World Building [RELEASED] CScape - advanced building generator

Hello there all.

I'm a new Cscape user and have been using it to put a city into my quad copter flight sim. I haven't finished tweaking the city, but decided to see how it would run on an iPhone. My regular builds are Mac/Windows/Linux but I wanted to add iOS/Android soon.

I had a bit of a weird experience on my iPhone XR it looks like this

I should point out that this is a normal illuminated scene. In the desktop versions, everything is fine and we see the building materials, but this disappears in iOS. As interesting as the shiny black surfaces are, I think I'd prefer actual buildings

It looked so odd that I figured someone would recognise it easily if it had come up before. I'm using Unity 2018.4.25, iOS 13.4 and Xcode 11.3

 

I just tried it in Unity 2020.2.6f1 with HDRP 10.3.1. The streets aren't visible:



The river is pink and there's a shader error with the rooftops:

Code (CSharp):

1. Shader error in 'CScape/CSRooftops': Couldn't open include file 'Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal/ShaderLibrary/Core.hlsl'. at line 1003
2.  

Regarding HDRP: are there more than 1 cameras in use? There is that Relighting Camera. HDRP doesn't support more than 1. If there are more than 1 you can forget about performance.

And the RigidBodyFPSController has a missing script.

 

at least your city is visible dude i have something green in it and the whole city blur

 

Cscape is supported only on Hdrp 10. Not on older versions.

 

hii, i just imported cscape in an empty project and found this, post processing setups are asking for a script

 

Post processing has been an issue in Unity since Unity 5. I'm not trying to invalidate your comment. Just know it has happened a whole heck of a lot with Unity assets over the years - and in my experience, it's practically the rule - that it is broken upon import. So, if you encounter it, IMO it's generally better to expect it, deal with it, and not get hung up on it.

 

Right
Post processing has changed over years, and lost any back compatibility. As I really can't make a different scenes for each version, it was defaulted to a original one (as there are still many users that use it).
It doesn't break anything in a project, and if you have this problem, just delete that component.

 

nahh it ain't giving any problems but i thought the post pro which comes with the asset might get me better effects than those which i create myself

 

imported cscape in unity 2020 empty project and found black puddles , how to solve it?

 

Not sure this is it, but just in general things that reflect may need a reflection probe.

 

cscape adds a reflection probe automatically

 

Be sure to configure sky environment correctly (and to enable it in hdrp). Black puddles happen when there is no sky to reflect.

 

Greetings, I just recently purchased your CScape asset from unity store and am not getting the results you do in the videos in HDRP. I have installed the extra package and everything is green [see reference photo]. Any idea as to what could be causing this?

 

What version of HDRP? Cscape requires version 10.

 

HDRP 10.4.0/Unity 2020.3.7f1

 

Can you please move the URP and HDRP downloads to the original post?

 

You can get those from a link in description in CScape documentation

 

Hello, guys!

Firstly, I want to say: CScape is amazing, powerful and lightweight.

I'm want generate a city with a suburbian, a residential city style, like this image bellow:



You have any tutorial, or guide explain how to generate a residential city-like with CScapes?

Since now, thanks a lot!

 

For creating your own buildings and style you need to work through the following 2 tutorials:
- creating your own CScape material (building facades / windows)
https://olivr.info/customizing-cscape-materials-with-cdk/

- creating your own building shapes, which then can be adjusted by height, width, etc..

At least for the material creation, it is recommended to use the exact unity version specified in the asset-store (5.6.2, you can find this version in the unity download archive). After the creation you can export this material and use it with other unity versions.

 

Hi,

First of all I also want to say this asset is AWESOME!
But I have a small problem. Once I try to copy / paste a building it seems to messes up the rooftop stuff of this object. once I hit play I get errors like:

MissingReferenceException: The object of type 'GameObject' has been destroyed but you are still trying to access it.
Your script should either check if it is null or you should not destroy the object.
CScape.CSRooftops.OnDestroy () (at Assets/CScape/Scripts/CSRooftops.cs:342)

Is there some way to fix this for a copy pasted object?

Thanks

 

Ok, the error appeard because I had the CScape City gameobject disabled. Anyway Somehow the rooftop object won´t work correctly on a copy pasted building.

 

This would need some more information, of how it is not working correctly, not shown at all, flickering, etc., so a video or an image would help others to identify your problem.

I tried it that way and it worked:
- select a building and press Ctrl + D
=> the building was dublicated, but the original rooftop stuff was now on the dublicated building
- selecting the original building again => the rooftop stuff was created again and everything worked as expected in edit and play mode

 

While I am not the dev, and this might not be the answer, the rooftop items are in a separate group. So likely there isn't a rooftop object for your "new" building

 

Thanks for now. I will make a video on Sunday. Btw is it possible to somehow create a building without generating a city and saving that object as a prefab for example?

Thanks

 

It is possible if you mean not to have that big city GameObject with that amount of buildings, but it is not possible if you mean the CScape city system, because CScape needs this to work. But a CScape city could consist only of 1 building. To achieve this you would need to invoke some methods via script in order to have the building drawn as a building, otherwise if you drag a building into the scene you have just the raw shape, which could be just something like a cube and visually not even close to a building (this is the cool stuff and why CScape is that fast ).

And of course there is a way to just remove all the other buildings. So if you want to customize the system further, you would need to dive a little into the code, just looking for how the inspector GUI elements (buttons) are doing the stuff should be enough.

 

can you please elaborate like what sky environment do i have to enable and from where, as of now my scene has the normal sky every unity scene contains, the standard blue one

 

Yea, you can. Best way is to generate a whole city, and then delete buildings that you don’t need.

 

do you plan on making a discord server for Cscape???

 

any help for this?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

 

Hello guys，
In which version of unity hdrp can I use Cscape？
im using 2020.3.12, and it dooesnt function.
thank you very much

 

Hi @olix4242

I want to submit my useful changes I made to CScape here.

First of all I fixed a bug in CityRandomizer.cs StripScripts(). On some objects I got a error that it could not remove the BuildingModifier script because CSFloorDetails relies on it. So I added this before removing the BuildingModifier script:

Spoiler: Fix

Code (CSharp):

1.             foreach (Transform go in buildings.transform.Cast<Transform>().Reverse())
2.             {
3.                 CSFloorDetails csInstantiator = go.GetComponent(typeof(CSFloorDetails)) as CSFloorDetails;
4.                 DestroyImmediate(csInstantiator);
5.             }

Then I added two useful methods. One button to spawn a single random building, and one button to save all buildings and rooftop meshes as asset files (This is needed if you want to save the buildings as part of a prefab and want to export them into a other unity project for example). So I added in CityRandomizerEditor.cs after the else in line 499:

Spoiler: Code

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. if (GUILayout.Button("Create Building"))
3.                 {
4.                     ce.SpawnBuilding();
5.                 }
6.  
7.                 if (GUILayout.Button("Store Mesh Assets in CScape_Meshes Folder"))
8.                 {
9.                     foreach (Transform B in ce.buildings.transform)
10.                     {
11.                         if (!System.IO.File.Exists(Application.dataPath + "/CScape_Meshes/" + B.name + ".asset"))
12.                         {
13.                             AssetDatabase.CreateAsset(B.GetComponent<MeshFilter>().mesh, "Assets/CScape_Meshes/" + B.name + ".asset");
14.                         }
15.                        
16.                         AssetDatabase.SaveAssets();
17.                         B.GetComponent<MeshCollider>().sharedMesh = B.GetComponent<MeshFilter>().mesh;
18.                     }
19.  
20.                     foreach (Transform RT in ce.rooftopDetails.transform)
21.                     {
22.                         if (!System.IO.File.Exists(Application.dataPath + "/CScape_Meshes/" + RT.name + ".asset"))
23.                         {
24.                             AssetDatabase.CreateAsset(RT.GetComponent<MeshFilter>().mesh, "Assets/CScape_Meshes/" + RT.name + ".asset");
25.                         }
26.                        
27.                         AssetDatabase.SaveAssets();
28.                         RT.GetComponent<MeshCollider>().sharedMesh = RT.GetComponent<MeshFilter>().mesh;
29.  
30.                     }
31.  
32.                     foreach (Transform AD in ce.adverts.transform)
33.                     {
34.                         if (!System.IO.File.Exists(Application.dataPath + "/CScape_Meshes/" + AD.name + ".asset"))
35.                         {
36.                             AssetDatabase.CreateAsset(AD.GetComponent<MeshFilter>().mesh, "Assets/CScape_Meshes/" + AD.name + ".asset");
37.                         }
38.  
39.                         AssetDatabase.SaveAssets();
40.  
41.                     }
42.  
43.                     foreach (Transform BD in ce.balcony.transform)
44.                     {
45.                         if (!System.IO.File.Exists(Application.dataPath + "/CScape_Meshes/" + BD.name + ".asset"))
46.                         {
47.                             AssetDatabase.CreateAsset(BD.GetComponent<MeshFilter>().mesh, "Assets/CScape_Meshes/" + BD.name + ".asset");
48.                         }
49.  
50.                         AssetDatabase.SaveAssets();
51.  
52.                     }
53.                 }
54.  

and in CityRandomizer.cs I added this method:

Spoiler: code

Code (CSharp):

1. public void SpawnBuilding()
2.         {
3.             GameObject prefabToInstantiate = null;
4.             int prefabChoice = Random.Range(0, buildingStyles[Random.Range(0, buildingStyles.Length)].prefabs.Length);
5.  
6.             prefabToInstantiate = buildingStyles[Random.Range(0, buildingStyles.Length)].prefabs[prefabChoice];
7.             BuildingModifier buildingModifierx = prefabToInstantiate.GetComponent(typeof(BuildingModifier)) as BuildingModifier;
8.             GameObject cloneH = Instantiate(prefabToInstantiate, Vector3.zero, Quaternion.identity);
9.  
10.  
11.  
12.  
13.                     cloneH.transform.parent = buildings.transform;
14.                     cloneH.transform.name = "Building" + buildings.transform.childCount.ToString();
15.                     cloneH.layer = 19;
16.  
17.                     BuildingModifier buildingModifier = cloneH.GetComponent(typeof(BuildingModifier)) as BuildingModifier;
18.                     CSRooftops csRooftopsModifier = cloneH.GetComponent(typeof(CSRooftops)) as CSRooftops;
19.                     CSAdvertising csAdverts = cloneH.GetComponent(typeof(CSAdvertising)) as CSAdvertising;
20.                     buildingModifier.buildingWidth = 10;
21.                     buildingModifier.buildingDepth = 10;
22.                     buildingModifier.floorNumber = 15;
23.                     //buildingModifier.cityRandomizerParent = ;
24.  
25.  
26.                     cloneH.transform.Rotate(0, 180, 0);
27.  
28.  
29.                     if (csRooftopsModifier != null)
30.                     {
31.                         csRooftopsModifier.randomSeed = Random.Range(0, 1000000);
32.                         csRooftopsModifier.lodDistance = 0.18f;
33.                         csRooftopsModifier.instancesX = 150;
34.                     }
35.                     if (csAdverts != null)
36.                     {
37.                         csAdverts.randomSeed = Random.Range(0, 1000000);
38.                     }
39.  
40.  
41.                     buildingModifier.AwakeCity();
42.                     buildingModifier.UpdateCity();
43.          
44.  
45.      
46.         }

One thing I want to note is that I manually created a folder called "CScape_Meshes" in the projects Assets folder. Otherwhise saving of the building meshes does not work. Maybe a if could be implemented that creates that folder if it does not exist but it was good enough for me. I hope this is useful to anyone

 

I'm currently working on a full support for HDRP with some new and powerful CScape features. It should be available soon.

 

I'm really curious now, which features? And will they be available on built-in?

 

I'm currently working on some more artistic related features:
-custom buildings based on floor plans. Those buildings are there to add an easy way to build any custom shaped building, very useful if you want to match some real life buildings.
-more robust and better custom faccade creation (custom skins).
-full HDRP support with better visual quality and realism made possible by using improvements that HDRP brings.
-optimizations of shaders for standard and URP pipeline.
- some interface improvements for better custom building placement. For example, a possibility to place building on a terrain automatically, and then extend it's foundations to fit a curvature of a terrain.
Overall, this will be probably a last update for standard pipeline shaders, as I will be moving more into HDRP and possibilities that it gives.
For now, new cscape versions will be available in beta as a separate download (with a download link in original package).
Unfortunately, maintaining all pipelines will be impossible so I will have to move my attention on HDRP and URP that are now almost in production ready state..

 

Thank you for taking time. There are really nice features

Yes HDRP looks really good. But I think my game will be in built-in. Put a lot of work to look pretty close to HDRP. But performance and dependency to other assets (clouds and water, etc.) have formed this decision.

 

"-custom buildings based on floor plans"

This sounds very promising to me. But how can I imagine the workflow? I mean, do I have to use a custom model I made in blender for example? Or would it be possible to use a mesh I created with Probuilder as floorplane for example?

 

No, it is more like an integrated modeler. You just place building prefab into a scene, and move, add, or subtract floor plan points. It is pretty easy to use without messing with any external applications.
Also, you can define boud points by scripting, and this is pretty useful when making custom city importers, for example, from Open Street Map.

 

Is it possible to enable smooth shading for faces, so especially round parts of concrete are shown more smoothly?

 

It should be pretty hard, if not impossible due to the data that Cscape has to inject into meshes (and all the UV mapping that it does). It does many things on level of vertex colors, normals, multiple UV maps, and this would lead to big workflow performance drops. But as I'm rewriting some systems, I might look into it - but still don't have any idea how I could procedurally map those things.

 

I accidentally have found a solution to that. So, enabling smooth-shading alone doesn't result in smooth shaded faces. And as often, some complicated approaches didn't help and just wasted time to find the right one, but a pretty simple approach did the job: in the modeling software I just added an edge split modifier and voila: smooth shaded faces

 

Any ROUGH idea on when the next version is going to be released?

 

Why not create a Discord

 

hi folks,

I thought I share what I did with cscape, because I totally love to do stuff with it:
btw, you can download the pc build as well to see it running on your machine.

Waiting for an update too!

Please Capitano!

 

I think because it's a one man show, who has to dig into hardcore processes to achieve stuff like cscape, or the deckard renderer, support it, do new stuff, bug fixing etc. If I were such a dev, I would fear to host a discord server, without losing my focus on such things and having a life next to it xD only my thoughts

 

Great usage of CScape

 

Actually, I have made a discord server, but still not sure if I want to activate it. I already have my youtube, facebook, twitter, Unity forum, and support mail to control, all by myself. And this can take a pretty big amount of time. Amount of time taken from actual development. Also, I'm pretty new to discord, so there might be some usefull reasons that I'm missing.. so if you think that this is a case, please enlighten me

 

In fact a real good reason that might be helpful for you could be that you can channel everything in discord, from what I've noticed when joining unity devs. For example, having a support and update section for each of your plugins, in where you can post updates and lead your customers to the certain section, up to what issue/need they have etc. It has some nice structuring features. I think that's why it is more and more used by developers.

 

Then lets try Here is a link.
https://discord.gg/mfBQQDGTAg

 

I guess that´s not working. You have to create a invitation link, and post that here

 

https://discord.gg/mfBQQDGTAg