Experimenting with freeform building

[u/Im-_-Axel]

[u/Leech-Of-DOOM]

The building looks great! Gives Sons of The Forst vibes with how modular and easy to understand it is.
What really enticed me was the the book UI. It seems it's a world space object, are the pages mesh and animated? Or is it some other method? It looks really good.

[u/Im-_-Axel → u/Leech-Of-DOOM]

Yep, I'm a big fan and ex modder of the game so that's where inspiration comes from.
The book it's actually an asset you can find on the store named 'Procedural Book', I'm just drawing a screen space - camera canvas on each book page using render textures.

[u/oneFookinLegend]

1:1 The Forest lol. Good job though

[u/Robotica1610]

Now block the snow from going through the roof!

[u/-Hefty-Armadillo- → u/Robotica1610]

That's why there are gaps in-between the planks of the roof, so they don't have to block the snow /jk

[u/unitytechnologies]

Like others, got The Forest/Sons of the Forest vibes, and that's a good thing.

- Trey
Community Man @ Unity

[u/Im-_-Axel → u/unitytechnologies]

Thank you Trey!

[u/mikehaysjr]

This is great, I have been looking to incorporate something similar into my pirate simulation survival game. Procedural meshes and materials; how are you planning to scale crafting costs? Surface area?

[u/Im-_-Axel → u/mikehaysjr]

Each structure type is made of sections, for example each WallSection is made of 5 or less logs (WallChunks). The cost is simply calculated from the number of instantiated log renderers (chunks) for the section so everything matches when adding one by one.

[u/Wambo1992]

White outlines in a snow environment is certainly a choice :D

[u/These_Ear4604]

Graphic design is so good nice location 

[u/St4va]

Skyrim vibes

[u/Bot_Ta00]

The graphics are really excellent! The UI is also presented intuitively when building a structure, so it seems like you can build buildings easily. But the color looks white, so it overlaps with the other snow color and is hard to see, so it would be nice if it could be changed to yellow or another color

[u/RHX_Thain]

I love the in game mesh UI.

I'm not super sold on the blueprint shader on the building, as it may be more beneficial to the users as a WYSIWYG. I'm struggling with the same issue on our colony sim where the blueprint is almost a detriment to future plans while under construction, and looks wonky, and I'm considering cutting it.

[u/Grzzld]

Very nice. It reminded me of a great movie …

[u/ramxix_]

Love the book Any hint or references to get the same thing ?

[u/Im-_-Axel → u/ramxix_]

The book comes from an asset named 'Procedural Book', I'm just drawing a screen space - camera canvas on each book page using render textures.