work in progress : new level : Scardeep

-My goal was to contrast more than usual to discern a maximum light and shadows (because the story). I tried to use lightmaps, but in addition to "illuminate" dark spaces, I encountered problem with vegetation integration.
I like some art from ted nasmith, but my preference go to artworks like this : http://maciejkuciara.com/

To heavy I think, maybe a download version with a big warning : good computer needed

Again a big thank to Michell O, Jacal, tomaszek for their contribution on the asset store.

thanks !

 

Wow, that's an amazing result! Congratulations! It would be amazing to explore in VR, hope you get a chance to hook it up one day.

I didn't think your dark areas were too dark, but they did lack contrast. Your level looks stunning in the light, but when the entire scene was in shadow (like at the start of your HD video) it starts feeling flat. There are interesting rocks and a bridge, but nothing to draw that out. Ambient occlusion or complex bounce simulations is normally used to tease details out of low light conditions, but not sure if either are applicable here.

 

I absolutely LOVE the abnormal rock formations you have created. Not even to mention the other stunning elements of the level, those cliffs / mountains are so beautiful, they pull me away from reality and put me right in that fantasy world. Well done!

 

Thanks, I'm curious to test with oculus
I don't used lightmaps, because I encountered problems with vegetation integration. I have to check how to solve this conflict.

I'm happy that this world pull you away from reality. It means that my goal is reached ;P

 

so you going to make webplayer?

 

Why not make a game out of this? It's just strictly beautiful. You can make an awesome game with this. Maybe you can set up a team and make an RPG? I'd play it so much.

 

No, it's too heavy.

I don't know what kind of game I can do with this. Maybe something more like "dear esther", a story with clues and ambiance.

 

Extremely awesome map you have made here. It seems that every single project you do turns out to become perfect art.

If you need to distribute this. I have unlimited bandwidth hosting for the projects I'm doing, no problem to host your files there as well (could give you some interface to control/revision/etc if you like). You could also go for a standard file hoster of course.

But PLEASE don't leave us in the dark. I would LOVE to walk/fly around in the map!

 

Thx, I'll create a demo and pm you when it is ready.

 

Really incredible work...I am doing similar work but only photographic 2D for a point and click game
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/190298-Point-and-Click-Adventure-Kit

Would you ever consider selling the finished asset?

 

Really great work man you have even improved upon your previous submissions with this newest one. You are surely taking it to the next level.

For all of us that would love to even remotely attempt to follow in your footsteps, can we have a laundry list of assets you are using. Not only models and such but terrain plugins, etc. Is this the asset you are using when painting textures to the terrain? https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#/content/5664

Do you get all the textures you paint with from the asset store? Free texture website perhaps?

For the trees and grass etc, are you using this asset? https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/#/content/1021 if so or if not which ones are you using?

What kind of assets if any are you using for the skybox, lighting and post processing effects on the camera to get that final beautiful result in your render screenshots?

Do you use any custom brushes with the terrain editor in unity?

What size terrain do you usually start with dimensions wise? For say when you are working with Zbrush/Mudbox then the World program? What size is the terrain when you get the heightmap into Unity?

Any and all insights to the tools and assets your using from terrain/painting/models/FX/plugins/Unity Extensions/Environment/Skybox's anything would be awesome man.

Keep up the kick ass work.

 

He confirmed that this is the asset he uses for the painting.

 

OMG! This is amazing!!! Keep up the awesome work!

 

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I can't. I'm using assets coming asset store, and I can't sell the work of other people

 

botumys, honestly you are amazing man. I really appreciate you taking the time to answer all those questions I had, you covered everything and no joke, i just have such a smile on my face because you were so open to share with us what assets you specifically are using and the covering every question. I appreciate you man and cant wait to see what you come up with next. Consider me inspired.

 

Would you mind making a standalone? I would love to see more of this!

 

Wow. Just... wow. I've been following this thread for a while now, and you never cease to amaze me. Amazing work.

 

OMG!!!!

 

thx

It's the plan. I just want to add some sounds and blockers.

 

Hello !

Here's the demo, I added sounds for fun.
Test the demo :

http://sdrv.ms/1bZEWSR
or
http://game.irilys.eu/unity3d/scardeepDemo.zip


ps : A good computer is needed, forget laptops.

 

Gonna test it right away! In Max Quality with a 3d screen...

Edit: Looking damn good!

 

3d screen don't work (I have 3d vision here and there is glitches with shadows)

if you have 5.1, turn it on

 

The shadows are working fine (Tridef3D). However if I look to the sky, there is some ghosting that is not there if you don't use 3d. And I did manage to fall at some points making it unable to return to the previous point. I also have some scripts you could use to fix little things like: only hear walking sounds when grounded, hide the cursor, small head bobbing, etc.

edit: I also have a checkpoint system if you like. Furthermore, I really think the sounds give a good feeling to the whole scene.

 

There is the 'r' key to reset position, but in next build, I'll add waypoints (and fix walking sound in the air, hide cursor and add bobbing too )

 

Everything you do is amazing!
Do you do this professionally?

 

At work I worked for CG movies, and I'm actually on the Android/IOS game for our next movie (The house of magic/nwave digital).
I create world like this by passion.
Do you tried the demo ?

 

Yes I tried it, I absolutely love it!
I'm currently searching for a way to the castle on the mountaintop

Some notes tho:
there are some stairs that are aligned a bit off with the stone walls, so they intersect each-other
When looking at mountains from a distance there seems to be something weird going on: if I look towards the sky the mountains look great, however if I look directly at the mountains they seem to have some stripes of sort. (If you want I can take screenshots)

I think it would be amazing if you were to design levels for some RPG. Keep up the good work!

 

of course, if you find bugs/glitches, you can screenshot them for fix.

 

When I look up it looks good:

But when I look directly at it, it looks like this:



And the stair I mentioned:
Close up:

From distance (to identify the spot):

 

For the black lines I suspect ambiant occlusion.
For stairs, it's a problem with occlusion culling, normally , there is a wall and pillar to hide this jonctions.
Thanks for your help!

 

Could you build a mac version and upload it?

 

I'll do that

for the stairs: I checked and it is not occ culling. They are simply not to correct position. I'll fix that in next build.

 

amazing

 

Quality AAA. And really wasn't expecting the scary sounds. Scared the crap out of me the first time

Also, can you point me to some good tutorials regarding how to reduce the draw calls in scenes ?
I really struggle with them.

 

Thanks, I don't have tutorial in mind, just a lot of info on this forum.
There is points to be careful :
-Try to use fewer materials as possible, try to share the same map/material to many objects
-Complex shaders raise draw call
-use static and dynamic batching
-Terrain engine explode draw call if you don't care about : pixel error, detail distance and density, tree distance/bilboards.
-Use occlusion culling
-Lightmaps reduce drawcall by replacing distant shadows by a backed light.
-Real reflective water kill frame rate
and a lot of other things.

 

I knew about some of them, others I will have to test them in my game. Thanks for the help.

Also, is there any way I can use that stronghold / fortress asset you are using in your fantasy world demo ?
I need something like that for the final map in my game as a prop.

 

Hey, great work and inspiring even!!

One idea/suggestion... since so few benchmarks exist for Unity, put in an optional frame counter. I have an Asus G75VX that handled this at 1080p on Fantastic with no issues.

By the way, when you head down into the lowest part of the map (stairways heading waaay down, there is a gap between one of the buildings and the cave walls.

 

I've got 0 clue how i managed to not find this thread for so long, but this does look totally good!

 

Thanks, I'll add fps counter. The gap is in the big pit ?

Merci !

 

Hello !

Here's an update for the demo:

pc version : http://game.irilys.eu/unity3d/scardeepDemo.zip
mac version : http://game.irilys.eu/unity3d/scardeepDemoMac.zip
linux version : http://game.irilys.eu/unity3d/scardeepDemoLinux.zip

-You can now set a waypoint with "p" and respawn with "r"
-I added head movement and new step sounds.
-Lighting updated.
-added fps counter.

 

Is this for sell later?
(Don't mind paying for reasonable price)

 

Hard to say, a lot of stuff coming from asset store.

 

Mudbox doesn't run on my computer or I could do this stuff....

 

Looks stunning, but I'm having some problems with the demo. The terrain seems to be very low-resolution, like this:



This is on an iMac, OSX 10.8.2, with NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M 512 MB graphics. Happens on all graphics settings. I'm thinking it's probably a problem with my computer. Other than that, though, it's a very beautiful level, excellent work!

 

Hello all,

Finally, I've got my Oculus dev kit!
The first thing I did is of course to convert Scardeep for it

If you are one of the happy owner of this device,

You can download the demo for OC here : http://game.irilys.eu/unity3d/scardeep_OC.zip

notes :
-change resolution to 1280/800 manually, I forgot to set correct resolution by default :/
-a good computer is needed
-some LOD objects are not set correctly

 

awesome!! just downloading it!

 

Same here. iMac OSX 10.8.4 with Geforce 680MX 2GB graphics.

 

I'm using a special shader for the ground, I'll ask to the creator if there is a fix for mac.

 

Hi, I added open gl for mac version:

Test the demo :
pc version : http://game.irilys.eu/unity3d/scardeepDemo.zip
mac version : http://game.irilys.eu/unity3d/scardeepDemoMac.zip

Oclus Demo:

pc version : http://game.irilys.eu/unity3d/scardeep_OC.zip
mac version : http://game.irilys.eu/unity3d/scardeep_OC_mac.zip