World Building [RELEASED] Dungeon Architect

Updated the fog of war algorithm keep the player from seeing through walls

 

This is almost perfect. It's just missing the ability to connect rooms to a winding narrow halway instead of directly to each other and the ability to connect sections without doorways and you'll have created a spiritual successor to the neverwinter nights 1 toolkit. I'm aiming specifically to pay homage to that and similar games so, as we discussed before, hopefuly you can figure them out for the next version.

Although I can just stick to the original tile based system.

 

@Nevercallmebyname I'll have a look

 

In the demo, you look down and you'll see the player hold a map like in minecraft. The minimap is rendered on to a render texture asset. You can then place this in a material and apply it anywhere

 

You already support pre-designed modules in snap flow builder. I hope you was talking about support of pre-designed modules in Grid Flow Builder.

 

Yeah, thinking of giving it a new name without confusing everyone

We'll call the existing one Snap builder and this one Snap Flow. Let me know if you guys have a better suggestion

 

I think that Cell Builder or Flow Cell builder will be the best name for new builder because it uses cells in top level design. Also name does not collide with other builders.

Other options - path, net, web, chain or dot, slot builder.

 

That is a great job!

Also in future you can improve mini map by adding a solid frienge between fog of war and showed area.
It will make fog of war way more demonstrative.
(It can be easily done by replacing fog color with alpha values ( > 0.05 and < 0.95) with solid color in fog shader.)

Example in path of exile.

 

Hi @AliAkbar - just purchased and really looking forward to the Grid Flow Editor in the upcoming update!

 

Thank you @hoodoo

 

I wish my paypal hadn't been playing up during the black friday sale or I'd be using this right now.

 

Its up again for sale for the cyber week mega sale event (50% off). I believe this sale ends on Dec 13th

 

Hey @AliAkbar thanks for this awesome planned update

I didn't like the previous builder as it required pre-made rooms.

This one looks like using the procedural way of the original dungeon grid which is really good as we can finally define some objects/enemies spawning in a visual way with also a great minimap

I'm looking forward to play with that

 

Hello @AliAkbar, I am another one that just purchased this asset. Going through the documentation however, I cannot find any information on adding a minimap. I opened one of the demo scenes and tried to duplicate what was there, however, all I am getting on my side is the player icon and nothing else. Do you have a step by step somewhere of how to get the minimap working?

Thanks

 

@wtadlock Thank you. I'm working on rewriting the documentation and I'll add this as well

 

Is latest update up? If not, when we can expect

 

I'm working on a launch pad window that will have a theme browser, sample browser, dungeon type browser etc. You can open samples from there, Create new dungeon scenes from existing templates, clone themes , snap flow graphs, grid flow graphs etc from template browsers

I'm also working on making the builder and the editor future proof, so it is generic enough to be extend with other builders in the future. I'll need a little more time for that

 

We can use this grid flow branching feature to create race tracks in the city

Each intersection between two roads is a node in the graph. The algorithm finds a main path (and optinally alternate paths). The race track is then created by closing off roads in the intersection that are not part of the race track

 

Is custom preconfigured rooms for Grid Flow builder still on track for next update?

 

Hi, I'm waiting for new release with bug fixes for grid flow examples!

 

Finalized the mario builder and created some art assets in blender

 

And that's why I now understand why Mario should not have an AK-47! It would be a genocide in there

Looks real good, I can't wait for the next update, especially with the new flow editor and minimap

 

Does Dungeon Architect have an ability to generate single houses as well? I've got some assets from Synty Studios and want to use them together with Dungeon Architect, since there's already a city builder and room builder, would there also be a way to generate full on houses?

 

@MegaMileyDev It doesn't have proper support for it and it shouldn't be too hard to add it. I'll explore this in the future builds

 

Past week I've been busy working on a launcher for DA

This gives you a central place to view and clone samples (over 60 samples), create new scenes from one of the many builder templates, a theme template browser, grid flow and snap flow graph template browser and much more.

You won't need to set things up manually like before

 

Awesome! That will be very helpful for new users , is the ETA still somewhere this week? (saw a comment on Youtube last week where you mentioned the new update would launch in about a week which is around now ^^ )

 

Hi,
Love the asset but I have a few quick questions:

1. Is it possible to have multiple fill textures and blend them

2. Is it possible to have features such as lava flows / rivers procedurally generated to run through the map?

*Image below to show what I mean by both both questions

 

Was the Isaac builder already available in the current version? I can't find it in my project

Edit

I downloaded it from here https://coderespawn.github.io/dunge...guide-unity/stage/html/quick_start_1.6.0.html but whenever I open the scene my Editor just locks up and I can't do anything :/

 

Also, whenever I accidentally click Build Dungeon without having a theme selected this outline pops up and starts flashing violently and never seems to go away, I have to re-load my entire scene for it to disappear. Please either fix or remove this

 

Recently purchased DA... I'm seeing several warnings in the console after the code is compiled:

Assets\DungeonArchitect\Scripts\Builders\SimpleCity\Landscape\LandscapeTransformerCity.cs(111,13): warning CS0618: 'TerrainData.splatPrototypes' is obsolete: 'Please use the terrainLayers API instead.'

Assets\DungeonArchitect\Scripts\Builders\Grid\Landscape\LandscapeTransformerGrid.cs(70,4): warning CS0618: 'TerrainData.splatPrototypes' is obsolete: 'Please use the terrainLayers API instead.'

I'm running Unity 2018.4.12f1.

 

1. I'll be rewriting the landscape transformer to upgrade to the latest version and I'll see if I can implement it

2. Perhaps in the future version

 

I've added a sample in the Launcher for Isaac

 

@MegaMileyDev I've gotten rid of it. It won't flash in the next update

 

@eddieray7 I'll have this fixed in the next update

 

Apologies for the delay on the next update. I've been busy working on re-writing the documentation. I'll submit to the asset store in a few days and keep you all posted

New documentation website: docs.dungeonarchitect.com

 

The new doc is awesome, I ve read the grid flow builder tuto.

Do you have a validation system that checks marker names are present in themes ?
User entered strings in the grid flow have to match with marker names in themes and it's easy to make a mistake.

Ideally there would be a pickable and addable list of "MarkerName", if you feel like doing editor code

And another little thing: you should ask the moderators to move this thread into the asset store forum ! I keep forgetting about DA, if it were in the asset store forum instead of WIP I wouldn't.

 

Thanks for you work. @AliAkbar
I have Read documentation about grid flow builder and there is no mention about pre -build modules(rooms). So there is no built-in way to inject custom room in flow? Without it this builder is very limited and not feature complete(for me at least), so many interesting things you can not do without it... What do you think about luck of custom rooms? Then do you plan to add this feature or you don't? I personally prefer to wait some time more just for getting it in this release..

 

Well, any news? :/

 

Hi @AliAkbar
I'm playing around with the FloorPlanner but noticed it only supports a minimal set of features. Basic markers like WallSeparator are missing and it doesn't seem to support spatial Constraints. Do you have any plans to add these or any other additional features to this builder? I just want to know if I should bother with it if there are no improvements coming.

 

The new version is live in the asset store

Version 1.10.0

• A powerful new dungeon builder named GridFlow with a rich set to toolsets to design your dungeons (refer docs below)
• Complete tutorial rewrite: https://docs.dungeonarchitect.com/unity
• Launch Pad window allows you to browse and access all the samples, a theme template library, scene template library and a lot more
• New Marios Builder
• New Infinity Caves builder
• Snap Flow Editor graph panels can be resized
• Rewrote and improved the UI library that power the various editor windows
• Landscape transformers are non destructive. Destroying a dungeon restores the original heightmap / paint and foliage data
• Landscape transformers no long wipe out the entire terrain data and only modify the relavant terrain data
• Improved the landscape transformer blending algorithm
• Fixed the city build's CityWall offset issue
• Added a new Snap Side Scroller builder. This uses the dungeon flow graph for assembling side scrolling levels

Please check the new Launch Pad feature (Dungeon Architect > Launch Pad)

 

I've submitted different versions of DA for various Unity versions for better compatibility

• Unity 2017.4 (LTS)
• Unity 2018.1
• Unity 2018.2
• Unity 2018.3
  
• Unity 2018.4 (LTS)
  
• Unity 2019.1
  
• Unity 2019.2

Please use the Editor's Asset store page to download DA, it will download the appropriate version.

If you upgrade your game project to a different unity version, delete the existing DA folders and re-download them from the new engine's asset store tab to grab the best compatible version

 

"Version 1.10.0"

I thought it will be 2.0))

 

@AliAkbar I have been checking for the new version for the last two months regularly, I'm happy it's here! The flow works pretty well so far and helps loads with having a high level overview of the things in a scene.

Maybe I'm going something strange, but it seems like some of the walls that get placed at the wall-marker, will get rotated.
This means that if you change the X or Z value of the gameobject node in the theme editor, those walls will do exactly the opposite of the rest of the walls, making it impossible to close rooms properly.

I have no idea what is causing this, has anyone else have this issue?
The issue doesn't occur if I don't use the flow grid.

 

Why by default there is no WallHalf(fence) in new grid flow builder??


Seams like futures from first grid builder like stairs, wall separaters are not translated into new builders. Any plans to make New Grid Flow builder to have markers from old grid builder?
Seems like new grid builder should become new default one.

How to check if cell is in corridor or in room or outsided of them?


Also one there is one bug at least.
If path does not have "EndOnPath" assigned, "MaxPathSize" setting has no effect. Path will always have "MinPathSize length."

 

I'm unable to use Debug Draw in the new update, so I don't know if I'm placing my floors correctly

 

Can't build a game with dungeon architect 1.10. Becouse of using editor api in runtime..

 

So I managed a workaround for not having corridor/hallway walls. I duplicated a wall prefab 3 times, and made a 4-sided wall so the Rocks prefab he uses can be easily replaced. See attachments.

 

I was talking about built in fence around corridore.

 

Some random buggy behaviour with grid flow dungeon.
If you do not destroy dungeon in scene and launch game (then just build dungeon)
some random invisible places will occur.


if you delete dungeon and start game everething is normal.

Destroying dungeon first than wait for one frame fixes problem. If however you destroy and create dungeon in one frame problem still occurs.

Code (CSharp):

1. IEnumerator Start()
2.         {
3.             // Randomize and build the dungeon
4.             if (dungeon != null)
5.             {
6.                 dungeon.DestroyDungeon();
7.                 yield return null;
8.  
9.                 var dungeonConfig = dungeon.GetComponent<GridFlowDungeonConfig>();
10.                 var random = new System.Random();
11.                 dungeonConfig.Seed = (uint)random.Next();
12.                 dungeon.Build();
13.             }
14.         }

 

Hi @AliAkbar loving the new Grid Flow update! Would it be possible in the future to utilize the Snap Builder functionality for pre-created rooms with Grid Flow?