://www.opserver.de/ubb7/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=274005#Post274005

 

Here some test using mentalRay Photon mapping (radiosity), sun light bounces against surfaces and transmits light intensity like in real life.
Actually, it's a bit too dark, but I can easily tweak values. The result is more realistic and better than using a simple ambient light.

Before = ambient light, After = radiosity test.

Before

After


Before

After


Before

After

 

Beautiful. Wish I could do that :3
Can you learn it to me? No kidding XD
Great Job.

 

Just a grammar correction: Can you teach it to me

 

geesh, grammar police, jk

 

I can't find the link to the internet demo. He's Somewhere in this topic.

 

Nice work!

Put some snow on the maya mountains and the towers, so it blend in to the mountain and it will be AAA.

 

Ancestral tree almost finish, I'm on some furnitures and rocks to add.
An in-game screenshot:

full size here : http://game.irilys.eu/olivier/w20.jpg

 

can you still fall down the hole under the ancestral tree? that took me by surprise. i was like "oh hey a giant floating tree, that's cool. what's down there? AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!" then i started to have fun going in places i wasn't supposed to. i got up to the giant towers and then went behind them and eventually inside the towers. very beautiful, awesome job!

 

Very good! I especially like the additional rocks that cover the texture distortions.

Keep it up!

Frank

 

Looks fantastic!


Polite request: can you please use smaller inline images (like 900px wide or less)? If needed use smaller images in your post and then have those link outbound to larger full-size images if desired. Thanks!

 

Thx all! And sorry for the over-sized images, I will pay more attention to the following pictures!

edit: ok, pictures resized !

 

Have you maked it with unity pro or indie?

 

he used indie.

amazing job man i spent 20 minutes running around your level, its exquisit.. really good...

 

here ya go:
http://game.irilys.eu/olivier/zone01.html

 

It looks awesome. But, the camera needs to be higher. Unless you play the role of a dwarven kid .

Anywho, I also recommend making it so when you are under water you should see a misty blue or green.

How long did this take you?

 

this is just delightful.

 

Absolutely stunning work! I am more than curious as to the game this will be turned in to? Fantasy role playing game no doubt, but all this beautiful artwork, deserves an amazing story, music, characters, and game play to go with it.

Great job, keep it up!

-Raiden

 

Can you not make the first person controller a bit faster? Now is it a bit to slow.

 

In ideal world, there should be a key to select fast/slow speed, because I would think you can easily fall off the edge while climbing at high speed... not that climbing is intended way of use for this thing.

 

+- 5 full days
In next version, camera will be higher

This project is only to make a zone, not a game. I have some ideas for puzzle game mix with treasure hunt and hiden places, something like Mist, but I'm not programmer :/

ok!

 

New version online, same adress :
In this version : lightmap corrected, ancestral tree finished and somes details added.

http://game.irilys.eu/olivier/zone01.html

 

it looks pretty nice but runs very slow on my mac book pro (just using the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M) altough you don’t use real time shadows, reflective water or any fillrate hungry fx.

i wonder how many draw calls you have. maybe adding a bit more fog and lowering the viewing distance will help.

lowering the detail distance in the terrain settings also would help...

and using unity’s 2.6. new feature to manually adjust each layer’s far clip plane will improve the framerate: just place smaller objects which can’t be seen from a very long distance or which are hidden by the terrain most of the time (like your waterfall, the Ancestral tree, smaller buildings) on seperate layers and give them an own far clip plane using a small script like this one which is added to the camera:

camera_culling.js

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. function Start ()
3. {
4.     var distances = new float[32];
5.     // Set up layer 14 to cull at 75 meters distance.
6.     // Set up layer 11 to cull at 75 meters distance.
7.     // All other layers use the far clip plane distance.
8.     distances[14] = 75;
9.     distances[11] = 75;
10.     camera.layerCullDistances = distances;
11. }
12.  

also re-adjusting the resolution settings of your terrain might reduce the number of draw calls significantly. unfortunately you would have to do all the placing of grass and bushes again in case you lower the detail resolution.
just have a look at:
http://www.unifycommunity.com/wiki/index.php?title=Terrain_tutorial#Step_1:_Resolution_settings

as far as the overall look is concerned: i think the shadows on the terrain are to dark. and i don’t like billboarded grass – at least not near the player/camera – as it floats rather strange on rotating and doesn’t follow the terrain’s geometry accurately.
see: http://www.unifycommunity.com/wiki/index.php?title=Terrain_tutorial#Getting_rid_of_floating_grass

i also would turn off the wind as the detail meshes (bushes) bend in very strange way. i guess the guys from unity will have to rework the bending...

finally i would readjust some of the textures in photoshop: the white flowers and the bushes (i guess it is bush5) do not fit your lighting... a bit to bright i think.

nevertheless: great work! keep it on.

lars

 

and as you have asked for it: here is an example for a script you can use to change any setting on entering a special place.

1. create an empty game object
2. assign a "component -> physics -> box or sphere or capsule collider" to it
3. adjust the dimension of the collider so it fits your region to which you would like to apply the special settings
4. activate the checkbox "is trigger" of the collider in the inspector
5. add the script to the gameobject

script example:

setTerraindetailsdistance.js

Code (csharp):

1.  
2.  
3. function OnTriggerEnter (other : Collider) {
4.     Terrain.activeTerrain.detailObjectDistance = 40;
5.     // entering the collider will lower the detail drawing distance of grass and bushes to 40 meters
6.     //   ... and here whatever you want
7.  
8. }
9. function OnTriggerExit (other : Collider) {
10.     Terrain.activeTerrain.detailObjectDistance = 70;
11.     // leaving the collider will set the detail drawing distance of grass and bushes to 70 meters
12.     // ... and here whatever you want
13. }
14.  
15.  

here you will find more parameters of the terrain rendering that are accessible via scripting:
http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/ScriptReference/Terrain.html


i really would like you to own a pro license of unity …

lars

 

ok, I'll try to optimize a bit, thx for scripts!
Grasses looks to raise draw calls a lot. (for now, draw calls vary from 100 to 500.)

One question : if I use the script, I can hide/unhide objects when entering in the collider, but if the camera is already in the collider, the trigger is not switched. I can use the command that check if collision is active, but in this case, unity switch off objects all the time the player is in the area and slow down the game, how to avoid this ?

Another question, how to change gradually the fog in time when entering/leaving a collision box?

 

well – 500 is not much – so i really wonder why it runs so slowly... what is about the vram usage? more than 150 – 200 MB?

right

modify your script camera_culling.js (which is assigned to the main camera), so it looks like this:

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. static var myfogDensity = 0.05;
3. // myfogDensity should match your render settings
4. var fogstep = 0.001;
5. // fogstep = the value by which fogdensity is changed from frame to frame
6.  
7. function Start ()
8. {
9.     var distances = new float[32];
10.     // Set up layer 14 to cull at 75 meters distance.
11.     // Set up layer 11 to cull at 75 meters distance.
12.     // All other layers use the far clip plane distance.
13.     distances[14] = 75;
14.     distances[11] = 75;
15.     camera.layerCullDistances = distances;
16. }
17. function Update  () {
18.     // adjust fogsettings
19.     if (RenderSettings.fogDensity < myfogDensity) {
20.         if (RenderSettings.fogDensity > myfogDensity - fogstep) {
21.             RenderSettings.fogDensity = myfogDensity;
22.         }
23.         else {
24.             RenderSettings.fogDensity += fogstep;
25.         }
26.     }
27.     else if (RenderSettings.fogDensity > myfogDensity) {
28.         if (RenderSettings.fogDensity < myfogDensity - fogstep) {
29.             RenderSettings.fogDensity = myfogDensity;
30.         }
31.         else {
32.             RenderSettings.fogDensity -= fogstep;
33.         }
34.     }
35. }
36.  

next you will have to add some code to the collider:

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. function OnTriggerEnter (other : Collider) {
3.     cameraCulling.myfogDensity = 1.2;
4. // this is the new target value
5. // in order to access your variable "myfogDensity" you have to add the script name in which it is declared
6. }
7. function OnTriggerExit (other : Collider) {
8.     cameraCulling.myfogDensity = 0.001;
9. // this is the new target value
10.  
11. }
12.  

 

thx a lot!

VRAM usage : 14.8MB to 53.2 MB

 

new object : Hanging Gardens.
Some optimization (I hope) include in the demo :
I'll try to change fog distance depending of the zone.
http://game.irilys.eu/olivier/zone01.html

 

nice one – the hanging garden.
but as far as yout tech specs are concerned: 100-500 draw calls and just 53 MB VRAM usage: it should be like a rocket!
but it is not. maybe i get something around 5 fps on my Mab Book Pro (Intel Core 2 Dou, 2.8 Ghz, 4 GB Ram, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, 256 MB Ram) which usually can handle about 1000 draw calls plus some extra imagefx...
so i am still wondering where the leak is.

keep on your beautiful work, lars.

 

even turning on the NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT / 512 MB VRAM doesn’t give me a decent framerate: from 5 to 20 i guess...

 

I'm not sure where to find the FPS but it ran smoothly on my computer with a Pentium 4 processor, Nvidia 6800 GT, and 3gb Ram. Looks great by the way! Keep it up!

 

I find that Web player quality is on Fantastic (texture full res, aniso on, 4x anti aliasing and soft vegetation). I guess that it's to much for laptops but if I use Good for exemple, world looks crappy :/

 

new image :

 

Very nice scene setup.

However it could use some harder contrasts for a more "living" impression in my opinion.

You are doing a fantastic job here botumys! Its impressing and inspiring. Keep it goin!

Frank

 

Garden finished, new lightmap (based on photons mapping), waterfall effect and vegetations added.

One movie : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ0OWzdTaJY



and just to test Bloom and DoF faked in photoshop :

 

Awesome screens!
It would be nice to see a fly through video!

 

you can find a video here :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ0OWzdTaJY

but my recording program is not the best

 

Yes, really nice work! I like the way you fill the places with vegetation. Makes it realistic and interesting. And yes, the faked Picture hits that, what i meant in my earlier post. Cant wait to see more. Keep on rockin´

Frank

 

Very nice!

I really liked the God Rays with the pink tree in the video.

 

Wow! That looks fantastic in motion! I love the waterfalls and the mist.

 

You are just good at this. How could you do this, its fantastic.