Kategorie-Archiv: 3D

3D, Gaming, Programmierung, Unity

Stupid swarm agents in Unity3d for Global Game Jam 2017

Recently i participated in the Global Game Jam 2017 at our University in Koblenz. With a team of five on location and another helpful friend that donated the awesome music we made a small strategy game within this years theme „waves“ in the unity3d engine. The name is „Tower Offense – Final Wave“ and you can find the executable and the full unity3d project here.


The basic idea is that each player has a base that constantly produces small autonomous robots. These robots are under your control as long as the radio waves of your base tower or the radio towers you can build reach it. As soon as it leaves the influence radius of your towers it losses signal strength and eventually you loose control. You have the option to change from building attack robots to build harvesters which bring in ressources you need to build more towers. The aggressive robots try to find the nearest enemy robot or building and engage it. The enemy can, like the player, build more towers and when a hostile robot stays in the range of an opposing tower for too long, the owner of that tower gains control of the robot. The winning condition is easy: Destroy the enemy base!

My part this time was the programming of the „artificial intelligence“. But because i like to work quick and see results fast my solution might (definitely) not be the most elegant or efficient solution.
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3D, Gaming, Programmierung, Unity

Unity3D – global Highscore for Android games without external tools

We recently released a little game into the wild: Just Jumping on the Google Playstore.

Beside creating an easy to pick-up game with some sort of addictive gameplay we wanted to create a bit of a competition by collecting global highscores.

There are many options on how to achieve this, most of them include external tools or libraries. And we wanted to avoid that. DIY it was…

What you need to collect global highscores:

  • A transfer method to get data from the device to where the scores a stored.
  • A place where you can collect the highscores. Preferably a web server with a database.
  • A way to identify players.
  • Methods to make cheating hard or impossible.

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3D, Programmierung

MaxScript – Color By Poly Count

colorbypolyWhen trying to optimize the polygon count of a model or scene you often run into the problem of finding out which object is the culprit. I have done a lot of searching by hand in crowded scenes over the years and i finally decided to write this really simple script to ease the process.

The script iterates over all the objects in the scene and changes their wirecolor to a hue between red and green. The object with the lowest face count in the whole scene is pure green, the one with the highest face count is pure red. Everything else is between those.

Using the wireframe mode or the object overview you can tell at a glance where all those polys are!

You can download it here.

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to write an email!

 

3D, Allgemein, Effekte, Gaming, Grafik

Substance Designer – Seamless procedural textures

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seam_problemWer sich mit dem Texturieren dreidimensionaler Objekte beschäftigt wird einen Anblick wie auf dem Bild oben kennen. Teile des Modells haben eine umlaufende Textur die aber dummerweise an einer oder mehreren Stellen eine Unstetigkeit aufweist.

Nun kann man natürlich händisch die Textur korrigieren, zum Beispiel in Photoshop. Abgesehen von der Herausforderung diesen Bruch in mehreren Maps auf die exakt pixelgleiche Art und Weise zu korrigieren ist das eine Menge Arbeit. Und wenn dann noch größere Änderungen an der Textur anstehen muss dieser Aufwand gleich mehrfach betrieben werden.
Arbeitet man mit Tools wie dem Substance Designer von Allegorithmic, dann gibt es in der Version 5 ein kleines magisches Hilfsmittel, das einem dieses Problem aus der Hand nimmt. Weiterlesen →