Cool images for the Unity3d.com gallery

Maybe "generator" isn't the right word; you still have to model and texture the objects manually. Rocks are no different from plants; I just haven't made any rocks yet. It's just a way to put lots and lots of objects on the terrain in a persistent manner (location, rotation, scale, and object type are all controlled), while taking a relatively small amount of time. That said, it would still take a while to populate entire square kilometers, unless you copy pasted over and over. So the next step is some sort of fractal generator that takes certain parameters and generates appropriate vegetation patterns...don't know if I have the ability to do that, though, and anyway I have to stop fiddling with it or I'll never get my games done.

(The bark is from a tree in my back yard, which is where the branch is from too. In fact, all the textures are from my yard, except the grass, which is from across the road, and the clouds, which were generated with POV-Ray using a cloud script that I modified somewhat.)

--Eric

 

Hey Eric-I like it a lot! Any chance of a fps walkround?
AC

 

Only if someone has about 9MB of web space to donate (someday I'll have a decent amount of my own...). Also, I'd prefer to wait for the mesh joiner script so performance would be better. (I have a pretty good idea how to make one, but why bother when OTEE's already done it, and much better no doubt? ) Thanks though!

--Eric

 

I thought the mesh joiner script was in 1.5. Why wait when it's already there?

 

I think the mesh joiner is part of 1.5.1 freyr. Eric (or anyone else), if you need a spot to host something just PM me and I'll gladly host a link for an indefinite period. I'm allowed plenty of Gigs of bandwidth a month and there's no reason not to share them with people that need it at the moment. Just let me know.

 

nice eric! good looking stuff.

the capability to write a mesh joiner script is in 1.5. doing so is another story. joe said he hoped to get his grass script in 1.5.1. here's to hoping yog shares too

 

Some neat images from my space game.

 

Yep, they're neat, though the nitpicker in me feels compelled to point out that spot light-type effects are the result of light bouncing off particles in the atmosphere, something which is notoriously lacking in space. But sometimes artistic license trumps realism I suppose....

--Eric

 

Yeah I though about that, but it just too cool to not put in.

 

OK, so I've spent the last couple of weeks learning how to do mesh stuff from scripting and generally upgrading my (increasingly mis-named) Veg-O-Tron 3000 to the point where it's somewhat usable in a real project, though it's still missing a few features I want.

Right now it makes combined meshes on the fly and has two levels of detail, and to some extent avoids the annoying "pop!" effect you sometimes get with LOD stuff. But it really needs a third one built on top of that. Currently the main difference between high and low LOD is the number of polygons...well, duh, and granted it's a big difference, but the combined meshes for the low detail object groups should be further combined (as they typically have 50-250 polygons). This should improve speed a fair bit as there are still quite a lot of objects on-screen, depending on how far the view distance is set.

I also need to add in Joachim's cool grass script, though I'd be a bit concerned about frame rate issues until I get that third LOD in there. (It can sometimes get down to 50fps at the moment, which sounds OK except I'd like slower machines to have a chance of getting decent framerates without having to lower the resolution/quality settings by too much.)

I'll probably release a web player or stand-alone in a couple of days, or whenever I get tired of tweaking it.

Pic 1: At the edge of a forest.
Pic 2: Hmm, wonder what's over that wall....
Pic 3: Does that path go anywhere interesting or not?

--Eric

 

Looks cool eric. Keep up the neet work guys. Jeff

 

cool stuff eric!

 

Jeez, those shots look really good!

 

A screenshot from blender, of a Track, from my racing game...

 

eh.. thats called text.. not a screenshot :roll:

 

Somehow I guess the attachment failed. Please try again.

 

That's kinda odd... It shows up on my computer...

I'll edit it now...

 

I still don't see it.

 

It's a TIFF file... could that be part of the problem? Might want to try jpg instead.

-Jon

 

Only safari can display inline tiff images. Yoggy, which browser are you using?

 

Camino. I tried safari and it worked.

 

A more up to date picture... (it's JPG this time)

 

Okay, no one is posting anything here, so I figured I'd post my latest and greatest. I posted these a minute ago in this thread: http://forum.unity3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=4124




These are really just to test non-RTT reflections. They're pretty subtle but you can see stuff reflected on the metal platform and the distant water. It took some doing, but it works .

Note: I used some UniTree assets, so, much thanks to boxy.

 

some screenshots from our first meeting with unity. the game is in an early alpha stage.

 

Woah! Psycho-dellic! Very cool looking

 

reminds me of when my son was little and he used to watch 'teletubbies', add a couple rabbits to the field of flowers and that would really do it!

 

Then you could add a tank.

 

And a zombie.

 

and a chinook.. and barney the bear... and teletubbies.. and miniguns... and an apache attack chopper =P and you would have BF3 Attack of the Cuties

 

Thought you might like this screenshot (from Project Weasel),

 

Hello, I recently started working in Unity and am pleased with it so far, and wanted to post my first attempts at writing dynamically created meshes.

The webplayer demos are available at http://www.briancowan.net/unity/fx

I'm happy that the Metaballs seemed to work well, although assigning a new mesh every frame began to consume memory at a quick pace and stopped doing so after about 500MB (noticeable in the first demos, I will post updated versions later). The current implementation reuses the mesh, but suffers from having a lot of empty triangles that (I think) are rotated and processed anyways when they aren't used by the marching cubes implementation. Is there any way to limit the amount of triangles that are processed in the triangle list, or to manually free the memory used by a previous mesh?


The code and explanation is available on the unify wiki at http://www.unifycommunity.com/wiki/index.php?title=MetaBalls
it uses a Marching Cubes algorithm, and does a few things, such as trying to process only the cubes around the mesh surface, and processing the normals from the average or unitization of all the power derivatives of the blob. One way it could still be updated is trying to only process cubes where the mesh faces the viewer for opaque surfaces. If you just want to use the code in your projects It should be pretty easy, just modify Start() Update() to place the any amount of blobs within a -.5 to .5 cube. Feel free to try and implement it in JS.

Here's a picture

 

Thank you, I have been saying this for years, I am glad I am not the only one.

When I went to Uni at Fullsail Real World Education, my Shading and Lighting instructor, Sgt. Santaw (guy really was a Sgt!), actually forbid the use of lens flares and would actually just fail you for the course if you used one! Most overused CG effect, ever. See http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/08/22

 

Here's a little screenshot from my multiplayer game: (without lens flare )
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Image didn't upload.

 

Here are my images...finaly

 

here's the same image in jpg...

 

And the second...

 

wow you guys are all so good! I especialy liked eric's landscapes...

took me back to my oblivion days..........

I wonder if any1 is making an rpg with unity????

 

Heres some stuff i've worked on with a friend for a little project

 

Cool, but why are some palms under the water?

 

tree brush was to big

 

god got pissed at the monkeys stealing his coconuts...

 

Here's a screenshot of the game I'm working on inside FPS mode. The RTS mode doesn't have any GUI yet, so I'll wait to post that.

 

interesting...

 

Hydroponics?

 

...

 

HAHA oh wow....

 

Here you can post these images on the gallery.. Ive got a Web player too if you would like it?

 

I certainly would.

 

Here go some images that i like too much, the firsts is from conspiracaopequim.com.br/game and the others from supervoleibrasil.com.br

I will enjoy a lot if they van be used on unity gallery =]