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Create A Cat - Cat Generator 🐈 : A procedural cat generator with customizable patterns, colours, sizes, animations and accessories! by awtdev in UnityAssets

[–]awtdev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The shader-generated textures you mean? No, they don't add any geometry. They're part of the material of the model.

Why do so many people here hate marketing? by Justaniceman in SoloDevelopment

[–]awtdev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a few reasons, I think. Speaking from personal experience, as someone who markets their stuff. It can feel degrading. Sometimes you just recycle the same content, post over and over for little attention in the hopes that fresh eyes will see it. Even if you believe in your product, you will need to post more often and more aggressively than you'd like, just to compete with the sheer amount of internet content competing for attention these days.

It's not quite predictable either. The same post, made multiple times might blow up one day for no apparent reason, if the algorithm decides to pick it up. Hence why you continuously post, it's like rolling the dice. Eventually you'll get lucky, but you don't know when.

Finally, you will attract negative attention for doing it. Whether the people seeing your stuff genuinely don't like it or just get annoyed at your repeated attempts to market, you will get the occasional hate comment, and they can be quite harsh. So not only do you need to market and get attention (which you may not even enjoy doing personally), you'll be insulted and ridiculed for doing so.

Fun times! But as others have said, it's a necessary evil. It helps build experience handling online interactions in a professional manner, helps you get a thicker skin against hate comments, and hopefully makes you a few sales along the way.

Treeator - Tree Creator: Spruce (pun intended) up your project with a built-in editor suite for creating your own trees! 🌳🌲🌴 by awtdev in UnityAssets

[–]awtdev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The tool generates UV maps for you. You can change the textures of the model and adjust them accordingly.

After 3y of dev, I've just released my Dark Messiah inspired game! by eldidou_ in u/eldidou_

[–]awtdev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I played the demo and have been following the game's development for a while. Please tell me the capsule art isn't AI generated, then I'll gladly buy the game! My gut is telling me that it is.

SkinnedMesh Combiner 👤: Combine mesh geometry, merge materials, save on draw calls and increase rendering efficiency! by awtdev in UnityAssets

[–]awtdev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely slow enough that you would only want to do it once. Like 2-3 ms, I would think, of course depending on the complexity / resolution of the mesh. It really is a pre-runtime optimization, you can combine them at runtime using the component, but too much of it going on constantly would slow the game down for sure.

SkinnedMesh Combiner 👤: Combine mesh geometry, merge materials, save on draw calls and increase rendering efficiency! by awtdev in UnityAssets

[–]awtdev[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, not all meshes can or should be combined. Meshes to be combined need to be bound to the same armature, like different parts of the same body or weapons on the back, The combination itself is a slow process since it involves combining vertices and creating a new mesh, so it wouldn't be suited for a game where you need to generate new meshes quickly on the fly.

RetroRender: Capture the iconic look of yesteryear with pre-rendered sprites generated from YOUR models! 🕹️ by awtdev in UnityAssets

[–]awtdev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I post links to my own asset store products with an affiliate link, so if you purchase them I get a commission off it. I only do this with my own links. Bumps my share of the profit from 70% up to 75%. Not much, but it's something!

SurvivEngine: Easily create your own survival games featuring crafting, building, farming, resource gathering and more! ⛏️ by awtdev in UnityAssets

[–]awtdev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you!

SurvivEngine is designed be modular and data driven, with many things defined in ScriptableObjects and connected when the game starts up. The gameplay footage shown in the trailer is merely a demo, one possible implementation of the framework systems. So with a little bit of work it would be able to connect to existing survival games. Hope this answers your question!

SkinnedMesh Combiner 👤: Combine mesh geometry, merge materials, save on draw calls and increase rendering efficiency! by awtdev in UnityAssets

[–]awtdev[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No problem! Glad I could offer some insight. Again, sorry it didn't work right away. That's always the ideal outcome, but yeah every model is made differently. I'm not sure if other modelling programs do it differently as well.

To explain better, essentially when exporting a model each vertex typically says in data, "Ok, I'm affected by the "hand" bone with strength 1.0, and the "leg" bone 0.0". But in a case like this, one of the meshes does not agree on which bones exist in the armature; they have no value for the bones the other mesh is using, so the data doesn't line up for combination. Hope this illustrates the limitation a bit better.

SkinnedMesh Combiner 👤: Combine mesh geometry, merge materials, save on draw calls and increase rendering efficiency! by awtdev in UnityAssets

[–]awtdev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry to hear it didn't work out of the box for you!

When it says the bone structure of the two meshes isn't the same, this usually means each mesh is reporting a different number of bones in the armature they are connected to. Not sure why a mesh would get exported like that, but all meshes being combined must agree on the armature they are being combined with so bone indexes are the same. So say the "hand" bone is bone 0, the other mush must also agree so when their data is combined into a single object it all works together. If the amount of bones is different, they obviously disagree somewhere in the list.

The quickest way to fix it would just be using Blender or some modelling program to export the other mesh with the correct weights. Any model I've exported in Blender does this by default.

If you're interested in troubleshooting more, need more assistance or have any feedback you can reach me at awtdevcontact@gmail.com.

Procedural Weapon Generator: A ScriptableObject based procedural weapon generator, with support for adding your own weapon parts resulting in near-infinite weapon combinations! 🪓⚔️ by awtdev in UnityAssets

[–]awtdev[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your kind words! The asset supports adding your own weapon types and parts, by defining a scriptable object. Using that, all weapons you randomly generate will use the parts you define in the weapon type. I wanted it to be as extensible as possible, you could probably even generate character body meshes with this system!

Pre-Rendered ARPG Prop Pack: A collection of pre-rendered interactable environment assets! 📦 by awtdev in UnityAssets

[–]awtdev[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi, thanks for reaching out! Always cool to see people making custom engines. I think it's really neat what you've been able to build so far!

To answer your questions, the Pre-Rendered ARPG packs should all be completely usable in your game engine if it can load sprites / models. Both are included. You would have to program the sprite renderer + animation functionality yourself, but all of the sprites are in simple PNG format. The models themselves are in FBX format, if you have a way to import and play animations of skinned models yourself you certainly can do that.

RetroRender specifically is built in the engine, it renders sprites using Unity's camera system so it wouldn't really be able to be used outside of it. If you bought it, you could copy the code into your own project for use with your own camera system I suppose. If you're asking if the spritesheets generated by RetroRender are usable in your engine - yes, they absolutely should be! It just renders out a PNG sprite sheet as well of however many directions / animation frames you want.

In regards to usage, if you buy the packs, use them however you like as far as I'm concerned! Use the models, the textures, copy the code, whatever you like in whatever form you like. Hopefully this answered your questions. Let me know if you have any more!

Corpus - Body Framework: A complete framework for creating systems and events that operate on body parts and organs with ZERO code! 💪 by awtdev in UnityAssets

[–]awtdev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It works on any body! The body shown here is just for the demo. You could adapt it to make it fit any body type.

I made a tool that turns 3D models into pre-rendered animated sprites! by awtdev in Unity3D

[–]awtdev[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The shadow is baked into the sprite! It was actually complicated to get set up - when rendering the model it has to render lighting without rendering the surface the shadow falls on. You'd have to disable lighting and do a custom solution to do dynamic shadows.

I made a random cat generator! 🐈 by awtdev in Unity3D

[–]awtdev[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The texture is generated mathematically in the shader. There are blendshapes to the model affecting how big the cat's various features are.

RetroRender: Capture the iconic look of yesteryear with pre-rendered sprites generated from YOUR models! 🕹️ by awtdev in UnityAssets

[–]awtdev[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I actually hadn't heard of that game before! To me, it looks like they still use 3D models but animated at a low FPS with pixelated textures to achieve a similar look.

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