[RELEASED] TopDown Engine by More Mountains [new v3.0 : damage types, damage resistance, and more!]

@Muppo > This one is very high on the Corgi Engine's todo list, but I have to admit I hadn't thought of it for the TopDown. Do you know of a top down game that does that?

 

+1 to the fading

@reuno i have seen quite a few top downs do something similar. I'm at work and don't have access to my steam library right now. Perhaps someone else can chime in that has the day off.

 

Let me use this @Necka_ post from a few pages before, feature is show in the video
https://forum.unity.com/threads/rel...w-v1-3-multiplayer.566533/page-7#post-4059697

Maybe just a circle area with custom ratio and fading effect could work, IDK

 

@Muppo > Oh ok, I somehow thought you meant like a secret passage.
That's just a dissolve shader
I could add one of course, but that's usually something that is very dependent to your art direction, and has to be rebuilt on per-game basis, so I'm not sure if adding one would help that much.
Any tutorial you'll find on that will be applicable to the engine. This one seems ok : http://glowfishinteractive.com/dissolving-the-world-part-1/.

 

Hi @reuno this is an amazing asset, thank you for creating and putting it up for sale.

I had a question for you. Is there a way you can get the Virtual Joystick used for mobile to move to a new position if a player taps outside of the d-pad area? I have been trying to detect if a touch on screen is outside of the joystick area, but this is proving far trickier than expected due to it being parented to the UI Camera transform position. From what I can see if I tap outside of the joystick, I can't seem to detect the tap / click / drag. I'm not sure what I am doing wrong here!

Has anyone done something like this with this engine? I see there is a Dynamic Joystick script, but it doesn't seem to have this behaviour either.

 

@anil_unity385 > That's not something that is built-in if that's your question. But yeah, of course it's doable, you'd just need a new class for that, extending that one would be too messy for something like this.

 

Hi, I've used Control Freak 2 (which has a Corgi controller integration although I had to email the (very helpful) CF2 owner (@DansGameTools ) for the updated controller because the one in the package is before corgi v5. Having used something like this with a self-repositioning joystick I found the default Topdown/Corgi controller almost totally unwieldy (CF2 has spoiled me lol). Once CF2 was set up I simply set the InputManager.cs to force desktop input and it worked great. Works for Topdown Engine as well... although some work needs done to convert to the Topdown Engines input settings.

 

Rewired's Corgi integration also works almost out of the box with TDE. I had to make a few adjustments for the control differences between Corgi and TDE, but it was pretty simple. Perhaps @reuno could contact the Rewired dev to port the Corgi integration to TDE.

 

@reuno It seems I'm pretty noob to shaders yet, that seems like a good article to learn some basics. Thanks for the info

 

I contacted the Rewired dev and he replied that he doesn't plan to do a TDE integration I was very sad about that...
Reuno setup a Github for community addons/extension. Would you mind maybe sharing that integration with us?

 

I'm actually doing the almost same style of dissolve fade in my project that is used in Divinity OS2. I'm using a shader suite from the store for that (Advanced Dissolve) and it works almost out of the box.
You use a Cylinder mask that you just need to synchronise with your Camera position and forward. Then setup the mask to dissolve any materials you wish (you add the materials to a list in the mask component, it's provided with the shader) and then setup the dissolve settings (distance from camera to start dissolve, outline, colors, noise, effect, size etc.) it's really easy. I asked that on the asset Unity forum thread and the dev replied to me with that technique details. It's not a competitor to TDE at all but if you want the forum link just throw me a PM as we are not here to discuss other assets

 

@Necka_ > If it's an asset that works well with the engine and can be useful to others, feel free to post a link to it here, no problem at all with me

 

Oh thank you

So for anyone interested in doing the same Dissolve/Fade as in Divinity original sin 2 when the camera is blocking the player view and if you own (or are interested in) Advanced Dissolve asset, here are the steps to make it work (and then you can tweak the effect how you like)

Here is the dev explanantion on how to do it simply (I replied to that thread just after for a bit more questions on how to collect materials automatically to add them to the dissolve thing in case you spawn walls or roofs at runtime)

https://forum.unity.com/threads/advanced-dissolve.517354/page-3#post-3628384

 

@Necka_ > I didn't know that asset. That's one good looking shader! Thanks for sharing this!

 

I'm going to be out of town until Monday. I made a note to myself to post it on Monday.

 

Thanks Reuno. I am perfectly happy to do that, but would it be possible to give me a little advice on how best to do it? Where I am stuck is that I can't detect touch / drag inputs on the screen outside of the virtual joystick. What is governing that exactly? The Input Bindings in InputManager?

Apologies if this comes across as dumb on my behalf!

Thanks for the reply. What is involved in changing the input settings over? The repositioning joystick is the thing I am aiming to implement.

 

@anil_unity385 > Touch and drag are native in Unity. https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Touch.html

 

Afternoon, just wanted to pop in to let you know that everything is going great with the engine so far. It's very polished!

I was also hoping to throw in a +1 for boss type enemies like in the corgi engine, perhaps with boss-room doors that only unlock once they've been beaten.

Regards

 

@Candy-Bomber > The locking doors are a nice touch. I'll add your vote to the boss thing.

 

First off, do you have any of the touch input plugins from the Asset store? Control Freak? Rewired? InControl? But basically the Corgi example for Control Freak 2 would need some of the Input parameters changed to match the differences between Corgi and TopDown Engine. Could be a little bit tedious but alot of it matches already... CF2 is the cheapest of the bunch, $9 bucks is underpriced. If I get one working right I'm happy to share.

 

Thank you both.

 

Got the TopDown Control Freak rig done. Happy to share if anyone needs it...

ControlFreak2_TopDownEngine

and here's the Corgi Version 5+ CF2

Corgiv5_ControlFreak2Rig

 

@christougher > If you want, you can send it to me and I'll put it in the contributions repository.

 

Edited my above post with links to my Dropbox...

It looks like it would be quite the chore to update to control Players 2, 3 or 4... just thought I'd mention...

 

@christougher > Thank you for sharing this!
I've added it to the extensions repo : https://github.com/reunono/TopDownEngineExtensions
Should I add the Corgi one to the Corgi's extension repo as well? I thought CF2 supported Corgi Engine "natively" (never tried it myself).

 

I think the controller will be included in the next update, he forgot to include it the last time... So maybe include it for now?

 

@christougher > Alright, I've added it to the Corgi Engine's extensions repo. Thanks for sharing this!

 

I've been trying to map my ps4 controller to the top down engine and making some progress but the right trigger (R2) (which is button 7 on the Mac) is opening the pause menu overlay. I saw button 6 (L2) opens inventory and found that on an inventory manager, so I can change that if I like, but where will I find the pause overlay inputs? I can't find them anywhere... right now my character just starts to shoot when the pause menu comes up (it's doing both at the same time)

 

@HeathC > That's the Player1_Pause axis, as the name implies
If you have more questions like these, please use the support form, thanks.

 

oh my gosh... I don't know how I continually overlooked that... I was poking around the hierarchy and searching and searching and was like... where is this happening?!? In front of my face apparently... sorry to have bothered you... can't believe I didn't see that

 

@HeathC > No problem, there are a lot of input bindings there, it's easy to miss one

 

hmmm... I've gone through every single possible way of making the aim reticle move with a controller, secondary horizontal, secondary vertical, even changing every single setting (in case I don't know which one it actually is) to the same x and y axis as player movement, which should make it aim in the direction the player is moving... and I can't get it to aim to save my life... mouse works perfectly, but I can't get it to aim with the controller

 

Did you also set it the Weapon Forced Mode on the InputManager.cs?

 

When I get a chance I'll set up versions for players 2-4 for both Corgi and Topdown. I'll also update the aim joystick I added so that if you push the joy to it's edge it'll autofire. Push a little to aim, push a lot to aim and shoot. Only so much two thumbs can do lol.

 

I'm not familiar with this...

 

@HeathC > Again, you probably haven't set the secondary axis properly, just like the others, for new types of controllers, you have to set them. And of course you'll need to change the weapon aim mode on the Weapon itself.
And once again, please use the support form from now on, thank you.

 

I got it!!! what a joy! First hurdle down... 749 to go...

 

@reuno

Hello, thank you for TD Engine - I love it!

There are some things that I wish to discuss:
1. I set noise option on my Cinemachine virtual camera to "none". After that MMCinemachineCameraShaker can't find CinemachineBasicMultiChannelPerlin component, so _perlin variable equals null and Start method throws exception.
2.I used AutoBuild Player button in Character component and forget to set layer masks in TopDownController2D component. It took some time to figure out why animator controller acting weird. May be to add some validation in the TopDownController2D class? Or set somewhere default layer masks.
3. If shooting was interrupted by some event (close wall or magazine reload) then weapon stop shooting until I release Fire button and press it again.
4. After character death there is option to disable collisions in Health class. But I think in death case could be physics layer changed instead of disable collider. So we can set some behavior by layer collision matrix configuration.

P.S. I know I could inherit from your classes and do my own behavior. Just for your information.
P.P.S. Sorry for my English.

 

@IlyaKo > Thanks for reporting these. If you find more please use the support email to report them, much easier for me to keep track afterwards, thanks.
1. The CinemachineCameraShaker indeed relies on noise, but that exception should be handled more elegantly, I'll fix that.
2. The engine used to set default layer masks but that generated more confusion (seems much better now). Not sure what the ideal solution is, still figuring this out.
3. That's the intended behaviour.
4. That's a good idea, I'll add that to the todo list.

 

Here is my Control Freak 2 Controllers for Players 1-4

CF2-TopDownEngine-Players1-4

I added a second Aim Joystick as well as an alternate AIM joystick that also shoots if pressed to it's edge.

Here's Corgi's Player 1-4 controllers as well...

CF2-Corgi-Players1-4

 

@reuno > Thanks for your answer!

About interrupted weapon shooting - I just needed to switch on "Continuous press" in CharacterHandleWeapon ability.

 

@christougher > I've updated the repos, thanks for sharing this!
@IlyaKo > Thanks for letting me know. I'll have a look at the other items for the next release, thanks again for reporting this.

 

Hey, I am currently trying to create a shield/invicibility ability. But I haven't figured out how to approach it yet, maybe someone has an idea. I am happy to share it when it's done as I think it could be useful for quite a few games.

What I would like the ability to do:
On button press turn the player invicible for a set amount of time or add a certain amount of health (any health over the players maximum health is taken away when the ability's time runs out).

What my thoughts were so far:
I found a public bool Invincibility which is used in the melee weapon script (I am not sure if it turns the player invicible or the target that gets hit though) but haven't figured out how exactly it works or how to use it for my ability.
I also thought about using the same system as the health pickup, but I would have to change that to be an ability and also add the logic that takes away the excess health after the ability runs out.

General thoughts about the ability:
For my purposes just having the ability turn the player invincible for a set time would be just fine, but I thought why not add the health-mechanic too, so the ability is more versatile and much more useful for other projects. So having the following options in the inspector would be nice:

• choose between invicibility and adding health
• if choosing adding health set amount of health to be added
• set duration of ability
• set cooldown of ability
• set Parameter for Animator
• use MMFeedbacks

I think that's about it, any help is appreciated and again, I'm happy to share the ability once it is done.
Cheers, Riki

 

I am using xbox 360 controller to move the character and aim at the same direction. However the angle of the character snaps quite a bit when the movement is stopped. Usually it end up in 90 degree angle (up,down,left and right) and rarely some quite random in between.

I disabled all snapping from preferences (input tab) and tested lots of dead zone variations. Is there something in the code that needs to be done or did I miss some option?

 

Quick question, in the Loft 3D scene, the camera always seems to shake. How do I turn this off?

Ah NVM, it's the amplitude and frequency gain settings on the Cinematic Camera settings that need to be adjusted.

 

@anil_unity385 > Disable the virtual camera's noise.
@RikiKlein > Shields are on the todo list, I'll add your vote to them. A very simple way to do them is to have an ability spawn (or activate) a collider around your character, or, even easier, target the Health component of your character and make it invincible, or add health to it, there are already public methods for this.
@Jericox > Assuming you're in 3D, set the CharacterOrientation3D's AbsoluteThresholdMovement (and/or AbsoluteThresholdWeapon, depending on your setup) to 0.

 

Ah, yes I am using the 3D side of things.

Even when AbsoluteThresholdMovement (or Weapon) is 0 the snapping happens. It is most noticeable when making small movements and thus aiming with small movement becomes impossible.

I have the newest version of Unity and tested the scene with two different controllers.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/58ih1xr1eawi380/TopDown_orientation_issue.gif?dl=0

 

Are you using the latest version of TDE?

@reuno I don't know if you remember, I had the same issue but you actually sent me a fix for this and it worked perfectly fine afterward

 

@Jericox, @Necka_ > That fix is included in v1.3. I tested and don't reproduce the problem in that version. Maybe @Necka_ if you've got a minute give it a try using 1.3 and let me know if that works for you.
It could be a setting in Unity's input manager panel as well, specific to your gamepad, like sensitivity and the likes.

 

I'm editing the Loft3D scene. If I wanted to make the game start in a paused state, how would I do that? Where is the central point in the engine that ticks all of the game code?

I can see there is a paused event you can call, but if I call this in GameManager Start(), it doesn't trigger. If I tap on the Pause button once the scene has started then it does indeed Pause the game.

I intend on starting the game with a screen that allows the player to choose a weapon before the game starts, that's why I would like to prevent the game from updating until this choice has been made.