Jovia environment demo

First of all, I've personally given up on trying to combine global illumination and final gather. Too much of a headache. We pretty much just use final gather for everything now. I've attached the settings.


In terms of light sources, you don't always get the best results using maya lights. I like to create an object with some surface area as a light source and then give it a texture with an incandescence value. YOu can even hide the object and just get the light from it. For the incandescence I like to plug in a mental ray light utility.

Does this help?

 

I'd love to see that, too, actually.

 

Whoa, I hope not, the doors are only 6 1/2 ft tall!

We've dropped the camera slightly. Once we get other characters into the scene we'll have a better frame of reference for player height.

By not capping the framerate the GPU tries to pump out as many frames as it possibly can, so things heat up quickly. The fans on my MacBook Pro kick on full speed, but it renders at 1,800 frames per second. Application.targetFrameRate should fix the problem if set to a sane level - I'll add it to our next demo. Application.targetFrameRate only functions in compiled games and not in the editor, so it's not too useful during development.

 

The SendMessage documentation has a good example. Our script isn't really any different, but unfortunately it relies on intricate web of secondary scripts - player proximity, interactive item manager, etc. Here's an example of sending messages:


Scene setup:
Create two cubes, a button and a door, and attach the appropriate scripts to them (included below). Drag the door game object onto the button's "Button Responder" in the inspector.

Button.js

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. var buttonResponder : GameObject;
3.  
4. function OnMouseOver () {
5.     if ( Input.GetButton("Fire1") ) {
6.         buttonResponder.BroadcastMessage( "OnButton", SendMessageOptions.DontRequireReceiver );
7.     }
8. }
9.  
10.  

Door.js

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. function OnButton () {
3.     // Respond to the "OnButton" message here
4.     Debug.Log( "The door is opening" );
5. }
6.  
7.  

Edit: I just realized that "OnButton" and "buttonResponder" are a little ambiguous. They refer to the actual button object within the game, and not one of Unity's input buttons. If I'd planned on releasing this, I probably would have used a different naming scheme.

 

Wow really impressive light mapping. I've never seen furniture look so amazing.

 

Thanks so far. I get all the messages in the console. Now another "noob" question; what string should I use to acces the animation I want to play? It's called "dooropen" on the object in my case.

Code (csharp):

1. var doorOpened : boolean = false;
2. var doorAudio : AudioClip;
3. var doorShut : AudioClip;
4. var timer : float = 0.0;
5.  
6. }
7.  
8.  
9. function Update(){
10.    
11.     if(doorOpened){
12.         timer += Time.deltaTime;
13.     }
14.    
15.     if(timer >= 5){
16.         shutDoor();
17.     }
18. }
19.  
20. }
21.  
22. function shutDoor(){
23.  
24.     var Elevator = gameObject.FindWithTag("Elevator");
25.     Door.animation.Play("doorshuts");
26.     doorOpened = false;
27.     audio.PlayOneShot(doorShut);   
28.     timer = 0;
29. }
30.  
31.  
32. function OnButton () {
33.    
34.         doorOpened = true;
35.         var Elevator = gameObject.FindWithTag("Elevator");
36.         Elevator.animation.Play("dooropen");
37.         audio.PlayOneShot(doorAudio);  
38.        
39. }
40.  

Got something like this now...

 

Nevermind my question. I got it fixed now. I am amazed that it works but I got an elevator with buttons to the doors and to the next floor and such. The only thing I have is that when the elevator goes down you have a little falling sensation even though the fps controller is being parented with this script.

Code (csharp):

1. function OnTriggerEnter () {
2.    var GO = GameObject.Find("Platform");//whatever the name of your moving platform is
3.    var GO1 = GameObject.Find("First Person Controller");
4.  
5.    GO1.transform.parent = GO.transform;    
6. }
7.  
8. function OnTriggerExit () {
9.    var GO = GameObject.Find("Platform");
10.    var GO1 = GameObject.Find("First Person Controller");
11.  
12.       GO1.transform.parent = null;
13. }
14.  

I don't mean to clutter this thread but since you are busy with an elevator as well I thought it might be handy.

 

Sure it helps!!
I didn't know you could put the MR lights like this with final gather

THANK YOU

 

Looks great, nice job.

 

I know I'm late to this party but those are beautiful!!!

 

Better late than never

Thanks

 

Looks to clean. Too lived in. Doesn't look like real people live there. Looks more like a 3d graphic than a real-world environment.

 

Wow. Just wow.

This looks extremly good. I can't find any other way to desctibe it.

(And you made this in indie!?!)

 

Very impressive work.

I'm surprised the indie version can do graphics this well.

Was there any external library used? Was this honestly done entirely in Indie?

 

I'm not sure why people are so surprised this was done in Indie...the only thing "tricky" is the reflection in the bathroom floor (although it's a very old trick). Basically the only thing Pro has over Indie, graphically speaking, is rendertextures, and good art is a lot more important than having rendertextures. Using Indie doesn't mean you have to use bad art.

--Eric

 

Very nice stuff! since I would like to use Unity3D for Arch Viz I would like to ask you a question:

Lightmapping looks really nice, I saw that with Maya you can achieve very good results ( or with XSI, 3ds, the important are settings and knowledge of mental ray/Vray ).
I'm using ( to speed up the workflow ) pureLIGHT ( which will be availavle for Unity in a bit ), but I don't understand how you can reduce the quality in Unity3D...I mean, you import a 4096*4096 lightmap ( with perfect quality ) into Unity, then how you "compress" it or reduce its quality?

 

You select your imported texture inside Unity and change its import settings. From there, you can resize and change the compression(among other things). It's all non-destructive and your original remains untouched.

 

Wow, that is a really interesting feature! well, can have much more control over my lightmaps and diffuse textures, and is exactly what I was looking for

 

Apparently, I'm an idiot.How do you get out of the apartment?

By the way, it looks spectacular. I guess I'm gonna have to learn how to make lightmaps properly. :?
("Wizardious bows down, with arms extended")

 

Great work! I have a few questions regarding the user experience.

How did you calculate the conversion of the units between Maya and Unity?

What FOV are you using? 60mm, 70mm? It looks good, but not great, I find hard to achieve a wider view in interior spaces withut exaggerate the perspective.

The icon in the middel (Target) is that standard? How did you place it there?

Is the glare on the lights standard? or did you use an script?

Like I said, great work, wondering how you find the pipeline between Maya and Unity, I think for a game the amont of work is ok but for ArchViz may be a to long of a process.

 

indie can do the same to pro, the michael and his partner´s work is no more than a great lightmap well worked maybe with a great render tool, and some effects like reflections..

btw, this demo shows that Unity can do anything...

yet!, in blender game engine, with a good lightmap, or so one bah.. is ok, never mind... your demo looks fantastic..

PS. What´s the name... err.. oh yeah!, Mirror´s Edge, looks like that game a bit ;D