World Building [RELEASED] Dungeon Architect

Looks really good. Any chance we could get a circular minimap option too? Dunno how complicated it would be to implement though.

 

That should be possible. Just position the mini map camera right above the minimap player to get a 2D look on your mini map. Then apply a circular texture mask to remove content outside the circle

 

Created another video showcasing the tech demo

 

Ok, I'm pretty much at the "shut up and take my money" point right now. Will you please, for the love of all that is holy, release this? I just pulled out my credit card so fast it caught on fire.

 

I have a couple of questions, actually...

- I wish to use this for a first-person game, can I get your system to put roofs on, like the floor? It seems all of the videos are using third-person controllers.
- Can I create a dungeon within a dungeon? (well, a generated outdoor area with a generated temple complex inside of it) Maybe I have to create the dungeons separately and load the one into the other?

Thanks for your time!

 

@Sabathius you can add ceilings by attaching it to the ground node and moving it up. You can also have multiple dungeons in the same map. Each dungeons layout is built relative to the position of the Dungeon gameobject.

 

I've submitted DA to the asset store for review. Will keep you folks posted

 

Great news! Good luck!

 

This looks absolutely amazing!
Excelent job, I'm sure that will be a great asset to have at the Store

 

Great

Can we decide for each assets type or wall types, the probability to be placed in the level for each one individually ?
For example i want a low probability for gems and a high probability for rocks.

 

@Invector Thanks!

@zenGarden Yes, you can define a probability for any visual node in the graph (visual nodes spawn your game objects)

 

I added some 2D love

Here's is a sample 2D game that is bundled with DA. This will help you immediately get started with your 2D game.

Play Now: 2D Tech Demo



It shows you various concepts:

• Dynamic navigation Support for 2D (in the XY plane). Unity 5 doesn't support it out of the box.
• Navigation Agent 2D to move your 2D bots using the nav mesh
• AI for the bots to move around in the nav mesh. The bots have various states implemented (patrol, persuit, search) with vision cone sensors. This is the same as the 3D AI demo slightly modifed for 2D. It will give you a good base to start building your awesome games on
• Procedural level creation during runtime
• Spawning NPCs in the procedural level
• Spawning Pickups (mana, health etc) in the procedural level
• Advanced theming using marker emitters to beautify the 2D map with contextual based tiles

The level was created using the following theme file:


I resubmitted the package to asset store with this demo.

 

Awesome. I am also a more FPS / Third Person fan (3D).
Would be great if you also could show a demo using for example Cobus Tile A Dungeon Set like you did with the 2D Demo one post before. The best would be with roofs in it

I am really looking forward using this asset. It seems so pretty and well organized for creating procedural dungeons pretty fast.

Cheers
Ronny

 

Great.

If i have a dungeon floor with one or more mid bosses and one final boss , is the generator able to place somzwherz in the middle of the level some semi boss or somewhere far from entrance and final boss ?
It is possible to define an item spawned one time only in the level like some rare treasure chest ?
Can we define a rule like some chest objects would always have one ore more type of a specific ennemie around it ?

There is a graphic bug, it is ude to 2D tiles ?

 

And to add to zenGarden's question:

What about some singleton nodes:
- place one player spawn point, and one player exit (or, multiple exits?), and some rules governing their placement (don't allow them to be within x units of each other).

 

Looking forward for the release.
Looks great so far.

 

@zenGarden You can attach a listener script to the dungeon game object and hook into the post build event. This function gives you access the dungeon model.

You have access to two types of graphs:
High level Graph: This graph contains the interconnection of rooms in the map (red lines)
Detailed Graph: This contains the connection to all adjacent cells (green lines)

You can traverse through this graph and spawn anything you like within a cell (room / corridor) after querying it's bounds

@Sabathius The demo games that come with DA samples have this example. It finds the farthest two rooms by querying the high level graph and places a spawn point and an exit. I provide a few utility functions to traverse the graph. I'll add more as community requests it

It's because the I didn't assign a sprite in the theme file to handle that case. I think this tileset comes with a sprite for this. I'll add that.

 

2D Toolset of Dungeon Architect

 

Paint your own 2D layouts

 

Added more sprites in the theme file to handle other cases

 

Excuse me but I have a question.Great product by the way, can't wait to buy it. I curious on whether or not we will be able to run our other scripts on these static meshes once they are procedural generated. Is it possible to have other enactments done to these prefabs after there generated.

Great work,

Andre

 

@DRE10110 Thanks! Yes you can. You can create a listener to hook into the dungeon events and on the post build event function, you can grab all the items the dungeon spawned like this

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. public class MyDungeonProcessor : DungeonEventListener {
3.    ///<summary>
4.    ///Called after the dungeon is completely built
5.    ///</summary>
6.     public virtual void OnPostDungeonBuild(Dungeon dungeon, DungeonModel model) {
7.         var myObjs = GameObject.FindObjectsOfType<DungeonSceneProviderData>();
8.         foreach (var obj in myObjs) {
9.             // your processing here
10.         }
11.     }
12. }
13.  

Drop this script into the dungeon object and it will call the function whenever a dungeon is created (both design time and runtime)

(The component DungeonSceneProviderData is attached to all the spawned objects by DA)

 

Respectfully, can't you just create a script on the prefab object and add your code in an Awake() or Start() block? Or does that not work in this context?

 

I think @DRE10110 wanted to manipulate the object in design time after the dungeon is built in the editor

 

AliAkbar I have in mind exactly what method to use.Thanks your the best.Hey by the way Dungeon Architect should be out by now whats the deal.I'm very anxious to use it right now.

 

RELEASED!

Dungeon Architect is now available in the Asset Store. I'd like to thank everyone for your enthusiasm and support since the start of this project

You can grab it from here

 

Is it safe to assume it works for all game types and not just top down? Seems like all the demo videos/screenshots I've seen posted were top down style. I would assume it would be good for designing first/third person as well, right?

 

My question as well. I notice you say we can do ceilings, but what about roofs? Could we add any roof shape to the nodes and place those on the floor and move them up? What if the roof is wider than the floor? I need to make a city and this would be perfect but it is 3rd person.

 

I asked the same some posts above...
Anyway gz to the Release!

 

Ceilings are not the same as a roof though.

 

@Shawn67 Yes it's possible. It also handles the stair elevations well if you have indoor rooms with lower height clearance for stairs. This is a small modification of the candy theme that comes with the samples. I'll add this demo in the next update

@Teila you can add interesting roofs with marker emitters. Here's an implementation I have in the UE4 version (similar functionality to unity version). I'll add a similar example in the samples tomorrow

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I didn't get around creating a proper indoor demo yet. I'll create one tomorrow with 3DForge awesome interior village kit

 

That is really cool..but...what if I just want a normal peaked roof with gables? Is that possible?

 

Yeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssssss! Now my evil plans to take over the world can begin. Wait...that was my outside voice, wasn't it?

@Teila I know you can add any gameobject with a marker emitter. All you need to do is use the prefab for your peaked roof at the same time the floor is emitted, then use a Y offset to push it up into place. (if that makes sense)

 

@Teila yes that's possible too with marker emitters. Here's a simple example I quickly put together. Will make a proper one tomorrow

This was created with a marker emitter script:

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. using UnityEngine;
3. using System.Collections;
4. using DungeonArchitect;
5. using DungeonArchitect.Utils;
6.  
7. public class RoofGabelEmitter : DungeonMarkerEmitter
8. {
9.     public float elevation = 1;
10.     public string markerName = "Gable";
11.     public override void EmitMarkers(DungeonBuilder builder)
12.     {
13.         if (!(builder is GridDungeonBuilder))
14.         {
15.             Debug.LogWarning("Unsupported builder type used with marker emitter MarkerEmitterFindLowestPoint. Expected GridDungeonBuilder. Received:" + (builder != null ? builder.GetType().ToString() : "null"));
16.             return;
17.         }
18.         var gridModel = builder.Model as GridDungeonModel;
19.         var gridSize = gridModel.Config.GridCellSize;
20.  
21.         foreach (var cell in gridModel.Cells)
22.         {
23.             if (cell.CellType != CellType.Room) continue;
24.             var location = cell.Bounds.Location * gridSize;
25.             var y = cell.Bounds.Location.y;
26.             var isize = cell.Bounds.Size;
27.             for (float x = 0; x <= isize.x + 0.001f; x += 0.5f)
28.             {
29.                 var mult = (float)x / isize.x;
30.                 var angle = 0;
31.                 if (mult > 0.5f)
32.                 {
33.                     mult = 1 - mult;
34.                     angle = 180;
35.                 }
36.                 var height = mult * elevation;
37.                 for (float z = 0; z <= isize.z + 0.001f; z += 0.5f)
38.                 {
39.                     var position = location + Vector3.Scale(new Vector3(x, y + height, z), gridSize);
40.                     var rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, angle, 0);
41.                     var transform = Matrix4x4.TRS(position, rotation, Vector3.one);
42.                     builder.EmitMarker(markerName, transform, new IntVector((int)x, (int)y, (int)z), 0);
43.                 }
44.             }
45.         }
46.     }
47. }
48.  
49.  

I also added a small random Y rotation transformer rule to give a nice random look on each tile of the roof

 

Nice! And to close the gable, I can just put a wall with an attached gable in a node that can be used for the ends of the buildings, right?

So..is this asset going to require a lot of coding to make things work? I am sure I can deal with the visual nodes and everything, but I am not a coder. I am trying to use tools like this to avoid giving more jobs to my programmers who are already both busy with other aspects of the game.

I really do like it! It is awesome.

 

You'll design your theme mostly using the visual theme graph editor

It won't require programing unless you want to do something advanced, in which case the tool has various extension points to attach your own behaviours easily. These scripts become reusable so in this e.g. you can drop in the gable roof script emitter from the fps demo for your other themes

 

Indoor Theme created using @3DForge 's Village Interior kit

 

WOW,

This is awesome, Thanks for showing it.
With just a few small tweaks, everything will be perfect.
Your lighting is looking very good man

The Village Interiors Kit ended up being quit a bit more then what the name states
The contents you see here was just one of the FREE updates it received

Cheers
Cobus

 

Now THAT's what I'm talkin' about!

 

Thanks! Your awesome asset's magic. I took the lighting inspiration from your demo levels Loved creating themes with it.

Indeed, there's tons of stuff in Village Interior Kit. This theme is for the Cathedral update. I'll add more later. Looking forward to seeing what more artistic folks like yourself and others create

 

Yay! DA is featured in Asset store's front page

 

I would love to see you build something with the exterior kits as well.

 

Holy crap, this asset looks amazing! I read the documentation end-to-end. My project isn't ready for level creation yet, but this is definitely added to my Asset Store wish list to acquire when I'm ready to use it.

I do have a little bit of constructive feedback for the documentation. While it is extremely well-written, there are some grammar and spelling errors that could easily be corrected. In particular, the word "it's" (with the apostrophe) is incorrectly used throughout as a possessive, when it should be "its". I wouldn't bother mentioning the spelling, but the documentation is so extremely good otherwise that it is a shame to spoil perfection with something so easily corrected.

I'm really looking forward to giving this a try, after I finish assimilating some other tools I've recently added and when my design is further along. I'm very impressed with the code design and the level of documentation that covers not only how to use the tool, but also the theory behind how it works.

 

Thank you @syscrusher. I really appreciate your feedback. I'll have that fixed by tomorrow

 

*whispers* It deserves it.

 

Just saw it popping up on the asset store frontpage and I'm really impressed. Seems like a must-have asset like ProBuilder & co. I took a quick look at the documentation and it has great clarity (the node system is well-thought). Really great job

 

Thank you @Kasko

 

Great Asset... but I've a question:

is there a "seed" which can be used in order to have the same procedural map generation ?

I'm thinking about a multiplayer game, and in this case I want to Exchange only the generator seed between clients instead the entire scene

So, same seed = same map

Edit:
Ok, just read the quick guide.. there's a seed