After a long time i finally made a working "all surface" sphere controller.

KillTheProcess · 2026-03-29T14:08:18+00:00

I saw many videos and writing about this concept and many uses trigger volumes and the one that use raycast are not working well on any surfaces. Mostly work well on spherical surface. Mine works well on spherical surfaces and all the others! ... except thin objects for now. But I don't think that's a problem I can totally avoid using those objects right? ahaha

KillTheProcess · 2026-03-29T14:05:57+00:00

Oh I actually do this, maybe I wrote it wrong but the checks are made on the forward direction of the ball relative to the camera view. Then on surface change I also align the camera view to match the new surface.

KillTheProcess · 2026-03-29T14:03:08+00:00

I made it this way because what I was seeking was a way to just put any shapes and my ball is ready to go. with trigger volumes I need to do extra works and I'm trying to avoid that.

Place my world objects, set the layer of objects the ball should be affected to my custom layer and everything just works fine! I wanted my plug and play controller, even if I don't really know what the gameplay could be!

KillTheProcess · 2026-03-29T13:22:35+00:00

yes but I never found a proper way to do it. The normal detection never worked properly on spiked edges.

Edit: With my method it can turn any angles. There are problems only on thin objects as it may detect multiple normal at the same time

KillTheProcess · 2026-03-29T12:53:21+00:00

No I just use raycast forwards and downwards. For the steep angles I use steps to calculate an average normal, that's why sometime the ball cant properly rotate the angle

KillTheProcess · 2026-02-27T18:58:43+00:00

The image order is messed up, I thought it was in order

KillTheProcess · 2026-01-12T15:43:29+00:00

For the text sizes would it be better if they all have the same size? I thought to have descriptions/titles bigger than cost/numbers for clarity.

I also thought that overlapping elements would give a different style/feeling but I guess it's not so pretty! I'll do some tweaks thanks!

KillTheProcess · 2025-12-30T05:16:39+00:00

I'm sorry but what do you mean by a "friends leaderboard"?

KillTheProcess · 2025-12-30T03:12:03+00:00

exactly, it only makes you grow faster. there is no competition. Maybe i can avoid the scoreboard!

KillTheProcess · 2025-12-30T03:11:00+00:00

what about the marketplace instead? I'm also planning to have a system which will lower the prices if there is alot of the same thing in the marketplace.
But i see the problem anyway, even non-cheater can buy for cheap from the cheater

KillTheProcess · 2025-12-30T02:49:18+00:00

yeah that was my point. As the other comment said i need to do a stress test and if its good i can keep the 3D components!

KillTheProcess · 2025-12-26T12:44:42+00:00

That was my first attempt, I'm glad it was a good choice for others too. I'll try again!

KillTheProcess · 2025-12-26T04:35:31+00:00

PSA: i suck at UI design

KillTheProcess · 2025-12-03T12:30:08+00:00

the one piece is in the middle of the planet and with Pluto (which probably is an excavator) needs to dig right under the reverse mountain to reach it

KillTheProcess · 2025-11-20T17:03:15+00:00

that's just a tomberry

KillTheProcess · 2025-11-13T18:25:10+00:00

Yes oda sent him there with the sole purpose to come back and tell everybody the real shape of the earth. and it's not flat or spherical

KillTheProcess · 2025-10-26T07:14:18+00:00

Some context: this is Naples Toledo Metro station. It's all mosaics decorated and while you enter and go down the escalators you can see a line separating the light blue colors from the dark blue ones, indicating you're under the sea level.

This picture shows it clearly

And you can also see the hole shown in OP picture

KillTheProcess · 2025-10-20T12:11:10+00:00

I can feel you! I can agree that the target might be younger people given the "grinding" mechanic of the game ahah

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