World Building [RELEASED] CScape - advanced building generator

How do you mean? Are you packing a scene or prefab? If it's a scene, than it should be as you left it. I probably didn't understand a purpose of your action

 

A scene.
We have created a city in a new scene and now we need to load this city as scene to another scene.
We dont need cscape's scripts in this city anymore, we just need created buildings. But when we load created city all of building's settings are default

 

Well, this seems quite strange. If you create a city and save it as a scene, it should load as it was at a state of saving. Does this happens in editor or in build? If it happens in editor, try to click on Refresh button and see what happens.
-But I think that I need a exact description of what is happening..

 

We created city and build scene into bundle via BuildPipeline. After that we need to load this bundle in other project. Unforunately, all building lighting was set to default.

 

What do you mean by 'default' lighting? CScape doesn't have any default state. Can you provide some screenshots?

 

can you give specific insturctions on adding custom buldings?

 

i want to use my custom prefab buildings
if anyone could help me i would apprechate it

 

Any updates/features you working on now that your neon challenge project is complete?

 

I have submitte a new version right now. it should be available on assetstore as soon as Assetstore team aprooves it.

With a new version, a standardization of building customization is done - so, in next few days I will be making a tutorial on how to make custom buildings and materials for them.

 

version 0.9.5
-WEBGL2.0 support
-Fixed bug with OSX not displaying city.
-Improoved Re-Lighten. Now it's possible to have nice daytime lit city with a single directional light, without any GI baking.
-Improoved textures
-Improoved material shader. I have spent many hours on trying to calibrate materials and improove overall look.
-Better glass rendering - now reflections get's distortedlike it would in real world
-Better nightime building illumination
-Better management of blinds
-Improved Street shader and materials
-added option on using graffiti on low floors
-added optional Save menu item for reducing .scene file size when saving files (will save only parametrization values, without dynamically generated meshes
-Added new rooftop models and materials (hi-quality)
-Added ability to add bus stations
-fixed random seed generation consistency issue
-Deprecated Update Colliders option. Mesh colliders are now always generated and auto updated.
-Introducing experimental feature for generating slated (slated and T form angled) street layouts. This feature is experimental - but will become a default generation method in final version. Right now it can be broken in some random cases, and it needs some manual corrections. This will be fixed in future versions.
-With a slated city support generation, now it will be possible to controll cities by block. Also, some functionalities doesn't work, like generating bus stations in this mode.
-Many things are refactored, and all of this is to allow future improovements.

 

New version is available online.

 

I think you may have forgotten Plugins/...(someting/something) / HxVolumetricLight.cs in the package

 

Any way to get location of windows and doors on the buildings?

 

Thanks for reporting this. Looks like Assetstore exporttool exported some third party scripts that shouldn't be there. Just delete HxVolumetricLighting scripts that are giving you an error.

 

No, it should be complicated to make to work reliably (as I would have to translate/simulate a great part of a shading process to a C# script) , and also, this would be extremely processor intensive. What would be your typical usage? If I know this, Maybee I can think of some sort of hack hor this...

 

Curious, what are you working on feature-wise for the future?

 

Window shutters and other items like that that would extrude out

 

I'm working on windows shatters.. not on a top of priority list, but this can be done eventually.. main problem is that unity doesn't have any method for getting UV coordinates (raycast) in vector4 format (the one that cscape uses).
As for object extrudes.. this can be really complicated as you would have to check all pixels of a procedural shader.. so I think that this one is quite impossible for now.

 

The Add Bus Stops button errors because busStopsHolder is never assigned.

I added this to line 346 in CityRandomizerEditor.cs:

Code (CSharp):

1.                     ce.busStopsHolder = EditorGUILayout.ObjectField("Holder", ce.busStopsHolder, typeof(GameObject), true) as GameObject;
2.  

After that, I dragged the "BusStops" child gameObject and assigned "BusStop" into the BusStop field and then they worked.

 

Support question:
I am new to unity so I am probably missing something simple. The import from the asset store seems to work fine. However When I drag the CScapeDemo2 scene into the hierarchy A city generates but I get errors in the console :


Assets/Plugins/HxVolumetricLighting/Scripts/HxVolumetricLight.cs(11,5): error CS0246: The type or namespace name `HxDummyLight' could not be found. Are you missing an assembly reference?

Assets/Plugins/HxVolumetricLighting/Scripts/HxVolumetricLight.cs(22,12): error CS0246: The type or namespace name `HxDummyLight' could not be found. Are you missing an assembly reference?

Assets/Plugins/HxVolumetricLighting/Scripts/HxVolumetricLight.cs(75,12): error CS0246: The type or namespace name `HxVolumetricCamera' could not be found. Are you missing an assembly reference?

Assets/Plugins/HxVolumetricLighting/Scripts/HxVolumetricLight.cs(1357,5): error CS0246: The type or namespace name `HxOctreeNode' could not be found. Are you missing an assembly reference?

Assets/Plugins/HxVolumetricLighting/Scripts/HxVolumetricLight.cs(1475,27): error CS0246: The type or namespace name `HxDensityVolume' could not be found. Are you missing an assembly reference?

 

Delete the HxVolumetricLighting folder

 

ops.. looks like I forgot something. I will fix this issue ASAP (and another issues).

 

I have started to work on CDK documentation and I plan to add content on dayly basis. You can familiarize with it here and follow a first lesson:
https://olivr.info/customizing-cscape-materials-with-cdk/?frame-nonce=d646efaa60

 

Ok so nice update.
A few bugs to add to your list:

BuildingModifier.cs, line 537, the csRooftops was null and caused errors upon generation.
When creating slanted streets, there were a number of buildings in overlapping into the roads.
The parks seem to overspill a bit and the material is not set up.
The foliage generation just created a small patch of about 18 trees, not everywhere.
The streetlights seem to work however, there were quite a few with the point lights in way off the grid and not in the city.
Turning off graffiti does not seem to work too.

However - well done, keep going!

 

I found that I could not perform a build because the CScape.CityRandomizer class was encapsulated in #IF UNITY_EDITOR. I put in some #IF UNITY_EDITOR and [ExecuteInEditor] stuff in StreetModifier.cs, BuildingModifier.cs and I also moved the #IF UNITY_EDITOR inside the CityRandomizer definition so that it always at least exists.

 

I think that removing #If UNITY EDITOR in CityRandomizer should be enough. Will have to try. One of the added features in new CScape is a possibility to generate buildings at runtime, and load prefabs (and reducing build sizes), so there were a lot of changes from this standpoint.
I will check if there is something else.

 

The Add street details function was playing up a bit - setting the parent transform in CSInstantiator just after the creations of ' newObject' and not after its been translated seems to set the detail objects in the correct position.

Also instancesZ does not seem to be used anywhere. Using it for the second loop, and changing the translate line to ' newObject.transform.Translate(new Vector3(0, 0, j * -offsetZ));' now puts the details round 2 sides the streets.. getting there..

To add details around all 4 sides of a block, it would need 4 loops in total, offsetting for top, bottom, left and right. Of course it add the number of instances evenly over the length of each side currently. Ideally a bit of randomness could be added here with a min/max for a number being placed on any sidewalk and not in exactly the same position - useful for things like garbage/bins/boxes/phonesboxes ect. On my one I have also added an option to not merge meshes. This is needed for things which have rigid bodies, an option to use
PrefabUtility.InstantiatePrefab instead of Instantiate which breaks the connection, and some extra random shift in any direction, and tilt (people like driving into lampposts! -look at the ones in GTAV, they are all bent as hell)

 

hi when you think you plant to add Building Styles Packs, like Sci-Fi city, ’20’s New York, Italian city, Cartoon City, Apocalyptic City, Soviet City?

as written in the description

 

God I hope he does scifi first hah

 

Yes, You are right Sci-Fi will be the first one.

 

As soon as I finish a final CScape version.. right now we are at 0.9.5.. the nest release shoul come next week (fixing some issues introduced in new version), and then probably few weeks for poishing slated streets layout generation. also, don't forget that I will have to make some tutorials before version one hits the store.

 

Why is it that .i first have found this city-generator now....I have searched every where .I could not find in the asset-store With searches..like city-gen/generator builder etc.But ok IM sold ...ill will buy within some days.
But anyway im new here...But not with unity 3d.
I hope this asset is the right deal for me

 

does it work for Mobiles ? if yes can u please add android build to test it thanks

 

On Mac with Unity 2017.3
Whenever I click generate city, it gives error

IndexOutOfRangeException: Array index is out of range.
CScape.CSArray.UpdateElements () (at Assets/CScape/Scripts/CSArray.cs:222)
CScape.BuildingModifier.ModifyBuilding () (at Assets/CScape/Scripts/BuildingModifier.cs:494)
CScape.BuildingModifier.AwakeCity () (at Assets/CScape/Scripts/BuildingModifier.cs:157)
CScape.CityRandomizer.Generate () (at Assets/CScape/Scripts/CityRandomizer.cs:428)
CScape.CityRandomizerEditor.OnInspectorGUI () (at Assets/CScape/Editor/CityRandomizerEditor.cs:423)
UnityEditor.InspectorWindow.DrawEditor (UnityEditor.Editor[] editors, Int32 editorIndex, Boolean rebuildOptimizedGUIBlock, System.Boolean& showImportedObjectBarNext, UnityEngine.Rect& importedObjectBarRect) (at /Users/builduser/buildslave/unity/build/Editor/Mono/Inspector/InspectorWindow.cs:1245)
UnityEngine.GUIUtilityrocessEvent(Int32, IntPtr)

and only several buildings will be generated. I didn't change anything but here is the random setting:


The line of error is

Code (CSharp):

1.                                         if (!sparseRemove[i]) boolValue = true;
2.  

where length of sparseRemove is 0.

Also there are hundreds of errors saying

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
CScape.BuildingModifier.OnDestroy () (at Assets/CScape/Scripts/BuildingModifier.cs:537)

Does anyone know what's happening? Thanks.

 

Buildings width and depth are too high. While min block distances is too small for this setting. Min block distance has to be at least a sum of max street size * 2 + max sidewalk size + max depth (or width, which ever is larger) * section division max.

 

Question:
For a building modifier - you can set the Lightness front/back and sides - however there is no extra RGB shift - currently they are all kind of grey/black, an RGB shift could give them a bit of color - so how would that be done?
Thanks.

 

You can controll this from a Material setup. Look at a bulding material Megacity1 and set DESATURATE value to something small like 0.

 

ok thanks, I think its because its on Gamma color space too, which makes things very dark.

 

Hey I've been looking at the cdk documentation and I want to know would it be possible to make the mask work on the street or ground so that you could Mask out areas for Terrains to make Parks or Gardens? Hope this makes sense
It would be similar to the mask in HorizonOn
ahttps://youtu.be/DcdPw6raeeE

 

Hi Thanks for the reply. I have adjusted the random setting to make sure it satisfies this but it still shows the same error.

 

Also, be sure that a max block distance is greater than min block distance.
Does this happen if you import a fresh CScapecity?
What mode are you using? Can you give me screenshot of whole city randomizer script?

 

Right now it comes to mind that you should try to reimport whole CScape (after deleting it). Sometimes some references get lost and this is a unity serialization bug that happens also with other assets).

 

is it possible to control what windows have their lights on?

 

Hello
i have problem when i try to build even with the demo scene on a fresh project
there the console messages
can you help ?
thanks you

 

Ops.. it looks like I have restored some scripts, and this kept definitions that shouldn't be there anymore. I will check this and let you know.

 

Ok thank you

 

Issue was fixed and submitted to assetstore. It will be online in few days.

 

version 0.9.5.3
-fixed player build issue
-fixed problem with some buildings that use grafitti even if they have disabled graffiti option
-Added automatic UV mapping option - when making building templates, now you don't have to worry about correct UV mapping.
-fixed bug with lighting poles not appearing on two sides.
-fixed default building colors saturation
-added parks texture and material
-fixed import error

 

FYI, i have been seeing this warning on unity 2017.3.0f3:

Code (CSharp):

1. Shader warning in 'CScape/CSBuildingShader': floating point division by zero at line 230 (on d3d11)
2.  
3. Compiling Fragment program with SHADOWS_DEPTH _GRAFFITI_ON _USE_SNOW_MOSS_DIRT_ON UNITY_PASS_SHADOWCASTER
4. Platform defines: UNITY_ENABLE_REFLECTION_BUFFERS UNITY_USE_DITHER_MASK_FOR_ALPHABLENDED_SHADOWS UNITY_PBS_USE_BRDF1 UNITY_SPECCUBE_BOX_PROJECTION UNITY_SPECCUBE_BLENDING UNITY_ENABLE_DETAIL_NORMALMAP SHADER_API_DESKTOP UNITY_LIGHT_PROBE_PROXY_VOLUME UNITY_LIGHTMAP_RGBM_ENCODING
5.  

 

Don't worry about this. It is a simple warning about a possible divide by zero case inside shader. Something that is impossible to happen in our case as the data stream can't contain zeroes (but unity shader compiler doesn't know this). This spam message could be avoided, but it would require another operation in shader that would impact performance (in small amount, but it is always some impact) so we are skipping this one.