RichMakeGame

Here’s a short vid showing new procedural spherical terrain generation and ‘flattening’ shader which warps the sphere flat to give the impression of a larger flatter surface:

Check out my new game made in conjunction with Colin Northway!

Try life as a strange jellyfish on a remarkable world. Learn to fly through the skies of a psychedelic Venus, to explore and flourish. A simple yet addictive and challenging one-button-game!

www.deepunderthesky.com

sorry for the lack of updates! I’m busy on this and another project, will try to get back into the blogging habit though 🙂 These are some enemy designs, in order of toughness: drone, buggy, bike, car, armoured car. Should be a big improvement on the box-enemies in the game right now 😛

nearly done the modelling, on to the texture. this is much closer than you’ll see ingame btw:

going for an ’80s toy line’ colour scheme, this would be the goodies natch:

happy new year everyone! Sparse updates.. that just mean Rich is working hard 😛

 

Alo! Rich just bought an Arturia Minibrute and has to say it is an extremely fun synth!

here are some quickie tracks to get used to the sounds:

https://soundcloud.com/richmakegame/miniadventure

https://soundcloud.com/richmakegame/more-minibrute-fun

more game updates soon!

Allo! Rich know what you wondering: ‘smiley face landscape look amazing, but how you manage to make many levels to such high standard?’. Simple! Rich bend computer to his will, make it do the work..

Main method goes like this: fill folder full of random squiggly images; Rich figure about 20 is good. Now, choose at random several images and mash together using operations like add, subtract, multiply, lerp ( blend 50-50). Out come new images, with some general characteristics of originals, but also new.

 Squiggly.

When fed into existing terrain generator, it give results like this:

 

 

Pretty! Now, new feature added with help of fantastic cheap image tweaking package on Unity3d asset store: FilterMe . This allow for all sort of Texture2D operations like saturate, invert, edge detect etc, but one Rich interested in is Gaussian Blur. Now blur tool is added, Rich can smooth out random generation result at will- (this different to ‘Mesh Relax’ function btw, and much faster):

Image slides a bit the more it is blurred. Not sure why yet..

One last feature added to terrain generator: detail zoom. This mean that only portion of generated image creates terrain, and give effect of larger terrain features:

Detail gets bigger on mesh depending on setting.

That is all for update! next task is:

– change aspect ratio of landscape (eg, make into oblong) without squashing features

Thankyaw!

Allo! Rich work on non-destructive editing of landscape now. Normally Rich in favour of anything called destructive but in this case he make exception. Non destructive mean he can make changes to structure of landscape and not start again from scratch. For this Rich start with unity example project: procedural generation and use height map script. This mean one image control how high ground is by light and dark colour. Then he generate UV coordinates for mesh and end up with result:

 Allo!

next problem- mesh look kind of jaggy in some places 🙁 . This can be helped with higher mesh resolution, but also by relaxing mesh vertices.. Rich use Laplacian Filter from Unity Wiki:

 Same polygons, smoother!

Notice Rich just mention mesh resolution- if Rich made landscape in Modo or other 3D package, he stuck with mesh resolution unless he redo from scratch. Now Rich generate landscape from image, landscape features persist when mesh resolution change:

 looks like Rich after ale

what is point? what if Rich finish game and realise all landscape too high detail for physics or graphic card? or he realise he can use *more* detail? each landscape can be re-made easy. And now image is used for landscape height, next step is creating image by random…

next task list:

– find method of randomly creating image for use with landscape generation. Main idea: pick several pre-made base images at random and combine in various ways ( flip, rotate, invert) to produce unpredictable result

– change aspect ratio and size of landscape without squashing features and keeping scale consistent – eg smaller landscape area does not produce smaller hills

Thankyaw!