Simple Town, Military, People, Zombies, Cars, Building and more ...

cool

 

Also just a note - Simple Military is now a minimum of Unity 4.5 due to some mechanim features being missing from 4.0

 

In assetstore its still. Version: 1.0 (May 06, 2015) Size: 8.8 MB

 

@gozdagb - Yep, the update is almost finished (then add unity submission time) the post was an update on the update should have made that clearer.

 

Hello, thanks for fixing the roads on the Simple Town; but I found the issue persists on the "roadLane_straight_mesh". Just a heads up that's all (I intend on using it soon but in no hurry). Thanks!

 

@Liam_B - Thx, will check that out.

 

Simple military, update, when?

 

Any Progress or ETA on the new kits?
I'm very interested to see the Airport kit, any teasers you can show?

 

@gozdagb - The character animation is all working and now it is just a matter of updating the demo scene, adding a medic truck, recreating the character prefabs, updating the store media and then finally submitting (that will be today)

@JohnRossitter - Once Simple Military is submitted we (there are 2 of us) can both focus on Simple Airport, so far it's going to be a pretty sweet pack, the plans are looking awesome. There is a preview on the previous page)
We plan to also include 5 characters in the airport pack -
Pilot
Flight Attendant
Airport Security
Airport Worker
Airport Office Worker

SIMPLE PROP UPDATE LIVE

Version 1.01
- Removed extra folders
- Added Unity 5 version

 

SIMPLE MILITARY UPDATE SUBMITTED [Pending Review]
Version 1.1
Vehicles
- Added medic truck (x3 variations)
- Separated all wheels on vehicles
Buildings
- Added Guard tower
Props
- Added broken concrete walls x2
Animations
- Changed the way guns are animated (with the character)
- Walking/Running with weapons animation
- Stationary animations version with no root motion (Walk and Run)
- Look up, down, left, right
- Body orientation
- Add Mini gun animations
- FPS hands (with demo scene)
Weapons - Added mini gun

We linked the asset viewer in the Simple Military description (see image) so we have a few days to work out any bugs. We will no doubt post a link here before the update goes live. (stay tuned)

FPS Demo scene -
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/34497

 

SIMPLE MILITARY UPDATE RELEASED ON THE ASSET STORE

note that the asset viewer will show Simple people (was expecting more time to finish it)

 

SIMPLE MILITARY:

Hey, great work.

The weapon change is great, it is much easier to use now, but it could still use walk/run animation with weapons.
Few days ago when i asked this, i meant that, i feel like there should be a animation or at least a pose, with specified weapons, for walking/running.

Edit: Found it, my bad.

Thanks.

 

Hi,

The 'readme.txt' file has some info about this (I know we will get this question heaps), each weapon animation will require a new Body_Horivontal_f and Body_Vertical_f value for Idle, Walk and Run

I am just putting the finishing touches on the asset viewer - this will give a better representation of what it would look like in a game.

See the Body Vertical offset

 

Hey, thanks for the fast reply, i looked at your Animator Controller, and now i see it. I have made my own Controller, that is why i missed it.

 

We have 2 copies of the yet to be released Simple Airport asset pack up for grabs.

Enter by posting the below image on Facebook and Twitter with the link to the Synty studios asset page (see below) and the hash tag #SyntyStudios

Winners drawn on the release of Simple Airport (approx.1st August)

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/publisher/5217
_______________________________________________________________________________________________
@b4c5p4c3, @VicCorvalan, @cybervaldez, @M4ns3, @UnleadedGames, @b16tran, @nuonical, @uk4dee, @pointsam, @Devision4, @paulojsam, @streetjustice, @im, @OnePxl, @someunityguy, @wdwitte, @jandesen, @shopguy, @Darkcoder, @LongJohn, @ZJP, @Vapid Linus, @Roachie, @dojoman, @ravynware, @tavza, @imphy, @smokegun, @DiNoGames, @Orepheus, @Vagaldindo, @Safebox, @andyz, @jdiperla, @biggbest, @ei8htbit, @sefou, @redchurch, @mdotstrange, @mdotstrange, @flyingmate, @someunityguy, @nathantran, @GreenBoxInteractive, @jeremiasz, @schmosef, @achristner81, @Shavik, @jaloxin, @w34edrtfg, @JohnRossitter, @acheronf, @LukeAntonissen, @Mooshoo Labs, @Aishiteru, @Cnc96, @revoxcs, @shiva.js, @davespjut, @Asl, @Maulwurfmann, @vinsanity68, @skrad, @gozdagb, @JBacal, @Shavik, @Macro, @w34edrtfg, @Liam_B

 

airport, airport, airport ... did I say AIRPORT?

 

We will be submitting Simple Airport at the end of the weekend, so far we have 10 characters (x3 skin colors) -
- Pilot 01
- Pilot 02
- Flight Attendant Female
- Flight Attendant Male
- Airport Security
- Airport Worker 01
- Airport Worker 02
- Businessman 02
- Tourist 02
- Cleaner

The rest of the pack is looking AMAZING! get in on the Simple Airport competition while you can!

 

Hi,

This is my first game in unity, and I used your amazing assets

Play:
http://www.thegrook.com/operation-deimos/?id=,M3bpRWd0NXe05Wez5CZzkHdp5Wdu0Wdy9mZ

or Watch:

What do you think?

 

I like it.
It took me a minute to realize what I was doing, but once I understood what was going on, I had fun.
Great Job

 

@itzikpel - Awesome! It would be cooler if you could control the speed at which the camera is moving (maybe a left and right arrow) as it is super slow atm. But otherwise a cool little game

 

That's great.

You should include health or ammo bonuses after getting X amount of headshots. Or a kill streak counter that increments until you miss, that would keep me playing longer!

There is also quite a bit of lag on my Nexus 6. Seems to happen when more than one terrorist shoots for the first time.

 

Simple Airport - Characters
like always, each character has 3 versions
We are working on the rest of Simple Airport and will post screens tomorrow.

Also we will release a free pack Simple Sky

 

great preview!

 

Simple Sky(free) - Submitted

 

Sweet! Thanks for this!

 

We have 2 copies of the yet to be released Simple Airport asset pack up for grabs.

Enter by posting the below image on Facebook and Twitter with the link to the Synty studios asset page (see below) and the hash tag #SyntyStudios

Winners drawn on the release of Simple Airport (approx.1st August)

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/publisher/5217
_______________________________________________________________________________________________
@b4c5p4c3, @VicCorvalan, @cybervaldez, @M4ns3, @UnleadedGames, @b16tran, @nuonical, @uk4dee, @pointsam, @Devision4, @paulojsam, @streetjustice, @im, @OnePxl, @someunityguy, @wdwitte, @jandesen, @shopguy, @Darkcoder, @LongJohn, @ZJP, @Vapid Linus, @Roachie, @dojoman, @ravynware, @tavza, @imphy, @smokegun, @DiNoGames, @Orepheus, @Vagaldindo, @Safebox, @andyz, @jdiperla, @biggbest, @ei8htbit, @sefou, @redchurch, @mdotstrange, @mdotstrange, @flyingmate, @someunityguy, @nathantran, @GreenBoxInteractive, @jeremiasz, @schmosef, @achristner81, @Shavik, @jaloxin, @w34edrtfg, @JohnRossitter, @acheronf, @LukeAntonissen, @Mooshoo Labs, @Aishiteru, @Cnc96, @revoxcs, @shiva.js, @davespjut, @Asl, @Maulwurfmann, @vinsanity68, @skrad, @gozdagb, @JBacal, @Shavik, @Macro, @w34edrtfg, @Liam_B

 

I posted to my Facebook and Twitter, but my twitter is @Materializer

 

We will be searching the hashtag #SyntyStudios to find entries (we found yours)

 

Right on, well in either case, I'm super excited to try the new kit(s) out, I have already carved out some space in my world for them

 

I know it's the more the merrier and all, but come on, this is a direct item for item clone of your work:
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/42075

 

Hello!

I recently bought simple town and I am getting ready to buy some other packs too.

I'm curious about why you separate the road mesh into 2 instead of using 1 large mesh. I found another mesh that 'could' be used in the middle of 2 road part, but the line doesn't match in size, so I cannot use it to make a larger road.

Am I missing something ?

BTW.
I would love to see some store awnings to be able to customize further the city layout.

[EDIT]
Just saw the simple buildings and they have the awnings

BTW2.
I would love to see other types of food store, despite burguer/donuts/icecream.

 

I thought I would put up some screenshots of my project for ya.
This is being rendered with CurvedWorld as well

 

OMG WTF - we thought their other packs were close but really. Time to contact Unity!
More the merrier is not true in this case, if they steal our customers we wont be able to support existing assets or produce new ones.

P.S. Looks great, I've always wanted to try CurvedWorld

@MalachiteBR - We will get back to you once we sort out this cloning business.

 

My thoughts exactly.
I mean there is inspiration and there is opportunistically taking some ones else's success and trying to profit from the ground work they already laid.

It would be one thing if they were making new types of environments, but what is the value in this?

 

Thanks for your support John!
We have fired off a few emails but will also ring Unity as soon as their doors open. I'm sure they will take action as this would look bad for Unity if they allow someone to direct item for item clone others work.

 

Are you on the asset publishers Google group?

 

no, would this help?
Sounds like it's invite only :S Are you on the group?

 

Yeah.
Send me a pm

 

Simple Military, excellent

 

@JohnRossitter awesome! How to did get curvedWorld running? They are Shader right? Or Camera Effect? IF Shader do you need to apply them on all objects?!?

 

@Devision4 - https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/26165

 

Hey ! Thank, again, for all those nice assets ^^

Regarding the "SimpliCity" packs, is it really something you can fight against ? Since of course every 3D modeler would want to make those kind of packs, I do want my-self if I had time :-/

Well, thank you again, the military pack is awesome. By the way I hope you know that the day you'll release an RPG pack will be awesome ?!

 

It's a shader library, not a camera or post effect.

The new version (Came out yesterday) is a lot easier to use. It's a 2 step process, first you re-assign all of the shaders you are using for your materials to ones that are compatible with Curved World. They ship a TON of them with the package including versions of the standard shader, but they also have simple instructions for updating any existing shaders to support it. The next step is to add a curved world master controller to your camera, which controls the overall curvature applied to the scene.

Overall, the integration was painless, it took me about an hour to convert my scenes over. But the package does ship with a TON of shaders, so expect a LONG import of the package itself.

 

Before you read this, let me make it clear, I do not work for Synty...I'm just a fellow asset publisher who is concerned about the trends of the asset store as of late.

I don't think the issue at hand is that of making assets in the similar style. What's going on here is a blatant copy of the kits. I want to be very careful and state, it's not a copy of the geometry and or textures, they are obviously making new meshes, but they are taking the kits made by synty and cloning each piece of it and styling it, shading it and marketing it so that there is confusion in the market.

You have to think about it from the perspective of an asset publisher.

We spend months and month working on a package for the Asset Store. We do research on the market, looking at pricing models, customer needs and all sorts of things. Then we make the asset itself, do the modeling, design, testing, beta feedback, marketing...all in all a considerable investment.....If we are lucky we will make an asset that people like and catches on. If we are even luckier, we will break even on the time we spent making the kit(s).

So you can imagine what it's like to wake up one day and see that someone has cloned all of the end result of your hard work, packaged it to look just like yours and even named them very similar.

They are taking advantage of your success.
It's just like Flappy Birds/crossy roads clones. There is no innovation just sheer greed and a desire to make a profit based on someone else's research and hard work.

Is it against the rules? No.
Is it ethical, No
Is it a a$$h0le move?....well...that's for you to decide.

 

Unfortunately, this is just the nature of the business and time period we're in.

I've read the book 'Gamers At Work' some time ago. It's about the pioneers who created some of what's today's biggest studios and hit games. I remember how 9/10 stories in that book involved ripping someone off. For instance, the guys who made Civilization tell how they copied the game (including the name) from a board game. The guy even says he had to apologize to the original creator and trick him into signing a contract where he promised that every copy of the game would have a coupon inside for the Civilization board game. They guy goes further and says that if the original creator insisted in a royalty deal he would have made millions.

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The name 'SimpliCity' compared to 'Simple City' is an obvious attempt to confuse the customer and that's indeed illegal according to trademark rules. So the publisher has basis here to take the other one down.

That said, this low poly and shading style was also based on the work of an artist who also spend a great deal of work on it and it was now turned it into an asset. Again, it's all about where you draw your moral line.

 

Yeah, like I said, it's not technically "against the rules", but it's just a lousy thing to do.
What gets me is that NoirFX, does actually make some great kits. I don't know why they don't just either continue the style they are making or make more low poly kits that are original environments. They are hurting their own reputation and brand just to make a quick buck.

 

Hi John !
I totally aggree, I was just wondering what was the real problem with those kits, but now I understand of course.
So this publisher should refactor the way it sells those kits I guess... Whatever, that was just a side question.

By the way John, nice screenshots, CurvedWorld looks amazing, I was looking for this kind of asset some years ago, without any success...

 

Thanks!
Yeah I had purchased Curved World back in Feb of this year but was unable to use it until the release the just put out yesterday. I'm very pleased with it, and it actually gained me FPS to use it

 

Ah ah Quite simple to make a kind of sphere walkable world ?

 

Yes!
You just make your world as you normally would.
Then apply their shaders and master control script.
You specify the curvature amount you want applied to the scene, and its done.
You can do a slight curve like I did in the photos I posted, or you can go nuts and make a complete sphere.
Remember, this is just shader magic, no geometry or physics are changing, just they way the camera renders the existing stuff.