Yeah wind spells could be really nice with this tech. Tornados and vortex of leaves to destroy enemies 👀

Long time I did not post here. 🙃
Let me show you a system I worked on :
using Unity ECS, a leaf interaction simulation with a casting spell system.
Each leaf is an entity animated through an ISystem, using AnimationCurves.

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It took me an absurdly long time to create this spawn effect + separate the materials by herd + maintain the batching.

The effect is a bit heavy on the FPS side, I'll have to rework it, but it works as intended.

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A poor quality paper background found online that I'll redo + aligning the UI with the camera + forcing the animals to follow the area... well, it totally works !

I could have hours of fun making them run like that ! 😅

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For my game, herd will be a basic animated scenery, with really little interaction with player.
I try to create an easy system tp handle by players to create their own map for my tower defense via a map editor, with a way to give a little life around the battle.

A small herd system that allows you to define a zone with a variable radius and move it at will, with a specific livestock type and population density.

Functional, but I find the UI unreadable... 🤔

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If there's one thing I really enjoy about video game development, it's shaders and VFX.

By changing just a few parameters, you can make huge transformations in the rendering.

Who wants my ruby-sheep ? 😋

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Moses splits the sea in two... and for me, it's sheeps ! 😅

Actually, by adding a bit of randomness to the sheep's movements/idleness, the rendering seems sufficient to me and it runs smoothly (there are 200 of them there).

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Holding myself back from coding a herd simulator... holding myself back from coding a herd simulator........ it's going to be so hard!!! 😅
(I've already lost the mental battle with myself, only laziness is holding me back right now)

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Played it a long time ago, was fun until researchs became far too long and being consistantly attacked by overpowered players ^^

Have I already said I don't like making UIs?

Still with the idea to ​​make diegetic interfaces (integrated in the game world), a first approach could be a thought bubble... but I'm skeptical of the result. 🫤

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Basic low poly 3D models I made on Blender, they dont even have a real texture for the moment 😅

This scenery drawing tool works quite well, even with a fairly wide brush and a sensitive mouse.
All that's left is to create the UI for selecting the scenery to spawn.

The next step will be to allow painting the color.

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After a few more redesigns (dividing the map into sections and storing the data for each scene), I can edit the map on the fly.

All that's left is to create the UI for the tool... except I'm terrible at UI ! 😅

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By the way, it's a bit funny, technically speaking, I'm not doing a good job if I follow Musk's logic when he cleaned up Twitter's devs !

Well yeah, I have a negative total of lines produced per day... 🤣

A few weeks ago, I talked about parallelizing the processing for map generation... well, actually, I reworked the entire architecture.
From 14 seconds to generate the all map to this... 😎
(still : Unity ECS is amazing)

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Yes, this is my art of living !

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By replacing the old spheres that served as placeholders with a real projectile + a small incantation rune before... yeah it's starting to look good ! 😅

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The quality difference in videos between the original on my PC and the uploaded one... just how ? Am I back in the 2000's ?

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Is the video pixelated for every one ? It's completely garbage when I watch it here 😐

Spawn of:
- 15 enemies / sec
- 30 projectiles / sec
which generate ~200 animated popups of damage, on a 400x400m map with 300k scenery and it runs at 100 FPS...

One happy Keilthar with his implementation, one ! 😁(love Unity ECS btw)

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I discovered it during this announcement which made the tool free where I saw a lot of enthusiastic feedback on it, and well I'm not disappointed !

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It is also on this tool that I generated the architectural diagram that I posted yesterday.

But there are also all the classics such as calendars, task managers, or even a good old project kanban available.

And above all, it’s very light !
I have very basic lists where I reference a link to which I associate personal tags.

Then I have a script that I had generated by AI (here Copilot) to query these lists and present them to me in a table, with filters by tags.

I discovered Obsidian this weekend, a note-taking tool... and I think I fell in love. 😅

I have created artist/dev reference lists from my bookmarks, added personal tags to them and I can query everything on the fly.

It's just so good to create a reference database for artist and devs.

Unity's ECS is really cool, allowing to do crazy high-performance stuff. However the implementation is really complicated.
Even the simplified architecture diagram of my game becomes hell with not even half of the components shown. 🙃

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I reworked the scene generation a little, it runs live now. In ~10 seconds it generates 400mx400m of map, with ~50 FPS in full zoom, while continuing to instantiate/animate/destroy ~200 mobs in the background. Unity ECS powa 😋

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YouTube video by xCirrex Media Forever Spinning Kid On Go Kart

My gameobjects when they spawn :
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Me: “yeah I’m happy, I’m starting to master Unity well”

Also me 5 min later: “what if I made a small infinite loop with just 5 lines of code” 🙃

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Fun fact comparing compression algorithms for a 1080p video with small details between the 3 social networks of the moment...

How can I say that there is one way ahead of the others ! 😅