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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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.

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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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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Small performance test to see how many animated units the Unity ECS system can handle at the same time.

We'll say that it's pretty good (in 4k with an RTX 2080 and an I7 12700K, + OBS and Unity running in the background) 😋

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