Extreme Footstep Effects

I've migrated another spell effect to Unity from my Torque-based add-on, Arcane-FX. This one is known as the Bron-Y-Orc Stomp and it's not so much a magic spell, as it is an example of extreme footstep effects. Here we have triggered effects responding to Animation Events in the run and walk cycles and a landing event generated by the custom avatar controller. The effects are fairly rich and layered, combining projector, particle system, audio, force, and camera shake effects.


To see a Unity Web Player demo of this spell, visit this post on my blog at effectronica.com:

[ Foot Stomping Spell Demo in Unity ]


If you would rather view a video, take a look at this one on Vimeo:

And here's another video showing the effect while walking rather than running:

 

if i was a warrior i would run away from you

 

Probably the best spell I've seen from a unity rpg game, amazing.

 

Awesome! O.O

 

I'd love to see how you did the decal system.

 

That's a really cool effect! Good work.

 

I cant play it on airkeyboard on Mac. Keyckodes on small keyboard differs from large. Also button Ctrl do not work, and mousewheel on Magic mouse probably too

 

How are you casting decals on the terrain! o.o

 

Is it a projector?

 

Ha, that made my evening.

 

The decal effects are done using orthographic projectors with slightly customized shaders.

Each footstep multi-effect consists of 10 distinct base-effects:
3 projector decals (cracks, glowing cracks, shock-wave)
1 point light
2 sounds (crunch, occasional grunt)
1 camera shake
2 particle systems (dust, flash)
1 explosion force

Admittedly, the overall effect is a bit projector heavy. This hasn't been a big problem running on PCs and Macs but iOS and Android will probably choke on them.

 

Looks pretty awesome. Love that effect!

 

No more sneaking for u.

 

How hard is it to port AFX into Unity? If I don't already have it, is worth picking up or would I just end up re-coding everything anyway?

 

I enjoyed sneaking up on the boulders and hitting the spell. They really launched across the map.

 

Would consider it impossible. Its deep rooted into the torque engine and requires access to stuff that unity does not even offer.


Also the effect framework faust is working on seems to be getting closer and closer to AFX with stuff like the stomp effect etc working

But its naturally not comparable without the ugly splattery effect of the body spawned catterpillar

 

OK, I see. What's in the video is not AFX but a separate project for Unity. Looking forward to when that's completed

 

I think its what he originally called "AFX for Unity" or a brother in spirit to it at least although he is breaking it down differently than AFX according to what I got from the blog etc. as unity has own unique benefits and limitations (in torque you had to do most to all through the delcaration datablocks in script cause it was impossible to do anything reasonably in the editor at all prior T3D 1.1+ for example where as unity was strong on that end since Unity 2.5 at latest and alike)

but only faust knows where he will be heading toward in the end
As licensee of AFX 1 and 2 for T3D I'm looking forward to see what he comes up with for Unity

 

Ohhhhhh how on earth did I miss this

I am also a license holder of AFX 1 and 2 on Torque and helped test the original in Torque, and AFX was the only thing that almost took me back to Torque when I found Unity.

I am so happy to see Jeff here in the Unity forums and can't wait until theres a Unity product I can buy to add to my game.

<note> hereby putting all spell development on hold until this arrives as I know this will be THE solution for Unity <note>

Greetings Jeff.

Regards

Graham

 

i want download it, but not as a standalone.. i want download it as a project so i can open it in unity 3D and steal all the contents and scripting , put it on my game