Hello! My First question here.
I’m working on a game concept, and I’d like to use Unity to build a working prototype, if not the completed game, but I’m stuck on how to render the game the way I’d like it to look visually. This is a question that has been asked time and again, but I haven’t seen a comprehensive answer yet, so I’ll see what happens here.
So I’m looking for a game that renders like a Tron game mixed with old 80’s 3D vector game graphics, ala Battlezone or Star Wars arcade. Better yet, FOTONICA (http://www.fotonica-game.com/). I reached out to the author of Fotonica, and he said they built the game in Unity, and used a post processing effect (shader) to get the desired vector effect. Shader’s are a bit out of my comfort zone, but I am not unwilling to dive in to CG/HLSL/Shaderlab if needed.
Additionally, I want to be able to animate the lines as textures. So, for example, if I wanted the vector lines of a sword to animate different colors in waves along the edge of the sword, I’d simply use an animated texture. Additionally, I want to add glows to my wireframe objects. Lastly, I want backface culling, or even better, phong shading to give a very dull dark matte finish to the objects so that the edge are brightly lit and colored, but the objects themselves have a sense of “weight.”
I’ve looked at a lot of online resources (including a number of posts on Unity Answers), and even purchased the latest version of Vectrosity. This might do the trick, but when playing around with a few prototypes, seeing how hard I could push Vectrosity to render as many lines as possible, it choked a bit earlier than I would have liked. I see that in Unity 4 you can render scenes with GL.wireframe = true, but it doesn’t appear to be very flexible (documentation is pretty sparse on this).
Any thoughts out there on where to begin? Any thoughts/insights/pointers/direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much!