Huge City: Free

I decided to post in the Asset Store a low poly huge city. It has some small issues but can be helpful for anyone to prototype a GTA style game. The city is really huge. But is not flat, so it is a problem, a graphic artist might add some terrain around?
If you enhance it, please send me the result so that I can update it in the Asset store, credit will be given to the contributors.

Here in the asset store: http://u3d.as/content/nikkoid/free-city-01/1Ce
Or in my store (free download) :www.unity3dx.com

Here is a small video.

 

Looks great! Should keep a lot of GTA or city mmo, fans happy It would be fun just to drive around it as it I bet.

 

Hey,

That's pretty awesome, thanks for this!

Dan.

 

umm, wow!

 

Impressive, thanks!

 

This is why I love unity community, a model that is worth 100+$ for free.

 

Is this made with CityEngine?

I found a similarity with the road and building textures that come with CityEngine....

 

This looks like CityEngine defaults... Great that it's free though.

 

Nikko, this is great, i try to enhance it.

 

Thanks a ton!

 

WOW!
I'll see what I can do, update-wise, and send you the results. I was just about to start a sandbox city game - this is the solution.

 

GR8, I cannot wait to see what you guys can do with this!

 

When's it coming out?

 

2dfxman1: 100? They are a bunch of cubes with a texture.

 

1.8 million polygons worth of cubes to be exact. That's a S***load of texturing. Plus all the time it took to place and such. $100 would be perfectly reasonable.

 

Sarcasm

 

It is free and is already in the asset store... Enjoy But if you guys want to send me money please do it to paypal at nikkoid dot com.
Payments under $10 will be rejected. don't be greedy. If someone send me $1M, I will credit his name in the asset store (priceless).

....free city 01 is here: http://u3d.as/content/nikkoid/free-city-01/1Ce

 

So if I send you 1$ 1 million times, you wont accept? How rude. I can't help it, I only have virtual change left

 

Wow - if someone sends you $1M, I must get into making huge citites.
(Yes, I know you were joking.)

 

Please, please can you make a smaller one. I love it, but when I try to use it my computer just dies.

 

Wow... this is incredible... I got plenty of ideas on how to use it! thanks a bunch on this great city!

 

@ Muzz5 : What kind of computer you have? 486?

 

when i import the HUGE city in unity its rotated wrong and everything seems to fall through it

 

You should not import it, you should load the scene and it should work.

Do you have a scene in the project?

 

i tried just loading it as a scene and (what do you mean don't import it) still its the same
if you mean scenes in the package i cant find them
also there's errors saying no normals in the model

 

Hi,

I included the city1 form the Asset Store, but I get no scene. Any Ideas?

Thanks a lot

 

You have to rotate the city on X 270 then it will work...

Edit: Sorry, I forgot to add the part about collider. Click the arrow next to the city model to show the children objects, then select all of the children objects, then click Component->Psychics->Mesh Collider.

 

thats gud

 

Wow. Huge. Impressive.

 

thanks! works now

 

No problem!

 

i like it but the problem is that it's real hard to modify

There are very large prefabs, lots of building connected so I can't split the ones I like out and remove them from the city. It's also not efficient for culling since they are all connected and the GPU gets all the triangles sent out.

Any chances of setting each building as a separate object? Unity does merge already meshes on the fly when set to static with same textures.

 

hi, could someone help me.
i try the freecity, is indredible, really, fast, huge
great

i put al the mesh collider and rotate 270
but after that if i use a first person controller everything is Ok the walls are walls
but if i move another kind of object , cubes, capsules, whatever, the walls of the city are transparent, everyone looks like a ghost
of course all the other objects have collides, box colliders, mesh colliders, i think i tried everything i khow
can you help me how to setup the city and the walls to be real walls for everyone
thanks a lot in advance

 

When I first saw this, I thought "wow, that's a nice asset".

Today I dug up one of my older, never finished projects. And realized that this city will help me a great deal finishing it. Because the city I'm currently using is eating draw calls like crazy, I have hopes yours will be much better and make the entire project feasable.

 

Hm, I must be doing something wrong. I'm getting over 900 drawcalls, and that's with batching. Any way to get performance out of this thing?

 

the problem is that it's a huge mesh so it can't optimize. It should be split into a bunch of areas or even each house. Unity would connect automatically the draw calls when it detects that they share the texture and they are market as static.

I've had the same issue, i loved the city but it's unusable for an iphone due to how it's structured. If it was split into a bunch of individual meshes and smaller textures it would fly fast on the iphone.

 

Let's be realistic, maybe it is too big for iPhone?

 

the problem with the city is that it is one mesh (so no merging) but many textures. Setting up a texture atlas would reduce the draw calls, but UV mapping really isn't something I have much experience in, so I don't feel like doing it.

 

@unity3dx it's too big as a whole but if it was split into parts or buildings you could easily pickup parts of the city and load them on memory as you go. They are mostly rectangular buildings so the triangle count is not huge. I can assure you i can do a fly-by on that city on an iphone if it were split into separate meshes

now, the current system, take the roads... it's thousands of triangles that if you are driving through the city would not be displayed on screen at the same time since it's a mesh for the whole road!

you click on a building and you see buildings all over the place selected, same problem. you can't drive through the city like that.

so although the texture atlas is there to reduce the drawcalls, the way the city is structured makes it slow. A pc can handle it just because it's powerful, but a slower device is dead and it's not due ot the poly counts. If it was by chunks, unity can be smart enough to remove a whole block of buildings/roads out of memory and gpu because it would know it wouldn't be displayed. (it divides areas by rectangles and figures out all the areas that would be out of frustrum, so millions of triangles gone on one pass). If it was by buildings, it would not only know that they weren't gonna be displayed but also unity would be smart enough to detect that they are static and combine them on a single mesh when needed.

it's a lovely city but it's just not efficient in its current form.

 

Just to inform the users that The city has been removed from the Asset store after I received this email from Procedural Inc. The original source of this city was originally released under unlimited license at Sharegc.com and I that's where I downloaded it and adapted and modified it so that it can run with Unity Smoothly.

I forwarded this email to Caitlyn who is responsible of the Asset Store and she removed the free asset.

Here is the email from Procedural:

 

So....if i already have the City(i downloaded it a few weeks ago),I can't use it anymore in my game?

 

I am not competent in law and copyrights to respond to that question. I think their Eula is quite cumbersome and as soon as their assets are in your game but are not in obj, or whatever format that can be reused by someone else, it is ok. As they say in their email, I could redistribute teh city in an .exe.

However if you use it in a game and make some money, it costs $495, so maybe you can buy it and make even better cities by yourself.

 

too bad hehe

 

this city will works for iphone or android, if u do like this
import in maya,select all,seperate mesh(takes lot of time),
combining small small locations ,i do like this with my cityengine exported models.

see it in action,if u have android http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19384507/april29.apk

 

I don't have android. Do you have a web player? I would be interested to see the result!

 

Free City update, now with 3.5 HDR support and collisions, free at http://unity3dx.com!!

You can read the news and download for free here : http://www.unity3dx.com/news/massive-updates/

 

So wait, we can't use this for commercial game but we can for games that don't make money?

 

I can't receive the email to download,anyone has other link to download?

i very need it.

 

The email server is fixed. Try it again, worked for me.

Disturbing news if he is right about assets for Unity V4 being forced to demo packages instead of swf. We will probably see an increase in DLL systems (like RainOne) where we have no control over the scripts.

 

Do you think you could make a smaller version of the city? I don't need a city this big for a Slender game I'm making and it's kinda unfair to slow-running pcs because this would crash their computers. Do you think you could make a smaller version?