I was a mentor for a 5-person FYP team, who just finished their project on the last week of August 2018.
You can preview a trailer of their game here:
Managing a No-designer Gamedev Team: Project Cyberstryke.
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Building a procedural city generator in Unity – AR version!
So far, the buildings generated were accurately scaled. On August 2018 I started experimenting with AR, which I discovered that a real-size skyscraper in AR isn’t that easy to view on a phone! So I added a Minimize mode, where the buildings could be scaled down to be viewable on an AR-detected floor.
The implementation is admittedly a hack, and since some parts of the code couldn’t figure out what to do with the new scale, issues with z-fighting and object placement appeared. But on the whole, it’s a version I can show to people on my phone, so I just need to clean up my code.
Building a procedural city generator in Unity
Since I was able to generate a building on any physics-enhanced surface in Unity, I can add the code into any scene, click-and-drag on a physics enabled surface and generate a building on it. Thus, when I got Gaia around the end of June, I was able to generate procedural buildings within a generated landscape scene.
Added a Post-Processing Stack effect for fun.
Fashion concept: Techwear.
A colleague started chatting with me on fashion concepts, and he introduced to – besides many other things – the idea of Techwear.
Searching for that term was an eye-opener. Movement wear based on futuristic materials with a hint of cyberpunk.
Had to mess around with that, so here ya go.
Building a procedural city generator in Unity
On June, I experimented with generating different types of buildings. The new building type is a South East Asian shophouse that is commonly seen in Malaysia and Singapore; the row of shops chained in a single long building that has 2-5 floors on top with a shaded 5-footway or “kaki lima” on the ground floor front.
Building a procedural city generator in Unity
Around April, I was trying out one of Brackey’s tutorials where he demonstrated a Raycasting code to direct AI units. I modified the code to be able to create a selected area by mouse, and to generate a building out of that area.
Learning ProBuilder in Unity: Concept Art 3D mockup.
Unity just announced they’re integrating ProBuilder into the engine. So spent the night doing tutorials, and today tried to build one of my old concepts into a 3D mockup.
There’s a huge amount of space for improvement, but the tool is quite simple to use. Neat.
January-February 2018 Chars
Characters done in two different styles. Was supposed to finish this by the end of January, but eh, life.
Building a procedural city generator in Unity
The next version on January 19th, 2018 added rules to window generation, and applied the edge algorithm around the windows. With materials assigned to the generated Gameobjects, the generated buildings became more attractive to the eye.
Building a procedural city generator in Unity
On January 12th, 2018 I added the ability to generate finer detail on the rooftop and grid-like facades on the building walls. The added edges on top of the building created a more believable look, and I was able to adapt the code to create randomized grid patterns on the walls.
The code still isn’t perfect; top building on the left has a definite overhang. Part of the work was figuring out where the rules failed in generating believable content and correcting as I go along.