Speed Texturing video showing how easy it is to completely customize the look & feel of the weapons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOv5ol3h3mw Speed video showing how you’d create and export custom base materials (Metal, Wood & Leather), for use with our models. You can replace any material with another!
Just an little thing saying that we’re working on PBR Weapons & Armor! Since we plan on ultimately having 30+ models of each type (Sword, Axe, Mace/Club, Spear, Staff, Shields, Helmets & more), we’ll probably be releasing them in packages for each type, because 30+ will take up over 2 gigs of space (they’re 20-80mb each so far, depending on how complex the masking has to be).
Features should be:
100% Real PBR with real metallic/roughness values (adjustable, of course)
Over 50 Metals, Woods, Leathers & Stone (gem) PBR textures included so you can easily change the look of each object. Masked so you can change just one part of it.
Adjust the Hue/Saturation/Lightness/Contrast/Roughness & Blend in color as well for each section of the object, independent of the rest. (IE, any color blade you want!)
Massive amount of post-FX including environment FX. Ground dirt, ceiling dirt, grunge & dirt, snow & moss and also BLADE BLOOD. Runtime materials will be included to allow in-game use of blade blood. (IE, player hits an enemy and there is blood that can fade or change over time)
Each object has a “new” and “damaged” set of Normal/AO/Height maps and when you set it up you can fade between the two. Or you can use a run time material to change it during your game – maybe when the player buys a weapon it’s “new”, and as it gets used it gets more and more beat up.
Each part of every weapon is modular, so you can mix and match as much as you’d like and create brand new weapons.
Works with ALL versions of Unity (will require 5.1 to create the materials, but the exported materials will work with any version).
Me too! Hopefully tonight before I go to sleep. I want to get a video showing some of the cool stuff, like the blade blood. (I’m very excited about that!)
Oh. Forgot to list a feature:
Each object has a “new” and “damaged” set of Normal/AO/Height maps and when you set it up you can fade between the two. Or you can use a run time material to change it during your game – maybe when the player buys a weapon it’s “new”, and as it gets used it gets more and more beat up.
Video added – just an early preview of one of the axe weapons. Doesn’t show texture swapping, but a lot of changes to the various parts as well as some of the environment FX.
Added shots of the first 6 weapons. It’s important to note that ALL the materials can be changed out. We include a bunch of other materials to use, each customizable.
Looks like we’ll be adding a spear and a staff and then releasing v1.0! We plan on adding more weapons and increasing the price over time, but anyone who buys it at the start will get all the updates for free!
Added the Spear & Staff up top. Today I ended up hacking together a killer script that’ll make everyones life a LOT easier.
To use the textures with the standard shader, you need to click a toggle, click a button to save the maps, import them into Unity, create a new material (name it) & assign the textures. The script basically uses a menu option or command-shift-T to do all of that in one step. It saves new materials with the look you’ve created, all organized with timestamps, so you can create a lot of different looks very quickly.
It works, and I just want to make a few adjustments to some of the models, as well as get the Instruction PDF up, before submitting to the store.
Added a new video showing the speed texturing of Axe001. Set the look you want, click the “Save Textures” button [or Control-Shift-T] and a Standard Shader Material will be created with a unique path for that look. Repeat as desired
Just an update, in case anyone is following this package. I had wanted to submit it to the asset store earlier this week. However, I realized I was missing a key option in the customization: To mask out the default texture (Normal/AO) and replace it with a custom one.
Before you could use custom materials (and we provide a tool to create them), but the default textures would be combined with the custom ones. In most cases that’ll be perfect. But if you want to replace leather with wood, for a handle or maybe metal with wood for a shaft, the result may not be exactly what you had wanted.
So we ended up re-doing the work flow mostly from scratch. It’s much better now, but we have to re-do the previous weapons in the new work flow before we release. No sense in having multiple versions running around.
Also, models being worked on include: Boots, Gauntlets, Shields, Bow & Arrows, Knife & more.
tl;dr The design of the graph matters a lot, since nodes are cached. Making it so that changing an option affects the least number of nodes as possible is important – linear maps aren’t always a good thing. Unity is getting better, and I hear 5.2 is going to be much faster.
Well – our main graphs aren’t designed for run time use, that’s important. I try to include some helpful runtime graphs that are much smaller and faster.
In the videos I do try to cut out parts where Unity starts being dumb. It’s much faster than it used to be, and I hear that in the release version of 5.2 there will be some drastic improvements to the speed of substances. The big thing is that Unity likes to re-build it at seemingly random times, which is just annoying.
However, I learned early on that the way the graph is designed is very important, especially when it starts getting big – and these graphs are generally HUGE. Below is a graph I just finished, with 8 sub-areas that can be adjusted. It features custom inputs, general HSL/Contrast/Roughness adjustments, Masking for AO/Normal maps (so that you can change things from wood to metal and not still have the wood grain), metal damage ,leather wearing, ground dirt, ceiling dirt, directional “blood” (aka dirt), and a copyright mask.
For the weapons this is the (new) general graph I use. In some cases I may add a feature, like for a shield I’ll likely add the ability to have a stamp on the shield, for an emblem. But for most uses, this basic graph works well. So I have a template that’s all set up with up to 16 unique parts to the map.
Release date will be whenever they accept it Usually it’s pretty fast after submission. I hope to get it submitted tomorrow – there’s a few more things I want to have set, like the website, some nice fancier “game like” sample images, and at least one more Run Time option (for the directional blood – so that maybe when the weapon hits something, blood can appear then fade out over the weapon).
Armor will be intermingled in the pack. I have a set of Guantlets, Boots, a simple helmet & a shield in the works right now. Will likely be about 20-40% armor from here out.
Usually it’s pretty fast after submission. I hope to get it submitted tomorrow – there’s a few more things I want to have set, like the website, some nice fancier “game like” sample images, and at least one more Run Time option (for the directional blood – so that maybe when the weapon hits something, blood can appear then fade out over the weapon).