Games [WIP] Sanctuary (on Steam) - Inspired by Total Annihilations, Supcom, Zero-k games (DOTS, HDRP)

Some little unit showcase



And some art

 

We are experimenting with new props like trees, and rocks and our new rendering pipeline for many thousands of these props on the RTS maps.

Which results in much more pleasant look than previous approach.

 

Even without the props sanctuary's terrain is looking really great. Is this just HDRP + PBR textures + High detail heightmaps? Or are you using special tricks? (like decals, or detail/distance noise, assetstore stuff like microsplat or gaia?)

 

We do not use any assets like Gaia.
It isn't sustainable solution for us. We need to be able dynamically crate and remove props at the runtime.

We developed our inhous DOTS +HDRP solution. We also have our custom shaders and impostors.

We have height maps and decals for terrains.

We also have some tricks in our arm sleavs.

 

Our community fans making some maps, using our map editor.

 

Another audio track

Sanctuary OST - IVY

 

@Antypodish, what i like most about this project is seeing the teams efforts (audio, models, animation, concept, etc.), as working with a team can be a great thing, and your showing that

 

Thx for the kind of word @warthos3399.
Indeed, having great team is such crucial.
We have range of brilliant minds, from C# DOTS, lua. web devs, audio composer, 3D to 2D artists.
And not to miss social media marketer, community (including patreons) and community managers, and founders themselves. I probably missed some

Combined, many decades in game dev, software and engineering fields.

 

Our Monthly update video with StealSpeaks for the month of October 2022 is out!

Shattered Sun Dev Progress StealSpeaks Interview with tatsu, Antypodish & our gusest KxXxxx
(Hallowing edition)

 

Amazing work!

 

Many thx

We got some examples of wapoints work with raycast

 

We are excited to announce that we have just released our Coming Soon Sanctuary Shattered Sun on Steam page

I would love to say BIG thank you for the support from the Unity given to date. You are amazing!!!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1699050/Sanctuary_Shattered_Sun/

This is a massive mile stone for us.

 

Love it bro, good for you guys, best of luck!

 

@warthos3399 many thx for the support

Today I would like to share some of our 3 factions arts.
Although, these are stil WIP.

EDA
https://trello.com/b/hyVT3RmP/eda-arts


Chosen
https://trello.com/b/bQ0NUzXO/chosen-arts


Guard
https://trello.com/b/bjNekhWA/guard-arts

 

The last SS is gripping and draws attention, like the shadow and texture work.

 

I love that model factor too
We have tested some animations in the past. Something to spend hrs to lock eyes on

 

We have released YT full trailer, which also is on Steam

 

Well, nothing hard in performant grass for RTS In ours we have chunked grass renderers, where geometry of grass calculated in compute shader and then

Graphics.DrawProceduralIndirect

where shader uses populated by compute shader buffer of triangles, it's fastest grass rendering approach. And compute shader just doing culling on generation depends on distance from camera, not just clipping but fading height of grass blade over distance and just not calculating anything (early our) after some range from camera. And additional culling happens by default based on grass chunk bounds. Latest step of improvement - generate grass blades not by distance from camera (simplest approach but still even at our scale - that's enough) but do frustum culling on generation in compute shader and also utilise depth buffer and do depth culling.







There is one of many examples
https://github.com/ellioman/Indirect-Rendering-With-Compute-Shaders

 

I am really glad to see you, poping into this thread @eizenhorn.

Thank you very much for the detailed description about the grass. Compute shader may be indeed the best approach. I will forward your post to our shader magjcian.

Sinceb in Diplomacy Is Not An Option you have procedurally generated maps, do you use some form of generated hightmap, based on noise, to automatically define, where grass should be?

One thing I will need to ask my team, is the fact we have units which leaves land tracks. Wondering, if having grass over them, would not break visual aspect. Having grass being flattened where tracks were left maybe interesting, but also not sure about the performance side.

Either way, thx for the grat input.

 

Your tracks is already sampled to texture (or bunch or texture chunks) and you always can calculate grass blade world position and sample required tracks map and use that information to check if blade should be flattened.

About grass in our case, for ground I wrote triplanar shader and blending use perline noise function directly in shader, and compute shader responsible for grass generation can sample world pos and get result from the same utility function, eventually our triplanar shader blends two textures for “ground” level by perlin generated in utility function, and as result grass appears only in places where we see one of our blended ground textures, this is why when you zoom out you still see “outline” area of grass which is just a texture but without grass itself.

 

Our fan made list of units so far, for each of 3 factions.

 

Hi everyone in 2023!
Thx for supporting Sanctuary project up to date.
Our team continue to work on Sanctuary.
We are having some Kickstarter planning this year. However date to be yet announced.

Today on the plate I would like to present another pieace of our soundtrack:

Sanctuary OST - Duty Bound

 

Love it, sounds really good

 

Thx, I will forward your kind words to our music composer

 

Our mapper Kiliax is continue work on maps.
Here is some progress.

 

Looks really good, love the textures...

 

Land bridge zoomout WIP

Filling up map 5km x 5km with trees.

100 000 Impostor Trees | Work In Progress

https://v.redd.it/s7cvius7tq7a1/DASH_96.mp4

 

Im interested in the 100,000 imposter trees, what did you use for imposters?.

 

We have custom solution for that, from our shader magician
We have correct lighting and shadows, but nanite has advantage over our solution which is overdrawing reduction.

We have instancing on CPU side and pushing things for rendering to GPU.
We leverage our performance of trees with DOTS. Specially culling.

Some of our earlier tests of trees. Can you spot impostors?

 

I love it, nice idea, DOTS for culling

 

January behind the scene interview, with our devs and StealSpeak.

 

Here is another track of ours.

Sanctuary: Shattered Sun OST - Enemy Sighted

 

We have recently released an interview with Brad Rebh, formal Lead Designer of Supreme Commander : Forged Alliance

 

this looks amazing, it's a legit AAA - title, could be on both Xbox, and Playstation . . .

 

Thank you for a kind words.
Yet we are just a small team, less than 20 at this time. So far from AAA quality.

Regarding console platforms, it is far too early for us to even consider them.
There are few show stoppers for consoles.

First, competitive RTS doesn't work on consoles. You need access to keyboard, where you got fast access to shortcuts, while playing.

Second, it is modding support. Consoles are utterly awful for that reason. Which separates Desktop and Consoles community.

You can see the effect in case of minecraft as an example.

 

well, it's an amazing graphics // think you deserve a hit - title, also it looks fun, it's more rare to see amazing graphics, and also fun - stuff . . .

 

10 / 10, not sure you have also support for 4 vs 4 online stuff // spectator - mode, for people that also do commentary, and then others play, think seen it on the best-ever StarCraft . . .

you have something amazing there, it could be an important RTS - classic . . . .

 

We are planning for supporting on release up to 8 players.
Hence any combination of P(s) vs P(s).
We would like to support spec mode too. But it is too early in dev, to have any more details.

We hope quietly too. But it is not our main priority.
We have a team with very dedication and passion to this project.

We have great artists magicians.

 

One of our fellow youtubers Willow's Duality
reviewing Sanctuary progress

 

This made me think of something, how different people are in video - game publishing, or goals . . .

For me, it's mostly to tell a cool // heroic story, however for your title it's more to make a new idea // tribute, over some older game called ' Total Annihilation ', or ' Supreme Commander ', not sure the names are right, think that's a really cool idea, and the RTS - genre is very important, also what you're making here looks really good, or could be either fun, or have an amazing setting // lore - culture, or then various tactics // if-when responses . . . .

Looks amazing, also latest video has a ton of nice details for the fans // multi - player hard core stuff . . . .

10 / 10 review, at least from me at this point // super - cool graphics, also design . . . .

No way to give negative feedback, or more criticism, need to at at least try the content, however as it is looks really promising, and might also support that Kickstarter . . . .

 

Some of our WIP models, of Chosen faction.

 

these look amazing, have to admit you have an AAA - hit here, it might be a small e - sports gem . . .

think if this also had 1 - 2 hours of cinematic story, perhaps like the StarCraft - stuff, it'd be mega - cool, anyway making high - quality both ' movies ', and also writing is quite difficult, even making a core video - game this good is a challenge, anyway think of writing a really interesting, or then far - out science fiction story, and it might make the content better, however it's tricky stuff, also need a really good writer . . .

you have something really amazing here, the updates alone almost make it a wishlist ( 100 % ), and if there's e - sports it might be really cool to get season 1, season 2 units, or also updates . . . .

 

We got lore in works already.
Some older version of it is placed on our webpage.

https://www.sanctuaryshatteredsun.com/story

However, we have no plans at this point, to make any long cinematics.

 

alright, it's also quite difficult, and requires pro mo - cap, or quite high - detailed 3D stuff . . .

looking at the content so far, think either the 1. Final Fantasy - stuff, or then 2. Crysis - look could be quite nice for a few cinematics, either that sci - fi stuff, or more cyber - soldier against an army, anyway just got bit ideas, looking at the work already . . .

 

wow, read the lore, that's super - cool, it's something want to also learn more about, amazing setting, or idea . . .

if could make one perhaps idea, maybe make a fourth group called the ' Rebels ', ' Scavenger - Lost ', or perhaps a more rag - tag force, and that has more ' improvised ', or more cheap equipment, that also have their own goals, it's of course amazing work, however think the half - militia, or more ' guerilla ' side is also cool, and could have specific units that make bit more sense that way . . .

 

For any suggestions like such, you join our Sanctuary Shattered Sun discord channel.

https://discord.com/invite/sanctuaryshatteredsun

You can share the ideas and see others members suggestions, as I won't be tracking them here.

 

Some of our WIP works:

 

this looks amazing // almost a Matrix - quality title, think it's going to be quite a hit, at least the graphics, also animation is perhaps 10 rating, very cool stuff . . .

 

Thx vintage, our artists does indeed some crazy magic with tools they have in hand.
Animations obviously, takes extra time from our artists. But we steadily moving onwards

 

Our team another interview with youtuber StealSpeaks

Sanctuary: Shattered Sun Dev Progress Interview w/nine2 & Special_Bread February 2023