Assets SENTIERI - [BETA 0.5] - Terrain Procedural Path Creator for Roads, Rivers and more

I guess your not forced to add everything at once either in the first release. Sometimes its better to hold some features, get the product out and then add them as updates instead.

Lakes looks great so far, a very good addition imo : )

 

Actually I tend to concur with this. Few better things. A roadmap and less stress on you to deliver.

 

That^s a valid option. Thanks

 

I can't express how hard it is for me to find that step away point, but Tim from Ootii once said something to me that still resonates to this day "It's better to put something out at 90%, than to never put it out trying to reach 100%".

That really helped me with AI Warrior, were I now pick say 4 features in my list, work on them(and only them) get them polished and tested and release, then start again(it's hard to create a self imposed tunnel vision, when designing systems, as we tend to focus on the spectrum of how all the systems will work in unison.).

 

Yeah, its hard. But i also think its a really good learning experience : )

 

In the title for this thread I wrote "Terrain Procerual Routes Creator for Roads, Rivers and more" ...
That's just a small example of "more" .... City wall with entrances spawned aroud
I hope you enjoy the below shots

 

Yeah horse racing tracks

 

Nice! Are the meshes actually deformed or simply repeated along the path?

 

Thanks ...Mesh are simply repeated along the path so far...

 

Ah, alright. Looks to be pretty useful for stockades. Any plans to make wall placement work extrusion-based, too? Dynamic and smart placement during run-time with extruded walls (and the possibility to have gates and towers) would be really amazing.

 

Thanks.
I am evaluting to add further features to extrude meshes along the spline. But in first releases I am going to be focus on more common features -

 

When I was looking at the picture of this tool I see a license activation button. It appears on the same line as Help | License Activation | Website | About. Is this license activation for your beta testing team?

 

Hi all,
nice point. That toolbar was just a test looking for the best layout. I write random stuff in the button caption.
So please do not consider that.

 

So, I may have missed it, but will there be a tool for simple footpaths as well? i.e. would I be able to create a spline path and just flatten that path over rolling hills - maybe dig down in one area and raise it above the local terrain in another - or skirt along a mountainside? Surprisingly, there is no tool out there (that I've found) that can do a simple footpath - seems everything wants to generate meshes ... and yet doing a simple curved ramp footpath is almost impossible with Unity Terrain ...

Anyway, looking forward to the release

 

Yes.. You can simply create a spline path and flat terrein below changing the terrain texture as well.

 

Fantastic work, hope we can get to try the beta or buy soon, I'm looking for this type of plugin for so many different uses!

 

@antoripa

By the way I just noticed that Road Architect tool (previous it was a unity asset when support was stopped) is now up on github by the author.

https://forum.unity3d.com/threads/r...or-unity-released.232335/page-10#post-2976084

 

Hi,
thanks for sharing. It's nice tool. I took a look and it's cool

I would say that Sentieri has a different vision that allow users to do more than just create a road point by point ...

 

Road Architect was one of the first unity assets I purchased. One of the main things I liked was ton of side objects (road signs) that were available with it. I also requested support for roads and signs that you would normally only find at an airport and runway/taxiway generation too. The developer was looking into adding support for that at one time.

I was always hoping for the option for run-time generation of roads with that tool. But your tool will solve that issue.

In addition to racing track Gaia stamps it would be cool to have Airport stamps (just the roads/taxiways/runways part) too. I like adding your long requested feature list.

 

What's the status? And more info about the splatmap support togheter with Gaia?

 

Hello.
thanks for asking. I am polishing the code and finalizing the UI.
My plan is kick oft beta session as soon as possibile....I consider beta test really important as feedback comes from expert users and it will help to release a robust and usefull asset.

 

Awesome, hope to you can release it soon.

 

Hello
a quick screenshot of a work in progress with Sentieri ...Terrain is 2.5Km X 2.5Km .. it's from Mexico .. Leon area ... track is for rally car ...lenght is around 5Km ...it's a real track .. created from satellite images ... that comes from a WIP for a new game that will be on Steam in next few weeks ..
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Looks great and thanks for info

 

Cool, looks nice, may I ask what your game is, could you share a link?

 

I will do as soon as game is live in the next few weeks ...

 

Can this tool used be used to make rivers that will always flow downhill, whilst still conforming to the terrain and natural looking?

 

Of course ...that's for a realistic river ...and even the edges will be natural and always the same profile like in a road

 

Nice, so I take it will work togheter with Gaia and then update the clutter map to fit the road? So now both the textures blend and levels the road but also the vegetation? Great stuff

 

working on optimitazion for offroad terrain trying to give more realism .. the below does not use any shader to resolve z-fighting issue and give a realistic shape to the road

 

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Looks great

 

Looks good One thing do, in the picture about the road intersecting the mountain - at the edge the. Is it the road part that does the blend our outside of road? If it is the road path the spike is a bit of a problem as it would cause mayhem on a race track, but if it's the outside terrain that "blends" or smooths then it is ok

 

If you are pointing the left top side edge of the mesh, I put that there to show how it can wrap the terrain following the shape

 

Thanks for reply If you see the picture, the area highlights; Is that part of the road or the terrain? What I mean, if it's the road, shouldn't that blend happend one polygon to the left and not on the road? If the road get's uneven it is a bit of a problem.

 

Yes .. I did that .. it won't happen .. .
I shifted the mesh to left side to see how follow terrain shape ..if you see other points and even other picture there is not that .... anyway thank you to point that .. I agree with you

 

Please release it now

 

we are really close to the release ...it's gonna be in April ...

 

Tying to push quality with easy workflow ..

 

I know that blending on the tread marks looking too straight (no blending) so it's a bit unnatural. But I like this view.

 

Looks promising. Keep up the outstanding work!

 

Hello everyone..
I am really focused on close beta package working 12 hours per day .. but it's so exciting and I look forward to releaseing ..but I am not updating the trello project ...I apologize for that ...
I prefer to share here with all progress ...
Adding multi tile terrain support ...I am trying to automize that in case you add new terrain or change any setting related to the lanscape .. so I am going to introduce an automatica manager for "Sentieri Landscale" that will sync all the information reducing to the minimum any need for manual operation to dynamically handle multi tile terrain,,

 

Cool!

 

Trying to push perfomance up .....
2.5Km x 2.5Km .. just fix 2 points ..see a purple dotted line, keep your eyes on that.. .and let's rock ...

 

To anyone watching the video, I'd recommend watching full-screen. I couldn't tell what was going on in the embedded video, since the purple line is hard to see. Seeing the purple line (route) change instantly is pretty impressive!

 

Lake and rivers network ....welcome to Sentieri World ...

 

That looks lovely! Do you have any screenshots or video showing how roads join together? Your roads look great, but I haven't seen any junctions yet. How would this handle a junction with 4 or 5 roads, all at different angles?

 

Looks very good! Remember to have some tutorial videos ready at launch for us retards on how to use the tool(s)

 

Hi Antonio
Still looking great! If you're still taking applicants, please add me to your beta list! I was thinking about this asset while mountain biking earlier -- yeah, you know where I was going ;-)
Is Terrain Composer 2 integration still a thing? I assume if not, Sentieri would be able to path/trail/etc on the output from TC2? (Assuming it's not changing dynamically!)
Thanks and keep up the good work!