[The Starfighter
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The Starfighter is a single-seat, multirole fighter, that excels at interception and escort missions.
Advanced scouting and surveillance missions are possible, once outfitted with a probe in the designated socket in the fuselage.
Capable of space and atmospheric flight, combined with vertical take off and landing abilities on most terrain, makes the Starfighter an extremely versatile light-weight and high performance craft.
Both wings can be mounted with universal pylons and carry a variety of offensive and defensive weapons or equipment. (NOT supplied with this asset!)
Due to its folding wing configuration the Starfighter is suitable for carrier based operation with limited deck space.
The SF’s cockpit doubles as an escape pod and life boat. In case of emergency, it detaches completely and will be ejected from the rest of the ship.
The escape pod features a number of survival equipment, including independent oxygen supply for up to 24hours or 96hours in suspended animation.
Being maneuverable on its own, the pod can be piloted using the same interface used for the Starfighter.
This asset is quite detailed and created with an eye towards current and next-generation needs in the gaming, VR and real-time film spaces.
PARTS
While not specifically advertised as a modular asset, the Starfighter is built from and provided as 10 basic parts:
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main
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main interior
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main landing gear
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front
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front interior
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back(engines)
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back interior
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wings
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wings interior
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escape pod
Note, that for this asset many of the actual meshes have been kept separate, the above list entries, henceforth called “parts”, represent the hierarchical structure and simplify managing the objects.
Each of these 10 parts has its own texture-set and material.
Having the asset structured like this, allows you to not render parts you don’t need. This saves texture memory and avoids rendering unnecessary polygons.
For instance, you likely won’t need the interior parts in normal flight mode, but you will need some if you fold out the landing gears. Or alternatively, in a hangar-like scenario, you might choose to show the Starfighter in various states of disassembly - without the wings for instance.
In short, it’s giving you the flexibility to get more out of the asset.
For us it means, we can maintain a high quality across the asset and it opens up the possibility of future extension.
In case you would be interested in extensions to this asset of any kind, we welcome your input and suggestions either here or via email at support@machin3.io.
There’s prefabs for The Starfighter in different assembly variations(with substance materials applied).
ANIMATIONS
The Starfighter comes with a variety of animation clips, most importantly the landing gear fold, landing gear dampening and wing folds. Furthermore, there are animations for wing flaps and fins, for escape pod elevators and rudder and finally for the escape pod release and probe release mechanisms.
An animation controller sets up the animations and transitions using multiple layers. In cases where it applies, animations can be played as a unit or individually. For instance, the landing gear animation is masked accordingly, so you can only lower the front gear, or only the main left gear, etc. instead of all of them at the same time.
landing gear fold out & dampen
wing fold
escape pod release
flight control surfaces
MATERIALS
All materials are utilizing PBR.
Materials for The Starfighter are provided in form of substance .sbsar files, which contain procedural materials allowing for significant customization.
Default materials, set up using Unity’s standard shader are also supplied.
HIGHLIGHTS
- 2 main, plain material choices - painted metal and plastics
- a mix of both, where the plastic parts act as accents to the painted metal parts
- a 4th camouflage material
- control emissive amount and color
- control cockpit color
- parametric dirt
OVERVIEW
The following chart provides an overview of the specific material customization options available and demonstrates some of the variations that can be achieved.
(For demonstrational purposes and due to the assets compactness, this chart is using the Probe, not the Starfighter)
EMISSION
For the back part, you have control over the emissive strength, as well as the emissive hue.
DIRT
You can add parametric dirt to the materials and have control over the intensity(dirt level), as well as the contrast and grunge amount. Notice, that depending on the grounge amount, the dirt may not be evenly distributed and but can in fact be more pronounced in crevices, which is achieved through the supplied AO and curvature maps.
CUSTOM DECALS
Finally, with deferred rendering you can utilize deferred decals to freely position and scale any additional graphics you like directly on the surface.
The Starfighter - Urban Camo (animated)
The Starfighter - Plastics (landed)
The Starfighter - Painted Metal (in flight)
The Starfighter is ~30m in length, slightly larger than modern fighter planes.
302 Objects
Polygons/Triangles
- 66K tris in total
- 21K just outside parts
- 3.5K just escape pod
Textures sets, resolutions
- 2048x2048 main, main_interior, main_interior_gears, front, front_interior, back, back_interior, wings, escape_pod
- 1024x1024 wings_interior
Textures - all provided in .png format
- AlbedoTransparency
- MetallicSmoothness
- Normal
- Fluting (Normal)
- Emissive
- AO
- Curvature
- substance specific masks
Materials
- Substance .sbsar (procedural) - for all outside parts
- default materials (static) - for all outside and interior parts
Animations
- 12 base clips
- 30 clips, if masked out clip separations are included
- 72 clips, if reversed clips and masked out clip separations are included
- unity animated escape pod ejection for demo purposes
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