Im making an RTS and im in the pre-production stages. Im considering the Unity3d engine because someone recently referred me to it, but I still have some concerns about the speed of the platform as well as its flexibility for rendering, post processing, and a number of other key issues.
One of those key issues is the downloadable plugin itself for playing online. The game will be free to play online and I want it to be playable from virtually any computer that can run a web browser (barring processing power of course). That includes computers that may potentially have administrator restrictions on them for installation or running executable files, such as library terminals and whatnot.
Does the Unity3d web player plugin set off administrator issues in windows… or could the web player plugin itself be included in the online package and emulated without installing it? This is a central and key issue and will determine if Unity3d can be used at all (period… the end).
Another issue I am concerned about is texture mapping on objects. I intend to have randomized textures for objects which will have a repeating (tiled) texture on them. Each time the engine would duplicate the texture again on the object it randomly chooses from X number of textures in that set (say, 8 variations) instead of just using the same one over and over again.
I will also be including destructible terrain and environments, with missions/maps designed using a random map generator… so I also need to know that the engine can put together a map from individual map blocks or sections that would be pre-made.
And as well, allow modification to the 3d structure of the map because of gunfire and explosions… unlike other games such as Unreal or ID engine which treat the 3d map structure as indestructible.
Another key issue, with the web playability, is of course Speed. While I would be keeping polycounts to a minimum, and indeed there wouldnt be much need for high polygon models since they would be relatively small on-screen… I need to know that the engine itself isnt going to be a dog on the system regardless of what is being put onscreen.
So do you all think this is feasible with Unity3d Pro, without having to modify the game engine itself?
